........ Bill Oddie mentioned in the same sentence on Sounds of the Sixties this morning.

Apparently the record played was a favourite in soul clubs in the 60's according to our Brian.

The record was pretty average in my opinion sounding very much like a Gene Pitney track.

Anyone got the record (I can't remeber what it was called) and more to the point has anyone on here ever heard it played anywhere?

KTF.

Drew.

Go to the BBC 2 web site--sounds of the 60s--its 1 hour 19mins into the prog.

The backing is a beat ballard type thing--the vocal is F***ing awful !!

I didn't know it though

Rob

........ Bill Oddie mentioned in the same sentence on Sounds of the Sixties this morning.

Apparently the record played was a favourite in soul clubs in the 60's according to our Brian.

The record was pretty average in my opinion sounding very much like a Gene Pitney track.

Anyone got the record (I can't remeber what it was called) and more to the point has anyone on here ever heard it played anywhere?

KTF.

Drew.

I think this might be the track,,,,

Certainly not my idea of Northern Soul, although I've heard worse........

It's "Bill Oddie "I Can't Get Through" on UK Parlophone R5433.

You can hear it here, if you've got a Masochistic streak.

Course, Bill is an Ex-Wheelite and got the Northern Soul classic "Black Pudding Bertha" in the charts, so his credentials as a Soul artist are sound.

Sean

No Webby, Twisted Wheel & Rochdale.

Now get those frikkin Spuds peeled!

If anyone can dig it out he is mentioned in a Frank Elson column in Blues and Soul, I seem to remember frank says Bill was a member at the Catacombs !!And well into the music at that time!

It may have been in response to someone moaning about THAT line in Black Puddin' Bertha

If anyone can dig it out he is mentioned in a Frank Elson column in Blues and Soul, I seem to remember frank says Bill was a member at the Catacombs !!And well into the music at that time!

It may have been in response to someone moaning about THAT line in Black Puddin' Bertha

Maybe Frank had a go, but I distinctly remember the great Dave Godin delivering a stern rebuke in his inimitable style, which included a stinging condemnation of the song's regional stereotyping of working class northerners!

Maybe Frank had a go, but I distinctly remember the great Dave Godin delivering a stern rebuke in his inimitable style, which included a stinging condemnation of the song's regional stereotyping of working class northerners!

E b y gum them Goodies were funny in their day....

The track in question is on an Ace CD "Songs From The Dog & Duck", a fictitious pub jukebox, compiled by St Etienne member Bob Stanley, in his sleeve-notes he says

. "Trumping all of these though, is Bill Oddie's 'I Can't Get Through'. Prior to his days as a twitcher, and before he cut various breakbeat-laden tracks with the Goodies, he recorded this classy, big city soul-alike for Parlophone in 1966." I'm not sure where they get Northern Soul from though Herbert Hunter is on there, it's a mad CD.

The track in question is on an Ace CD "Songs From The Dog & Duck", a fictitious pub jukebox, compiled by St Etienne member Bob Stanley, in his sleeve-notes he says

. "Trumping all of these though, is Bill Oddie's 'I Can't Get Through'. Prior to his days as a twitcher, and before he cut various breakbeat-laden tracks with the Goodies, he recorded this classy, big city soul-alike for Parlophone in 1966." I'm not sure where they get Northern Soul from though Herbert Hunter is on there, it's a mad CD.

Interesting concept. Someone was playing it in the office t'other week and I heard Dan Folger's "The Way Of The Crowd" for the first time and it blew me away..........

Ian D

Never heard this one before, but I'm not surprised given Bill Oddie's track record as a soul artist. Check out this mid-tempo floater for comparison.

Classic Blue-eyed soul....

Black pudding bertha lyrics

Edited February 7, 201015 yr by Matt Male

The track in question is on an Ace CD "Songs From The Dog & Duck", a fictitious pub jukebox, compiled by St Etienne member Bob Stanley [...] it's a mad CD.

Mad indeed! And also the most played CD in my apartment during the past 2 months. Fantastic tunes from beginning to end!

If anyone finds a copy of "I Can't Get Through" on Parlophone on their travels and can resist the urge not to break it, I'm after a copy. Seriously.

Demo or stock, I don't mind.

Again, I repeat, I'm being serious. No joke...

Interesting concept. Someone was playing it in the office t'other week and I heard Dan Folger's "The Way Of The Crowd" for the first time and it blew me away..........

Ian D

I heard this just recently. Great little oddity. Like a cd version of a lucky dip!

If anyone finds a copy of "I Can't Get Through" on Parlophone on their travels and can resist the urge not to break it, I'm after a copy. Seriously.

Demo or stock, I don't mind.

Again, I repeat, I'm being serious. No joke...

So am I - it's rather brilliant, anyone slagging this off just because of who it is needs to listen again, perfect mid-60's pop/soul beat ballad.

Sometimes you lot are so blinkered.

sounds right up my street..........sound file?????????? .............oh shit!!!!!!!!!! theres a pied wagtail on my bird table ..........better get it in my spotting log terry twitcher

it's rather brilliant, anyone slagging this off just because of who it is needs to listen again, perfect mid-60's pop/soul beat ballad.

Nod of respect from here too...a superb slab of 'mid-60's pop/soul beat ballad' (copyright Pete!).

After a copy of this if anyone has one for sale??

Edited February 24, 20169 yr by Northern Soul UK
rewording

On 2/6/2010 at 21:01, Guest said:

Never heard this one before, but I'm not surprised given Bill Oddie's track record as a soul artist. Check out this mid-tempo floater for comparison.

 

 

that looks allot like   This was actually the best of their SHITE

Seems that it was a big play back in the day ........

 

 

Edited February 22, 20169 yr by Roburt

I have heard A LOT worse played out than this under the banner of 'northern soul'

Is it just strange coincidence that the B-side of Black Pudding Bertha by The Goodies happens to be called Panic? 

Reparata & The Delrons spring to mind.

Edited February 22, 20169 yr by Gene-R

On 2/22/2016 at 08:16, smudger said:

that looks allot like   This was actually the best of their SHITE

LOL, funny that :-)