The Lester TIPTON thread got me thinking about how many soul acts are named after places in the UK

like

Tony MIDDLETON

Jimmy RADCLIFFE

Chuck BEDFORD

Bobby WELLS

Johnny BRISTOL

any more?

ELGIN

Percy STONE

Leon WARE

Jimmy Stokes just.

Kent Harris.

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SCARBOROUGH (as in "Make love to you")

The Fleetwoods

Tommy & The Derbys

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HAYES Cotton

Good one Ted. Err sorry Taffy new it was a T

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Leicester Tipton

Kim Weston Supermare

Little Milton Keynes

Normanton Whitfield

Carlisle Carlton

Bill Blackpool

Err... I think that's enough for now.

Ann Peebles

The Carstairs

Richmond International

Bill Brandon

Lew Kirton

Dionne Warwick

Billy Preston

Johnny Bristol

Roy Hamilton

Clyde Otis

Wilton Felder

JJ Barnes

James Barnett

Dusty Springfield

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cleveland robinson,

and sorry---wigans ovation,

detroit executives,

detroit emeralds,

flint emeralds,

detroit executives,

detroit emeralds,

flint emeralds,

Errr UphookingK isn't it.

was london fogg a funk group???,

Stanley Winston

Cleveland Eaton

Rufus Lumley

Sissy EUSTON

Virginia WOLVES

The Berkshire Seven and the great Jack Montgomery

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BALTIMORE & Ohio Marching Band

Len BARRY

Isaac Hayes

Dottie Cambridge

Baby Washington

Joe Haywood

Bobby & Clyde

Loletta Holloway

Carl Hampton

James Govan

Otis Reading

Fontella Bath

Skpiton Scarborough

Garland Greenock

Mary Tunbridge Wells

Ernie Selby

Tommy Yate

Barrow Fletcher

Alston Edwards

Monk Biggins

Little Lever

Ronnie BARNES

Al Kent

Peggy March

Wakefield Sun

Isaac HAYES

Ellie GREENWICH (not strictly a soul singer, is she within the rules?)

mr manship lists this as northern soul