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Shades Of Soul #1 Jan 1984- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search thes

Shades Of Soul #1 Jan 1984- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search thes

Shades Of Soul #3 Dec 1984- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search thes

Shades Of Soul #4 Dec 1985- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search thes

Shades Of Soul #5 Aug 1985- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search thes

Shades Of Soul #6  Dec 1985- Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search the

Shades Of Soul #7 April 1986 - Fanzine Scan Editor Derek Pearson aka @Derek Pearson site note A quick intro to a new ongoing series of pdf based reference articles This and other fanzine scans were originally posted in our forum by our members As time allows work is ongoing to convert the pdf scans uploaded of various fanzine/mags to a lighter and a more searchable format and then present them in a stand alone user friendly format As you can see you can now search t

A very hot night in London, in more ways than one. And the air conditioning in the club didn't seem to be working. Everyone was saying how hot they felt, and many including myself went up to Oxford Street to take a break for some air. I did wonder if the weather would affect the numbers attending but my concerns were needless. A good crowd in, and some new faces. I arrived as usual at 11.15, dropped off my bag at the back of the stage and bought a much needed drink. Ady was doing the f

Yet another great nite in London, 100 club niter was the place, regular crew were on (apart from Shifty) and with guests being Dave Rimmer and Russ Vickers, just knew it was going to be a varied nite of soul. Yet again my ears told me that your man Butch is the master, with a cracking second set proving it. Too many highlights to mention though was bowled over with one 45 by Andy Campbell, annouced as deep soul with a beat, missed title but it is quality. Mick Smith pushed out some great so

At the risk of being accused of being boring (moi?) I must say the 100 Club was excellent last night. Ady had announced that the five resident DJs would be in action together on the same night for the first time. The night was notable for the return of Mick Smith after several months away. I guess Mick is an oldies DJ, hope he doesn't mind me saying that, but to use Pete Smith's expression, he's a thinking man's oldies DJ. He certainly played quite a few records that I didn't know, not that that

--------------------------100 Club Last Nite-------------------------------- Well I never, been over 10 years since I last visited the hollowed place that is The 100 Club. Wasn't that sure what it would be like   Got into town early had a nice Sheppard's Pie made by the fair hands of Butch and then in the car for a quick nip down from north London to the club. Had Malayka and Raphi Gruenig in the car with me, was Raphi's first visit. Arrived, no queue, but Butch tells me that does happen any

In 1964, R&B music really came of age. Mainstream black music was evolving from R&B into soul and this helped it sell to greater volumes of white American teenagers. At the time, teenagers were the big growth market in record sales both in the US and in Europe. Because of this (due to the additional advertising revenue generated) most US radio stations were chasing the teenage market. But many American pop station DJ's weren't keeping up with the times. A 1964 run-down of top US radio DJ

L to R Don Davis, Bob Babbitt and Dennis Coffey at Theme Productions c 1966 (Courtesy of Edward and Sue Wolfrum 2014 All rights reserved) Sadly, 2014 will probably be best remembered for the release of a film rather than the passing of two of the soul scene's most revered icons. Don Davis contributed as much as anyone to the Detroit recording scene during his lifetime, as a session musician, producer, songwriter, arranger and all round 'mover' and 'shaker', as well as making crucial co

Posted up originally in the forum - if you havent read it yet - just do it now! . Its review time again! Hope you can get through it..... It was Roy Castle who reminded us that Dedication was what you need. Dean Parrish that it was Determination. Displaying infinite measures of the two, the 100 Club hosts the longest running allnighter in the world. Not suprising then, that this marathon dance fest celebrating 25 years of soul should be one of the longest. We all thought Ady was heigh

25th Anniversary Hayley Records story. A recollection.  by founder Rob Moss.   I first visited Detroit around 1990. I was living in Vancouver at the time working for Much Music, the Canadian equivalent of MTV, as an on air presenter on the West Coast affiliate, Much West. I happened on an article in a music trade journal about the release of a book dedicated to the life and times of Motown bass player James Jamerson by a guy named ‘Dr. Licks’, called ‘Standing in the Shadows

30 Years Of Northern Soul In Todmorden. A commemorative booklet issued at the Charity Anniversary Evening 20th April 2001. Walsden Cricket Club Site note the first 2 pages of this booklet are reproduced in text format below, the other pages are via scanned images only. Todmorden is known around the world as an important centre for soul music due to the Goldmine record label. Accolades fall thick and fast on the label and its leading light. Tim Brown. There are in life very few tru

Most record diggers will have at least a few of what became known over the years as simply ‘Little LPs’. The traditional soul fraternity are fortunate enough to have had a number of larger, better distributed labels show interest in producing these interesting discs including Atlantic, ABC, Okeh, King and of course Motown. But what on Earth was it that made the Stereo, 33 rpm, multi track, single 7inch disc, seem an attractive prospect? To appreciate the history of the ‘Little LP’, it

