Like lots of people I love looking at record labels - even scanned ones. Hope people don't find these A-Zs too "fluffy". They are an attempt to involve more people. As well as posting record labels in alphabetical order posters can hopefully comment on the label , mention key sounds etc etc.

Anyway to get the ball rolling, here is an A.

Not my favourite record this. Always found it too poppy.

Edited November 5, 200420 yr by Billy Freemantle

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AND THE FLIP SIDE

Billy i was in Chicago a while back and was sat in the House of Blues club/restuarant the night before i flew back home, and as i glanced around the posters and flyers on the walls i saw that Bobby Bland was appearing 2 nights later, i could have roared like a red-haired child, just my bloody luck (i'm not a rich guy, and my place of work would finish me if i stayed any longer) so i guess it was fate, would love to see the fellow play live.

Was at Mark Bicknells house the other friday and he had an autographed photo of the legend adorning the wall of his living room..........sooooo jealous

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One of the thing that I will always be grateful to Northern Soul for - what I see as one of its greatest strengths - is the way it introduced me, and loads of other kids like me, to such a wide variety of styles in the black music tradition.

I first heard 'Call on Me' and for many years know only 'Call on Me' ... but when the time come I got into 'deeper' stuff. Without that first exposure on the early Ns scen that simply wouldn't have been possible. In the same way my current enjoyment of pretty avant garde jazz is al down to an acquaintenece with the likes of Ramsey Lewis as a teenager.

The Northern Soul scene provides a musical education that cannot be underestimated.

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