Ace Records have pushed out a digital release just in time for that day...
Release Notes
Step into a world of soulful nostalgia with the perfect blend of warmth, beauty, and precision just in time for Valentine's Day. In 1967 – ZZ Hill recorded his soulful take on 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' a masterpiece crafted just a year after Percy Sledge claimed the top spot on the Billboard charts with the original. From the velvety vocals to the carefully produced arrangements, 'Valentine's Sou
Out now from Kent Records a new double album offering a complete package of all ZZ Hill's Kent recordings, together for the first time.
Z.Z. Hill - That's It! The Complete Kent Recordings 1964-1968 - CDTOP2 476
Release notes (summary)
His complete recordings for the Bihari brothers’ Kent label, together on one package for the first time, including many making their CD debut.
For two decades Z Z Hill was a go-to guy for anyone who needed a shot of blues-tinged soul music. His
Having been ripped off on my previous attempts to fulfill a dream and make some northern soul I am hoping to fair a little better this time around. Last time I did this a "friend" in the UK made quite a bit from the Larry Hammond cuts and I never saw a penny of it. I did subsequently receive a couple of hundred quid from another person for a minidisc and gave half of it to Larry.
Well that was fifteen years ago and this time around I am intending to do it properly. I was introduced
Am sure some of you out there may remember a fairly active thread a few months ago here on Soul Source about this project.
Well time moves on and here pushed out amongst all the summer going ons is words on the end result.
Firstly a clip of a news item from the NME website which has the main meat...
"NME snapper Dean Chalkley is set to open a photographic exhibition and screen a short film based on Northern Soul in London later this month.
The exhibition, entitled Young Souls, takes plac
Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
Just a heads up if you have been waiting for this book.
Blurb:
Young Soul Rebels is the latest book from Stuart Cosgrove and has just been published recently, it does appears that the planned release date was pushed forward
Northern soul is the ultimate underground music scene. Hidden away from the mainstream, it has defied the logic of fashion and outlasted more visible youth culture movements such as punk and rave. Aut
Here's an early warning for those readers who live beyond the next weekend
Details of the follow up to Stuart Cosgrove's much acclaimed 2015 book Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul (Detroit 67 Info) are out and about.
Titled 'Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul' the blurb below sets out in detail just what to expect..
'Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life and th
Here's news and a trailer of a new film due out June 2007
Leonardo Flores is the man behind it and was featured on (a new site to me) Cinedelica which says that it "traces the wonder, discovery and disappointment of the contemporary Los Angeles Mod/Skin/Northern Soul movement through the eyes of a quiet teenage girl named Jill."
Leonardo Flores webite says its set for release in June 2007 - Young Birds Fly.
trailer clip below
details and background a bit hazy at moment, if go
Real Gone Music have been releasing the complete Atlantic, Atco and related label material recordings for various artists these past few years. Linda Jones, Carl Hall, Patti Labelle, Bettye Swann, The Sweet Inspirations, Jackie Moore and Dee Dee Warwick just some of artists featured so far. It is the latter, Dee Dee Warwick that we are interested in here. Her compilation from 2014 feature no less than 12 previously unreleased songs. One of those 12 “You Tore My Wall Down” has been the most ta
You Got The Power - Cameo Parkway Northern Soul CD
Cameo Parkway was late to CD but the Northern Soul selections have been trickling onto CD/LP compilation releases legally now for a couple of decades, starting first with the 'Introduction to Northern Soul' boxset I think. Here is the first official CD dedicated entirely to the Northern Soul releases on the label I envisage, I could be wrong. In theory these are out now, but I haven't seen them anywhere and the big A lists them for Septemb
Betty Boo has been a household name on the Northern Soul Scene since the days of Wigan Casino but one who has always it seems remained a somewhat mystery figure. "Say It Isn't So" was massive back in the days off Wigan and saw a release on a 45 via Grapevine. Spellbound another scene favourite and a fabulous Popcorn Wylie production only ever made it as far as "The Talk Of The Grapevine" Lp has now belatedly been given a release on a 45 via Soul Junction. Read on for the story of Betty and her
You Brought The Sunshine: The Sound Of Gospel Recordings 1976-1981 - The Clark Sisters - Westbound
A new album titled 'You Brought The Sunshine' by The Clark Sisters has just been released on the Ace records related Westbound Records label and is now available to purchase in both Cd and MP3 formats.
