News: The Northern Soul Top 500 Final Edition

[Goldsoul]

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[Amsterdam Russ]

Good luck with it. I'm sure it'll sell very well.

[Keamus]

Proper labour of love. Congrats!

Bought the original and the reissue with what was then the new top 100. 

[Andybellwood]

Hi Kev . Congratulations.
Looks like an essential read and definitive reference book capturing an expert Northern Soul record etc appraisal for 2021/22, with an impressive raft of ‘experts’ contributing.

Is the book hardback or soft back or available as both ? 
 

Edited August 7, 2022 by Andybellwood

[Moutton Noir]

Looking forward to the revised edition. A treasure trove of information about the records and artists and indispensable reference. 

[Goldsoul]

On 07/08/2022 at 16:05, Andybellwood said:

Hi Kev . Congratulations.
Looks like an essential read and definitive reference book capturing an expert Northern Soul record etc appraisal for 2021/22, with an impressive raft of ‘experts’ contributing.

Is the book hardback or soft back or available as both ? 
 

Just softback from the off…….then who knows

[Chatty]

Interesting to see some of the folk who have been referring to the "Top 500" in deragatory terms for years now get to "contribute".

[Goldsoul]

3 different Top 500’s in one whopping 440 pager. 
The final updated Top Floorfillers followed by Tim Brown’s 500 Rare, Rarer and Rarest topped off with a NEW Soul night listing. 
Updated values too, as Don Gardner hits 20k!
Pre-orders to www.goldsoul.co.uk

Signed copies ship on or around September 1st

 

Images:

The Ambassadors then becoming the 7 Dwarfs (Pee-Vee recording artists)

Don Gardner (Jimmy Vanleer’s Sedgrick imprint)

Billy Scott(Lead singer with the Prophets on the epic ‘I Got The Fever’)

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by Goldsoul

[Hooker1951]

Good Stuff Kev

ML

[Wiganer1]

15 hours ago, Chatty said:

Interesting to see some of the folk who have been referring to the "Top 500" in deragatory terms for years now get to "contribute".

I wonder when some last attended a venue 

[Chalky]

17 hours ago, Chatty said:

Interesting to see some of the folk who have been referring to the "Top 500" in deragatory terms for years now get to "contribute".

 

2 hours ago, Wiganer1 said:

I wonder when some last attended a venue 

As the comment by Chatty was probably aimed at me given the names mentioned....I was at a venue this weekend just gone.  I attend one or two a month work permitting, I work 4 on 4 off so work as many weekends as I don't.  I did dance quite a bit Saturday, with many I danced too probably in the 500 (I have no idea what is in it btw).  I have no desire to hear the top 500 week in week out having spent most of my nighter life promoting lesser played, semi and unknowns, that is still my outlook now, for some its like listening to the same episode of top of the pops every week, how boring.  

I do love the classics and that includes many of the top 500, some I don't, they are after all what I grew up with initially and what got me into the scene. I don't think I have been derogatory to the music, but like I said I prefer to hear something different on my nights out and have been vocal about this over the years.  Some people/Djs just don't know when to give a record a rest, familiarity breeds contempt as they say.  

I didn't contribute to any of the Top 500s either.

Edited August 10, 2022 by Chalky

[Kenb]

anyone who writes about Northern Soul gets my vote...but what i'm not looking forward to is the rush (once the book has been received) of people telling me thay bought this that and the other from the lists for 2 woodbines and a brown-split with bitter.

[Goldsoul]

Tim Brown’s Top 500 Rare, Rarer, Rarest. One of 3 new charts in the Final Edition. 
www.goldsoul.co.uk