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Well I didn't have to know, but thanks anyway for taking the time to be a little more specific.

I don't get it. why proffer an opinion and then not be prepared to explain and/or justify it? I said I didn't like Patrinell Staten as I thought it was a below average performance both vocally and musically.I have listened to it several times (got it on a CD) and tried to get acquainted with it but have failed miserably. I could have said it's dog shite full stop, that's my opinion and I don't have to explain it or justify it to anyone on here, but what would be the point of that? Mr Soul for me too is an underwhelmer, but the other two are masterpieces of the genre for all the reason Gareth gave. There's no harm in being incredulous at someone else's opinion, as long as it doesn't descend into ridicule and such like.

Lee Fields - Take Me Back on Angle3 is one of the most brilliantly atmospheric records out there. Pity it's so dear today! :-(

Brilliant!

Cheers. So it was 1974 then, same tape as Footsee getting a couple of spins? That tape had the hairs on the back of me neck stand on end.

Just a little contentious, Joel!

really? could have sworn I'd heard keith & gary lewis on one of pete's wigan podcasts, played by russ and richard respectively...

You're 'avin' us on!!

But would one consider Dean's voice a white voice? He certainly fooled a lot of black audiences back in the mid 60s... I, along with many others, I'll wager, was convinced he was black till he surfaced...

That's ironic, isn't it? Just read that Le Freak is Atlantic's biggest selling single.

Even earlier, I think stuff like Keith Daylight Savin' Time, Gary Lewis & The Playboys My Heart Symphony, The Ventures Hawaii 5 O were 1974, PeteS will confirm this. I have great memories of 1975, ´cos it was when I started going up there. I don't think anyone's in denial. There were a quite a few awful records played throughout the venue's history, but also some quite a few fabulous tunes too. The good outstrips the bad in my opinion. We've been here before, ain't we?

Yeah, The Carstairs sounds just like Le Freak...

Indeed.

Which Dean Parrish? Determination is a fabulous record and predates the Casino by at least 5 years.

It's also the horns in ring of fire by johnny cash. kurt harris is a good example too...

Nay, nay and thrice nay! I've only just got into this record (didn't do Stafford etc)... Fabulous piece of Soul and I love singing along with it love walrus style. Toon!

Definitely not superior Tezza, Peggy, Gordon etc. I just saw the word salsa and thought I'd have me tuppence worth. To me those horns in The Majestics are reminiscent of those in Johnny Caswell, a definite Mexican feel to them (to these ears). My contribution to this thread is Patrinell Staten - Little Love Affair. I find that duff in every way, the arrangement, the vocal, everything. I'venever felt so underwhelmed by a record, especially after hearing so much about it on here. I bet you don't like it either Tezza, right?

mariachi class more like. it's got 'eff all to do with the cuban sound. pure east LA...

How many English born people would have been prepared to attend an event in Belfast until relatively recently? Times change and so do towns and cities...

This is very sad. Loved his contribution to Standing In The Shadows of Motown, very moving stuff. RIP Bob.

Quite. But I don't want the record badly enough to have to pay wildly over the odds for it, either.

As the topic starter 5 years ago, it's funny to see just how things have evolved price wise with this 45, from Pete's initial I can't get more than 80 quid for it comment to what it has just achieved on John Manship's auction. I never did get hold of one as I didn't want to pay over the odds for it at the time of opening the thread. Well and truly out of my reach now. Some demented folk out there, for sure.

In the northern fashion, perhaps not, but I'd shake a leg to it, as do many other folk it seems. Very atmospheric. Like it.

That's it. Got it arse about face. Good Latin edge to it too. https://youtu.be/rn0-FhqjGzE

Sam played an awesome tune in the Modern room at Cleethorpes by a group called 'Third Eye', prefaced by a comment that he'd played it in the main room the night before (5 am'ish), but that it should be played in any room that prided itself on playing Soul music (or words to that effect). I love stuff like Angela Davis but can understand folk baulking at a whole set's worth of that sort of stuff, if only for the frantic pace of a lot of it. People aren't as nimble as they were, unless they're propping themselves pharmaceutically, of course. ;-)