Maybe been posted up before

But I was sat here thinking

In all my time of being into Soul & visiting venues over the years

What would I put down as the hardest track I ever attempted to dance too even in my yoot

For me it was a record I loved to hear played out, just coul"nt choofin dance to it to save me life

Pat Powdrill : Do It

Just too fast

Whats Yours

It don't work anyway Ian.

Ohh I have managed to squeezze 20 seconds out of it.

That's a bit weird mate. Did you right click and save target as?

Lou Johnson - Unsatisfied

Great record - dunno why but I just can't dance to it...

Lou Johnson - Unsatisfied

Great record - dunno why but I just can't dance to it...

You are avin a laff

What the fooks up you only got one leg

Lou Johnson - Unsatisfied

Great record - dunno why but I just can't dance to it...

No what ya mean!! And i aye got one leg!!

JB xxx

The Saints - I'll let you slide

starts off slow...speeds up...speeds up a bit more....slows down a bit etc etc etc

love the record...just cant dance to it

Gaz

'Do what you wanna Do' Dee Dee Barnes.

'Trouble' The Agents....

Great I'll join you JJ - have been umming and arring about it for ages, and I packed it in the big box for Lifeline in a week or two.....will probably play at "-3" - but Lord is it fast.

I have always said pitching up/down is the work of the devil... but even I'm with you on this one Steve..

I can dance to 'Watcha Gonna Do'.. 'She's Fire' etc.. but there's no way in life or death I could dance to Reggie Saddler

Got to be no.1 contender for the fastest record ever don't you think?

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by jumpinjoan

Chrysler and the monarchs band - i aint gonna lose you - Je Jodi

Always thought this was v fast though still one of my favourite to dance to leaves me rather wrecked, loves it...

Deadbeats - No second chance (I love the song but I don't know how to dance it. "It's not even soul", someone will say.. )

I always tought the Chandlers were an easy one to dance, isn't it? Apart from the acoustic part of course..

I always tought the Chandlers were an easy one to dance, isn't it? Apart from the acoustic part of course..

Eskew Reeder - You Better Believe Me

phewwyy thats fast

Kirsty's right..... Towanda Barnes "You Don't Mean It" is a killer! Another close contender must be East Coast Connection's "Summer in the Parks", which nearly killed me when Col Wood dropped it last year at York Soul Club.....

As for folks finding the Chandlers hard to dance to..... learn to count! The quiet bit is in waltz time (3/4), so if you just shuffle to a count of "one two three, one two three" during this bit you'll be fine!

Kirsty's right..... Towanda Barnes "You Don't Mean It" is a killer! Another close contender must be East Coast Connection's "Summer in the Parks", which nearly killed me when Col Wood dropped it last year at York Soul Club.....

As for folks finding the Chandlers hard to dance to..... learn to count! The quiet bit is in waltz time (3/4), so if you just shuffle to a count of "one two three, one two three" during this bit you'll be fine!

I always found Chris Clark's " From Head To Toe " an illegitamate child to dance to .......

Malc Burton

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by Malc Burton

Gigantor by the Dickies, Kin bedlam.

Oh and Angelina oh Angelina, cant dance too well when you want to pull your own eyes out and stuff em in your ears, nails down a blackboard.

I always found Chris Clark's " From Head To Toe " an illegitamate child to dance to .......

Malc Burton

illegitamate child to dance to .......

Gary Sole Holding On, it starts of fine but by the time the end arrives you are dancing like Max Wall.

To many tempo changes.

spot on

Bah The Combinations and Towanda Barnes are practically mid tempo compared with Barbara Christian - Not Like You Boy - Brownie.

Now that's fast, practically undancable.

Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher - got to be the toughest!

Could never dance to it and always ended up in knots

(although I did get beat up by a couple of Bouncers to it... many years ago!)

Great record though.

Don`t know why anyone plays this, it`s not a proper dance beat and anyone attempting it looks like they are having a fit.

