Highlights

A new cd release from Kent.

For Dancers Forty - Various Artists  - CDKEND 514

For Dancers Forty revisits the US Modern and Kent labels that started it all off

Welcome to Epsilon Record Co. latest Californian releases

Two fantastic singles

Winter Edition is out now, info follows below

Soul Up North #114

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'It Hurts So Good' Soul4Real Album

After 31 singles released it´s so exciting to announce the first ever album on Soul4Real, a compilation including 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 by James and Bobby Purify, Esther Phillips, Walter Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & The Pips and Marvin Gaye.

The Guardian website is running a feature titled...

Bruce Springsteen cover reignites row over lost northern soul classic

Who saved Frank Wilson’s Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) from Motown oblivion?

When Bruce Springsteen performed his new single on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 14 November, it was to rapturous applause and the ecstatic US talkshow host leaping from his seat to declare that the Boss had “crushed it!”

But 3,300 miles away, Springsteen’s performance of the lost Motown classic Do I Love You (Indeed I Do), from his new album of soul covers, Only The Strong Survive, was reigniting a debate that has raged for almost half a century.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/19/bruce-springsteen-cover-reignites-row-over-lost-northern-soul-classic

 

The feature concerns itself with a 'row' between Richard Searling and Russ Winstanley

BBC local Stoke feature

Northern Soul world dance champ 'just went with the music'

 

Chuck Cockerham Interview (albeit A Very Brief One).

After following up on a few leads I finally got to speak with the man behind the voice of one of the most iconic crossover records of all time, “Have I Got A Right” released on the Bell records subsidiary label Mala, the one and only Mr Chuck Cockerham.

A quick shoot and forget topic for heads up news (or catch ups!) on upcoming/new soul releases 

Feel free all to add a quick shout up of any current/releases (best if keep it short and sharp as we do have the news feature for full info posts)

'Tony's Empress Ballroom is star of new film documentary'

Details of an upcoming showing of a specially-commissioned documentary which is part of a campaign to 'bring a unique part of Blackburn’s heritage back to life' make up a current article on the Lancashire Telegraph

TOPPS 45s — “Yeah, But Can You Play ‘Em?”

 

The memorabilia available to collectors of Berry Gordy’s Motown and its subsidiary labels and companies covers the whole spectrum of artefacts.

Northern Soul Connections #30 - The Seventh Sense - The latest in this now very long running (30!) series of soul connected connections from Ken B aka @Kenb

In 1969, a 20 year old Charles Lorenzo Blakely along with fellow members of the street gang he hung out with became involved in a shoot out with another rival Milwaukee street gang which resulted in the death of one of their rivals members.

“Miss Motown” Raynoma Gordy & Jack Gibson By Graham Jarvis

The end of the month brings a large handful of new release 45s from Kent Records, all in all a total of 7 brand new 45. three select 45s , three Repro 45s and one BGP 45, details follow below.

The Detroit Metro Times website is currently running an excellent feature on JJ Barnes, details below, full and do mean full of interesting info, well worth the trip over...

Details of the next Soul Junction 45 release are out, available in just under 2 weeks

Release Date:   Monday 7th November 2022

WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEXT BIG MAN RECORDS NEW RELEASE -

BMR 1012 JIMMY RADCLIFFE - 'BIG CITY BLUES B/W 'YOU CAN'T LOSE SOMETHING YOU NEVER HAD' WHICH SOME PEOPLE WILL RECOGNISE FROM DAY'S GONE BY (TWO PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED RECORDINGS)

A msm view of the 'mod' revival back in 1979 from the BBC Archive

 

 

James Hogg reports on the mod revival currently taking place in London. He interviews Ian Page - the vocalist with the new mod group Secret Affair - and John Entwistle of mod's elder statesmen The Who. Is the mod rebirth just a flash-in-the-pan, motivated by money, or is there more to it than that? The whole affair is regarded with some amusement in Yorkshire, where the mod scene never really went away, and where there are still several thriving scooter clubs. What do these veteran mods make of what is happening down in London?


Originally broadcast 13 September, 1979.

 

Doc’n Roll Film Festival starts a 13 city tour later this month. Billed as an 'experience-led festival', Doc’n Roll offers film showing backed up with live Q&As with directors and musicians, special DJ sets, afterparties and post-screening gigs.

IVY JO HUNTER

Motown’s phenomenal success in the 1960s was due, in large part, to the abundance of talented songwriters the company nourished and nurtured from within.

Upcoming dates for the Gabriels London Manchester and Glascow Events

Glasgow SWG3 TV Studio on October 21, New Century in Manchester on October 22/23 and HERE at Outernet in London on October 25/26.

A new addition to the Ace Record's Songwriter Series of albums...

Wrap It Up - The Isaac Hayes And David Porter Songbook - Ace Cd - CDTOP 1622

Release notes clip from Tony Rounce follows

New single from Henderson & Jones.

Back to the studio after 40 years!

The latest album from Acid Jazz is now out and about.

Gloria Scott - So Wonderful, is available now via lp/cd/stream versions, can read the release notes and listen to tracks below

The History of the Fabulous Peps by Joe ( Pep) Harris.

Although we were inevitably mistaken for Gladys Knight's Pips, The Peps were vocally more akin to The Impressions, but pigeonholing them as another opportunistic copycat group would be a mistake, their high-energy live performances defined the 60's all-singing-all-dancing groups that relentlessly toured the USA during that go-go decade.