The details and more of this release follow below...
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The Clark Sisters loom large over the modern gospel landscape, which rests mainly on the legacy of t
Those Kent people have been busy pushing out a shed full of nice 45s over the last couple of weeks.
Here's both a listing and audio preview of just some of these recent releases.
The PIED PIPER PLAYERS/THE CAVALIERS
The Bari Sax Kent Cat: PIPER 012 Rel: 29 Mar 18
Pied Piper
The Bari Sax Aka This Heart Is Lonely / We Go Together (Rap Version)
Mixed from the original Rose Batiste tape of ‘This Heart Is Lonely’, the fore-runner to her ‘I Miss My Baby’ on Revilot, th
The Verve Music Group and the American Diabetes Association will kick off “Write a Love Letter to Luther,” a national fundraising campaign for musician Luther Vandross, on August 3. “Write a Love Letter to Luther” offers fans the opportunity to write encouraging letters to Vandross, who suffered a diabetes-related stroke earlier this year. The letters will be accompanied by contributions to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). August 3 is being called the “Love Letter to Luther Day” and h
Andy Dyson is putting together a worthwhile tape for charity,
None of the over the top stuff heres Andys own words
I figured if I charge £3 inc p+p for the tape it will raise whatever less post and tape cost which i havent the foggiest idea what blank tapes cost.so feel free to send what you want but £3 is enough.the tape will consist of some of my current plays and deep and general soul first priority is quality but equally and hopefully tunes
that are unknown to t
News all about an interesting release featuring both a new reworked version and a remastered version from the original acetate,
'Some fifteen years later, and taken directly from Shirley’s personal dubplate, Sonar Kollektiv were finally able to restore and remaster this rare take from that session plus a sophisticated, balladic reworking that respects the original but gives it a very different twist'
Sonar Kollektiv are very proud to present a sweet slice of obscure Philly sou
The James Hunter Six
With Love...The James Hunter Six
Available digitally now. LP & CD available March 25.
We present The James Hunter Six's latest offering, With Love..., a heart-shaped collection of candle-lit ballads and love songs. Plucked like so many "he loves you" petals from the vast and sumptuous garden of his Daptone Recordings, these twelve lilting melodies have been selected and sequenced with great care, tenderness, and intention by Daptone staff for the solitary pu
I'm one of the compilers of this complation of early Detroit Soul for History of Soul Records. I'd be really interested to find out what people think about the choice of tracks bearing in mind that its timescale is 1957-1962. The main idea was to present a collection that we thought would be historically interesting but at the same time very listenable throughtout. Keith Rylatt wrote the sleeve notes.
Any suggestions for inclusion on volume two would be carefully considered.
Had the below passed on from Paul Donnelly (profile) A letter of thanks after a donation of funds raised via the just gone Wirrina Reunion 2014 Hats off to all involved in making this donation happen. Dear Mr Donnelly, Thank you so much for the kind donation of £800 which you made over the phone to my colleague Matt earlier today. Your gift will help us in our work with deafblind people throughout the UK. Sense works with deafblind people and their families, right from the moment they find out
WIRE FM 107.2 Soul Connection moved from Saturday to Sunday same time - 7
till 9.Playing northern, motown, modern across the board soul
Recently had a competition to win chalet for four at Prestatyn weekender
kindly donated by Mark Fletcher at Pontins (no relation) Guest d.j.s (you know who they are)
Mainly Runcorn, Widnes Warrington, can get it up to Chorley and in Chester, and parts of Manchester
Whats on for advertising venues. Email steve@wirefm.c
The competition to win a sealed copy of the fine recent released vinyl lp - Dreams All Come True - Jeanette Jones is now over,
Congratulations go to member John Siret @John Siret
John was the first drawn out of the soul source hat and once passes on his address will soon be looking at a sealed copy of this fine lp on his doormat.