A too fast one is Kittens - Aint No More Room.

Always used to have a problem dancing to Mamie Galore - It Ain't Necessary.

Now I have a problem dancing to most things

I have a problem reading size 2 fonts aswell.

-Kev.

Rita Decosta - Don't bring me down.. love it as a tune but try and bloody dance to it... (in time I mean)

easy my son

, always found fortune teller, benny spellman, a real challenge, either that or i was dancing to something completely different and only thought i was dancing to fortune teller....oh those good ole days!!!

towanda barnes - you don't mean it

Absolutely love this

I think its harder to dance to some real downbeat stuff...Many have filled the floor to super stompers but don't really know what to do when a deeeeeeeeep down funeral march,slash your wrist soul track is played...Oooooh i do like a few of them thrown in...

A good few deeeep soul tracks could be heard in the 90s at all niters..There was a guy who would stand on the spot,very little movement,eyes closed and a little shiver of is upper half now and again,real emotion indeed,i loved to see him on the dancefloor as much as any of the circus acts ... I called his dance,Man going for a shit i have be known to copy that style the odd time ...

Thats the point with dancing,some just think about all the fast stuff,i love to dance to soul in all its forms... Well maybe not the 300mph stuff,just a liitle to frantic for a quiet lad like me...Each to there own...

I hope you can all put on deeeeeeeeeeeeep soul record at home tonight and do the "man going for shit"..close the curtains first though,people could think you are having a stroke

good bless all the dancers and each to there own...Without them we would not have a scene,well not one that i and many would want...

In the words of Jimmy Rix "oooooooooooooh what a feeling,you got me rockin and a reeling"

I just cannot stop laughing at your description of the dance - in fact i'm crying with laughing as I read your comments Thanks for the tonic after a long day at work I needed that - more laughter please

'Balla Delena' The Marketts... the Slowest NS record ever!..

Agree that Ray Charles' I don't need no Doctor is a real toughie to dance to which makes it more of a challenge cos it's one of my favourite soul tunes. One record played at Hemel Hempstead that really caught me out was introduced by Reg (author) as one seperating the men from the boys as a dancer and then proceeded to play 'Seven rooms of gloom' by the Four Tops. Yeah right I thought, it's only a Motown track.......Well, it starts of really slow, barely jiggable, then moves into a good dance able tempo then goes bloody mad ......it's like being on one of those bucking bull things, the increase in speed either throws you off or you hang on for grim death, determined not to give up no matter how much it hurts/how stupid you look.

Little Nicky Soul - I Wanted To Tell You

Fantastic song and I always dance to it but I probably look like an idiot.

110mph 'dancers/heart attack'...King George & Timps..Im through losin you...Don Gardner..Not gonna let you get me down...& the frantic,furious n fast Barbara Christian..Not like you boy..C'MON MIDDLETON..Triumphs..pitch it up!!

TWANS.... could dance to it in the 70's but not now........ tried at prestatyn 2 years ago ... was not easy and felt i was all over the place .... that could be normal !

must be a time/age thing as many are coming to mind that seemed easy to dance to in 77/ 78/79 but no chance now !

, always found fortune teller, benny spellman, a real challenge, either that or i was dancing to something completely different and only thought i was dancing to fortune teller....oh those good ole days!!!

Yep - and his "This for you my love"

Joan beat me to the COD'S "fire" - great record but fat boys like me are finding it tougher to dance to anything thats put on after that!!!

One thats of an awkward tempo is the Gloria Taylor "Total Disaster " a few of us southerners were pushing hard around the bizarres a few years ago!! So soulful but awkward especially in the break. Doesn't stop it getting spun and they eventually started flocking to the floor when it came on.

persionettes - it happens everyday

Kelley garret Love's the only answer!!!! fost os fook!!

Ray Charles You're just about to lose your clown....Theres a few toe to heel trips in that one....

