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The best version of this much covered song imo. Also available on a Jazz Juice LP/CD which is quite hard to find these days and iTunes!

My Favourite Person Imagination Darling Darling baby Message In Our Music Brandy

Blimey. There's a question. Changes all the time but these have got to be up there. The O'Jays "My Favourite Person" Jean Carne "Was That All It Was" Teddy Pendergrass "When Somebody Loves You Back" Bill Paul "Bring The Family Back" (still a stone cold classic!) Harold Melvin & Bluenotes "Bad Luck"

Like a few others have said, when I travel far I go for the music. When I go locally it's purely for the crack.

There You Go. There you go

Did Edwin Starr's "Contact" or "Happy Radio" get played at Wigan? Also, I don't think anyone comfirmed if Billy Ocean "RLSD" or "LRHWY" got played there or not.

Totally speechless

Stevens & Foster "I Want To Be Love". I love the high pitch ad lib vocals as it fades out.

It got into the UK charts at the time so there must be plently around in boot fair sales. Still a good record though and from a great LP!

I wouldn't mind "I'm In Love" too please.

Both. I think a good local DJ and a big name can offer something interesting -sometimes the local DJ even more so if you're comparing the to an oldies DJ.

Did Billy Ocean get played at Wigan "Red Light...." and "Love Really Hurts....."?

It's a good 'un allright!

I think you'll be lucky Steve. I go over there fairly regularly and know of nothing. It'll be interesting to see if anyone tells us something new.

What's the full track listing please?

Join the EMS forum at www.essentialmodernsoul.co.nr . Check out the Media section and someone might upload an mp3 of the show each week.

Yes mate https://www.smoothradionorthwest.co.uk/

Here's a download of the first two hours. It doesn't include the cellar of soul bit with the 60s and northern in it. A guy on the EMS forum kindly did this. https://rapidshare.com/files/217431401/rs040409.mp3

Apologies if this has been mentioned already but how about Velvet Hammer's "Happy". It seemd to going through another revival at the moment. It's incredibly popular and sounds like nothing else - personally I've never got it!

The modern room at the King's Hall Stoke was the biz from 1996-2001. Winsford modern room too around 2001-2.

It's a different song isn't it? I've only heard the Vince Broomfield once so I'm not 100% but I certainly didn't recognise it as the Evelyn King song.

If you mean modern (recently released) soul, then I like these Lamone - Your Eyes Lisa Shaw - Honey Little Beaver - She's Gone Dionyza - Today Will Soon Be Yesterday Q Harper - Do Want You Want To Do Again However, if you mean oldies then these still sound good: Universal Love - It's You Girl Stephanie Mills - You Can't Run From My Love The O'Jays - To Prove I Love You Rockie Robbins - Point of View Loleatta Holloway - I Can't Help Myself

Denise LaSalle did a very good version of this around 7 years ago.

The version on the CD which came out last year is identical the very first Muthafunkas ft. Marc Evans release which came out on a Hustle 12" a few years ago.

Sorry to be a thickie but what's the difference between a direct drive and a belt drive? I know what a belt drive is but am not sure what you mean by direct drive.