What was your first record,that you was told it was Northern soul,mine was Billy Butler,Right Track.At a youth club,The older lads said they heard it before in the clubs.

Regards,Kev.

Out on the floor. As far as I can remember.

Worse one when you see something on ebay "top northern track unknown" you don't know it, can't find any info on tinternet.. when you buy it and get it in the post what a load of pants... I can't be the only one thats done this can I?

think mine were things like jackie wilson higher and higher, showmen - our love will grow, and the platters, washed ashore. can't remember really - but these records were very early in my 'career'.

i actually, like a lot of people in the early 80's, was into the jam and stuff, and one day a mate brought HIS MUM'S! cassette round with the supremes on it, and i completely fell in love with 'where did our love go' a song i still like. but didn't really hear of NS til maybe a year or so after that, and started buying kent albums etc - NS been my favourite music ever since.

the packers - hole in the wall ... silly mod kids, stop talking.

First record I was "told" was Northern Soul was Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay by Otis

Hated soul music, always thought it was James Brown stuff with loads of shouting and screaming and funky afro hair do's......then heard a mate playing Johnny Caswell 'you dont love me anymore' in his bedroom and was completely smitten with this 'Northern Soul' sound....

that was 28 years ago!!!! Been in love with the music ever since!

The usual youth club faire, On a Magic Carpet Ride, Nine Times Out of Ten, Interplay, If You Loved Me. It was that poptastic period about 1978.

Still have a soft spot for fluffy Northern.

The usual youth club faire, On a Magic Carpet Ride, Nine Times Out of Ten, Interplay, If You Loved Me. It was that poptastic period about 1978.

Still have a soft spot for fluffy Northern.

Likewise.

I suppose Johnny Caswell fits into the 'poppy' end of the genre too, still a fantastic tune and never tire of it, sends goose bumps up my spine, been in his situation and you just know what he's on about. You can always tell!

Queueing up the stairs to the local discotheque in Wrexham in 1967 - first ever visit, expecting to hear all my (then) favourite pop/chart tunes...................heard the opening line 'Soothe me baby, soothe me, soothe me with your kindness' - wow, blown away!

By the time I'd got in to the packed room the record was tailing off - next up 'I needed the shelter of someone's arms, and there you were, I needed someone to understand my ups and downs and there you were. With sweet love and devotion, deeply touching my emotion.' (Jr Walker) - and boy did those lyrics touch my emotions - that soul bug bit me there and then; this was a real 'road to Damascus' experience that I can still recall so vividly today, 40 years on.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Brian

What was your first record,that you was told it was Northern soul,mine was Billy Butler,Right Track.At a youth club,The older lads said they heard it before in the clubs.

Regards,Kev.

Summer of 1975 top twenty and Friday night club at Aspull high School, Kenny - fancy pants, Yin & Yan - If, Hello - new York groove, Pilot - January, Procul Harum - Pandora's box, you get my drift. That year was the first time me Mam & Dad let me stay at home in Wigan instead of going to East Scotland for two weeks holiday! But I had to stay with my Uncle and three cousins the oldest was Peter he had been going to the wheel, var-vars and the Casino, And he was on a right downer having to look after his two younger brothers and me instead of going out on a Friday night. This was the night that changed my life and what a BIG mistake by my Mam & Dad! On that night Peter played records that I didn't know exist, Girls are out to get you, Ain't nothing but a houseparty, Bok to Bach, Baby Boy, A little togetherness, Purple Haze, and more of the same from a box of 50. The best holiday of my young life by a country mile I can tell you, the following Friday Peter took me to the Beachcomber I must of looked like a right twat in jumper bellbottom jeans and trainers, but it was a start and I loved every minute of it.

Steve J

Jr Walker and Sweetsoul

beautiful

1967 was playing in that year all the usual pop stuff and had been an apreciative listener to pirate radio but the above track turned me to Soul music and all its related genres

still up there 40 years later

Doug

I really loved Smokey Robinson - Tears of a clown.

Girlfriends sister says if you like that, you'll love this. She stuck on the Capital Soul Casino LP. 'This is the end' boomed out.

Hook, line, sinker, rod and copy of Angling Times

At our school discos, it was traditional for the DJ to have a brief break from playing the endless chart pap, to spin three different 'genre' records back-to-back. Only three mind, in case we got too excited. These were always:

-a Gene Vincent number for the Teds. Don't laugh, I'm from the Land Where Teds Still Roam, although you only really see them now at weddings & funerals.

- one for the Punks: "Go Buddy Go" by the Stranglers.

- "Needle in a Haystack" for the Northern Soul fan, so that was my first intro to what Northern might be. The aforementioned fan was a local wealthy businessman's daughter who went to Wigan, so me & my mates used to refer to it as "that posh people's music."

After the giddy thrill of these 3 records and a half-hearted scuffle between the rival factions, it was back to Showaddywaddy, etc. and 'normality' was once again restored.

What was your first record,that you was told it was Northern soul,mine was Billy Butler,Right Track.At a youth club,The older lads said they heard it before in the clubs.

Regards,Kev.

Come to think of it,my aunt who more like a sister was 8 years older than me, used to play soul records to me, this would be mid 60s.that would become later known as Northern soul.

Kev.

Out on the floor. As far as I can remember.

Ahhh.. mine too! Still is today!