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Twisted Wheel Remix 2003 Video
Dug out a video link to hear/see what it sounds like and in my view....
broadband dial-up
its not bad in a 2003 mainstream popular style, not as good as that other remix imo, but defintly better than all the pop idol stuff.
(Anyone seen the itv advert for pop idol which rips off Corporate soul theme song).
And video is well done and worth a watch
trivia wise :
Mentioned when posted it up in forum another Northern link, Well points were on offer if you said that it featured in Elvis film "Change of habit" which also featured Barabara McNair as one of the nuns, didnt she also appear in Playboy later on, sure got a grainy scan somewhere
Theres also another Elvis track which has had plays, 5 points for the title?
(as with all trivia stuff, to go and actually check if details are correct takes the fun out of it for me, if feel wrong feel free to pass on, if have thumbed thru 99 mags, 3 databases, 6 websites, again feel free to pass on but ask if it was worth it:) )
Endbit:
Someone once stated that the trouble with 45s by artists such as Elvis, P J Proby, Tom Jones is that their voices were so instantly regonisable, that even if they had recorded the worlds best cover version of the worlds best soul track, it would still get slagged down. Yet a mediocre weak white 60s uk cover by some pure junior showtime artist would still be considered more credible by some. Anyone pass on whys that?
Function At The Junction - Video BBC 4 TV shorts
Has this been shown yet?
Seems its part of a season called "the shortest nite" on BBC 4 tv channel
Think was a bit of discussion mentioned on here before hand
Have out up a link Scooters, Doorman, and some bloke! Didnt fill me with much of a need to dig out more info but may be of interest.
Original link- no longer valid
Below added 2019
Function at the Junction short film presented by Left Hand Films and Urban Way Productions.
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Plays from Steve W, Ashby Soul Nite, South Derbs SC
