Soulsmith

Excellent post/thread.

Hello I'm new to SS, I've recently sold my collection of yellow labels and have started collecting records with those that have "small and virtually invisible cracks in the edge" Am I in the right place?

Cheers for that, but was hoping to see video rather that audio. Had a quick look on You Tube, but couldn't see anything for Alvin Cash. Can anybody help?

Now that made me smile

Why? Surely thats a pre-requesite for a normal well balanced person.

Incoming.......

I see there is a link to there to your site.....whoa dude, time to throw the towel in. Col

Tonight, I'm in a non argumentative mood. I've no real idea who is Alvin Cash is, so how about posting a clip & we can both settleback & enjoy it.

Ha .......personally I blame the clients "virtually invisible cracks" Pls be a little more specific

Jed's & Matt's posts above are spot on. Both far more eloquently put than mine. I'm sure that we can all agree though, that in some small way we were all involved in saving "a segment of American music that was well worth saving". Happy days.

Some interesting points there... When joing a new 'scene' I think most people like myself danced in a style that 'fits in'. So yes I would have been influenced by people around me. But those people would have been influenced by dancers from the Torch, Twisted Wheel etc. No way would I have been influenced by a Malcolm X video made 20 yrs after I left Wigan If you carry on your argument to its logical conclusion.....you'll be telling me that early black New York 80s hip-hop dance moves are just copies of northern soul ones. My argument here is the scene evolved, it wasn't a copy.

News to me. I'd be interested to hear a bit more about this...... As a teenager late 70s I don't think I received any influence regarding 60s black culture before all-niters. You basically had just 30 mins of pop on TV (TOTP) every week which was dominated by Slade, T-Rex, Slade etc.

I fear that we might be experiencing an insight into what life might be like inside an old aged peoples home.

Yes, through our truly selfish wants & desires, we achieved something that on reflection turned out to be quite philanthropic.

Didn't he say summit like a fair proportion of the people at Wigan were asleep. I couldn't possibly comment on the above as when the head count was taken...........I was asleep at the time.

Papa Bearsy & The Cubs - You're So Fine Richie Havens - I Kent Make It Anymore

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.