This thread may sink or swim but i just love talking about my records and other peoples records.So here is the concept i'm looking for

1/ All records from your own collections and all original UK or US releases

2/ 10 choices of records

3/ UPTEMPO BLACKPOOL MECCA/CLEETHORPES/CLIFTON HALL SOUNDS

70s stompers seem to be resented by the oldies crowd but were a major part of the scene at all the legendary venues.They were difficult to dance to and took skill and youthfull energy maybe why they are passed over nowadays as we all nurse our bad backs and knackered knees.But you dont see many of the young uns dancing to them either.Its almost as if they are being rubbed out of the present soul night scene.So lets see your record lists of your fave shufflers and 7os stompers

Lets have no infighting about what sounds were played where first,generally looking for the tracks in your collections that are associated with these venues.The records you select can be well known or underplayed,common or scarce,big money or cheepies.They must be its up to you as long as you own em.So 20 records to pick which represent a great of the Northern scene should be interesting if anyone still likes talking about records anymore we will see.I will kick off the proceedings with my offerings. All mine are well known and were massive plays back in the day

In terms of timescales you are being very broad - Mecca through to the early 80's, yet very specific and prescriptive in terms of venues. Just for clarity you are referring to Cleethorpes era 1 (Mary Chapman) and era 2 (Steve Croft) in terms of niters and time scales?

You have posted some decent tunes to get things started.

In terms of timescales you are being very broad - Mecca through to the early 80's, yet very specific and prescriptive in terms of venues. Just for clarity you are referring to Cleethorpes era 1 (Mary Chapman) and era 2 (Steve Croft) in terms of niters and time scales?

You have posted some decent tunes to get things started.

Deliberately kept it broad to get responses and set off with well known tunes for the same reason.Don't want to get bogged down with dogmatic stuff just looking for the uptempo 70s records that seem to be underthreat of being excluded from soul nights.But basically talking about Late Wigan/Mecca/Cleethorpes Winter Gardens stuff that went on to be played at Clifton Hall,so 1977-85 ish period.If you own it post it and lets be reminded of the high speed feet shuffellers

Edited July 15, 201212 yr by Patto

Deliberately kept it broad to get responses and set off with well known tunes for the same reason.Don't want to get bogged down with dogmatic stuff just looking for the uptempo 70s records that seem to be underthreat of being excluded from soul nights.But basically talking about Late Wigan/Mecca/Cleethorpes Winter Gardens stuff that went on to be played at Clifton Hall,so 1977-85 ish period.If you own it post it and lets be reminded of the high speed feet shuffellers

One hundred mile an hourer off the top of me head. The great Tommy Tate - You taught me how to love

I'll do mine via drip feed - or japanese torture. lol

Edited July 15, 201212 yr by Peter99

One I remember from Clifton hall Leon Ware "What's your name"(fabulous records inc)

https://youtu.be/V6w82u_XGXY

When the word 'stomper' was originally coined, it referred to tunes with a powerful, prominent and comparatively crude beat as typified by the Jewels, 'We Got Togetherness' and Hollywood Persuaders 'Hollywood A-Go-Go'. How we end up categorizing the Marvin Holmes and Four Below Zero records listed above in the same bracket mystifies me.

Not trying to ruin the thread - just a frequent puzzlement...

cant think of 10 altho a few already posted above....but couple more do spring to mind...

FRANKIE CROCKER -A TON OF DYNAMITE

SOUL ON WAX - MR DAY

WORLD COLUMN - SO IS THE SUN

SAXI RUSSELL - PHYSCADELIC SOUL

BITS 'N' PIECES - KEEP ON RUNNING AWAY

THERE'S FIVE THAT IMMEDIATELY SPRING TO MIND AND THEY'RE ALL IN MY COLLECTION

Edited July 16, 201212 yr by pilgrimsoul

When the word 'stomper' was originally coined, it referred to tunes with a powerful, prominent and comparatively crude beat as typified by the Jewels, 'We Got Togetherness' and Hollywood Persuaders 'Hollywood A-Go-Go'. How we end up categorizing the Marvin Holmes and Four Below Zero records listed above in the same bracket mystifies me.

