I just played Chubby Checker's "Two Hearts Make One Love" off the Soul Club website.

It comes in at 1 minute 50 seconds.

Just got me wondering if there are any shorter.

Is there a recognised shortest track played on the Northern/Rare Soul scene??

Ta!!

MB

I just played Chubby Checker's "Two Hearts Make One Love" off the Soul Club website.

It comes in at 1 minute 50 seconds.

Just got me wondering if there are any shorter.

Is there a recognised shortest track played on the Northern/Rare Soul scene??

Ta!!

MB

Karmello Brooks gotta be one of the shortest at 1:55

steve

trey jeys I found it all in you..1 40 somethin.

can be arsed going to the box at the moment but defo 1.40 somethin

don ray - 1.46

don hosea - misery - 1.36

don ray - 1.46

don hosea - misery - 1.36

trey J's is 1:37..so second place so far

Just checked,

LEFT OUT-JESSE JOHNSON.OLD TOWN. 1,57secounds.

I knew it was short,but what a sound.

Kev

pauline shivers - tough stuff - 1.28

not one to put on the decks for a toilet break!

outside the boundaries i know but the shortest record i ever heard was on john peel over 25 years ago, half japanese - rip my shirt to threads. 6 seconds

Billy Hambric 'She Said Goodbye' gotta be in there somewhere ...

trey J's is 1:37..so second place so far

I stand corrected..

From memory , The Velvet Satins is very short isn't it ? Best ,Eddie

Betty Logan "A lot to learn" Gaye, Old spin for Adey- 1:30 on label, but is actually 1:25! just timed it!

Edited April 1, 200718 yr by Trevski

Previous thread on the subject here:

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=30036

"COOKIN'" by THE COLLEGIANS on HILLTOP.

From the vocal start ( hey man ,that's Cookin') to the abrupt stop, 1 min 25 secs of an R'n b instrumental

From memory , The Velvet Satins is very short isn't it ? Best ,Eddie

Eddie,

justed looked, BIG SEVEN MUSIC BMI 1:55

kEV

Simon T

Thanks for the link.

Apologies for repeating the topic but the earlier one was before I joined this forum.

Some very interesting info. on both threads.

Thanks again.

MB

mighty joe drake - try,try,try - kapp is very short.

also peggy gaines sweet way of living always sounds like there is more to follow.

if memory serves Ruby Winters - Better is a short track but every second pure quality!!

Pete

two from me,youve been away,rubin,and born a loser,don ray..both well short tunes.. ...soulie55...bet u cant better these two..

I just played Chubby Checker's "Two Hearts Make One Love" off the Soul Club website.

It comes in at 1 minute 50 seconds.

Just got me wondering if there are any shorter.

Is there a recognised shortest track played on the Northern/Rare Soul scene??

Ta!!

MB

Yes, Mighty Joe Drake "Try Try Try" is only 1:50, (but what a side!) I often wonder if there are longer takes of sides we know and love, lurking in a vault somewhere, and what would we make of them?

When The Chi-Lites "Have You Seen Her" came out in 1971, it was considered something of a "groundbreaker", as everyone said that radio DJs would never play a single that was over 4 minutes long in those days!

So what's the LONGEST Northern side ever played then? Brainstorm "Lovin' Is Really My Game"? - or is that cheating?

Edited April 1, 200718 yr by mel brat

So what's the LONGEST Northern side ever played then? Brainstorm "Lovin' Is Really My Game"? - or is that cheating?

There's a 'longest' 45 thread on here too

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=29983

Edited April 2, 200718 yr by Simon T

So what's the LONGEST Northern side ever played then? Brainstorm "Lovin' Is Really My Game"? - or is that cheating?

Mark IV - played consistently by Sam since 1984....twenty three years. :angry:

mighty joe drake - try,try,try - kapp is very short.

also peggy gaines sweet way of living always sounds like there is more to follow.

according to label Peggy Gaines is 2mins 40,,,,KEV.

On The Shortest Side Of Business There's Jimmy Radcliffe's "I Pretend I'm Loving You" at 1:47

And On The Long Arm There Is Jimmy's "Insults" Coimn' In At 8:16.

Of course there's the "What About the Music" Instrumental. Isn't that 1:20 something.

Paul

OOps deleted double, post. Is there a Delete post facility on here?

Paul

Edited April 2, 200718 yr by Paul r

On the reggae thread, I put one up thats 1:33 long

This one clocks in at 1:15......the winner?!?

Bobby_Star_Money.mp3

Edited April 2, 200718 yr by recordwanted

RW

That's WEIRD!!

Was it A or B side?

It was on the A-side. I kinda like the tune myself, just too short!

Jimmy Thomas - Where There's A Will

I remember that as being very short indeed. If I could find where I've put it I'd know how short.

Found it. Says 2.05. Nomination withdrawn. I must've been standing a long way from it and it just looked shorter.

Edited April 4, 200718 yr by Soulfinger

There's a 'longest' 45 thread on here too

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=29983

Just had a quick look, but I meant on the NORTHERN scene, or I'd have nominated Funkadelic "One Nation Under A Groove" which I think is about 9 minutes long on 12"!

Carl Underwood - aint you lying - merging -------------- that was a short tune..............who got my old copy that I sold to Mick Smith about 1995..................It had loads of surface marks but played mint......................just wondering what happened to it.................can I have it back please