Thanks to Kent Records for the prize and thanks and commiserations go to all those who entered but didn't win
Just to rub salt here's a taste of wha
First a quick thanks to all the members who entered, the competition for what was one of the biggest prizes that have ever had here on Soul Source DVD/CD Set The Odyssey A Northern Soul Time Capsule The lucky winner has been drawn and announced. Full details of the prize and the lucky winner via the link below..
WIN! WIN! WIN!
Yes thats right! Forget the usual prizes you receive on your doormat on a daily basis, youve not won a trip to the Caribbean, £10,000 or 1 of 5 special prizes.
NO!
This is something that simply outshines all overs!
Who wants to be a Millionaire? - NOT ME!
Not when you can win 2 pairs of tickets for North Herts biggest Rare Soul event - NORTHERN SOUL @ THE PLINSTON!!!!!!!
Hold that excitement (and stop doing that youll go blind!)
The return of our irregular Soul Source competition feature.
Yep after a bit of a break the competitions are back with a chance for all members to get their ears and hands on a fine recent and decent quality cd release, from Kent Records.
The highly rated 'Soul Voices - 60s Big Ballads' being the fine album on offer.
Soul Voices - 60s Big Ballads - Kent Records
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Majestic male vocalists singing over subtly orchestrated arrangements of superb so
Here are, not just a chance to listen and read but also a chance to get your hands on this fine recent release from Kent records. All you have to do is read the below release notes and then answer a morning tv type question as per the details at the end of the news item, and the winner gets a brand new still sealed copy of the Lp. Easy.
Jeanette Jones - Dreams All Come True - Kent LP
Catalogue: HIQLP 047
£17.80
Release Notes (extract)
The complete recordings of this enigmatic
After a day of fun and games with the site here we go with news of yet another quality CD release from Kent Looking at one that was pushed out earlier this month, this Kent Cd release features an artist who you could say almost became synonymous to those early kent lps back in those far off days... Mary Love Lay This Burden Down - The Very Best Of Mary Love [Original Recording Remastered] CDKEND 414 Release date 3 Mar 2014 Competition After reading the track listing, Ady C's release note
Thanks to member @Drew3 , we have the return of our (very) irregular Soul Source competition.
And we do have a great prize, a copy of Richard Gilbert member @Gilly much acclaimed book
I Searched For Soul and Found The Stars by Richard Gilbert
'It tells of the 5 trips I made to the States (85-94) and along with others, what we got up to, record finds, and more importantly who we met and the quality time with those people 'The Stars' that we met along the way.'
Full details of
Here are, another Soul Source Competition!
This time around it's a chance to win yourself a brand new copy of this just published heavyweight book titled Motown The Sound of Young America Book direct from the publishers!
Blurb and pictures follow below and the competition entry instructions can be read at the bottom of the article
Description
Motown: The
Time for a new Soul Source members competition
Up for grabs is a fine viny lp from Kent records that was released just prior to xmas, not only recent but also still sealed!
The Money Masters - Bettye Swann KENT 508
A vinyl album featuring 14 of her finest sides for Money Records of Los Angeles.
...Bettye wrote many of her own songs at Money. Among the few exceptions was an exquisite rendition of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ from her “Make Me Yours” LP. An earlier al
A fast competition for a pair of tickets to see Melvin Davis Live at one of the 3 venues (details below) this weekend
As the earliest gig is Sunday 10th March you do need to be quick as the closing date/time is 8am (uk time) Thursday 7th March
To enter all you have to do is just answer the question below via the following link
What is Melvins own label called ?
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?app=nexus&module=support§ion=new
The winner will be the first corre
Here we go its time for another Soul Source competition.
This time around you have a chance to win a copy of this fine recent release from Kent records
Pied Piper: The Pinnacle Of Detroit Northern Soul
The two Kent CDs of material drawn from the vaults of Detroit's Pied Piper productions have been among the label's most popular. A fact that will surprise nobody with an interest in 1960s Detroit soul, given that the artists, songs and productions are all of the highest order. Vinyl fa
Those Peckham Soul people not only have passed on news of a new sweat shirt release, but they have also put one up for a Soul Source Competition
The clothing blurb is below, the competition details follow that...
