Godzilla

I sold a copy of Shirley Caeser for £15 this week.

I see what you mean but I doubt someone like Ray Agee, who'd been recording since 1952 would be interested in a vanity project. I'm afraid your original argument that the motive was not to sell records or make money is undermined by the rest of the above post. Aha! Got you again

Nope - that's another reggae one. Clearly you weren't paying attention a few pages ago Frankie

What? They wrote a tune, hired an arranger and singer and then they spent studio time and pressed up the record in order to create future rarity...?

Maybe just how it sounds to your ears Pete. The drums do sound more like they're from a straight uptempo (Northern stomper style) soul record but the prominent guitar sounds like an R&B rhythm guitar. It's one of my favourite Northern Soul tunes but when you listen to it next to something like Jimmy Raye, which you mentioned, there's clearly a different rhythm, with Jimmy Raye being more sort of bang, bang, bang on the fours while Ray Agee is a more jerky R&b style sound - certainly in the verse anyway, but probably not so much on the intro and in the chorus admittedly... Jesus I sound like I'm arguing against myself here!

Really? don't see it myself. Mind you I have got a cold

Spot on Chalky - with one exception to my mind (dammit I was determined not to post anything sensible on this thread...) You state: You might say there is no R&B in Ray Agee but there certainly is no Northern Soul in it because as a musical genre it doesn't exist. It is a record that has a beat and tempo demanded by the dancers and DJ's on a small underground music scene... While the record certainly does fit the bill for the dancers on that scene, it also feels like and R&B tune and has the sort of rhythm associated with R&B as opposed to straight 60s soul stuff ie those records with the 4 x 4 'Motownesque' sound. I accept that Northern scene has accepted lots of other rhythms but stylistically the Ray Agee 45 feels a lot closer to the likes of AC Reed's "I'm Losing Again" - unless we're saying that's not necessarily an R&B record either.,, ...and that's definitely possible on here!

Thanks Rick, I did know that actually but was making a small joke. Besides, I was probably getting mixed up with the time when Brian Poole and the Tremeloes got their Uncle Willies out on Blue Peter. BBC in the 60s eh? Tish. I nonetheless look forward to you doing a personal demonstration with regard to how I can learn to shimmy like your sister Kate

Rev Jim Jones on the same label too! Yikes

https://www.carolinasoul.org/north/a.htm

Not a two bar slide then...

Especially when he says "oh, Uncle Willie was never like this...."

Wouldn't be the first time and won't be the last that any of us joyfully bellow the wrong words to a song

I still don't understand what that instruction would mean. "two bars a line" Sorry.

Jackie Wilson - Big Boss Line

what would that mean..?

If not taken directly from it then referring to the same thing at least ie dance instructions. Boss lines are the same as strong lines. You learn to do something then do it with confidence - I reckon this is two lines of people primed and ready to go. Or actually doing the steps in a line more likely.

It's clearly reggae - they're all fools.

I thought Mindbenders?

We talked about this once before and I think you'll have to pull something fairly spectacular out of the hat before I surrender the blue ribbon I was awarded for Tim "Rocky Horror show" Curry's excruciating version of Baby Love. It's worth a few quid though so snaffle it up if you see it...

Lacking in the old hoodoo department, I'm afraid...

I would buy a record called "Sold My Monkey To the Voodoo Man" on sight, without a moments hesitation!

There's also the rule that any record with the word "Cleopatra' in the title has to be played...

So being from 1966 or thereabouts, and therefore slap bang in the middle, I take it that "Inky Dinky Wang Dang Do" is just about lyrical perfection for you then Stevie