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Think it is just one of those records that if you have it you don't want to part with it. 2 reasons :- 1) You won't make much money out of selling it. & more importantly 2) It's bloody brilliant !!

Threads like this amuse me - many ways of looking at this - think what really angers people is the thought they have been "had". All of a sudden the record becomes less desirable because of its "history" "You can fool some of the people........................................"

Agree with what has already been said - I have no desire to see our ageing "heroes" anymore - I prefer to remember them when they were "at the top of the tree".

Another track off the Brenda Boykin CD - "Freedom Song" is one of the best tunes of the year - it is absolutely stunning !!

Do you mean something like spelling !!

Problem is the Overplayed/Hammered To Death tunes are just what the people who frequent these events want to listen to - it's all the records they have on their HMV/Morrisons bought compilation CDs. A weekender wouldn't be complete without a bit of Frank Wilson !!!!!

When in doubt go to Wikipedia - not too far off the mark methinks. Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."] The genre occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and plastic body moves, are an important feature. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound.

I take it that old 8mm reel I have of you & Jim Hargreaves doing "The Bump" at Ansdell Institute will be of no use to you then.

See that an artist (Evelyn Thomas) mentioned in this thread has some new product out - not my cup of tea really but interesting though. https://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1379514-02.htm

Thankyou Ian for just answering part of my posting & not the whole of it. With total respect to the artists they are not what I consider contemporary anymore - indeed some of them have sadly passed away many years ago. I meant contemporary as in "music of today". Please tell me where on this thread or indeed any other I have said I don't think you have done your bit for soul music. This thread is about tailor mades. I merely gave a list of artists & people who I thought were responsible for tailor made records & when I did you took offence & vented your anger upon me. As I have said earlier, forums are about opinions - you have them & I have them & we both have a right in a free country to express them. In your daily life you must come across people who don't agree with you - how do you deal with them? or are they discarded by you & you merely surround yourself with sycophants who hang on your every word & deed? Certain people on Soul Source have made vicious attacks on you about your ethnicity & sexuality - I think that is totally wrong & I can honestly say my postings have not & will never sink to that level. Perhaps Ian, as I have said before, if you joined in more threads, given your vast knowledge, people may not judge you so harshly.Indeed, this week there has been a Blackpool Mecca & a Motown thread which you could have contributed to but chose not to.

Sold a lot on the modern dance scene already - the record is about 4 years old & has had many remixes & issues particularly in the last eighteen months,

Bit like Paul Anka - Len Barry - Frankie Valli - Danny Wagner - Freddie Chavez - Dana Valery - Timi Yuro etc. etc. ..............................as you say no relevance at all to soul music - but bloody good nonetheless!!

My favourite Crossover tune of all time - simply stunning !!!

Ian This is a forum on which ideas & opinions are offered up. If somebody gives an opinion about something & you don't agree that is tough.The truth is Ian I contribute on here regularly tipping music & generally "joining in" unlike you, who only bothers when you think it involves you. You may not like the term "tailor made" but it applies to certain records you have been involved with & they are perceived as such - you will have to live with that I am afraid. The facts are Wigan's Ovation did a cover version of "Skiing In The Snow" - The Exciters (along with you) did cover versions of "You're Gonna Make Me Love You" & "Love You Baby" - all of which I consider to be tailor mades - which ones are good, bad or indifferent is not in question. Because I don't agree with everything you do & say Ian, does that really make me "the bad guy" ? If so C'est La Vie - I will just have to accept that. As regards being ashamed of coming from the same town as me - I remember when you used to live here championing contemporary quality black dance music. I still live on the Fylde Coast championing contemporary quality black dance music - which one of us has changed?

Believe all asbestos has been removed from the building (safety issue) - I know that some pieces of The Highland Room dancefloor have been "liberated" by certain individuals - better watch Ebay in the coming weeks (how sad) !!!! I only live 3 miles from The Mecca so will keep people posted as to what is happening - just off to FloorsRUs to get my "original Highland Room laminate flooring" - tee hee.

No - Game Players was a bona fide 70s release which was played on the Northern scene. Still sounds good to IMHO.

Anybody who writes lyrics like that deserves time in the "cooler"

Something along the lines of his cell being 6 by 6 - & that is why the instrumental is infinitely better!!

