OK - I'm bored of these "I can't pick a top ten" comments - blah, blah, blah

Please just choose your all time ever (and forever) top 1 (that's ONE) record.

No evasion, obfuscation, procrastination, or indecisiveness please.

ONE TOP RECORD EACH AND THAT'S IT - ONE VISIT ONLY PLEASE, SO GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT!

OK mine is:

Jackey Beavers - Love That Never Grows Old (Revilot)

Cheers

Richard

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Surely it'll have to be

'Washed Ashore' by the Platters???

REE FLORES - LOOK IN TO MY HEART - M&H

just sounds better day by day

Very difficult - but here goes Cissy Houston He-I believe/I'll be there Major Minor

Manus

Kenny Smith - Lord What's Happening To Your People - GAR....this is my all time fave.

KTF

Baz

OK - I'm bored of these "I can't pick a top ten" comments - blah, blah, blah

Please just choose your all time ever (and forever) top 1 (that's ONE) record.

No evasion, obfuscation, procrastination, or indecisiveness please.

ONE TOP RECORD EACH AND THAT'S IT - ONE VISIT ONLY PLEASE, SO GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT!

OK mine is:

Jackey Beavers - Love That Never Grows Old (Revilot)

Cheers

Richard

Countdown(here I come) Tempos- Still does it for me

Soul Brothers Inc - Pyramid

Me Too

gary

Always thought this one was a bit underated as it has a great feel to it - although I think it could do without the tommy gun bit in the lyrics.

Cheers Manus

"we're so close, you couldn't part us with a tommy gun" Classic

it was rough round where he lived you know

Magnetics - I Have A Girl

The ultimate male group vocal record for me

I`m with you on this one Dave, doesn`t matter what mood I`m in it totally lifts me!

Magnetics - I Have A Girl

Fantastic record

NON SOUL WOULD HAVE TO BE

MANFRED MAN "SEMI DETACHED SUBURBAN MR JAMES"

SOUL WOULD BE

LEE JONES "THIS HEART IS HAUNTED" ON AMY. GOOSE BUMP TIME EVERY TIME I PLAY IT!

NORTHERN IS HARDER BUT WOULD HAVE TO SAY

INSPIRATIONS "NO ONE ELSE CAN TAKE YOUR PLACE" ON BREAKTHROUGH

ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF RICHARD AT FRI NIGHT OLDIES SESSION AT T'CASINO.

HOPE THIS ISN'T CHEATING BY THE ABOVE!!

Darrell Banks - I'm the one that loves you

Vocal magic!!

great thread, interesting to see so many differnet faves, and shows how big this scene is as some peeps faves ive never even heard, so off to dig around to hear some of them

Darrell Banks - I'm the one who loves you

Vocal magic!!

class

Dorando - Didn't I - Music City

Tony Hestor - Just Can't Leave You

or

Jimmy Soul Clarke - I'll Be Your Winner

B*gger! thats two.

One record that encompasses everything that's great about this thing of ours...

I'm Gone - Eddie Parker

"my top record ever "changes all the time but my bf (not a soulie) loves this lately and often sings it, "if you think that your the big wheel ill show you what daddy can do" ,perhaps incorrectly?. hearing it again from his perspective has made it, for probably the 100th time , my favourite again. like sweeny i think it "encompasses everything thats great" i particulally love the lyrics and eddie parkers lyrical inflections . im not really a fan of the down tempo string laden sounds and prefer the powerhouse stuff like this .

and lastly this is NOT RnB lol . soul at its greatest

soul bros inc pramid w/out a shadow of a doubt

oooh but then magnetics count the days is worrying me

Johnnie Mae Mathews "I have no choice" Big hit

Detroit supremecy......

Chris

DITTO.

"JUST CAN'T LIVE MY" LIFE-LINDA JONES

SORRY, I MEAN, "I CAN'T BREAK THE NEWS"-JOHN SPEAKER

OR WAS THAT, "MY LIFE WITH YOU"-TRADITIONS?

CAN'T REMEMBER, I HAVE SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS! WHAT WAS THE QUESTION?

IF PETE S CAN GO MAD WITH HIS POP MEDLEY, THEN...

No thinking needed Been the same one for 40 years

Jackie Wilson --- Nothing But Blue Skies

Too Much Pain - Eugene Evans on King.

Cos it's pure stripped down raw Soul music dripping with more angst than you could shake a stick at. Reputably backed by the JB's themselves and the quality of horn and bass gives us no reason suppose otherwise. Vocal intensity turned right up to 10 and a tune that just builds and builds. I have never been able to listened to this just once. 'Kin love it.

