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  1. a lot of hard to read posts in this thread maybe help if you try inserting a blank line now and again
  2. if still looking for sources, maybe aint looked in soul source gallery yet 100,000+ pics from members from all eras in gallery on here all in easy to nav categories , pm system , member details etc etc https://www.soul-sour...lforum/gallery/ 3 pages of albums from 80s/90s 100s from individual members, flyers and so on https://www.soul-sour...0s-soul-albums/ pm system should provide a easy way to request permission
  3. last day or so before closing maybe would have been interesting to hear views from artists or those connected/involved, record labels, promoters, record sellers and so on as in has the likes of 'match of the day' plays made their world better ? but no great shakes next one coming up, as said if you do have a decent, sharp but easy to word/answer idea for the weekly poll on here then drop it on me via pm
  4. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    changing world looks like it goes beyond events fact that Rob Moss latest article can only draw 4 comments says it all really
  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/image_galleries/russ_gallery.shtml?13 says copyright Francesco Mellina
  6. think it normally shows up in a group of 3 or 4 pics - guy by himself in a white shirt being one of the others - and sort of sure seen it listed on a news archive website recently though not 100% so may be wrong
  7. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    thanks for views on the tech/geek side maybe better if all talk on the actual tech/geek side is done in another thread as it sort of gets things mixed up though one of the aims of the recent upgrade was to improve the user side which i do feel was achieved as there are now less links/hoops on the actual index page maybe with hindsight should have done the layout and usability (a word?) changes separate on comments via fb etc comments have always been members only and so would say aimed at members of soul source rather than a wider audience though could maybe give all event promoters the opportunity for guest comments as well, if there's a demand ? from what seen maybe a fair description when compared to past days may be quantity down, quality up? also the playlist forum has imo been overlooked so far in this thread as it does provide a place for more 'soul source' type discussion and is also fairly busy/active https://www.soul-sour...ents-playlists/ thanks mike
  8. Ahead of the launch of Disco Love 3 at 2022NQ, we caught up with Million Dollar Disco's Al Kent to talk musical influences, career highlights and why the mention of 'Nu-Disco' turns him into a Grumpy Old Man. "Once I got really into Northern Soul though the biggest thing in my life was a monthly all-nighter out in a place called Alanton where the UK's best DJs always played. So people like Mark Linton, Colin Law, Alan and Steve Walls, Jock O'Connor, Andy Dennison and the guests they booked, mainly Guy Hennigan and Kitch, were massively influential. They introduced me to so much amazing music month after month." https://www.skiddle.com/news/all/Dont-get-me-started-about-Nu-Disco-we-speak-to-Disco-legend-Al-Kent-/16024/
  9. Sad News - Damon Harris (ex-Temptations) View full article
  10. Yet more sad news reported Former Temptation member Damon Harris (born Otis Robert Harris, Jr. died today at 7:17.pm at the age of 61 source: http://www.facebook....umniAssociation Wikipedia Info http://en.wikipedia....ki/Damon_Harris The Young Tempts/The Young Vandals As a teenager growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, Otis Harris, Jr. was a major Temptations fan, and idolized in particular the group's falsetto, Eddie Kendricks. Patterning himself after Kendricks, Harris and his friends John Quinton Simms, Charles Timmons (actually name was/is Kareem Ali, who went on to perform with Glenn Leonard's Temptations Revue), and Donald Knute Tighman, formed a Temptations-inspired vocal group during his high school years called The Young Tempts ("Tempts" being a nickname for the Temptations). The Young Tempts recorded covers of two 1966 Temptations' songs, "I've Been Good to You" (a song originally recorded by The Miracles), and "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby," for The Isley Brothers' T-Neck Records in 1970. Motown Records filed an injunction against T-Neck because of the group's name; the 45 was withdrawn and re-issued with the group credited as The Young Vandals, and reached #46 on the R&B charts. At about this time, Billy Griffin joined the Young Vandals' lineup. After two more T-Neck singles, " In My Opinion" and "I'm Gonna Wait For You", The Young Vandals broke up, because Harris felt that college would be a more sensible endeavor than a singing career. The Temptations In April 1971, a friend convinced Harris to audition for The Temptations, who were doing a series of shows in nearby Washington, D.C.. The group had just replaced Eddie Kendricks with Ricky Owens from The Vibrations, who was giving uneven performances, and The Temptations were again looking for a replacement. Harris performed first for Temptations Melvin Franklin, Richard Street, and Dennis Edwards before auditioning for group leader Otis Williams. Williams was hesitant about taking on the young singer, who was nearly a decade younger than the rest of The Temptations. Franklin, Street, and Edwards voted to accept Harris, however, and he made his onstage debut a few weeks later as first tenor/falsetto. Around this time, Billy Griffin replaced Smokey Robinson in The Miracles. When he joined the Temptations, Otis Harris changed his name to Damon