Willie Kendricks Change your ways...always end up, just clappin' along after doing a mick jagger to it..(ala Freddy Starrs' royal variety performance)

Also, one i've only just heard(thanks Ste) Eddie Curtis those foxes and pussycats......What a track!! i fear an impossible D,dancer though...But i ain't gonna stop when i get the chance, even if i stand there and pogo, i'll just have to move to it somehow....

Mike

What about that god awful record

SCRATCHY -TRAVIS WOMACK

CRAZY TIMES EH

anything these days faster than,i have no choice,j mae matthews is tough for me to dance too,

Maybe been posted up before

But I was sat here thinking

In all my time of being into Soul & visiting venues over the years

What would I put down as the hardest track I ever attempted to dance too even in my yoot

For me it was a record I loved to hear played out, just coul"nt choofin dance to it to save me life

Pat Powdrill : Do It

Just too fast

Whats Yours

night of the wolf-the boogie man orchestra

night of the wolf-the boogie man orchestra

Al Foster Band and "lady lady lady" respectively rhino

Whilst on the 70s Barnaby Bye "Can't live this way" more like "Can't dance this way"

Edited January 23, 200817 yr by Steve G

Even though it is one of my favourites ever, I always have problems picking up the correct beat to Mel Williams "Can It Be Me". Also the intro to the Magnificents "My Heart Is Calling" starts off a bit tricky.

Paul

Steve Karmen "Breakaway"

The Orlons - Spinning Top

Don't even think about it!!

M

two that's been mentioned, scratchy, but i seem to femember us trying at the wheel, and defo higher and higher.

Just thought of another-

Hang loose by Ronnie Mitchell - fantastic tune which I am going to play out next gig as I am on first but IMO impossible to dance to cost its so bloody fast

Some one on here had one for sale a couple of weeks ago.

IF YOU GOT SOUL , AND ITS A SOULFUL TUNE , FAST OR SLOW, YOU CAN DANCE TO IT.. HA. The one i dont like is a Soul Sam track, The one with the ROCKY middle section, just no soul to it, i.m.h.o. that is, martyn

IF YOU GOT SOUL , AND ITS A SOULFUL TUNE , FAST OR SLOW, YOU CAN DANCE TO IT.. HA. The one i dont like is a Soul Sam track, The one with the ROCKY middle section, just no soul to it, i.m.h.o. that is, martyn

that'll be King Moses. I tend to play air guitar in that part.... If I've bothered to dance at all that is

AL WILSON--THE SNAKE AFTER SEVERAL BOTTLES OF LAMBRINI

CHRIS

it rained forty days and nights...fast but not that fast, it just seems to be like 3 bars etc..all over the place if ya know what I mean...

Towanda Barnes always caused probs way back then so nowadays who knows.

Deeper in Love-------The O'Jays

very hard back in the day to get to grips with.

Class tune though

Bloody good one to listen when driving though (but not in a jam)!

Spade Brigade...........what are you supposed to do to that bit in the middle?.......just sway around!

Edited January 25, 200817 yr by Val

Absolutely love this record but its a bitch to dance to:

BOB & FRED- ILL BE ON MY WAY.

The beat isnt quite right, I can never get my feet around it.

As I am 50 in 1 months time I have to say

Captain of my Ship- Seventh wonder

When I was ateenager- No probs

have to agree to all these tunes in this thread; I am 47 now but even when i was 17 i could not even get close to the Velvet satins , Pat powdrill , 7th wonder ( used to stomp to this so it was almost possible at 17) ....but in my humble opinion The Jewels takes the biscuit as the hardest for me to dance to in 30 years!!!

best

pete m

New here guys so be gentle, for me it was LJ Johnson you're magic put a spell on me

JB

New here guys so be gentle, for me it was LJ Johnson you're magic put a spell on me

JB

Welcome Johnnyboyuno! What a shite first post! (Only joking!)