Midday New Year's Day, Sharleen Spiteri shares her passion for Northern Soul for 2 hours.  

 

Didn't know she had a passion for NS!  More celebrity bandwagon-jumping perhaps?  

 

Prepare yourselves for The Snake, Frank Wilson and the usual predictable stuff (or am just too cynical!)

 

She's warbling on about there not being many female singers in Northern Soul. Clearly nonsense. Playing Rose Batiste 'Hit and Run' which is a welcome inclusion probably not known by casual listeners.

Was waiting 4 someone hit on this !!

Being fair to her I envisage the music was inserted and she just did the links. So far obvious plays OOTF FW COTB LATIAO now Shirley Ellis 'Soul Time'.

TYFTUARC

(Thank you for the update and running commentary)

Williams and Watson 'Too Late' always class. There could be a wonderful radio show just with Okeh label tracks. Interesting bit on recording techniques at Motown.

Edwin Collins on now as an NS inspired track. For a R2 audience it may be useful to show the link. Its at least preferable to playing Wayne Gibson.

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Edwin Collins...I have got the wrong program?  ffs

Edwin Collins...I have got the wrong program?  ffs

 

Thinking the same too, until Epitome of Sound followed it!

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Epitome of Sound next. Far too much talking between the records, especially as they are fading the records out very early. Sharleen seemed to realise it herself.

Yep, it was going so well untill Edwin Collins came on. Influences? B*llocks!

Appart from that it's pretty good and you can really hear her passion for the music! It's really refreshing. 

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swearing - work filters

Oh dear ... 'Don't go away as I have some Chuck Wood, Al Wilson coming'. Advert on for the Lenny Gamble soul city shows sounds very fresh in comparison.

Couldn't be a NS show without the snake 

These tracks do have my wife singing along so it means the show is working to its target audience.

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Couldn't be a NS show without the snake 

Best tune yet  

Where's Richard searling when you need him

Where's Richard searling when you need him

 

 

The voice and patter coming over sounds flat and un-enthusiastic.    

More Okeh....Major Lance 'Investigate'. A favourite from way back.

I think Sharleen is alternatively speaking from notes and off the cuff. It needed a producer and a run through to polish it. But she is undoubtedly keen.

Chalky brace yourself....Amy Winehouse. Now this really has no place here to me and is bound to contribute to the term Northern Soul becoming ever more generic.

Amy drug house someone get me a rope 

Amy drug house someone get me a rope 

I like her !

Dear God - just switched on and heard  her try to contextualise Major Lance Investigate without appreciating it's place in the grand scheme of things, and then play Amy Shitehouse - FFS -  back to War & Peace on Radio 4

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The only thing in common was the drugs

I think Sharleen is alternatively speaking from notes and off the cuff. It needed a producer and a run through to polish it. But she is undoubtedly keen.

 

 

To me a DJ or even presenter should have a flexible range of tones/voices and use them to attract the listening ear and make them take notice, to me she just sounds flat and uninteresting.    

i like her too,

Lee David. Sounding great through big speakers here. The rhythm section makes this one. Those bass and drums will never get old. One for the haze of an early hours of the morning dancefloor.

I like her !

 

So do I, Northern soul? Not sure. But a great singer none the less! 

It's the news..time for the record bar.

Back with....Tainted Love. Inevitable. Kind of thing my wife loves in the car these days. Overplays don't detract from the song though. Perfection?

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Thinking the same too, until Epitome of Sound followed it!

I was painful trying to listen to her explain things behind EOS and other records like it.  I didn't expect much but I expected a better researched show and do we really need Edwin Collins and Amy Whingehouse when doing a show about Northern Soul?

Hold On To My Baby. Proper.

Marvin Gaye now with Love Starved Heart. Tore me up along with When I Feel The Need in the 90s.

To me a DJ or even presenter should have a flexible range of tones/voices and use them to attract the listening ear and make them take notice, to me she just sounds flat and uninteresting.    

 

I think that's more to do with the Glaswegian accent!

