Soulsmith

Northern Souls's Claim To Fame Following on from the Radio 4 show today, I have paraphrased one of the contributors quotes: ""Working class people in England, saved a segment of American music that was well worth saving, we built a culture up of our own and were never influenced by anything on the outside, we did it & we did it for ourselves and thats probably northern souls claim to fame". Apart from substituting Great Britain for England, I would whole-heartedly agree with the above. But maybe you disagree or have a better description.... Col.

Good reply PMSL

From the either/or bit above I'd say he was definately unsure. But as we don't want any sore losers you can have half a point

I'd like to be the first to tell Robert Elms where to go.

Whoa, hang on to your scales there matey. Some of us didn't get any sleep saturday night & nodded off a bit early Sunday. Ans as following. 1. Born 2 days before easter. 2. Al Green - thought you might have got that from "the rise of the falsetto, thinning away to almost nothing for the delivery of a particularly delicious line" 3 Thom Bell. Really annoyed that Tony Rounce got that as I was going to ban him from the comp on the basis that nobody likes a know-it-all. Only kidding there matey.

Good guesses. But alas no.

You watch too many cartoons

1. Why was Bunny Sigler so called "Bunny" 2. " The technique is brilliant - the incredible mobile vocals, carrying the songs in a rather intricate ebb & flow, and especially the rise of the falsetto, thinning away to almost nothing for the delivery of a particularly delicious line - but ironically as it 's perfected it seems more obtrusive as a technique and less acceptable as an inspiration. The first flash of lightening is always the most exciting; after that they just brighten up the landscape. Such are the problems of professionalism." Who was the writer was talking about? 3. Who said the following? I went over to Cameo for an audition when Chubby Checker walked in the room. I was working on my tunes to make sure they were right before presenting them to the people at Cameo. Chubby was in the habit of walking in on any one, he likes to see what's going on, he's a real nosey guy. So he says "let me here your song". So I play the song and he likes it and he says "would you like to write for me?" Oh yeah big Chubby Checker! Yeah sure Mr Checker. A week later I got a contract. But I didn't write any songs for him. He had me writing for other artists, I wrote a couple of raggy little tunes. But they weren't so hot so I guess we were even.

Kent's stunning "Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities 2" Pure soul, quality sound recordings. A cut above the best. Last track is William Hunt - Would you believe. Amazing. Priceless.

...I'll get me mackintosh.

First DJ to play a white demo gets dunked in a vat of custard....

How about a "yellow labels night"

Its obviously a rat.......and an early Pied Piper release.

What a truly awful vocal. Worst thing I've heard for ages. Really grated on my nerves.

Crazybeat records may be able to help. Saw they had the JGW re-issue for sale last week.

To quote Kinsley Amis - "No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children."

Not too sure about the tune, but Peterborough on the A1 reduces me to tears.

Thanks for that Karen.......you're a star

Cheers mate. But whatever record I buy today, Moldie will go out & buy next week. Then he'll phone up & tell me he got it for approx 75% of what I paid for it. I'm not joking, he really is a pain in the back side. :angry:

Well I always make allowances for you.... "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

But is it yellow?

Feckin' hell, I think I need to widen my circle of friends..... ......thinkin' about it a bit more, maybe I need to decrease my circle of friends.

Just picked up John Gary Williams - The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy on original. Manship has it valued at £150, but I paid a bit less. Appreciate its just been re-issued, but I wanted the original. Will the price of the original drop now? Not because I've bought it! - but because of the re-issue? Is there any rhyme or reason to price of originals after a re-issue?

U don't Want My Love - donald mc collum - 13454 refosoul Sorry, link not working. Can anybody else post?