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16 minutes ago, Frankie Crocker said:

Glad the thread is still running. Hottest topic on here for a while. Please keep it open as it is a great read with lots of good clips. AND we’re really looking forward to the next show...

Yes, we felt it is going well so will leave it running - Don't forget to vote for our man folks! :wink:

Len :thumbsup:

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I've watched many great dancers down the years and you can usually tell the venue from back in day that influenced their Style. Dancers from Station Rd had a unique style which contained lots of tricks & spins etc timed to the instro breaks in the more uptempo tracks.  Dancers from the earlier Torch  & Wheel etc tended to be much more expressive using hand movements to match the same breaks and changes in the record.

Not sure what this guys style is based on unless it's just his own interpretation based on lots of visits to local Soul. 

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51 minutes ago, Frankie Crocker said:

Glad the thread is still running. Hottest topic on here for a while. Please keep it open as it is a great read with lots of good clips. AND we’re really looking forward to the next show...

Well said Frankie - this thread makes for very interesting reading! Hope he drops out this week though - not happy about it all being on prime-time telly! Channel 4 & to a very small audience in the early hours is one thing, but Strictly Come Dancing & now The Greatest Dancer?? NOOOOOOOO!! 😣😥

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53 minutes ago, Soul16 said:

As cringeworthy as it was last week, now I’ve got used to the idea, part of me is looking forward to it tomorrow! I’m as protective of ‘the scene’ as anyone else on here, but we also have a reputation for being a friendly bunch, so I’m gonna run with that attitude. Northern Soul stopped being a secret society decades ago, but the simple beauty of the music never fades for me.

It could have been worse, at least he didn’t open up by dancing to Frank Wilson and demonstrated to the masses that there are more than two Northern Soul records in existence - the other one being The Snake...

The irony being haven't heard either at a soul night for years. 

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9 minutes ago, wiggyflat said:

1339 on here.....the man in the zone

great videos mate, music is fantastic, that lad was properly enjoying himself

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7 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Picture of me and possibly the greatest spinner of them all Vernon taken on New year eve at the Monaco ballroom in Wigan 

 

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Isn't there some footage of Vernon dancing/spinning at Wigan Ste?..

 

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13 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Isn't there some footage of Vernon dancing/spinning at Wigan Ste?..

 

Yes Gaz, There,s some footage knocking about mate. Trust you and the Lovely Debs are fine. 

4 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Still the man.....

 

 Up there with the very best and a top man too

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Great footage showing some unbelievable spinning from Vernon, when he had a cigarette in his mouth it used to look like a complete circle of fire. He perfected the art of when he was just about to lose his balance he would go down into the splits.
Did see him come second in a dance competition at Hinckley ( think it was the night Edwin Starr was on) by a guy called Kim, what a dancer he was.

 

Tomo

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11 hours ago, Veedub said:

Just a few seconds in... the Wigan clips from Something Else program.

 

Rare footage, and 0ne of the few clips from Station Rd other than This England. If you look at the First clip the place looks empty other than the dancers, seem to recall reading it was filmed in a Morning after everyone had gone?. 

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14 hours ago, Zed1 said:

Isn't there some footage of Vernon dancing/spinning at Wigan Ste?..

 

The best dancer I've personally and around good lad Vernon, remember him winning the dance competition at the morecambe pier anniversary. Think I was told he won at station road didn't he ste. Taken it toll on him can't spin anymore due to years of doing it, old age catching us all up. 

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On 11/01/2020 at 15:21, Monny1916 said:

Thommo from Nottingham,,, wow the guy could do anything,,Stephen 

 

Wonder if anyone has got any dancing footage from The Palais, who was the black guy they called Mr Electric Man ? I am so old now 14/15 at the time, I can't remember

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10 hours ago, geoffp said:

Swap my footwork for yours any day. Hope you two are ok. Get up there soon as old age allows.👍

Been a while mate. We're the same as always I still wear the trousers because she still says I can.

 

10 hours ago, geoffp said:

Swap my footwork for yours any day. Hope you two are ok. Get up there soon as old age allows.👍

Hope you two are good to. 

Hopefully we'll see you soon somewhere. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Garswood said:

Can somebody tell me the title of track playing in this vid, I know it, just can’t remember...philPhil

Deep Sensation ‎– Somehow, Somewhere (There's A Soul Heaven)

1998 is the original

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