My other half, Shirley, did a review of our first night at the Top Deck Club in Huddersfield last Saturday so thought I'd post it up, totally unbiased of course. Cheers, Colin. 3rd September 2005 Groovy Grooves at the Top Deck Club, Huddersfield. It was the 3rd of September, that day I.ll always remember …“cos that was the day we started our new soul night. ;-))) Guy & Col had decided to start their latest foray into the fickle world of soul night promoting following the suc

50 years ago today four guys drove from Wilmington, Delaware, to Frank Virtue’s studio located on 1618 N. Broad St, Philadelphia to record their debut single as the Mello Souls. Silas, Fisher, James T and Randy were accompanied by their manager Mr Marshall and George Lewis, who co-wrote both of the songs. A group of local teenagers, Keith, Kenny, Larry, Johnny and Frank  provided the music. ‘I Got My Pride’, which featured Silas on lead, was cut in one take and this was the song that w

50 years ago, this month R&B Voices of the 1967 Race Riots This is just a short piece to acknowledge the 50th anniversary. Before the Newark and Detroit riots, the 1July 8th 1967 Billboard reported…“the record industry will be a focal point of a campaign attempting to ease racial tensions during the so- called "long hot summer days". Clyde Otis spearheaded the drive to enlist record company support to supply DJ’s with special ’public service records’ that will get a message of

A selection of photos and comments marking the weekends 40 year landmark from Ady c aka @ady croasdell The Spirit of 6TS My favourite shot of 6TS at West Hampstead with the very recently departed Russ "Woofer" Taylor acclaiming all: surrounded by his and our great friends from Market Harborough. It's 40 years since the first night at Henri's in Covent Garden and it should never be forgotten what outrageously enjoyable nights those early evening events were. They formed the mould

SHOPPING AROUND FOR HITSVILLE……………CHRISTMAS IN DETROIT 1960 A Detroit Christmas Story. A few years ago an envelope arrived. In anticipation, I opened it rather quickly and the contents fell to the floor. As I reached down, I wondered what it was. I picked it up, removed the paperclip and…………………whoa SHOPPING AROUND FOR HITSVILLE……………CHRISTMAS IN DETROIT 1960 Christmas in Detroit, cold, snowing……... Close your eyes….... ……….……..…….. ..…Picture the scene

A Google book preview of the book A House on Fire: the Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul By John A. Jackson A Google book preview of the book A House on Fire: the Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul By John A. Jackson Another goggle grab of a book from a few years ago (2004) As before worth a revisit as the Google books preview (embeded below) allows a far better idea of the actual content than any review. A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul by John

As the title suggests, ‘Billboard’ magazine began life as a trade paper for the bill posting industry at a time when slapping posters on blank walls was viewed as a helpful and constructive pursuit, not an act of anti social vandalism. It was started in 1894 by two American visionaries called William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a ‘paper of record’ for circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, minstrel shows, whale displays and whatever else appealed to the public taste of the day, and evo

Tuesday of this week I called Karl Rhodes to make arrangements to meet up to go to Camel on Friday, change of plans Karl said we are now going to Dublin to Sleepless Nights, got flights for twenty quid he says fancy it?   Dublin "Your Too Darn Soulful" Tuesday of this week I called Karl Rhodes to make arrangements to meet up to go to Camel on Friday, change of plans Karl said we are now going to Dublin to Sleepless Nights, got flights for twenty quid he says fancy it? Can’t wait s

What I thought was great in 2008 by Mark Randle Gang, I was asked prior to Christmas 2008 to submit a written piece for a propsed publication to be released around Christmas 2008. This I did, but for various reasons the publication never got released. I put quite a bit of effort into this at a time of year when spare time is at a premium, and am therefore reluctant to let it got to waste. I'm posting it here in the hope that it may be an interesting read for some of you, so here goes:

For the next Together event on this Saturday 28th May 2016 we've got Teenage Fanclub guest Djing. They've been long time Soul and Northern Soul fans and have done an interview with Peckham Soul about the influence soul music has played in their music... A Northern Soul - Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love talks Soul music Influential in spreading the attitude and ethos of independent music to a wider global audience, Teenage Fanclub are both an important and much loved band. By immersing th

I first went to a rare soul all nighter in early 1969. It was in a solitary disused railway station about half a mile from the hamlet of Kelmarsh in north Northamptonshire, 5 miles from my home town of Market Harborough. I knew the big soul acts of the day whose records had made it to the UK - Otis, Wilson Picket, Carla Thomas, Temps, 4 Tops, Supremes, Fontella Bass, Brenton Wood Etta James - but the records I was hearing at the nighter were by the Esquires, Tony Clarke, Homer Banks and the Amer

