Jerry Hipkiss

YOUR SOUL MUSIC NEEDS YOU! Get out this weekend, claim your spot and have a good time!

Peter Jarett was later, surely - Dalton James and Sutton fits the time frame for me...

Another ex-serviceman I don't think we've mentioned yet - Ronnie Jones... https://www.cyrildavies.com/Ronnie.html

...plus of course "Get Down With It" was produced by Norman Smith , who went on to have a couple of pop hits as "Hurricane Smith"...

This! ^^^^

Nor had I until a year or so ago, despite having been around for more decades than I can remember - apparently played by Soul Sam, Top Rank Hanley 1973 - and just the other day I saw it on a Soussan sales list from 1975 - just goes to show how many tunes there are just under the radar...

Strictly personally, I always look forward to Jordan Wilson's sets, as well as Matt from Trowbridge and of course Ted Massey...

Melvin Clapton is (despite all the odds) alive and well and active on Farcebook, sadly Roy Hyett passed on some years ago now...

I only went the once - as far as I can remember - December 1984, a coach from Cheltenham and Gloucester with all the usual reprobates on board 😁. Had a great night, think I got home about 6am, tried to sleep for a couple of hours, and then went to work for the whole day! Hmmmm....😏

Yep, Soulfusion is one of my regular bookings so naturally I was there - another busy night from start to finish, as always a mix of the favourite tunes as dictated by the dancers, with a few underplayed things thrown in for good measure, the usual quality set from Ted Massey, regional DJ's with decades of experience in Jinksy and Don Palmer, plus the excellent Dean Carr, not to mention uptempo soulful and jazzy house in the second room hosted by one of the country's finest mix DJ's Paul Garland...must be why it's still going strong thirteen years on! And oh look, there I am at the bar...😀

"Falling in love" by DeLuxe is a must play whenever I do those sort of nights - hard to get hold of apparently, and always gets people asking about it...

Can't recall an Instr of JWIMS, but I do remember the Disco Strings of Cloud Nine LP - another "wallpaper" instrumental LP which was big for a few minutes!

St Ives and Newquay will continue, but I know Baby Boy will be posting more about that on here - for myself I'm still just utterly gutted, although I'd known of Lee for decades it's only over the last couple of years that we'd become friends, and it was only last Thursday night we were chatting on the phone about upcoming events and getting together for a few beers. It was an honour to know the Big Man, and I'll miss his usual greeting of "Ah, Jeremiah Hipflask!" RIP Lee...

One from me - what a stormer!

Liking the "San Removals Strings" :-) - don't you just love predictive text?

Not really, the whole thing about the "underground" scene was supposed to be rebelling against the mainstream - by the summer of '67 those involved considered soul naff, commercial and - to use a phrase coined a little later - "teenybopper" music. Those of us who stuck with it got ribbing and sneers from mates, believe me! Peel just ditched the Fab 40 playlist to see if he could get away with it and the Perfumed Garden grew from there. Incidentally, it's fun looking at their charts and seeing future Rare Soul favourites getting plays, like in this one which has Bobby Sheen in the Top Ten! https://radiolondon.co.uk/rl/scrap60/fabforty/aug66/aug661/fab070866.html

Station Road for me - sounded much better loud, but it goes in that category of "You really had to be there"...;-)

IIRC the lookalike black and white "audition copy" had poor sound quality, so if yours sounds good it might be proper...

Larry Atkins has Delta 72741 - should make it late July 1968...

Mate of mine found a Joe Hicks issue with a few crap pop things underneath a parrot's cage in a flea market in Tenerife! ("I wanna be free" on the flip BTW...)

Indeed - I just re-read the old thread...

Sad to say that I've only just found this out courtesy of Steve Smith, but Rich Selwood, lynchpin of the early days of the Rare Soul scene in Gloucestershire - and further afield - via his Wax Machine shop in Worcester Street, passed away at the very start of this year. Thanks Smithy for picking up on this...bad news indeed, but at least most of us had regained contact with him in recent years. R.I.P.

Light blue issue of Millionaires "Never for me" bought in 1971, snapped in two while I was cleaning it years later...at the time I thought oh well, it's only a cheapie, replaced it with a dark blue 2nd - now look at the 2017 price!

Even more desirable...:-) Well done Andy Gillespie BTW!