Pete S

No it's not dummy spitting it's a face to face argument, dummy spitting is making a statement and then walking away

Kinnell thats what I said!

Dunno but they discovered lots of records I'd already reviewed in the 90's.

You could apply that analogy to every record that's ever been released, nobody ever set out to make a Northern Soul record in the 60's, but the records were made, do exist and ARE Northern Soul, latterly. IT was cut as an R&B record by an R&B artist but it transcended that, as did thousands of others, "Baby Love" was cut as an R&B record by an R&B artist but I doubt anyone would be playing that on the "R&B Scene"?

We are, and it's a Northern Soul record, what are you on about Mace with your daft points-scoring comments, there was no R&B scene when this record was discovered and played, it was and is a Northern Soul record from an R&B performer as are Jimmy Robins, "Shoes" etc.

Mate I don't really care if it keeps this topic high on the charts!

Listen I don't mean to be rude but it's been suggested to me by a bidder that people who have no intention of bidding on the item should, erm, mind their own business. Just saying like.

What utter rubbish, it's a Northern record that the "R&B scene" probably didn't even know about until it came out on CD in the 90's.

I will of course take the advice on board, though I'm pretty sure they will both see this topic and can easily contact me.

Tainted Love sure got a lot of people into Northern and even now hearing the intro can send shivers down the spine, what a record...this really is Northern Soul

Not as confused as I am. I can't tell people what to bid, they just make the offer. (Person one asked to keep his bid going to 5500, person to came in with a straight bid of 5500). The bid increment is £100 anyway, so if someone came in at 2 seconds to 6 and said 5520, it wouldn't count.

This is a Northern Soul record with bells on. Just because it's Ray Agee doesn't make it an R&B record. IF you told someone, when this was first spun in 79, that it wasn't a Northern Soul record, you'd be laughed out of the place.

This is completely blinding...

I love that version!

Brilliant version

Top bid is still £5500. Two people with same bid.

That'll be me then. That did absolutely zero for me, again I think it's because of when it was made, I just don't like this sort of soul music.

I was thinking along the lines of the British pre-Beatles pop that they seem to love, Gerry Beckles, Sylvia Sands, more or less anything on the Oriole label just stuff that was previously considered untouchable by UK collectors

Popcorn is just bizarre though isn't it, it covers a whole spectrum of musical styles from Teen Pop to Ska.

I'm not denying that and never said so, but there is an archetypal Northern Soul sound, it's based more or less around I Can't Help Myself era Motown, and surely nobody can deny that, I doubt if many people's intro to NS was a70's funk or crossover tune. We loved it because of what it was, stomping 60's soul, what happened after that and how it separated and split is of no interest to me.

I've never thought of that as R&B, just Northern

Northern, said so above.

Yes but only one is out and out Northern, the others are R&B played at Northern venues. Whats that saying, just because a sheep is born in a barn it doesn't make it a horse. Or something like that.

God what about The Fall doing Ghost In My House, I know some people think this is genius but I don't.

Rolling Stones killed a couple of great Motown tunes.