Chalky

I said "if you can get a copy from someone in here I'll play but I think your in the wrong venue for that sort of stuff"

moves from beat ballad to mid tempo and back again.....

The best request I've had was Lionel Ritchie....that was at an all-nighter as well

dunno if this has been posted but worth another listen...

Keb Stafford spin.....

Yep! The vast majority of paying customers want what you call traditional type northern soul, don't care what anyone says. Lifeline has had to give in a little from the time we were at a smaller venue. With a big hall like we have we would have an empty venue spinning crossover and funk for large parts of the night. 60's and 60's dancers still rule at an all-nighter and most soul nights. If it is funky it has to have the right vibe, that northern style feel so they can still dance the northern way. AS for no such thing as a Northern Soul record try telling a dancer that. Ask them what Tomangoes, Cecil Washington or any other classic and I know what the answer will be. Nev is right that when the music was recorded it was R&B, pop or whatever field the artist was aiming for but here, love the term or hate it, it is Northern Soul.

Ady Croasdell was spinning this mid 80's. I'd consider it Latin, always though of it that way although it fitted in with some of the latin stuff he was playing at the time.

Nice one pal. I can't believe I'm missing pages. I reckon the mice have been reading them in the garage and made a nest from them once read.

Like every diet, everything in moderation , nothing to excess. If it is good then it is good if it is bad then it shouldn't be played

Has anyone not got copies of these?

The guy who wanted me to upload the track to find out what it is has since found out who it is but hasn't told me who.

She didn't Robb. Like you say it is Norma Jenkins, thnk some getting confused as it was played as LaBrenda Ben I think when none knew who it was.

If you cant find examples of the above tracks I mentioned to listen to I'll try and put some on my soundcloud page over the weekend.

I'm not talking about any records really Greg, it's a topic that was being debated in another topic but the sort of records mentioned so far are nothing like what I mean by today's funky soul. Most of those mentioned are simply northern, have a northern feel and are not alien to the majority of dancers. I'm talking about records like Clip Info: Sir Guy - I Need You, Gamith, King Roosevelt, William C Belton and John Harris and the Soul Sayers if that's the correct name off top of my head. Four of the above are from a Paul Sadot mix I put in refosoul for him. Funk edged soul has been around for decades on the scene but te last few years there is more funk than soul in many of the tracks championed under the name funk edged soul, good or bad? Like Steve said there is some good stuff but like he also says there is some rubbish that IMO is only played by others trying to be the next Paul Sadot or Karl Heard and failing miserably.

It was quite sensible and a good answer. It is the answer you could give to any genre of this broad scene of ours.

There is a lot, probably a majority, that lose that northern feel though. I've seen many an empty floor at all-nighters, even to top DJ's simply because they probably feel the DJ has gone to far or over stepped the mark?

Well if they are sold then yes they are breaching copyright laws.

Funky Soul, Funk edged Soul...however you wish to describe it. Good or bad? Does it have a place at venues or is a lot of it a case of the Emperors New Clothes.

On Sallies question I think there is a demand for a Rare Soul Weekender. People are asking us all the time when are going to do another. It is just finding a suitable venue with the right amount of rooms or another friendly hotel very close by. As soon as you mention all night to some they don't want to know. We ran weekenders at The Ye Old Bell where we had all-nighters as well. We supplied a mini bus for those stopping at the travel lodge a few miles away but didn't want to go down that route again, wanted everything at hand. We also feel we supplied, over the weekend, some of the best soul music anywhere in Europe at the time and I still don't think it has been bettered musically. There hasn't and still isn't anywhere in this country that does what Lifeline did at it's weekenders IMO. The list of DJ's was amazing and that is what we would like to get back to again at the right venue.

Ignore the above, I've reduced the size........ Grapevine & RCA Northern Soul Listing2.pdf

If anyone would like the PDF shout up and I'll look at putting it up at sendspace or divshare or somewhere similar. It is about 86mb and not sure if I can reduce the size???