2 Clyde McPhatter - Lonely People Cant Afford To Cry - Amy Label (His Hardest great)
3 Priscilla Page - Im Pretending - Topper Label
4 T C Lee - Up And Down The Hill - King
5 Cody Black - Slowly Molding - King
6 Lee Rogers - Troubles - Mahhs
7 Wade Femmons - Jeanette - Ramsell
8 Emanuel Laskey - Peace Loving Man - Thelma Demo
9 Darrow Fletcher - What Have I Got Now - Jacklyn
10 Dickie Wonder - Nobody Knows - Golden World
11 Dean Barlow - Third Window From The Right.- Lescay
12 Martinels - I Dont Care - Success (Storming R&B)
13 Martells - Where Can My Baby Be - A-La-Carte
14 Vontastics - Never Let Your Love Grow Cold - St Lawrence
15 Sheppards - Stubborn Heart - Jay Boy
16 Marjorie Black - One More Hurt - Sue
17 Falcans - Im A Fool I Must Love You.- Big Wheel
18 Flame N King - Ho Happy Days- NYCS Label
19 Jeff Perry - Love Dont Come No Stronger - Arista - Sam Moore&Myself spin this one.
20 Doris Troy - Face Up To The Truth - Capitol.
Roger Williams Plays from Soul 24/7 guest spot
1993
Renee Diggs - You Didn't Know - CD: Oasis - Expansion 2001
Holloway - If You Want It - CD: Big Bad&Beautiful - Expansion 1999
Trey Lorenz - Find A Way - CD: Trey Lorenz - Epic 1992
Gato Barbieri featuring Frank McComb - I Want You - CD: Che Corazon 1999
Shabazz - Always On My Mind - CD: Better Days - FER 2001
Malik Pendleton - Little Ghetto Boy - Unissued
Bridgette McWilliams - Wishing - CD: Too Much Woman - Virgin Records
America 1997
Phil Perry - We Belong Together - CD: One Heart One Love - Private Music
1998
Dottie Pearson - Bring It Over Baby - forthcoming Grapevine 2003
Donny Hathaway - I Could Love No Other One But You - Unissued
Norman Connors featuring Glenn Jones - Sing A Love Song - LP: Mr. C -
Arista 1981
Perry&Sanlin - Since You (Came Into My Life) - LP: Perry&Sanlin -
Capitol 1980
Jimmy Sommers featuring Rahsaan Patterson - What Am I Gonna Do - CD:
Lovelife - Higher Octave Jazz 2003
Juewett Bostick featuring Denise Stewart - You Go To My Head - CD: It's
Not So Easy - CafÃÆ’© De Soul 2003
Kem - Brotha Man - CD: Kemistry - Motown 2003
Earth Wind&Fire - Suppose You Like Me - CD: The Promise - Kalimba 2003
Big Jim - Without Your Love (Come Home) - CD: Commitment Episode 1 - AMR
2003
LSG - What About Me - CD: LSG2 - Elektra 2003
Vickie Winans - You Never Left Me - CD: Vickie Winans - Intersound 1994
Ray Bady - Mercy Mercy Me - CD: Mission K.O.B. - Gospo Centric 2002
Luther Vandross - Nights In Harlem - CD: I Know - Virgin Records America
1998
Lisa Scott - You Got Me Dancin' - CD: Lisa Scott - Crystal Rose 1995
Angelo&Veronica - Wrapped Up In A Baby Boy - CD: Changes - Harmony
1999
Will Downing - I Try - CD: A Dream Fulfilled - Island 1993
Next Soul In The City
Scenesville Next Saturday Details
ECHOES!!!!!
2 weeks to go to Plinston 1st Anniversary Bash!
Ive had a couple of mails asking if they can turn up on the night travelling from Manchester and I said yes they can but chances are they wont get in as we expect this to be a sell-out, much along the lines of the opening night last year.
Sooooooooo, PLEASE, if you are travelling to the event either reserve your tickets at the box office (01462-672003) or drop me (TheBigO) a line at nh6tsmafia@aol.com and we will hold them with the Sinister Sisters on the door.
As the lovely Kay Seabrook is on the door on the night wed suggest you heed our words as she may want to kill you if you travel distance without a ticket and then have a moan that you cant get in.......
Weve confirmed Mick H and Terry Jones for the Nov 14th event and the Godlike Butch for our Jan event so make notes in your diaries. Ill be posting the latest Trading Cards and flyers over the weekend and a list of some of the tip top toons weve spun at the venue in all 3 rooms.
Right, spread the word and come along and check out one of the most talked about venues in the South.
TheBigO * Dave Flynn has agreed NOT to be spinning his rare A-Ha acetates on the night for those that have been concerned after reading his Trading Card!
Latest Site News
Latest Monkey news!! This Saturday Aug 23
Full event details and directions avail on site, and just to give you a taste of what is in store, we have pushed up Mick H (just one of the djs) plays from recent 100 Club . hit read more
set one
johnny honnycutt im coming on over -triode
the videls-aint gonna do you no good- capricorn
johnny rogers-make a change -amon
cautions-no other way- shrine
appointments-i saw you there- de-lite
damon fox-packen up - fairmount
youngbrothers -whats your game- soulpower
anthony &delsonics -everytime-emerge
devotions -do do da da -nation
nurons -all of my life - nu-ron
set two
camaros -were not to young -darcha
passions -if you see my baby -elvirtrue &satilite
monique - if you love me -maurci
sensations-demanding man -way out
walter&admirations -man o man -la-cindy
shaddows -pretty baby- cover up
winfeild parker -i love you just the same-ru-jac
soundmasters-lonely lonely - julet
proffesionals-thats why i love you -grove city
jackie day -naughty boy-pheletron
trannells-blessed with a love-flo-jo
homer banks-swettie pie-genie
eric mercury-lonely girl -sac
springers -nothings to good for my baby-whale
four tracks like my love for you-mandingo
aspirations -you left me-peeches
al williams -i am nothing -palmer
al scot -what happend to yesterday-genuine
grand prix -i see her pretty face -big mack
imperial cs -someone tel her-phil-a-soul
buddy smith -when you lose the one you love -brute
Standing in the Shadows of Motown - Film Review
In this case, it's The Funk Brothers, the 14 studio and concert musicians responsible for the "Motown sound" that distinguished that genre of music from all others in the 1960s.