Not trying to ruin the thread - just a frequent puzzlement...

As You say the word stomper was originally tagged to the 100mph pounding oldies.But later the term was used to describe a style of dancing, a sort of fast feet shuffell done to records of the right tempo and frequently seen performed to the 70s sounds in my first post.

FRANKIE CROCKER -A TON OF DYNAMITE

SOUL ON WAX - MR DAY

WORLD COLUMN - SO IS THE SUN

SAXI RUSSELL - PHYSCADELIC SOUL

BITS 'N' PIECES - KEEP ON RUNNING AWAY

THERE'S FIVE THAT IMMEDIATELY SPRING TO MIND AND THEY'RE ALL IN MY COLLECTION

Nice ones there mate,Love the Bits N Pieces a great cleethorpes sound

My point on this is that if you go to a northern Soul night you don't hear many of these 70s sounds as they are getting pushed aside in favour of 60s classics and R&B.I love my oldies but also love to hear a cross section of tunes that i equally remember from my early days late 70s early 80s.Some more examples from my Box.

Norma Jenkins Can you imagine that desert moon

Mark

Few more off the top of my head

Black Nasty "Cut Your Motor Off"

Cameo "Find My Way"

Phase II "The First Shot"

East Coast Connection "Summer in The Park"

Dee Dee Sharp "Happy 'Bout the Whole Thing"

Third Time Around "Soon Everything is Gonna Be Aright"

Ernie Bush "Breakaway"

The Moments "I've Got The Need"

The Miracles "Love Machine"

Brainstorm "Wake Up and Be Somebody"

Edwin Starr - 'time' .....the stompers stomper !!!

Leon Thomas - 'L.O.V.E.'........sorts out the men from the boys

Isaac Hayes - 'disco connection'......favourite sound of the anti clip clop oldies brigade !!!!

Curtis - How can I tell her

I know exactly the type of soumd you mean<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Some examlples .............

JJ Caillier Pusherman

Willie Brown Get out and get it

Nate Evans This time with feeliing

Lee Field Take me back

Little Beaver Listen to my heartbeat

My theory on why the Oldies brigade dont play them>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

They werent there in the first place to hear them in a lot of cases despite the fact they will all tell you "that aint real Northern" if by chance they might hear one , or they were all considered as "mecca shite" and banished from the true"northern scene" aflter the big split in the late 70s ...........DESPITE the fact they had previously been hugely popular at Cleethorpes St ives etc etc

Edited July 21, 201212 yr by sjay

Al Foster Band - Night of the wolf STOMP! STOMP! Shuffle shuffle!

Leon Thomas - 'L.O.V.E.'........sorts out the men from the boys

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been playing this lately -going down a storm.

I used to love (still do) the stompers / shufflers. Here's one that used to be absolutely massive at the time but you never hear it now.

Creative Source - Don't be afraid to take my love. (Polydor)

The LP version is even better than the 45 with extended Stomperness at the end.

Jordi

Sandra Richardson - stay here with me

Johnny Williams - something kind of mellow

8th Ave band- Whole thing

Flaming Emeralds - Have some everybody

Steve Marshall - Maintain

French Fries - Danse a la muisc!

EWF - BIYO

Jimmy Mack - A woman is hard to understand

Stanley Woodruff - What took you so long

Roscoe & Friends - Broadway Cissy

Spooky & Sue - I've got the need

Crow - Autumn of Tomorrow.

Liberty - girl you better wake up

Gil Scott Heron - the Bottle STOMP!

Life - Cat's eyes!!!!!

Edited July 23, 201212 yr by Mister Fish

Graham Central Station .... Feel The Need In Me ..... haven't heard that for years ... now THAT is a stomper !!

and it used to go on for a long, long time as well ...

I decided to do a mix of 70's shufflers/stompers to go with this thread.

Loads more I could have put on but these are pretty much representative of the mid-late 70's.

