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In another thread Tony Smith has coined the phrase 'Dirty Northern' - my interpretation of this is gritty, hard, down home dance-music with none of the elegant orchestral production techniques of Philly etc. etc. Dirty Northern. Great term.

I'll start with the old Detroit classic 'Sister Lee', by Singing Sammy Ward. His R&B plea to a departed girlfriend (his sister?) is a killer to this day. Sammy had been dumped by Motown and gone back to his bluesier roots.

Your favourite 'Dirty Northern' classic please?

(Tony I'll always acknowledge you when I shamelessly 'bootleg' this term)

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I'll join in with this one.

How about Syng McGowan "That's What I Want". Makes me want to dig a trench in the dancefloor with me feet!

Paul

Mac Staten and the Nomads on Prelude :thumbsup:

Utter filth!

An early one: Alexander Patton.

does this count :thumbsup: down-right down & dirty

A quitter never wins.

In fact, a lot of the early stuff was decidedly dirty.

Your favourite 'Dirty Northern' classic please?

Soz Cant pick a favourite but any one of this lot get me deep down and dirty!

Marvin L Sims "get off my back"

The First Grade "please come back"

B B King "long gone baby"

Little Jewel "i want to"

Lanny Hunt "suzie Q"

I'm Gone! for a shower :thumbsup:

Steve J

Psychedelic Soul - Saxie Russell

I'm The One - Larry Williams

Wait 'Til I Get To Know You - Bobby Treetop

Tear Stained Face - Don Varner

Lonely For You Baby - Sam Dees

Midnight Brew - Melvin Carter

Ah my favourite sub-genre, gritty soul

Not Like You Boy - Barbara Christian

Sweet Loving - Art Benton

I'm Gonna Put A Watch On You - Ruby Lee

Honey Child - Bobby Bland

Peace - Pete Mayes

Whole Lotta Lovin' Deep Inside Of Me - Bonnie Brisker

Look Ahead - Gordon Keith

Somebody's Always Trying - Ted Taylor

Daddy's Baby - Ted Taylor

Come On Home - Jimmy Lomax

Long Hot Summer - Joe Simon

For All You've Been - Lenis Guess

Love it!

Surely the Daddy of this category (and maybe any category)

Eddie Parker - I'm Gone

You can actually hear him spit venom as he sings.

Surely the Daddy of this category (and maybe any category)

Eddie Parker - I'm Gone

You can actually hear him spit venom as he sings.

You're right Jocko. Sometimes gets embarrassing when you're singing along full force and catch the eye of a nearby female dancer... :thumbsup:

Surely the Daddy of this category (and maybe any category)

Eddie Parker - I'm Gone

You can actually hear him spit venom as he sings.

Have a look back at my post it's there :thumbsup:

One i know from my miss spent youth that never seams to get a play out

johnny james - Tell you about my girl

I put this up in refosoul a while back if somone know's how to post link :thumbsup: or look at my last played clip!

Steve J

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does this count :lol: down-right down & dirty

ohohohohoho! dats diiiiiirty! great record, the flip, is a dirty slow too....can you put that up too? :thumbsup:

MILTON JAMES,TONY MATHEWS AND TOMMY BUSH.......DIRTY BASTARDS :thumbsup:

If i may, i'll suggest a few;

Dean Parrish Determination Boom

Bobby Womack of the valentinos I found a true love Checker

Don Gardner My baby likes to boogaloo tru-glo-town ( think in recent history, this has to be the King)

Margie Hendrix Restless Mercury ( She one dirty low down HO!)

Little Charles and the Sidewinders Talkin 'Bout you babe Decca (could tho also go in the classy catergory :lol: )

James Brown Money wom't change you King

Dusty Wilson Can't do without you Bronse

This thread could end up being construed as an RnB thread.......to me thats what "RnB" is..low down dirty soul music. :thumbsup:

Mike.

we like dirty Northern here;

sorry for the blatant plug. Hope i';ve not committed a fo par.

Ah my favourite sub-genre, gritty soul

Not Like You Boy - Barbara Christian

Sweet Loving - Art Benton

I'm Gonna Put A Watch On You - Ruby Lee

Honey Child - Bobby Bland

Peace - Pete Mayes

Whole Lotta Lovin' Deep Inside Of Me - Bonnie Brisker

Look Ahead - Gordon Keith

Somebody's Always Trying - Ted Taylor

Daddy's Baby - Ted Taylor

Come On Home - Jimmy Lomax

Long Hot Summer - Joe Simon

For All You've Been - Lenis Guess

Love it!

Lou Pride 'I'm comin' home in the morning'

James Lewis & the case of Tyme 'Manifesto'

Jnr Walker 'Tune up'

:hypocrite:

Here's a few that would possibly fit into the 'Dirty Northern' catagory;

Gene Chandler - There was a time

Detroit Executives - Cool off

8th avenue band - The whole thing

Lou Pride - I'm coming home in the morning

Carl Douglas - Crazy feeling

Tony Hester - Down in the dumps

Hope you agree

Black Wings Has My Angel...... phwoar.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RUAWFRRRRRRR RUAWF....