THE MUSIC
Early on in ''Standing in the Shadows of Motown,'' the drummer Steve Jordan makes what seems, on its face, like an outrageous assertion about the music that emerged from the ''Hitsville, U.S.A.'' factory from 1959 to 1971. ''You could have had Deputy Dawg singing on some of this stuff and had a hit,'' he says. ''Because the tracks were just so incredible. They were musical entities unto themselves.''
I question whether "Respect" would have sounded anywhere near as great without Aretha Franklin's attitude. That said, what this film does so cleverly is to open your ears to music in a way that few musical documentaries have attempted., let alone succeeded in doing. More than an overdue celebration of the Funk Brothers, it's a revelatory aural journey that gets you to hear something you've always known without quite realizing it: that the magic of the Motown sound was, quite literally, a sound which the Funk Brothers created.
In one marvellous sequence, a half dozen of these supremely relaxed men, all in their 60s and 70s, sit down to play ''Ain't Too Proud to Beg,'' adding the instruments one by one. Uriel Jones lays down the bursting yet paradoxically delicate drumbeat, and when Bob Babbitt comes in with his walking bass, the song already sounds larger than its parts. Eddie Willis' staccato, off-the-beat guitar strums - pause, plank! pause, plank! - add color in the form of rhythm, and by the time they've been topped by the exultant spangle of Jack Ashford's tambourine, you realize why, in a sense, any singer could have succeeded atop this sublime chassis.
More than just great musicians, the Funk Brothers treated each and every instrument as a voice, blending them to create a unique sense of space - not a wall of sound but a harmonic globe of sound.
INTERVIEWS
Sadly, a few of The Funk Brothers have now passed away including:
- James Jamerson, considered to be a bass player of exceptional originality ("He put music to everything that had life"), went to Los Angeles when the company moved, but couldn't fit into the West Coast jive and started drinking.
- Benny "Papa Zita" Benjamin brought the backbeat to the early Motown hits. He was a drummer from Alabama, who overdosed on drugs.
- Earl Van Dyke played what they called "guerrilla piano" and became a huge influence to the sound on such classics as For Once In My Life and My Guy. In his later years, he taught music in the Detroit state schools.
However, ''Standing in the Shadows of Motown'' offers terrific interviews with the surviving Funk Brothers, who provide a tasty insider history of 4 a.m. recording sessions inside ''the snake pit'' (as the fabled Studio A was known) as well as a chilling description of their final kiss-off from Berry Gordy, the Motown mogul who treated them like indentured servants.
The interviews are woven around a reunion concert given in Detroit in 2000, with assorted contemporary singers filling in for the Motown greats. (The showstopping highlight: Joan Osborne doing ''What Becomes of the Broken Hearted.'')
The most fascinating anecdotes revolve around the man who was, by universal assent, the genius of the group -- the late bassist James Jamerson, who caressed his low notes into an angel's ostinato, so that he seemed to be wandering through, and creating, every dimension of a song. No studio musician ever cast a greater shadow.
THEN AND NOW
The Funk Brothers were underappreciated at the time, and they knew it, but they loved playing together. Now, decades later, they seem to enjoy swapping stories and sharing memories, quietly revelling in the idea that someone is finally giving them their due. It is always inspiring to see hard work rewarded, but especially when the workers haven't sought the spotlight.
The Funk Brothers were reunited for a concert a couple years ago, and footage of it is interspersed with interviews in this unfailingly upbeat documentary.
The film's finale covers the opening of this commemorative concert in Detroit, when The Funk Brothers take their places on stage, carrying life-size photographs of the faces of Jamerson and Benjamin and the others who "are here in spirit.". As they begin to play and Joan Osborne walks out to sing the first number, you know you are in the presence of greatness.
The purpose of the film is to celebrate the music as much as to tell the story behind it, and fans of all types of popular music will find it irreplaceable.
Collection Stolen !
Soul In The Sun 2003 News
ACROSS THE BOARD @ NYLON - London
Soul Source Charity Give Away
FLIPside: Info, news and dj shout
Information: Email URL www.flipsideclub.co.uk Company FLIPside R&B Club Location Yorkshire Comments Im trying to contact a number of well know "Northern" DJs to see if they fancy a change of pace .....