Got back from Lifeline just a short time ago, just enough time to shower and have coffee so I thought I'd put a brief comment up. First I'd like to thank John McClure and Jen for the lift up there, and to Irish and Carrie for their company too. A really good night as usual, the only place really where I, and probably many others, hear the music we really want to hear. Superb sets from all the DJs, I did laugh when I went up to Andy to request the alternate version of Crazy Baby, a

Someone asked if I could put up the two interviews I did with him that got published in Manifesto, as this was a work in progress they got published a year apart. So here's a chance to read right through. One of Detroit's and soul musics greatest arrangers/producers and horn player. A Reluctant Star - McKinley Jackson-Pt 1 The following day I had arranged to meet up with McKinley Jackson and his life long manager Betty . I arrived at betty's house a little early, so look through s

Dave Godin A Northern Soul, a biography by Stephen Stevlor.  Review by Damian Conaghan.............. aka Dim @Dim  Those of us who regard ourselves as Soul Music fans have heard of Dave Godin. My introduction to him, along with many of my peers, was via his column, during the early 1970s, in Blues & Soul magazine, where his musings gave due weight to the beauty of the music we love. A few of our number got to meet him and a few got to know him to varying degrees. But I never met

A LITTLE REVIEW OF GWEN McCRAE featuring the SOULPOWER ALL-STARS   Gwen McCrae (voc), Lars Stoermer (sax), Jörg Bücheler (tb), Johannes Uhlmann (g), Helge Adam (keys), Lars Lehmann (bass), Kristof Hinz (dr)   Gwen McCrae has certainly earned her kudos since her smash hit Rockin Chair was released in 1975.  She has performed with Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Al Green, the Temptations, the O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, the late Ray Charles, Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Brown amongst

Ask any soulie, dancer, collector or dealer to name a city closely associated with the scene and I bet most would say Detroit. Ask them to name a label from Detroit and again I bet most would say LaBeat. Both are synonymous with the scene and deservedly so.   This release from Grapevine is in the opinion of many long over due and rightly deserves a lasting tribute to the joy the label has brought to many soulies for over 30 years. &#

Published Date: 2004/9/16 5:30:00 A look back at the Orwell The Orwell An Oasis Of Tentastic Musical Offerings Well I suppose I deserved the punishment of a full and frank review after all the shameless promotion so here it is. Bank holidays don't you just love them we knew we were going to have problems with traffic on the busiest weekend of the year so being a work shy get I finished work early rushed home got changed and out of the door in record time. The road to Wigan is a fa

SOUL IN THE CITY at BAR NYLON, LONDON – 1st OCTOBER 2003 By Gene Robertson Since the days of the Old Blue Last , Soul In The City’s previous venue, they certainly have kept the soul flag flying by providing top drawer midweek Northern Soul for all, on the first Wednesday of every month, right in the heart of the City of London. The new venue, Bar Nylon in Addle Street, is a superb wine bar/night club type setting with a decent-sized dance floor – and it’s talc friendly!! I visited

Tears In My Eyes — Recounted by Kenny Hamber and John Smith   The market for soul related material at the moment does seem to be sadly focused on ill-designed badges with owls on, memories drawn from a specific era in a North West UK ballroom and the fashions that somehow have been mistakenly been given a soul creditation. With cringingly TV snippets and British films with a soul ‘Scene’ theme at their core, it’s refreshing to discover that some people are still spending time, effort a

A TALE OF TWO DITTYS. I'm very much aware that ditty is not the correct word, but it allowed me a literary reference, just to remind me the following is just the usual Sunday morning wibble. If it helps sing the words as you read them, or hum if your vocal abilities resemble my own. The title refers to 2 reviews of last night's outing. The first is for the busy, 'White Rabbit' types who undoubtedly have a huge list of chores to perform and every minute counts, in the interest of diversity, it al

A xmas carol - Winstons holiday adventures - more great stuff from your man A Xmas Carol Review - Winston   Well what a weekend, it started just how I wanted, it to with Janine picking up myself and Steve Heinsen from Bedford. Made really good time getting to Willington near Derby, (a mini-nighter, 9 til 4 a.m.) with Janine expertly and safely driving her way through the snow and other associated bad conditions. We arrived around a quarter to ten, and were pleasantly surprised jus

Aachen Soul Weekender March 8 / 9, 2013 So, my weekender started on the Wednesday night when I left work, because I had to go down to Wales to collect Jessica because she was quite ill, and didn’t think she was capable of the four hour train journey to my house on the Thursday on her own. However, she had never been to Germany, or a European Soul Weekender, so was desperate to come, and I thought the excitement of the weekend would see her through. When