Dr True Love Bobby Adams & Betty Lou very very dirty.

DING DONG!

OOW, THATS DIRTY, in a librarian sort of way :ohmy::hypocrite::lol:

PM me your phone number you big tart

Jimmy Robins - I Can't Please You

Good call, forgot about that one. If anyone asked what dirty and gritty was, i'd play Jimmy Robins

'wooo hey little girl.. what's wrong with you?' brilliant!

To my mind most of the best down and dirty is mid-tempo and sadly neglected these days. Haven't heard Jimmy Robins out for a while.

No one's mention Benny Spellman - This Is For You My Love have they? (yes uptempo i know) and of clourse Johnny McCall - You Can't Get Away.

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PM me your phone number you big tart

WHO ARE YOU??? i mean can i trust you??

WHO ARE YOU??? i mean can i trust you??

I thought that we may have had a shared history at some point!!!!!!!!!!!

The uncut unissued version of Jackie Wilson & Laverne Baker - Think Twice.............totalally in the gutter...........but sheer brilliance, all singing away to this in the car last week end on the way some where........chicks n all...........brilliant power house filth.

Russ

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Mr "Ms" this is nealy as dirty as the place it was played in JD Troy, allways felt like if you did not dance to this he would jump out of the record and kick you in the balls :hypocrite:

Some instrumentals can be quite 'dirty':

Stanley Mitchell- Get it Baby

Watts 103rd st Rhythm Band- Brown Sugar

Booker T Averhart- Take your Shoes off part 2

and a few dirty vocals:

Little Ann- Sweep it out in the shed

Little Milton- Grits aint groceries

Johnny Copeland- No Puppy Love

The queen big ella

coal miner nappy brown (filthy)

peacebreaker wilson pickett

why willie mason

Always thought Slipping Around is a rather "seedy" and rude tune, with its story of adultery....still brilliant though !!!

Harpo here by the way!!!

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Just a few from me

Eddie Wood - Why did you call

Exciters - Moving too slow

Betty Lavette - Im holding on

And of course Terrible Tom - We were made for each other

Steve

The uncut unissued version of Jackie Wilson & Laverne Baker - Think Twice.............totalally in the gutter...........but sheer brilliance, all singing away to this in the car last week end on the way some where........chicks n all...........brilliant power house filth.

Russ

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Patti Austin - Take away the pain stain

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To my mind most of the best down and dirty is mid-tempo and sadly neglected these days. Haven't heard Jimmy Robins out for a while

Stay to the bitter end at Middleton, Matt..... Robbo regularly gives it a spin. As soon as I read the thread title, the first tune that came to mind!

Another one (tho' with a virtuous lyric).... Barbara Lynn 'I'm a Good Woman"

what about running for my life roscoe shelton

In another thread Tony Smith has coined the phrase 'Dirty Northern' - my interpretation of this is gritty, hard, down home dance-music with none of the elegant orchestral production techniques of Philly etc. etc. Dirty Northern. Great term.

I'll start with the old Detroit classic 'Sister Lee', by Singing Sammy Ward. His R&B plea to a departed girlfriend (his sister?) is a killer to this day. Sammy had been dumped by Motown and gone back to his bluesier roots.

Your favourite 'Dirty Northern' classic please?

(Tony I'll always acknowledge you when I shamelessly 'bootleg' this term)

Moses & Joshua - " Get Out Of My Heart " .......

Vocals , Backing , everything - low down and very , very dirty ........

Malc Burton

anybody mentioned John and the Wierdest - both sides? they don't come much rougher than that surely?

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aha this topic is great, could become better than the "post stafford classics". In fact most of this records are some of my favorite dance records... pure energy!!! forget this boring new produced stuff, if you know what i mean. But it musn't be too much on the r&b side of things for me. I mean "twinkel little star" or this great oldie CLIFFORD CURRY - AIN'T NO DANGER. How good is that? You just have to move your feet.

i'd like to add:

forris woods - stoned on love

agro, uptempo 60s/early 70s soul, that's how i like it.

cheers,

martin

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Great handle.....more raunchy R'n'B is something I lean towards & is always guranteed to get me on the floor.......soul in it's purest form, as it should be sounding like it's recorded in your aunties toliet with total passion, not like the total tripe being purported to be the 'new' northern soul on another thread...but that is another story.

Vernon Garrett - Shine It On

Otis Redding - Lovin' By The Pound

Lorretta Williams - Baby Cakes

Lee Garrett - I Can't Break This Habit

Peggy paxton - It Ain't What I Do It's The Way I Do It

Billy Gayles - I'm Hurtin'

Jimmy Robins - I Can't Please You

Lee Rogers - My One & Only

Miss Lavell - Stop These Teardrops

Barbara Lynn - I'm A Good Woman

KTF

Baz

Dr True Love Bobby Adams & Betty Lou very very dirty.

posstot: i'll get the flip of C. L. BLAST up for you tomorrow :thumbsup:

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