Limited Edition 'Togetherness' Sweatshirts from Peckham Soul
Inspired by 'Soul' solidarity and against a current backdrop of increasing prejudiced, Peckham Soul are taking a stand for 'Togetherness'. A limited edition sweatshirt, this original design is silk screen print
This Sunday night sees the overdue return of the Soul Source competitions.
This time around this series of competitions kicks off with...
Up for grabs are a copy of both the latest Hayley records 45 release
Details/video of both 45s
DEON JACKSON 'Pain in my heart' b/w ' I've got so much love'
JIMMY DELPHS 'Where there is love'
Soul Source Competition time again, and this time we got up for grabs two copies of a 45 that was so in demand that Soul Junction sold out within two weeks of its release!
Bill Spoon I Can't Wait (Until The Weekend) / The One Who Really Loves You -Soul Junction 506.
Full info and clips of this fine 45 can be read via the link below
http://www.soul-sour...
To win yourself a mint as mint copy of this 45 all you have to do is just answer the following question that was set by t
The return of the "even easier than morning tv phone in ones" style Soul Source comps This one offers all you lucky lucky people the chance to own a copy of the Soul Junctions latest 45 ! The Trey J’s - I Found It All In You - We Got A Thing (Going On) - SJ526 The blurb is below... Out 17th Feb 2014 The Trey J’s: In the late 1960’s James Binford originally from Indianapolis, Indiana and Joseph Smith from Detroit, Michigan who had both by then migrated south to Atlanta, Georgia, f
The first competition of 2019 and it's a good one..
We have up for grabs a still sealed copy of a recent Kent Lp. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this fine lp is just follow the simple instructions that follow the lp info.
The Goldwax Years - Spencer Wiggins - LP Kent 511
A vinyl album featuring 14 of the great southern soul singer’s finest Goldwax recordings.
Listen while you read
Blurb
Although Spencer Wiggins first ma
Due out 6th October 2018, here it is the fourth release 7” from Soul 4 Real, 2 previously unreleased sides by Wilson Williams. Originally recorded in the early 70´s in Muscle Shoals and produced by Jerry Williams, Jr. (Swamp Dogg). Limited Edition of 450 copies.
LISTEN HERE:
https://www.soul4real.es/soul-4-real-records/
WILSON WILLIAMS – GHOST OF MYSELF / DON´T LET MY FOOLISH WORDS KEEP US APART (SOUL 4 REAL)
At the start of the
NEW YORK - Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits “Mustang Sally” and “In The Midnight Hour,” died of a heart attack Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his management company. He was 64.
Chris Tuthill of the management company Talent Source said Pickett had been suffering from health problems for the past year. Pickett lived in Ashburn, Va.
“He did his part. It was a great ride, a great trip, I loved him and I’m sure he was well-loved, and
A radio documentary on Wilson Pickett and featuring some of the main people in his life such as Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, Bobby Eli, Willie Schofield, Eddie Floyd, Sir Mack Rice, Rick Hall, Spooner Oldham, his brother Max and many more as well as some archive footage that we came across from Wilson himself.
The whole thing is presented by Roger Daltry.
It is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Monday 12th March at 10pm and will also be available on their listen again feature
The sad news continues in 2010
Memphis musician and producer Willie Mitchell dies at age of 81
The sad news of another soul music legend passing on, video news clip and news release below and links to interview and the forum thread follows
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Willie Mitchell, a record producer, label head and musician who worked with Al Green and other stars, died Tuesday. He was 81.