Cleethorpes - Aftermath First from Pilar who along with Elena was on the decks, and a view from Heikki from Finland who must have visited every venue going in that week Just to help some of you who were there to refresh your braincells, (or for those like me who couldnt make it ) aware of what we missed, here,s a couple of reports on the weekender from the halls of Soul-Talk Pilars bit A bit late I know but all though I arrived to Valencia on Monday I just really landed yes

Anyone who grew up listening to pop or R&B radio in Philadelphia (as I did) in the late 1960’s is familiar with The Show Stoppers’ raucous hit, “Ain’t Nothin’ But a House Party”. Frequenters of the Soul Source website may be familiar with the song from its release on Beacon in 1968 (more on that below). In 2017, the song was featured as the lead cut on Kent Soul’s excellent compilation, Nothing But a House Party – The Birth of the Philly Sound 1967-1971, a Compilation of the Year pick b

Al Perkins, DJ, Song Writer, Producer, Label Owner and Singer............................. The multi-faceted star shone bright for a while in Detroit. He started his DJing career down in Memphis after moving there from Brookhaven, Ms. In Memphis he honed his skill as a DJ alongside fellow jock's Jay Butler and Fred Goree, all of whom would eventually move up to Detroit and join WJLB and later Martha Jean The Queen's WQBH station on East Grand Blvd. Once on the air Al acquired the nick name

Few words and playlist from last Albrighton niter from CSC Dj and man behind the fine Anoracks Corner Website, David Flynn Next up at 2am was my bad-self on my first deck duty there. Well, below is my play list and as you can see I treated em to the kinda tracks that get the Dome dance-floor bouncing. I was particularly pleasing to receive requests for some of the emerging tracks Im playing...kinda makes it all worth while! :-) Must admit that the dance-floor didnt respond t

My First Blog - What A Weird Weekend Posted by , 03 May 2005 · What a weird weekend we had; in parts wonderful, in parts really crap, and other parts there was both good and bad to be found. Start off Saturday with a 4 hour round trip to collect my son from Buckingham, back to the house and a mad dash to get ready for the weekend ahead which was to comprise of the Stafford reunion in Stoke and then a mighty trek up to the North East to spin at an alldayer in Gates

This Summer, the last weekend in August sees the True Soul Weekender taking place in Scotland. Part of the events is a 5 hour session set up as a tribute to one of Scotlands top Rare Soul clubs "The Allanton/Shotts Allnighters" aka "The Ruff Cut Soul Club" with an amazing line up of some of THE original trend setting DJs from this Iconic club ...... Saturday afternoon 12 noon until 5pm: “Hello is that Ruff Cutt? Is Scotland On?” Once upon a time in the Wild Wild West (Scotlan

So the first series of  American Soul comes to conclusion this week  with Don Cornelius  securing  an appearance from Ike and Tina Turner but struggling with ever present distractions such as a rocky  marriage , organised crime and his own health issues. The BET channel were given a huge responsibility in reflecting a such an  iconic programme that  holds so many memories for its the series target audience .   There have also been expectations from Soul fans  with many of us feeling this w

This week sees the 10th anniversary of the death of  Amy Winehouse. I thought she deserved a personal tribute on these pages. Whilst she won’t be everyone’s taste it would be hard not to ignore her impact and achievements .   Amy’s Roots Amy’s roots were forged in the migration of her great great Grandfather  from Minsk , Belarus to Londons East End in the 1890’s . By the time Amy was born in 1983 the family had settled , with many other  East End Jewish families in the North Lond

site note- the soul source members blog feature has now been retired most old entries will be moved across to the article system Someone Has To Start It Posted by Andy Bb 11 February 2005 There's not a lot more egotistical than a blog is there? Why exactly would someone want to read about someone else's exploits? Because we're all so sad we like to live our life vicariously through the eyes of someone we hardly even know except as a name and a silly image on

OK the USA trip was unlike previous as it hadnt really been planned in advance...I usually spend 4 months or so organinsing the working schedule. The reason for the almost last minute decision to go was as a direct result of the death of Andy Lee...Rob & I decided "fuck it..lifes too short". Normally I like to have lots of tasty things lined up but we decided we didnt really care if we came back with nothing. So day 1, Thursday evening, into Newark...spent hours waiting for our connecti

THE ANN SEXTON STORY Compiled by David and Val Box 2015 With a lot of help from Ann Sexton, Brendan Greaves and Jason Perlmutter   Ann Sexton was born Mary Ann Sexton, on 6th February, 1950, in Greenville, South Carolina.  She was raised by a family influenced by gospel music.  As a child, Ann sang in her church choir and spent her adolescent and teenage years singing in school and winning talent shows. On Ann’s first recorded cut, in her home town in 1966, she is the youthfu