Takes me back to back to back plays with Jimmy Frazer. Needed a rest after those two.

Lorraine Chandler 'I Can't Hold On'. Must be a day time mainstream radio first play for many of these.

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Am I suffering from the New Year's eve after affects ?  BUT..............

Lorraine Chandler sounded a different mix to my RCA 45 one ?

 

 

Tom.

Yeah that was a poor alternate version of Lorraine Chandler.  Poor in comparison with the one we know I mean.

Takes me back to back to back plays with Jimmy Frazer. Needed a rest after those two.

Lorraine Chandler 'I Can't Hold On'. Must be a day time mainstream radio first play for many of these.

Yes but it would have been even better if they'd played the proper version.

Little Richard. Three off one Okeh CD now...It's Okeh Up North I think.

If he hadn't felt bad before he joined Okeh he would have after her intro 'career in a downward spiral'.

I'm still surprised a record paid in 2013 for Texas to record a video in Detroit as she said earlier.

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'John Newman and Plan B coming soon'....?

I've not listened to the show, but I guess if you have an audience of people raised on "pop" music trying to draw comparisons with Amy Whitehouse and Edwin Collins will probably show the uneducated that Northern Soul might have somehow influenced people that they've actually heard of and like, so it's akin to drawing them into a world that they don't understand by offering them a small foothold.  Obviously the show hasn't been meant for the elite, it's just a "celebrity" trying to show that there's music out there that isn't "pop" but is still great.

Sweet Things!  Fantastic!

 

Ginger Taylor told me this was too fast to get played these days.

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Sweet Things. Drawing off the Soul Time CD volume 1 CD for a few tracks today.

Do you reckon it's original vinyl  Happy New Year to you all

John Newman. WTF! To show continuing influence play something like The Revelations version of'Why When The Love Is Gone' or Jo Stance 'Hey Girl'. I don't really hear it here.

Plan B, oh f-ck off.

How long before Duffy?

What is she on about with this foot slipping thing. A foot movement does not genre alignment make!

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I think no vinyl at all. They are all CD rips. There are multiples off the same few CDs.

As Mrs brown would say THATS NICE

I think no vinyl at all. They are all CD rips. There are multiples off the same few CDs.

 

Not living up to your user name, the poster was taking the P when they asked is it all OVO.   

Going back to Sweet Things, it is incredible that stomper s are too fast to play now. In fact they may clear some floors. That's what I went out to hear, faster the better when I was a youth. Get on some Dean Parrish or Bobby Paris and get yourself running to the floor.

Not living up to your user name, the poster was taking the P when they asked is it all OVO.

I know but there will be casual readers of the forum today who may not pick up on that.

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Bob Brady EGTTL-I. Blue eyed Smokey Robinson style hippy homage from the early days. Love that piano.

Landslide and more Major Lance coming.

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Going back to Sweet Things, it is incredible that stomper s are too fast to play now. In fact they may clear some floors. That's what I went out to hear, faster the better when I was a youth. Get on some Dean Parrish or Bobby Paris and get yourself running to the floor.

Maybe we need a new thread about what's thought to be too fast to get played these days?

Amy Winehouse, Edwyn Collins, Plan B etc.

Good to see some new Northern alongside the same old classics.

Off to listen to some of that strange fangled Modern stuff.

Enjoy Northern monkeys LOL.

Its hard now to get across how important Landslide was. Just a monster. Seems slow here to me and definitely lacking dynamics. Not playing it off a decently mastered CD.

It's The Beat now kids!

Maybe we need a new thread about what's thought to be too fast to get played these days?

Pointless all the best dancers never go out !! Only rip the piss !!

Amy Winehouse, Edwyn Collins, Plan B etc.

Good to see some new Northern alongside the same old classics.

Off to listen to some of that strange fangled Modern stuff.

Enjoy Northern monkeys LOL.

Not sure if this is sarcastic. I play Modern Soul more than Northern these days at home. It's not the concept that annoys here, it is the selections. But as said earlier, it is a pop show really.

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