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I'm feeling it! Ed

Nice landscape of Spurn head.. Ed

Fantastic looking and fantastic sounding, no wonder the got worldwide recognition. Ed

Since theres that big low rider Chicano Robin Molina scene out there in LA....I wonder if they / he could throw some light on it? Ed

Whilst your at it....can you ask Connie if she is still in touch/contact with any of the other ikettes!! Ed

Oh no..... Just looked at a list of former ikettes...simply stunning line up. THAT Shelley Clark is on Facebook....come on you 'FBerS'...ask her the question! Ed

Everybody else did.... At least for a while. She sounds like Chris Clark...that's the problem. Ed

Looks like oct 21..1944. Perhaps in her 40s? At the recording studio?

Or this connie clark..? https://books.google.com/books/about/Billboard.html?id=kxoEAAAAMBAJ Ed

Four Tops way better than TE version, and about a tenner.. David & The Giants...JM should be a spin doctor. Ed

I never really noticed that about the fee/grapevine connection. Was the flaming emeralds a similar story? Ed

Always reminded me of the fats domino sound. Special singer for sure with tons and tons of material. Big one over the last few years...revived. Ed

RIP Betty. If you love Me like you say you love me is one of the records that everybody sings along to on the dancefloor in a world of their own. Thanks for your music. Ed

From bad to worse... Ed

Show off dancers.... Those were the days...he couldn't do a somersault at the 100 club.. I wonder if it was not targeted at the northern scene if it would have got a better press from the scene? Ed

I bet the instrumental was better and composed by a genius...:) Ed

If you were on the scene around 1970 and experienced the real golden years up to 1975 it must have been a real shock to see these records suddenly flooding the market and the exposure and proper commercialisation of the underground rare soul scene. Alas, I joined the scene in 1975 and thought this stuff was the norm. Certainly in the youth clubs and discos reaching for the best and weak spot were the main event. It was only after going to 'proper' soul nights and cleethorpes all nighters that my education begun, and these made for the scene records were frowned upon. Not som much the records but the concept. I'm glad to see attitudes have mellowed somewhat all these years later. Reaching for the best was always my favourite...and the genius who brought along the flasher should get a medal....proper northern, especially to 14 year olds... Ed

Was it this Samar label? Ed

RIP. Ed

First soul record bought from a shop... Boylans Lenis guess Just Ask Me on a greenish SPQR...Happy days. Anybody watching Wigans exploited few dancers on TOTP must have been impressed...not seen that kind of dancing before. The SS version then was probably the first tailor made? Ed

Unique voice...RIP Ed

Sowwwwwwwl in the sun.. Ah said Swwwwwwwwl in the sun.. Makes me smile every time I hear it. Ed

Always preferred the flip on Dan Brantley. My copy was out of a soul pack... Ed

I'm not getting your drift properly. Footsee seems to have been a joke record, similar to the theme from the banana splits show...and I dont know if anybody could actually name the musicians playing. Ive not heard any other chosen few tracks? The Allergies are a pop duo from what I've seen who make records to make money and commercial r&b seems to be their base. I'm not a fan of what I've heard, but somebody must be buying it as they have a fair few tunes out there. Ed

Well....in the hear and now, after loads of info has come out, Mr Gordy was probably the MOST colourful character in the Motown story. Number 1 on the hit chart would have made more money than number 1 on the r n b chart. It also appears that almost every track was recorded by almoat every artist......as we now see from those master tapes. Total respect though. He had a lot of mouths to feed and as we all know pride comes before a fall. Ed