Anyboody else like myself ever just pull a random Kent album off your shelf & give it a spin & think to yourself why don't i hear this out at a venue nowadays?

I'll start you off with: Booker T. Averhart & the Mustangs - Take your shoes off (Part 2) @ For dancers also

C'mon let's hear your suggestions for tracks from Kent albums that you'd like to hear out there in club world.

Simon

Edited January 29, 200718 yr by Simon

I've just started to play Lee Charles - "If That Ain't Loving You" in my sets which seems to go down well....

It's on "Hot Chills & Cold Thrills" - KENT 023.

BARBARA GEORGE I CAN'T STAND IT {ICAN'T TAKE NO MORE} ALSO ON THE FOR DANCERS ONLY.

CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A 45 ,IS IT LP OR UNRELEASED , ANYONE?

Anyboody else like myself ever just pull a random Kent album off your shelf & give it a spin & think to yourself why don't i hear this out at a venue nowadays?

Simon

I'd like to hear 'Put yourself in my place' - Maxine Brown played out.

Demures - Raining Teardrops (class!)

Sweethearts - Beauty is just skin deep (had to get a Yate oldie in, didn't I? )

Hippo.

Margaret Mandolph " Something Beautiful " from Floorshakers Kent 007 , or " It's starting to get to me now " - Irma Thomas from Stand in for love Kent 056 , two great femme sides .Best ,Eddie

BARBARA GEORGE I CAN'T STAND IT {ICAN'T TAKE NO MORE} ALSO ON THE FOR DANCERS ONLY.

CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A 45 ,IS IT LP OR UNRELEASED , ANYONE?

It's on a relatively easy to find US Kent single but wait until you hear the new version we've just found called 'Queen Of Fools' I'm playing it for the first time at the Rocket on Saturday.

Edited January 30, 200718 yr by ady croasdell

BARBARA GEORGE I CAN'T STAND IT {ICAN'T TAKE NO MORE} ALSO ON THE FOR DANCERS ONLY.

CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A 45 ,IS IT LP OR UNRELEASED , ANYONE?

It's Brenda George: quite a tough single to find, but shouldn't be mega expensive. Very good record, IMHO.

The track that I keep going back to from old Kent lps that is unreleased and I've never heard out is Mr Lee & The Cherokees "My Best Friends Girl" from the Sure Shots album: a beautiful downbeat harmony record that I'm sure would sound wonderful on a big sound system.

I've said on here before that I think the Kent label was probably as influential as any single deejay from the time of its inception in the eighties in terms of bringing new converts into the fold: particularly people from Europe and the States. Many friends from around the world have tons of Kent lps and cite them as an inspiring influence in their love of rare soul at a time when getting on a cheap flight to go to a nighter in the UK was not really an option, particularly for teenagers.

Making tracks like Torture or The Magic Touch available to the paying public at the time they were big sounds probably went a big way towards nurturing and sustaining interest in Northern Soul in the days after mainstream media interest had moved on.

NO PUPPY LOVE..JOHNNY COPELANDs great soulful unissued take,mind you i love the gritty uptempo JACKIE PAINE release on Jetstream.TWO GREAT TUNES

like one by jean carter

For me it would be 'You Hit Me' Alice Clark of the Kent Spinetinglers album

Still quite like Babara Lewis 'Still remember the feeling' of the Heartstoppers lp.

Treggy

Garland Green - "Come through me". From the "soul of spring". Made it onto one of the anniversary 45`s too if I remember right ??

Trev

Garland Green - "Come through me". From the "soul of spring". Made it onto one of the anniversary 45`s too if I remember right ??

Trev

Kent 6T 16 with 'Try Me for Your New Love -Junior Mccants on the flip.

Has to be Art Gentry "This is my chance" for me, never fails

BH

Forgot which cd

The Saints - Ive been taken for a ride, off one of the very early lps - never heard enough of it !

So did Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali who is arguably the most influential & inspirational figure of the last century so it can't be that bad a religeon!

Simon

You can't lose something that you never had - Chubby Checker alias Wade Flemons alias Jimmy Radcliffe depending on who you talk to.

I've only managed to get it by Bruce Scott.

Think it's on a Kent LP - might just be on a Horaces 45?

Anyway whatever it's on, I wan tha' one

Give Up Girl - Connie Questel (Soul Class of '66)

Edited January 31, 200718 yr by Gene-R

I nominate Laverne Baker "I'm gonna get you" from "No no no no no not my girl" KENT069, and perhaps the very next track, Judy Clay's "Upset my heart". I know the latter got advance play from Guy Hennigan via one of those "Trident" acetates and was released again on Big City Soul Vol 4 (Goldmine CD), but Laverne is the lurvely subtle sleeper for my money!

Kent for quality, care and musical integrity!

Totally agree with this one Gareth. Great bubbling base line, just grooves along.

It's Brenda George: quite a tough single to find, but shouldn't be mega expensive. Very good record, IMHO.

The track that I keep going back to from old Kent lps that is unreleased and I've never heard out is Mr Lee & The Cherokees "My Best Friends Girl" from the Sure Shots album: a beautiful downbeat harmony record that I'm sure would sound wonderful on a big sound system.

I've said on here before that I think the Kent label was probably as influential as any single deejay from the time of its inception in the eighties in terms of bringing new converts into the fold: particularly people from Europe and the States. Many friends from around the world have tons of Kent lps and cite them as an inspiring influence in their love of rare soul at a time when getting on a cheap flight to go to a nighter in the UK was not really an option, particularly for teenagers.

Making tracks like Torture or The Magic Touch available to the paying public at the time they were big sounds probably went a big way towards nurturing and sustaining interest in Northern Soul in the days after mainstream media interest had moved on.

Diane Newby - What you're putting me through (Kapp)

also play the Saints and the Sweethearts from time to time, so many favorites from those Kent LP's myself