The term Northern Soul was used to describe the brassy UK soul bands covering US soul records.It was used for the St Louis Union first and ads were put in some mags as the Northern Soul sound.There was a full page article in the R&B Scene mag that was all about the "northern scene" and the music and bands around it but the words soul was not used.It was used in ads for Harlem Johns Reshuffle who were covering Looking For A Fox, That Driving Beat etc in 69 and were from Oldham and are pictured on the Wigan Casino stage on the back of their lp. This was all before Dave Godin used it in print.