Personally I'd love to hear some of these played out more although perhaps not Babe Ruth!

Maybe I'll do a pt2 if there's enough interest?

Here's the tracks:

Al Foster Band - Night of the wolf (Roulette)

James Bynum - Time passes by (Philly City)

Willie Brown - Get out & get it (Tri-It)

Nate Evans - This time with feeling (DPR)

Jimmy Mack - A woman is hard to understand (Hamster)

Stanley Woodruff - What took you so long (Juldane)

Frankie Loveman Crocker - Ton of dynamite (Turbo)

Diane Jenkins - I need you (Creative Funk)

The Crow - Your Autumn of tomorrow (Inner Ear)

Flaming Emeralds - Have some everybody (Fee)

Sandra Richardson - Stay here with me (inter-Soul)

Norma Jenkins - Can you imagine that (Desert Moon)

Black Nasty - cut your motor off (Big Hit)

Johnny Williams - Something kind of mellow (Babylon)

Babe Ruth - Elusive (Capitol)

Lou Edwards & Todays people - Talking 'bout my folks (Columbia)

Jobellk & Orch de salsa - Never gonna let you go (Jan)

8th Avenue Band - The whole thing (Columbia)

Steve Marshall - Maintain (Reynolds)

Seventh Wonder - Captain of my ship (WG)

Earth Wind & Fire - Biyo (CBS)

Liberty - Girl you better wake up (BASF)

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Cheers, Mr Fish

Edited July 24, 201212 yr by Mister Fish

I decided to do a mix of 70's shufflers/stompers to go with this thread.

Cheers, Mr Fish

Very enjoyable, thanks.

Lee Fields - Take Me Back on Angle3 is one of the most brilliantly atmospheric records out there. Pity it's so dear today! :-(

Earth, Wind & Fire - Happy Feelings

Milton Hamilton - My Love Supreme

C.Henry Woods Troupe - The Stranger

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Cheers, Mr Fish

Cheers for that. I'll try this out on the treadmill at the gym tomorrow. I'll see how it compares to my usual diet of 60's stompers,

A few from my box

Most of the stuff in by box nowadays fits into this category

Cheers, Heath

Here is part 2. Free downnload link at the end. Enjoy!

https://www.mixcloud....rsstompers-pt2/

Brainstorm- Wake up & be somebody (Tabu)

Gentlemen & their ladies - Like her (Roulette)

Moses - Got my mind together (Piedmont)

Spaceark - Do what you can do (color world)

Crystal Motion - You're my main squeeze (Sound Gems)

Lady Margo - Simply got to make it (Cynthia)

Calif. Malibus - Love in my life (M&M)

Earl Connerly - Make up your mind (Maycon)

Silvetti - Spring rain (Salsoul)

Nights - Love knocked you down (Little star)

Notations - Think before you stop (Gemigo)

Sidney Thomas - look, let's make love (Parallel)

Little Beaver - Listen to my heart beat (Cat)

Willie J & Co. - Boogie with your baby (Ki Ki)

Third Point - Spirit (Tide)

Boby Franklin - Ladies choice (Fee)

Prince George - Wrong crowd (LPG)

Diane Jenkins - Tow-away Zone (Creative Funk)

Rudi Stuart - I wanna love you all over (Delmar Int)

Marvin Homes & Justice - You better keep her (Brown Door)

Newcomers - The whole world is a picture show (Truth)

Modulations - Can't fight uour love (Buddah)

Velvet - Bet if you asked around (Perception)

Chuck Jackson - I got the need (All Platinum)

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Edited August 3, 201212 yr by Mister Fish

Here's one I suspect everyone's forgot............................................

