Ive always had a soft spot for the casino classics singles and lp's,they were my first intro into northern soul,so i wont hear s bad word said about them 😂

But why was the 3 b4 8 released on RK label and not the tradional ccs?

47 minutes ago, Dobber said:

Ive always had a soft spot for the casino classics singles and lp's,they were my first intro into northern soul,so i wont hear s bad word said about them 😂

But why was the 3 b4 8 released on RK label and not the tradional ccs?

The RK release was 1978 the year that Robert Kingston started the Casino Classics label so I assume it was made before they had the idea of the CC bandwagon thing with RW on the team management-wise.

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by Woodbutcher

Your My Soul Brother Woodbutcher I have everything apart from 4 Demo's on 7"

I laid my hands on every cheap Soul complilation I could in the early 1980s...

All the various Motown ones, Casino Classics, Out On The Floor by Inferno Records, the two Keepin' The Faith on PRT (https://www.discogs.com/release/2926498-Various-Keepin-The-Faith), the early GoldSoul, Rare Soul Uncovered and first Kent LPs. Some would even turn up in my local Woolworths which had rotating stock every week (a brilliant double LP of Veejay blues and soul I've never seen since and not listed anywhere).

As soon as I got access, I'd raid Rob's Records in Nottingham every week, especially once I was a Saturday lad on the Victoria fish market about 1983 and had earnings. I'd also go downstairs into Pendulum Records and buy everything new that week, usually 2-3 Kent compilations and equivalent a week.

Then once I caught up, it was onto collecting singles.

Ah happy days!

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by Thinksmart

I was exactly the same mate. I have been a dj on and off for 40 odd years and had to get everything new. But there is no New Northern soul really. Like in the Northern Soul films when a guy says what's new and the reply was there's nothing new lol 2 great films Soul Boy and Northern Soul

I always think the 1970's UK Grapevine label was the true Casino Classic label! All the releases were based on the Casino play lists.

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by Solidsoul

The early CD era was great for me, I devoured them all and still do.

Then that combined with legal downloads.

By the early 1990s the Motown Northern Soul discoveries were starting to leak out on CD illegally and then legally. That coincided with lots more venues and nighters again.

It's slowing down now in compilations but lots of new Soul music to enjoy as mentioned in the relevant thread here. Bandcamp is good now too I find.