Pete S

I can't reply for Toad.

"then surely a bit of rnb isn't the end of the precious wigan northern soul scene is it? ;-)" cut and paste of the tongue in cheek quote that Toad is referring to

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Oi! I thought it was relevant as there was a deliberately provocative comment about Wigan crossed out in that post.

It is unusual for a buyer to only use one seller Rod. I pointed this out with someone who was blatantly shill bidding a few months back, sells records then they mysteriously appear again weeks later. I reported him and I hope he got kicked off.

Yeah it's a quote from John.

But it wasn't a joke!

Yes, I threw it away and just kept the fluid!

It's all over

Found this, probably wasn't lost, but nice anyway, I'll see what else I come across

I never said I didn't like 70's soul, I just don't like a lot of what they call 'modern soul', my bedroom walls were covered in the centre pages of Black Music once I'd taken the Slade posters down...used to love the stuff that got in the charts, played at the discos, I loved most of the uptempo Cleethorpes type 70's dancers, I just don't like the later stuff that Searling was playing, and I don't like the Carstairs simply because I think it's badly sung and just not a very good track. Will that do?

Finger on the pulse eh?

Of course, you can tell by the enthusiasm.

Vintage Al, TopPop, Dutch TV, February 1972

Sorry Dad.

A beauty!

Are you his Grandad or something?

I understand, but why not just play it at an R&B do? This is what I'm not quite getting. If we want to go out and hear Northern Soul - why not play Northern Soul?

There are some saintly people on this site, there really are. Praise the Lord we have such honest people amongst us.

But this music (Ruth Brown) has nothing to do with Northern Soul, you might as well just call them Rhythm & Blues nights and take NS out of the equation altogether. Different planet. If that's what the younger people are into, then there will be no Northern Soul Scene in 10 years time.

£10

These were made at the same plant that did Shrine and Arock, the glue they used must have been terrible, that's why so many of those label's records have a label missing

The problem with Ian's podcasts, and I said this to him, is the fact that there are no track listings, I know why there are no track listings - it's because he wants people to have to listen to them to discover what's on there - but at 2 or 3 hours a time, a lot of people just don't have that much time to listen to the whole thing. If you see a track list you can often work out what's 60's, what's 70's, and therefore avoid the excruciating crossover stuff, but without one, you just have to sit and fast forward and the whole process is too clunky for me.