Edited August 4, 201212 yr by Godzilla

I made the point that the Word Stomping was also used to describe a style of Dancing to pounding uptempo Soul,i'm not trying to redefine anything to suit my preferences just stating how things were for me.I'm sure most people my age will be familiar with seeing this style of Dancing performed to records like The Champion,So Is The Sun,Psychadelic Soul,etc.Later on the style was modified with a bit more footwork and used to dance to the 70s uptempo numbers already highlighted in the thread.These uptempo 70s records in my opinion have just as much relevence on the Northern Soul Scene as say The Jewels.Why pigeon hole the word stomper surely there can be 60s stompers and 70s stompers Not got a clue what your Fat old bald men comment is about but i know many who would still love to be able to Stomp like they used to to at Clfton Hall to Janice.All i wanted to do mate was talk about RECORDS and the fact that at a lot of soul nights nowadays the 70s danceable stuff is overlooked and its a shame.I would love to hear the odd few thrown in to playlists just to remind us of how good some of em still sound out loud

mega totally forgotten cleethorpes stomper/shuffler 'JAMES BYNUM' 'LOVE MUSIC'

ACE YOUTUBE CLIP BY RARESOULIE

Edited August 7, 201212 yr by swaggy

I decided to do a mix of 70's shufflers/stompers to go with this thread.

Loads more I could have put on but these are pretty much representative of the mid-late 70's.

Personally I'd love to hear some of these played out more although perhaps not Babe Ruth!

Maybe I'll do a pt2 if there's enough interest?

Here's the tracks:

Al Foster Band - Night of the wolf (Roulette)

James Bynum - Time passes by (Philly City)

Willie Brown - Get out & get it (Tri-It)

Nate Evans - This time with feeling (DPR)

Jimmy Mack - A woman is hard to understand (Hamster)

Stanley Woodruff - What took you so long (Juldane)

Frankie Loveman Crocker - Ton of dynamite (Turbo)

Diane Jenkins - I need you (Creative Funk)

The Crow - Your Autumn of tomorrow (Inner Ear)

Flaming Emeralds - Have some everybody (Fee)

Sandra Richardson - Stay here with me (inter-Soul)

Norma Jenkins - Can you imagine that (Desert Moon)

Black Nasty - cut your motor off (Big Hit)

Johnny Williams - Something kind of mellow (Babylon)

Babe Ruth - Elusive (Capitol)

Lou Edwards & Todays people - Talking 'bout my folks (Columbia)

Jobellk & Orch de salsa - Never gonna let you go (Jan)

8th Avenue Band - The whole thing (Columbia)

Steve Marshall - Maintain (Reynolds)

Seventh Wonder - Captain of my ship (WG)

Earth Wind & Fire - Biyo (CBS)

Liberty - Girl you better wake up (BASF)

And here's the FREE downloadable link to make your own CD;

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Cheers, Mr Fish

James Bynum - still massive in our house!

Part 3 now ready!

https://www.mixcloud.com/albertfish/mecca70sshufflersstompers-pt3/

70's shufflers/stompers part 3!

Montclairs - Hung up on your love (Paula)

Lovelites - Get him of my conscience (Lovelite)

Southside Movement - Do it to me (20th Century)

Brothers By Choice - Girl I need you too (Ala)

Tapestry - It's not the world's messed up (Capitol)

Leroy Hutson - Ella Weez (Curtom)

Oscar Perry - I got what you need (Peri-Tone)

Life - Tell me why (Reprise)

Mike Jemison - I want some satisfaction (Geneva)

Barbara Hall - You brought it on yourself (Innovation 11)

Vessie Simmons - I can make it on my own (Simco)

Lloyd Price - Love music (GSF)

Voices of East Harlem - Cashing in (Just Sunshine)

Modulations - You're love's got me locked up (Buddah)

Billy Procter & Love System - Keeping up with the joneses (Epic)

Anderson Bros - I can see him making love (GSF)

Brown Sugar - The game is over (Capitol)

Arthur Prysock - All I need is you tonite (Old Town)

S.O.U.L - On top of the world (Musicor)

Kevin Drinkard - I wanna thank you (Teens)

We The People - Making my daydream real (Lion)

Four Wonders - Looking for my love (Solid Foundation)

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Lest we forget.......................

And though I don't recall this ever getting plays, I've always rated it perhaps one day its time will come

https://youtu.be/jLPCcEmyrxQ