Popped into town at dinnertime and instead of thumbing through 'Record Collector' like we tight northerners do I actually bought this months edition. (£3.50p gasp I can buy 3 pints and a bag of crisps in our local for that...)
There's a great article called 'Salsoul the ultimate disco label' which I flicked through, I can't comment on that claim as I don't know enough about the subject. Critics might claim thats never stopped me gobbing off about a wide range of subjects before hehehe.
But what did get me thinking was for such a revered seventies label like this how come so little of its releases got air play on either the northern or modern scenes of the day? Was its sound just too clubby or disco for the grim north?
Once again I've let my mouth shoot off, bear in my mind my knowledge of the label is very minimal and I wasnt attending venues in the mid seventies. Did its output appeal more to the jazz funk clubs or was it strictly disco? Was it a London ting?
I stand ready to be educated by those that know more than me....
derek
Off the top of my head the only 2 Salsoul cuts I could think of which got major play on the northern scene were Eddie Holman's "This could be a night to remember" and Sylvetti's "Spring rain". Both were massive at Wigan and immediately make me think of fluffy white towelling socks, polyveldts, baggy trousers and immortal smell of brute (don't tell anyone but I was in Superdrug yesterday and smelt or is it smelled a bottle of Brut. It doesnt smell that bad actually but whether I'd wear it is a different matter...)
Popped into town at dinnertime and instead of thumbing through 'Record Collector' like we tight northerners do I actually bought this months edition. (£3.50p gasp I can buy 3 pints and a bag of crisps in our local for that...)
There's a great article called 'Salsoul the ultimate disco label' which I flicked through, I can't comment on that claim as I don't know enough about the subject. Critics might claim thats never stopped me gobbing off about a wide range of subjects before hehehe.
But what did get me thinking was for such a revered seventies label like this how come so little of its releases got air play on either the northern or modern scenes of the day? Was its sound just too clubby or disco for the grim north?
Once again I've let my mouth shoot off, bear in my mind my knowledge of the label is very minimal and I wasnt attending venues in the mid seventies. Did its output appeal more to the jazz funk clubs or was it strictly disco? Was it a London ting?
I stand ready to be educated by those that know more than me....
derek
Off the top of my head the only 2 Salsoul cuts I could think of which got major play on the northern scene were Eddie Holman's "This could be a night to remember" and Sylvetti's "Spring rain". Both were massive at Wigan and immediately make me think of fluffy white towelling socks, polyveldts, baggy trousers and immortal smell of brute (don't tell anyone but I was in Superdrug yesterday and smelt or is it smelled a bottle of Brut. It doesnt smell that bad actually but whether I'd wear it is a different matter...)