Our club plays mostly newies from the late 50s through the 60s from R&B to Girl Group Soul ..... Anyway we wondered if Dave Rimmer would be interested ...
but we could be looking to March 2004 for the next free slot ;-( We have Carl Willingham playing "Popcorn" in December.
The next one (Sept 5th) we have Roger Banks playing "different stuff" (he hasnt quite sussed a playlist yet)....
All in all, if you like a busy dancefloor till 8am and plenty of stuff not doing the rounds yet, then FLIPside is the place ...
Cheers Mark Stewart For FLIPside R&B Club
CROSSFIRE - The Sequel
Ashby Soul Night - niter??
Chesterfield Soul : HOLLINGWOOD SOUL NIGHT
The website has all the details, info, photos etc so check out here for the site
FLIPside RnB Club presents .........
TRILOGY II - NEWS UPDATE
CSC Dome Plays, Review Link and some Soul Source Connected News!
Eddie Holman - Hold me in your arms - Unissued Virtue (Grapevine)
Patti Austin - Hes good enough for me - Coral
Patti & The Emblems - Its the little things - Congress
Willie Kendick - The American Dollar - Unissued Rca (played twice)
Starlighters - I never thought - ??????????????
Charles Farren - You changed my whole life around - Hawk
Hyperions - Why you wanna treat me the way you do -Chattahoochee
Bobby Reed - Baby dont leave me - Unissued Shrine
OC Tolbert - Shooting High - Kent
Chandlers - Your love makes me lonely - Col Sol
Soul Joe Clements - Ever Ever - Treble Publishers Acetate
Hal Miller - A blessing in Disguise - Amy
Ov Wright - The nerve to cry - Backbeat lp
Jesse Davis - Not for the love of you woman - C/up
Oscar perry - Face Reality - Feron
Ducky & Glowlighters - Over over - Uptown Acetate
OC Tobert - You got me turned around - Kent
Johnny Gillingham - Find yourself another - Bomar
Boston Hitesmen - Just cant let it ride - Mta
Mayfield Singers - Dont stop none - Unissued mayfield
Rotations - I cant find it - Debrossard
Bobby Hill - Tell me you love me - Lo Lo
Little Ann - What should i do -kent
Deon Jackson - Someday the sun will shine - Unissued Atlantic
Ann Heywood - Crook his little finger - Hondo
Sinceres - Girl i love you - Pzazz
Brenda Holloway - Looking for the right guy - Tamla
Ps Lookout next week for my new page Come South & Carefree, it will cover latest spins, record reviews and my own view on the current goings on re the Scene in general. I wont be holding back and of course will talk football (only Chelsea im afraid). I will be joined by Stuart Tyler who will also do some record reviews ( the good b side review).
The Capitol Soul Club - July 2003 Review
As the Dome nears its 4th anniversary, it is showing no sign of losing the ..........to read what went on, view photos, read full playlists, check out local takeaway and more from those crazy csc types
Yes, proud to say Irish Greg aided by Stuart T will be joining the ever growing Soul Source Team with his own regular section very soon .. full details of this and all the rest of going ons involving Soul Source team, the site and more as soon as write them
Soul In The City Wed 06 Aug - London
Quick look back Llandudno Niter/Dayer
Did plan to do a few words on the recent niter/dayer but time is not something got a lot off so all can pass on is a quick word.
Niter overall was enjoyable, likes of Bob Hinsley, Dean Anderson, Kenny Burrell, dished out some cracking sets
Special mention to Joan who did the finishing spot and made sure nite finished on a high. Had some wild plan to get her plays but as with most of my plans made at events it didnt quite come off!
Dayer after at the West Shore club was a good one, varied spots spanning all styles, managed to scrounge 5 plays from Ritchie Andrew (which meant had to knock this brief word out! )
1) Bob&Gene I really love you Mo - Do.
2) Tobi Lark Ill steal your heart Palmer
3) Tate It takes more than love Cloverstreet
4) The Grier Bros "Weeping Baby" Melody
Disc
5) Pendulum Swingers Never should have loved you GWC
Overall a enjoyable 22 hours of soul, next one turns up in Oct