Too late Williams & Watson

now i want this one as well - cause it was also my favourite for 20 odd years

but i've had my wrist slapped once so will settle for Artistics

Good man Mike - nice 1

Cheers

Richard

"my top record ever "changes all the time but my bf (not a soulie) loves this lately and often sings it, "if you think that your the big wheel ill show you what daddy can do" ,perhaps incorrectly?. hearing it again from his perspective has made it, for probably the 100th time , my favourite again. like sweeny i think it "encompasses everything thats great" i particulally love the lyrics and eddie parkers lyrical inflections . im not really a fan of the down tempo string laden sounds and prefer the powerhouse stuff like this .

and lastly this is NOT RnB lol . soul at its greatest

probably my fave dance tune of all time sarahleen

p.s you topped any dogs lately

Grant

probably my fave dance tune of all time sarahleen

p.s you topped any dogs lately

Grant

only the ones that go ; doowop a de doo wop a de wop wop DO WOP

Carstairs - It really hurts Pete Smith

Wigan at its best

Fantastic record

THE vIBRATIONS CAUSE YOUR MINE

FOR ME THIS IS NORTHERN SOUL

Fantastic record

I'll go for one the best double siders - Young Brothers - What's Your Game / Baby then I can flip it over

On the Todd Rundgren theme - Love is the answer or A dream goes on forever

Soulwise - The Adventurers - easy baby

"Your soft centre touch that means so much" wow!

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On the Todd Rundgren theme - Love is the answer or A dream goes on forever

Soulwise - The Adventurers - easy baby

"Your soft centre touch that means so much" wow!

not soul ? probably something by joy division

Too Much Pain - Eugene Evans on King.

Cos it's pure stripped down raw Soul music dripping with more angst than you could shake a stick at. Reputably backed by the JB's themselves and the quality of horn and bass gives us no reason suppose otherwise. Vocal intensity turned right up to 10 and a tune that just builds and builds. I have never been able to listened to this just once. 'Kin love it.

Hi Craig

This is on King subsidiary Hollywood as opposed to the main label. Got to be a strong contender for the greatest deep soul record ever made. Does anyone have a copy for sale?

Dean Courtney - (love) You Just Can't Walk Away - MGM

Er....

Never For Me - The Millionaires

"my top record ever "changes all the time but my bf (not a soulie) loves this lately and often sings it, "if you think that your the big wheel ill show you what daddy can do" ,perhaps incorrectly?.

"Show you what EDDIE can do"

well it could be,the platters,washed ashore,(on a lonely island in the sea),

or the van-dykes,no man is an island,both in keeping with the desert island thingy,

but my real choice would have to be this motown lp track only,its pure class,

well it could be,the platters,washed ashore,(on a lonely island in the sea),

or the van-dykes,no man is an island,both in keeping with the desert island thingy,

but my real choice would have to be this motown lp track only,its pure class,

Spot on... i aint gonna have that one now.. ok it looks like............Shirley lawson......one more chance of course...

IF PETE S CAN GO MAD WITH HIS POP MEDLEY, THEN...

Go mad, I only listed one track!

Said it before so I'll say it again pretty close to perfection Northern wise has to be George Blackwell - Can't Lose My Head - Smoke, has it all for me, perfect backbeat, stunning lead vocal as he sings from his boots, timeless classic, rare and pretty much sums up what quality rare soul is all about, of course there are many more up there with this but for me GB shades it everytime.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

For me and my 9 year old son........

WINSTONS - COLOUR HIM FATHER

No thinking needed Been the same one for 40 years

Jackie Wilson --- Nothing But Blue Skies

oh lord mine aswell

Lou Johnson "Unsatisfied"

Bobby McClure - To Get What You Got - Hi

Soul Perfection

Sean

Marcell Strong and the Triad on Emerge a simply mindblowing piece of southern soul which i find hard to better it just levels me every time.

non soul wise would have to be little wing- jimmy hendrix although some would argue that hendrix touches the soul.

BAZ A

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If you have walked down the corridor to the Highland suite it has to be A love reputation - Denise Lasalle

Nice one - some absolutely stunning sounds in there guys!

Remember - one only - it's your only desert island disc . Not easy to pick, but it's worth it!

Keep 'em coming - it's great stuff

Cheers

Richard

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crackin up - roy hamilton, just a pity theres not a version by elvis

as for non soul u2-one

non soul lp bat out of hell

George Blackwell - Can't Lose My Head - Smoke

Goerge Blackwell-cant lose my head

jst does it for me eveytime.

Fantastic record

this gets to me by pookie hudson

Gonna tell the truth here and probably lose my cred,but if l could only have

one record with me then it would be the one that was the biggest when l

first went to Wigan and the one l took the morning off work to go and buy when

it got released,when things were more simple and innocent and l was 16 and the

world was my oyster......

Goodbye Nothin' To Say- Nosmo King And The Javells

Have to say I think that's a pretty cool reason!

Cheers

Richard

Gonna tell the truth here and probably lose my cred,but if l could only have

one record with me then it would be the one that was the biggest when l

first went to Wigan and the one l took the morning off work to go and buy when

it got released,when things were more simple and innocent and l was 16 and the

world was my oyster......

Goodbye Nothin' To Say- Nosmo King And The Javells

Bloody hell that was brave (although I have to admit to having a soft spot for it myself).

Admitting that on here must surely be as tough as standing in your lounge at home as a misunderstood teenager, looking your mum and dad straight in the eye and saying "Mum, Dad, I've got something to tell you".

Soul, colour him father,o c smith

non soul, jesamine the casuals

elvis,my boy