As I haven't been anywhere much for quite a while, I was curious

1. does Butch still play this in his sets?

2. has it been uncovered yet?

3. if so, what is it?

Ta peeps!

Something happens to me when I hear this one, just have to get up and dance, so infectious. Same for the Martha Jean Love cover ups. Superb soul music.

Snippet of the fantastic Martha Jean Love track:

 

Martha Jean Love, Old Time Lover. About the best clip online of it recorded at the Blackpool International Soul Festival this year

 

Was that Butch spinning the Martha Jean Love "Old Time Lover" on both those clips?

Yes Mark 

2 hours ago, Ted Massey said:

Yes Mark 

Cheers Ted.

7 hours ago, Jen said:

Martha Jean Love, Old Time Lover. About the best clip online of it recorded at the Blackpool International Soul Festival this year

 

Been waiting for a nice clear clip for a while. Still one of my favourite sounds. On a 10 inch acetate so a tricky record to cart around. A true ‘one-off’ that I hope one day will be released on the Butch label, hint, hint...

1 hour ago, Frankie Crocker said:

Been waiting for a nice clear clip for a while. Still one of my favourite sounds. On a 10 inch acetate so a tricky record to cart around. A true ‘one-off’ that I hope one day will be released on the Butch label, hint, hint...

It would be great if all his cover ups could be issued for our enjoyment.

9 hours ago, Jen said:

Martha Jean Love, Old Time Lover. About the best clip online of it recorded at the Blackpool International Soul Festival this year

 

I was there for this, on the dance floor. Butch's whole set was excellent and he played many of my (and I'm sure many others) favourites: Jean Carter, Martha Jean Love, Ruby Andrews, Mighty Lovers, Vessie Simmons (didn't know that one, really good) plus Barons Of Soul, Mill Evans, CODs, etc. Absolutely brilliant, and so was the set an hour later in the Crossover room. Glad I was there for this even though I'm still tired now.

 

47 minutes ago, Geoff said:

It would be great if all his cover ups could be issued for our enjoyment.

Absolutely not , the so-called 'scene' is so "watered down" these days that it would be a dreadful thing if every 'Tom' , 'Dick' and 'Harry' had access to Mark's wonderful collection of unknowns and one-offs ( along with all the other exclusives owned and played by that small band of brothers such as Kitch and Colin Law to mention just two )

The fact that you have to make the conscious effort to rack up the miles in order to catch those brittle 10"  bundles of joy , that you can't hear at every Mickey Mouse soul night or tired oldies nighter , is all that is distinguishing the "proper scene" from the sanitised sadness that is tagged 'Northern' these days .

Long may Mark continue to keep his one-offs as one-offs and his cover-ups well covered up ... 

57 minutes ago, WoodButcher said:

Absolutely not , the so-called 'scene' is so "watered down" these days that it would be a dreadful thing if every 'Tom' , 'Dick' and 'Harry' had access to Mark's wonderful collection of unknowns and one-offs ( along with all the other exclusives owned and played by that small band of brothers such as Kitch and Colin Law to mention just two )

The fact that you have to make the conscious effort to rack up the miles in order to catch those brittle 10"  bundles of joy , that you can't hear at every Mickey Mouse soul night or tired oldies nighter , is all that is distinguishing the "proper scene" from the sanitised sadness that is tagged 'Northern' these days .

Long may Mark continue to keep his one-offs as one-offs and his cover-ups well covered up ... 

You may be right, but sadly Butch doesn't play them that often, but maybe that's what makes them great.

20 hours ago, Geoff said:

You may be right, but sadly Butch doesn't play them that often, but maybe that's what makes them great.

Like everything in life too much of anything will very soon render it stale , if they were in the hands of every wannabe DJ , being played at all the pissant soul nights that are suffocating the calendar , then like all the other myriad tunes that have been booted the magic would be lost.

Totally agree I would much sooner have to travel a 1000 miles to listen Butch  than have every wanna be  soul nite dj thrash them to death. Without tunes like this the real soul scene wouldn't exist