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Sex, Drugs & Northern Soul: Welcome to the Strange World of Northern Soul; here's a visual and musical encyclopaedia that explains and joyously celebrates the most fascinating and enduring underground dance scene. Sex, Drugs & Northern Soul: In this third part we look at the fashions, the record dealers, the promoters, and the seedier side of the scene, the sex and the drugs. Then we look at the recent past and the future and we close with a moving and touching tribute by so many people whose lives were touched by this phenomenon. Featured Songs/Performances: Maxine Brown - One in a Million Sheila Ferguson - Heartbroken Memories The Gems - I’ll Be There The Sapphires - Gonna Be a Big Thing Herb Ward - Strange Change Jimmy Burns - I Really Love You Barbara Mercer - Hey The Sequins - A Case of Love Sandra Phillips - World Without Sunshine Theresa Lindsay - I’ll Bet You Kenny Bernard - Pity My Feet Marvin Smith - Have More Time Lou Ragland - I Travel Alone Herbert Hunter - I Was Born To Love You Ken Williams - Come Back The Shirelles - Last Minute Miracle Lorraine Chandler - I Can’t Hold On Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) Barbara Lewis - The Stars Richard ‘Popcorn’ Wyle - Rosemary What Happened The Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes Robert Knight - Love on a Mountain Top Yvonne Vernee - Just Like You Did Me LJ Johnson - Your Magic Put a Spell on Me Evelyn Thomas - Weak Spot Tommy Hunt - Cracking Up Over You Jerry Williams - If You Ask me Major Harris - Call Me Tomorrow The Volcanos - It’s Against The Laws of Love Ray Pollard - The Drifter Jackie Ross - Keep Your Chin Up Garland Green - Ain’t That Could Enough Carolyn Crawford - Timeless Ronnie McNeir - Lucky Number Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me Emmanuel Laksy - Lucky to Be Loved By You Bobby Hutton - Come See What’s Left of Me Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy Chuck Jackson - All Over The World Kim Weston - You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me Little Ann - Who Are You Trying to Fool Brenda Holloway - Reconsider The Flirtations - Stronger Than Her Love Dean Courtney - I’ll Always Need You Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By

From 1977 a tv advert feat brief clips of Moment of Truth, Eddie Holman, Double Exposure, Salsoul Orchestra, Carol Williams Loleatta Holloway, Silvetti

EPISODE GUIDES Soul Deep - The Story Of Black Popular Music The Birth Of Soul - Ep1/6 BBC Two 7 May, 9.00-10.00pm Soul music has conquered the world in the last 50 years - growing from the raw, electric rhythms of the black underclass, it is now a billion dollar industry with R&B and hip-hop dominating the world's charts. It's been the soundtrack to some of the most extraordinary social, political and cultural shifts. And, together with the civil rights movement, it has challenged the white hegemony, helped breakdown segregation and encouraged the fight for racial equality. This new six part series, made by the BBC team who produced the critically-acclaimed Lost Highway,Walk On By and Dancing In The Street series, charts the evolution of soul music -with a fascinating combination of rare archive and contemporary interviews. From rhythm and blues to today's R&B, via gospel, southern soul, Motown, funk and hip-hop soul, Soul Deep tells the story of the rise of black popular music - in the words of its greatest performers, producers, musicians and commentators. Starting with a previously unseen BBC interview with Ray Charles, he reveals how his innovations first brought soul to a wider audience. "Ray was the genius. He turned the world onto soul music," comments Bobby Womack. The term rhythm and blues was coined by Billboard Magazine journalist Jerry Wexler after he was asked by his editor to find an alternative for the label 'race music'. After many years touring on what was known as the 'chitlin' circuit' (a network of black clubs and bars) with artists like Ruth Brown, Ray finally created his own style - by unifying the sexually-charged music of the dance floor with the spiritually-charged sounds of the church hall. Life was hard and sometimes dangerous for black musicians in a segregated society. Ruth Brown explains: "When the dance was over sometimes it was so scary we wanted to get out of town as soon as we could.There were still crosses burning in the middle of the night.There was a price paid for this music." The creation of the Atlantic record label took the music to a wider, more mainstream audience. Ahmet Ertegun who, with his brother Nesuhi, started the label, says: "We had a good feel for where the music was going. Our target audience in the beginning was the black audience - which understands the music they like.Their tastes change and, once they change, don't go back." As the black sounds crossed the racial divide, rhythm and blues gave birth to rock 'n' roll - a far more sanitised version of the black sound which was seen to be "too uninhibited, too loose, and too sweaty." Ray Charles says: "Rock 'n' roll is the white version of rhythm and blues.There was a big difference, if you really listened to the music, between the two styles. One is more pure, one is more dirty. R&B has got more toe jam in it." Black artists were squeezed out of the mainstream charts by white covers of their songs and Charles looked back to his roots for his inspiration and the creation of his own distinctive sound. He quotes his mother's influence in his music and his fusion of gospel and sheer dance hall sex. "I started taking my music and saying it the way that I felt it - the gospel sound that was part of my growing up. I knew all I was doing was being myself." With backing singers the Raylettes, Charles further honed his own sound, much to the chagrin of the church community. Charles' biographer Michael Lydon describes: "He went for a completely uninhibited gospel sound but made it sexual.The Raylettes became the choir behind the preacher." Another young gospel singer was hot on the heels of Ray Charles - James Brown's hit Please, Please, Please in 1956 was the embodiment of the black American experience. It spoke of the hurt as well as the hopes and aspirations of an underclass. "If you really enjoy it, the spirit comes out," Brown tells Soul Deep BBC Soul Deep Episodes Online BBC Soul Deep Episode 1 - Story Of Black Popular Music BBC Soul Deep - The Story of Black Popular Music -- The Gospel Highway BBC Soul Deep Episode 2 - Story Of Black Popular Music BBC Soul Deep - The Story of Black Popular Music - The Sound Of Young America BBC Soul Deep Episode 3 - Story Of Black Popular Music BBC Soul Deep - The Story of Black Popular Music - Southern Soul BBC Soul Deep Episode 4 - Story Of Black Popular Music BBC Soul Deep - The Story of Black Popular Music - Ain't It Funky BBC Soul Deep Episode 5 - Story Of Black Popular Music BBC Soul Deep - The Story of Black Popular Music - From Ghetto to Fabulous BBC Soul Deep Episode 6 - Story Of Black Popular Music

Brenton Wood performs Two Time Loser" live on Thee Mr. Duran Show. KCAT TV, Ch. 3 - Hacienda Heights CA. This is a time framed clip (eg it starts mid-video) so if wish you can hit play to hear the first track "I Like The Way You Love Me"

From 2007 Ian Dewhirst is best known as a compiler. But he got his start in music DJing in the Northern soul scene, where obscurity is everything. In this talk at the 2007 Red Bull Music Academy he tells us how a job near a market stall eased his entrance into the scene and how he went from lending records to a residency. He also helps define what constitutes Northern soul (basically like Motown, but rare) and explains the energy that took people from town to town just to hear the right music. He then explains how record hunting took him to Los Angeles, where he even got to make a record he'd rather forget about.