I was just listening to Carla Thomas, I'll Never Stop Loving You and I thought, well I could present that to anyone and say this is the music I like. We know we're a sub culture but is there any sounds you can think of whereby you can say to the general populous, this is the music I love and you could feel the general populous would at least get the gist of why we love Northern.

I would have to chose between, The Salavadors stick by me badly and Gene to ones what more do you want. In my opinion they are as good as it gets as regards northern soul.

Hard to do with one record I'd say you'd need to have 5 records,one male,one female,one male group,one femme group and one instrumental.

Major Lance-You don't Want me no more.

Rose Batiste -hit and run.

Natural Four-I thought you were mine.

The Sherry's-put your loving arms around me.

San Remo Strings-Festival time.

These 5 were off the top of my head,could change if I thought about it more.

Realy hard to do .

  Steve Karen Breakaway

 Lillie Bryant Meet me half way 

 Rex Garvin Sock it to em J B 

these are records that turned me onto Northern soul back in the 70s 

I will head for:

 

This thing called love/Johnny Wyatt

 

or even something like:

 

Ooh! Pretty Lady/Al Kent (which I have not heard for years on the dance floor)

 

or even:

 

Girl in the candy store/The Reflections

If you wanted to put across the feeling of being on Mr M's packed dance floor at 4.00am, you could play SAXIE RUSSELL - PSYCHEDELIC SOUL.

It oozes hardcore Northern all-nighter atmosphere!

Edited February 26, 201510 yr by Guest

Two people - stop leave my heart alone.

Darrow Fletcher ,What Good Am I,

Joe 90 theme....?.

Alice Clark-You Hit Me . . . imho the greatest female "45" of all time , by a country mile.

Totally agree  timeless classic , good choice Bitchdj

christine cooper - heartaches away my boy ??? they dont come much better than this

the belles - dont pretend

the volcanos - against the laws of love

Three absolute classics big tune back in the day

moses smith......... girl across the street.... plus it was the first import i ever bought

dave

Timeless classic , still does the business on the dace floor

Parisians - Twinkle Little Star

No very messy tune

Buster & Eddie---Can't be still

Soul twins --Give a man Chance

Connie Clark--My Sugar Baby

Moses Dillard-- I'll Pay the Price

Executive Four--i Got a  Good Thing Going

About ten years ago I introduced my wife-to-be to NS.  I weened her on Dusty, Yvonne Baker and Ray Pollard, but the one that really did it for her was Dana Valery.  It's that thunderous bass line which still sounds as good today as it did in '74.

Edited February 27, 201510 yr by Dayo

Jimmy Robins - I Can't Please You

 

 

Thousands of them

mick L

Superlatives -I still love you.                                 

Isonic,s.      - Sugar

Edwin Starr - Time

Jimmy Raye - Philly dog around the world

Dee Dee Sharp - Deep dark secret

 

If a stranger to our world dos,nt feel it after those five I doubt they ever will. IMHO