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just got this...

haha. you guys are clearly not popcorn fans! also, this record is on a clear light blue vinyl. interesting.

i just won this on eBay (see link) - the electrodes "go away" for $18 https://www.ebay.com/itm/18A-VG-northern-soul-The-Electrodes-Fran-200-/311477149672?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=htUcDTzMkezyr7rImxuBFnj0acA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc i've never seen this before because i though the promo looked like this: https://www.raresoulman.co.uk/d/236844/ELECTRODES did i just get a pressing? thanks!

just curious (as I live over in California), what are some of the offending funk tunes that are creeping in?

Last bus from Tupelo by Frankie Newsome is another poignant song in this vein. the blues song "your southern can is mine" is a brutal take on the theme.

if anyone has one on Soul Clock for sale... pm me!

I've seen this on a few different labels. What is the going rate for each release? Thanks!

ooohhhh..... i better start saving my pennies!

tut sutton - i can feel the tears coming on (USA) thanks!

haha i like your positivity! i gotta stop reading so many crime novels...

Fair enough! anyone know anything about the Alvin Robinson session?

consider the earlier lines: "don't you know that dress of yours were made out of fiberglass... every time you move [dance] like that i got to go to Sunday mass" (fiberglass? material for cheapest caskets...plus going to mass? = funeral) and then consider the next few lines (after the push in the river): "i'm gonna take you back to new orleans, down in dixieland - i wanna watch you do the second line with an umbrella in your hand" (once again, a funeral - new orleans funeral procession. see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyzpMpbdzQ ) if this girl had been part of the "great migration" of african americans from the rural south to northern industrial cities (St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh) - dumping her body in the Ohio or Missouri rivers (tributaries of the Mississippi) would have, indeed, delivered her body back to New Orleans. ...maybe i have just been watching too much True Detective, but i think this song (the Robinson lyrics) is darker than it appears.

I am very interested in the history of this song. i have two versions (coasters and alvin robinson). here are my questions: a) are there any other versions? b) who recorded it first? c) the lyrics are different (listen below). the coasters' version has a lyrical story that is about a country girl moving to the city and the narrator is making fun of her country (bumpkin) ways. the al robinson version is MUCH darker. listen to the lyrics! the last few lines can be interpreted that the narrator is admitting to killing the girl."i'm gonna take you to the muddy river, and push you in...just to watch the water roll on down your velvet skin..." d) the writing credits are Leiber and Butler. could they have bought the song (or acquired it somehow) from someone else? the lyrical content of the Robinson version seems far too dark for them. anyone know any more about this song?? coasters al robinson

aaaaagghhh! gonna be in Europe. Ironic.

Is the same Dorothy Berry that recorded "ain't that love/you better watch out" on Planetary? A killer double-sider...

where is that? we don't really have a plan yet. we gonna arrive in Lisbon for a few days, then rent a car...but still thinking about where to go!

Will be in Portugal from 24 Sept to 9 Oct... if anyone knows of anything!

welcome to my life, bro. i live in Monterey, California. no one within 100 miles of here has ever heard of northern soul. i own my own tables/PA system and will DJ anywhere! wine bars/cafes/etc. you just described every set i've ever done. all my favorite northern records are mood killers, but things like "love don't you go through changes on me" by sister sledge, or "will you be ready" by samson and delilah are huge hits (even though no one knows these songs either). the thing is that these "casual" audiences are used to the beats/rhythms/tempos that they know through hip-hop/dance music, which is largely based on early disco/funk samples.

I am traveling for work, but my wife will also be with me. So it depends on how much time I can carve out for record hunting!

Thanks! will check these out...

i am going to be in Brussels, Bruge, and Mons Belgium from 5-13 September. can anyone suggest record stores or soul nights? (or popcorn??) thanks!

nice one. we have an artsy theater here in monterey (about 2 hours south of SF). they might be into it!

love this one... dolly and the fashions - absence made my heart grow fonder

on the slower side, but nice steady swayer

Damn! i am going to be in Europe on that date!!