From November 1963. The aforementioned 16 Big Hits compilation. MT-614 - A Package of 16 Big Hits - Various Artists [11/63] (4-64, #84) Original cover of this album had a picture of a package stamped with the names of the songs and the artists. The second cover had no package and "A PACKAGE OF 16 BIG HITS" at the top and the titles and artists underneath. This album was released in stereo in August 1966 as MS-614. The stereo version contains the true stereo alternate take of "Please Mr. Postman" which had appeared on The Marvelettes' Greatest Hits a few months earlier, and a true stereo alternate take of the Contours' "Do You Love Me?" Come And Get These Memories - Martha & Vandellas (S)/Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes (S)/The One Who Really Loves You - Mary Wells (S)/Jamie - Eddie Holland (E)/Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye (E)/Contract on Love - Little Stevie Wonder (S)/Do You Love Me - Contours (S, alternate take)/Shop Around - Miracles (M)//Money - Barrett Strong (E)/Pride And Joy - Marvin Gaye (S)/Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes (S, alternate take)/You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells (S)/You Really Got A Hold On Me - Miracles (S)/Love Me All The Way - Kim Weston (S)/Sunset - Little Stevie Wonder (S)/Your Heart Belongs To Me - Supremes (S)

Found this on a Motown Discography site. Released in June 1963 M-609 - Motor Town Revue, Volume M-609 - Motor Town Revue, Volume 1 - Various Artists [4/63] (6-63, #47) Originally issued in mono only. Whole Lotta Woman - Contours/Let Me Go The Right Way - Supremes/What Kind Of Fool Am I - Marvin Gaye/A Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye/Strange I Know - Marvelettes/Someday Someway - Marvelettes//Don't You Know - Little Stevie Wonder/Two Lovers - Mary Wells/Bye Bye Baby - Mary Wells/You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Miracles/Way Over There - Miracles 1 - Various Artists [4/63] (6-63, #47) Originally issued in mono only. Whole Lotta Woman - Contours/LetM-609 - Motor Town Revue, Volume 1 - Various Artists [4/63] (6-63, #47) Originally issued in mono only. Whole Lotta Woman - Contours/Let Me Go The Right Way - Supremes/What Kind Of Fool Am I - Marvin Gaye/A Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye/Strange I Know - Marvelettes/Someday Someway - Marvelettes//Don't You Know - Little Stevie Wonder/Two Lovers - Mary Wells/Bye Bye Baby - Mary Wells/You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Miracles/Way Over There - Miracles Me Go The Right Way - Supremes/What Kind Of Fool Am I - Marvin Gaye/A Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye/Strange I Know - Marvelettes/Someday Someway - Marvelettes//Don't You Know - Little Stevie Wonder/Two Lovers - Mary Wells/Bye Bye Baby - Mary Wells/You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Miracles/Way Over There - M-609 - Motor Town Revue, Volume 1 - Various Artists [4/63] (6-63, #47) Originally issued in mono only. Whole Lotta Woman - Contours/Let Me Go The Right Way - Supremes/What Kind Of Fool Am I - Marvin Gaye/A Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye/Strange I Know - Marvelettes/Someday Someway - Marvelettes//Don't You Know - Little Stevie Wonder/Two Lovers - Mary Wells/Bye Bye Baby - Mary Wells/You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Miracles/Way Over There - Miracles Miracles

I like a well constructed & thought provoking comment like that about probably the most influential black music record label in the world ............................. care to expand your thoughts & reasons why you feel that way?

There is a version which Ian Levine did with a bit of a vocal in it - which adds nothing to the original Earl Van Dyke classic IMHO.

The phrase you are looking for is "tailor made" - as in a tune created to sound like an authentic - usually "sixties sounding" Northern Soul record. If you followed the recent Ian Levine thread you should know what I mean. The Sharonettes The Exciters LJ Johnson Barbara Pennington Doris Jones Wigan's Ovation The Chantelles Paula Roussell plus various "truly awful" instrumentals of Northern classics put out by Simon Soussan in the mid seventies. To be honest not many worth bothering with IMHO but one or two have made their mark on the scene.

You can get the single for about £3.00 - loads of copies of the album on Ebay & Gemm for about a tenner. South Shore Market in Blackpool used to have all the Sugar Billy "Fast Track" singles for about 30p in the late seventies - happy days!!