Daved

I used to play this a lot during a particularly sad time in my life, whilst drinking large whiskies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMXUlVjFZY

This has always been a favourite of mine. LP track only I believe. Written by Smokey Robinson, it's quite sad but incredibly optimistic and uplifting at the end. A fantastic example of his song writing skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6k0lNL6K4E

The Triumphs - I'm Coming To Your Rescue

It's overused again in this case imo. It's ok, quite good I guess but not awesome.

What paul? "I Can See Him Loving You?" I think that's great but I kinda get the similarity.

God that is terrible ha ha. Thanks for putting it up Kev. Totally unsoulful vocal. I still love the instrumental though

I didn't know there was a vocal version of this. Anyone got a sound clip please?

In terms of allocating artists to labels, I gather there wasn't any system or raionale behind it.

Did Johnny Bristol really sing at the Orwell? When was that?

Thanks Mark. Great no. 1 in the soul chart. No Elements of Life "You came Into My Life" featured? I guess the CD has so many great tracks.

My 15 year old son loves that stuff too. He will be impressed when I tell him what I've learnt today

Aren't the Deep Intentions nights held at Kings Cross? What's the South London conection?

Yeah I don't particularly like that song either but Mary has done plenty of other good ones. The Xmas album is the first one I didn't buy. The two before that were awful. Jill Scott, however, goes from strength to strength

There was actually a lot of great soul music released in 2001. Not much of it features here though with the exception of the wonderful Jill Scott, Sunshine Anderson, Mary J. Blige and Joe.

I didn't see Stephen Fry but wondered why Steve Coppell, in the mac, was there.

What a strange choice. It sounds like a cross between Nutbush City Limits and Lady Marmalade

Haven't heard for years. I still like it.

Why? They're different somgs which just have the same title? Also, it sounds nothing like William Bell

It's incredible how quickly things changed. As you said the top 50 is full of pop/chart hits and the big club sounds are much lower down the list like Jocelyn Brown, Temptations, Rose Royce & Terri Wells. Even Luther Vandross and Bobby Womack didn't make the top 100.

I've got it too but it's still a boot and pretty worthless IMO. For a scene that prides itself on playing originals then it would have to be the CD that would played out.

Really? That's a bold statement. She's a quite a good pop singer.

So are they just a sort of semi professional kind of CDR? I agree the track listing looks great for the example above but quite a few of the tracks have appeared elsewhere.

A couple of my faves are: Northern Soul Satisfaction (although I can't believe the price) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Soul-Satisfaction-Tracks-Golden/dp/B000024L70/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387529242&sr=1-1&keywords=northern+soul+satisfaction King Northern Soul https://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Northern-Vol-1-Various-Artists/dp/B00004TS8B/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387529368&sr=1-1&keywords=king+northern+soul There's hundreds of brilliant CDs out there

What are these CDs?

I'm surprised Russ hasn't claimed that Al Green used to visit the Casino!