Harris, because, in his words, "the group already had an Otis" Harris continued to perform with the Temptations for four years, providing Kendricks-esque lead vocals on hits such as "Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)" (1971), "Take a Look Around" (1972), the #1 pop hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", (1972, a three-time Grammy Award winner), the #1 R&B hit "Masterpiece" (1973), "Plastic Man" (also 1973), He leads on "Love Woke Me Up This Morning" from the All Directions album (1972) and is featured prominately on hard-to-find The Temptations Live in Japan (1975). According to Otis Williams' book, The Temptations, he was fired from the group in 1975 because of inappropriate statements he made that affected the perception of the group in the eyes of the public. New group After leaving the group, the dejected Harris decided to reform The Young Vandals with Simms, Timmons (Kareem Ali), and Tighman, renaming the group Impact, and signing a deal with Atco Records in 1976. Working with a Philadelphia soul production team, Impact recorded a number of minor soul and disco hits, including "Happy Man" and the #5 disco hit "Give a Broken Heart a Break". The group released only one album on Atco, 1976's Impact, before being dropped from the label because of low sales. Impact signed with Fantasy Records in 1977 and issued the album The Pac is Back, which also suffered from slow sales. The group disbanded and Harris recorded some solo singles of his own including 1978's "It's Music", and the album Silk. Damon Harris soon retired from music and moved to Reno, Nevada to complete college. In the 1990s, he returned to music and began touring, sometimes billing himself as The Temptations Review Starring Damon Harris. Richard Street, another ex-Temptation, periodically performed with Harris' Temptations review until he formed his own Temptations group. At the age of 47, Harris was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he learned he had had for five years. After successfully being treated for the disease, Harris founded The Damon Harris Cancer Foundation in 2001. The organization is a non-profit company, designed to heighten awareness of prostate cancer diagnoses and treatments. The organization has a special focus in reaching African-American audiences, as African-American men have an approximately 60% higher chance of contracting prostate cancer than white men, and are twice as likely to die from the disease
  11. hats off to the bbe website for the full clips and the 1 hr stream mix on their site
  12. Disco Love 3 - Even More Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered - compiled by Al Kent View full article
  13. Now available from BBE Disco Love 3 - Even More Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered - compiled by Al Kent Disco Love is a series of fabulous disco records that you have probably never heard of. All superb records presented to you by the legendary Al Kent from the unlikeliest disco haven of Glasgow. Al's been buying records a few years now, usually ignoring the in-demand or more obvious titles and searching a little harder for fabulous disco records that you have probably never heard of. Disco Love 3 contains just some of them. Not only that, but most of them are exclusive, unissued re-edits, spliced specially for this album by Mr. Kent. And there is also a bonus Disco mix by Al Kent of all the tracks. call here to buy it all on cd, vinyl or mp3s, listen to tracks and all that sor tof thing http://www.bbemusic....lease=BBE224CDG Disc: 1 1. Continuous DJ Mix - Al Kent Disc: 2 1. Mighty Gents (Al Kent's Edit) - Mighty Gents 2. Hungry - Sandy's Gang 3. Disco Unusual (Al Kent's Edit) - North By Northeast 4. Oh! Baby / Get On Down - Bo Galigher TSB Inc. How Long Is Forever - Frank And James 5. Is It Wrong - Magnetic Force 6. Human - Neo Experience 7. Waiting In The Wings - Marion Javius 8. Dancer's Theme - Ronnie April 9. Disco Music (Al Kent's Edit) - Sil Austin 10. How Long Is Forever - Frank & James 11. I Want To Be With You (Al Kent's Edit) - Gregory Andre And Two Plus Three 12. Something About You (Al Kent's Edit) - Moses 13. Hustle On Down (Pt.3) - Michael LeGrair And The Band That Played All Night 14. Disco Fever (Pt.3) (Al Kent's Edit) - Rhond Durand 15. For You - Cherish
  14. Images for Upcoming Book Request - Northern Soul Film View full article
  15. Have been passed on news and a request for images regarding a planned book to tie in with the launch of the film Northern Soul While its tied in to the film launch, I've been told that this is going to be a 'loose' tie in and that the end result should be more than the run of the mill type movie tie in publications Here's the call.... CALLING FOR IMAGE SUBMISSIONS. To mark the launch of Northern Soul the film we will be releasing a book, which we are starting to work on now. The book will feature Northern Soul memories from the people that made it happen, along with a lovingly written study of the scene so far, original photography from the film and your personal photos from back in the day. This project has real lifelong soul fans and active scene members at the helm, so rest assured it will be an excellent compliment to the film and a worthwhile study of our beloved scene in it's own right. We'd love to include your memories, so if you would like the opportunity to see your photographs included in the final book, please send scans of your photos and any associated memorabilia (flyers, membership cards or patches) for consideration to the website below. http://northernsoulthefilm.com/sponsor Please be aware we require images to be scanned at 300 dpi and no larger than 2mb. We look forward to seeing your memories.
