Britishbarry

So far this week Freeman Brothers , My Baby , Soul Mighty Clouds of Joy , Look on the Bright Side , ABC Bobby Patterson , Recipe for peace , Paula

I grew up in Reading and had my hair cut in what our barber called an astronaught cut in 1966 . We were wearing levi's with braces ,T shirts, Levi jackets Fred Perry's , army boots etc. and a suit and tie on saturday nights . We were all into what would now be refered to as club soul and Motown as well as ska . At this time we didn't refer to ourselves as mod's or anything and it wasn't until 69 or 70 that I first heard the term skinhead , by this time I was a suedehead and I couldn't understand why all these kid's were so out of date and dressing as I had a few years earlier.

Can't remember the name or too much about it, for obvious reasons, but sounds like the place , was it up London Street ?The records youv'e mentioned were certainly played there . I do seem to recall a coffee bar called The Kentucky Wheel .

1966 and I had just left school, some old friends took my mates and I to a seedy club up an alley in Reading, I was blown away by the music , things like Rex Garvin , Sock it to em , The Capitols , Cool jerk and many more . From this point on I was not interested in chart music . Come the early 70's I was heavily into the likes of Rory Gallagher (In my opinion the best guitarist ever) , Captain Beefheart and Led Zeppelin ( who I saw at Wembley in the early 70's . So those are my three

Prophets , She's my kind of girl . Stephanye . Tried to upload this from You Tube without a lot of success .

Ultimations - Would I do it over

How about The Soul Twins , Quick change artist

Now that's weird . My story also relates to the above record . We were on a cruise around the Med. and i was flicking through the list of sounds on the in house T.V./ jukebox , checked out the R&B section when I came across Charles Sheffield also found Al Wilson Show and tell . Made a great holiday even better.

Mighty Lover for me . It amazes me how the same backing track can sound so different with a different vocal

Now that really does wind me up

How about Ray Pollard , The Drifter singing about his girl dying and drifting from town to town

Slightly off topic , however , Captain Beefheart does a brilliant pastiche of a Miracles type song (Ooh Baby Baby comes to mind) on his Safe as Milk album called, I'm so glad.

This was played in a lot of the clubs back in the 60 Sixties . I always understood this to be a UK production. as it's arranged by Reg Guest and produced by Norman Smith

Forgot to mention I still have them both

It was either Darrell Banks - Open the door to your heart or the Four Tops - Shake me wake me , can't remember for sure which , bought as a soul record in 1966 long before the term Northern Soul was invented , so does this count ?

How about The Vibrations- Who's gonna help me now . Very soulful

Sorry to be repetitive but mines pretty good too

As a rep i called on a company one day , got talking and it turned out a friend of the owner had left a load of records in the warehouse . The chap I was talking to said did I want to have a look , I said yes then regreted it thinking I would be looking through the usual dross but by this time it was too late and it would have been rude to decline . What I found was any number of UK demos including lou johnson -Unsatisfied , Jimmy Williams - Walking on air . But the best thing was Davy Jones (David Bowie) You got a habit of leaving me - Parlaphone Demo , which I sold on Ebay for £1260.00

Olympics - Baby do the Philly Dog

How about The Daylighters - The Uncle Willie Jackie Ross - Jerk and Twine

It was either. Temptations - Ain't to proud to beg or Junior Walker - How sweet it is in 1966

Great soulful voice , love his Verve stuff , always pick it up when I find it , especially when i'ts on British .

A lot of people are refered to as legends when they die , in this case it is well deserved ,unquestionably a legend R.I.P. Norman Johnson

Used to go to Purley alldayers , Rio, Didcot , Dido's ,Dunstable and various other places . I particularly remember Roy Ayres Running away , Francine Mcgee Delirium , Fat Larry Centre city D.C.Larue Cathedrals and many , many more

My recent 5 purchases were , The Profiles I still love you Margaret Williams Baby please Cicero Blake Sad feeling Margie Joseph I'll always love you Prophets My kind of girl