Mitchell died at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis at 7:25 a.m., more than two weeks afte
He'll be there
Willie Hutch wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but he ain't done yet
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: Thursday, October 29, 1998
.....Willie Hutch's studio sits along a desolate stretch of Highway 67 in Cedar Hill. It is just off the highway, not far from an exit no one seems to use very much--unless, perhaps, they are in need of used tires, which are sold at the establishment sitting next to the brown box that houses Hutch's recording facility. The building
William was a member of the Huntington, West Virginia, group The Parliaments, that had a number of releases on the local Cabel label, named after the county their city resides in. Along with himself and his song writing brother Issac and Archie Hyman aka Little Archie they first formed the group in the early 60's. They gigged around their local area un-aware of the existence of a group with the same name from New Jersey, that was recording up in Detroit. The conflict with the name eventually cam
WIGAN CASINO REVISITED - NORTHERN SOUL AT THE HISTORY SHOP By Zoe Graham 22/11/2004
Maybe of interest? Delayed news of an exhibition at Wigan History Shop The Web site 24hourmuseum has a feature on this show,full details along with a few photos can be found at the link below
The exhibition charts the rise of the venue through its early days as the Empress Ballroom, a major dance hall in the town, through to the Northern Soul era when between 1
The Top of the Pops showing of Wigans Chosen Few dancers back in 1975 is often mentioned when talking about "all our yesterdays" on here and other places and sure that those who were around at that time can remember the actual show or indeed the follow on effect that it had.
As has been said many times it was thought that no copies of this episode have survived the years due to the practice of wiping and re-using tapes that the BBC had at the time
Online archives do put the appearance
At Last (apologies to Etta), the Wigan Casino plaque is to be unveiled by Paul Mason on the site of The Casino on 6th September at 11:00 a.m.
Thanks to all those who contributed.
All Northern Soul fans are welcome.
https://www.justgiving.com/yimby/wigancasino#/
Britsh Culture Archive is running a feature on Wigan Casino Photos that were taken by Red Saunders for a Sunday Times Feature
Wigan Casino | Photographs by Red Saunders (britishculturearchive.co.uk)
"Early morning, the sun is rising outside and the amphetamine has taken its toll. There is no alcohol, only empty soft drink bottles and cans that the pills get mixed in."
The full article can be read via
https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/photos-of-wigan-casino-1970s-red-saunder
Details of an upcoming event being held on Sat 30th September 2023 at the Museum of Wigan Life.
Northern Soul and Wigan Casino: its influence, its legacy, and everything that followed.
Something a little different to the usual type of event, but it will be a great way to spend an afternoon. Plus there's a soul night a mile up the road in Pemberton if you fancy making a day / evening of it!
Northern Soul and Wigan Casino: its influence, its legacy, and everything that follo
Wholly Holy — Religious symbolism on the Soul Scene.
Bricks and Mortar: Wheel, Torch, maybe Mecca, Catacombs, Cleethorpes but predominantly Wigan. Stafford may be coming through and 100 Club if it ever closes, but if they do, I’ll be making a case for Dunelm House and the Three Tuns.
Tied in to the all-nighter thing is the issue of substances, and while anyone who knows me will confirm I’m no prude when it comes to these matters, it’s unfortunate it’s become part of the mythology of th
The Guardian website is running a feature titled...
Bruce Springsteen cover reignites row over lost northern soul classic
Who saved Frank Wilson’s Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) from Motown oblivion?
When Bruce Springsteen performed his new single on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 14 November, it was to rapturous applause and the ecstatic US talkshow host leaping from his seat to declare that the Boss had “crushed it!”
But 3,300 miles away, Springsteen’s performance o
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Forum gone down after update on server.. will return in a couple of days
Busy times at moment, been all over the place , so updates been a bit thin
Weekend
Busy time down South wise, with Capital Soul Club kicking the weekend off with one of the TOP uk regular soul events at the Dome.
Regular crew plus guests Kenny Burrell and Ady L
Then Saturday sees the BIG one!
Yep its London United, a massive Niter featuring the cream of
Two BBC Documentaries over Christmas and New Year.
When Tina Turner came to the UK on Christmas Day and then on New Years Day wehn Motown came to the UK.
BBC Two has revealed two documentaries on legendary singer Tina Turner and how Motown came to the UK in time for Christmas.
When Tina Turner Came To Britain will feature previously unheard interviews with the icon and will tell the story of her relationship with the UK when it airs on Christmas Day.
Speaking about the upcomi