  16. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    yep do take on board feedback Len and it all does have a effect though problem as far as i see it is people get mixed up between the actual event guide and event comments the event guide is built on events - and that is the main focus so you go to a event to read the comments while try and offer alternative views so people can keep up with latest comments etc it does seem that people get used to these alternative views and then seem to forget that it is an actual event guide first the comments are an important part of it but the actual event is the main focus
  17. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    the submit event feature ain't changed so dont really get the can't be bothered bit on user friendly, disgaree if want to view any allnighter its a two click affair got to events click upcoming allnighters all allnighters listed away you go on activity as said in previous post its at its highest point right now over the last 12 months
  18. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    figures here says over the last 12 months the events guide is currently at its busiest ever (over the last few weeks) so myself would say its far from being redundant, but of course that just my take on things
  19. Mike posted a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    event comments got 'promoted" not relegated to its own feature as said i think at the time , i felt i could go no further with the customisations of the event forums time has shown this imo to be the correct decision both on the technical side and also on the activity side rather than scour 1000+ topics in an all in one forum (there's currently 1000+ upcoming events) members can now get to any event in 5 -30 seconds to read the comments each box in the event guide shows the flyer if available and is also colour coded depending on the type of event as said in the pm to you will bring in a more trad list view option when things are solid
  20. PCRL Basement Soul Show Both the show and the other vids have been mentioned a fair few times over the years on here, so after John P made mention of them on the minidisc article thread I had a quick trip to Mickey d's page on dailymotion and it does looks like that here has been some 'new' ones added So has to be worth a revisit... here's the link to his dailymotion page http://www.dailymoti...ld#video=x8n7er http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xobdmy_pcrl-basement-soul-show-guest-brian-goucher_creation#.USEczaXxpu4
  21. Pcrl Basement Soul Show Videos - Revisited View full article
  22. fair few vids on dailymotion Johm heres a quick pass on https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xobdmy_pcrl-basement-soul-show-guest-brian-goucher_creation#.USEczaXxpu4 I'll do a new thread in video forum here are
  23. Teena Marie - Beautiful CD with free John Morales Flexi View full article
  24. From the website http://www.teenamari...icial.com/#!all Says last few copies available, so if you still ain't got this album yet then this offer at £8.99 with a flexidisc shoved in is as good as a excuse as any to get you moving Teena Marie — Beautiful CD with free John Morales Flexi. Last few copies available! Order Teena Marie’s astonishing final album from Universal Music’s online store and get a free John Morales red flexidisc featuring a re-edit of Teena’s all-time groove classic ‘I Need Your Lovin’’. http://bit.ly/tM_u soundcloud clip... Album Info Before her untimely death at the age of 54, Teena Marie wrote, produced, arranged and sang on 13 albums that have sold millions. Starting with her 1979, Rick James-produced debut, ‘Wild and Peaceful’, Teena’s many disco, soul and R&B hits have included ‘Give It To Me Baby’, ‘Behind The Groove’, ‘I Need Your Lovin’’ and ‘Ooo La La La’ - the latter being sampled, famously, by The Fugees. Teena Marie had been working on her 14th studio album at her Pasadena home studio when she passed away. ‘Beautiful’ was seen through to its conclusion by her 20-year-old daughter, Alia Rose. The first single, ‘Luv is a glorious homage to Tee’s Motown roots, with nods to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours’. We’re sure the album is up there with the best from a glittering career and one that Alisa Rose has made sure does full justice to her mother’s legacy.

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