Sunnysoul

Reading this interview with Keb ... https://www.dustandgrooves.com/keb-darge-london-uk ... and he answers this question as follows: "Question: When you play to the right audience is that your real moment of glory? Keb's answer: 99% don’t know anything about it'[the music], and that’s more glory for me. No, it makes me more happy that people love this music. It makes me more happy than playing for 1000 people who are really into it. Here’s a story: I got into this warehouse in about 1983 and I got into this collection of a million records this guy had just bought and he was like: Ok I’m off to Jamaica for holiday for 3 weeks. The records had been tipped into the warehouse by two giant lorries and there were 3 giant dogs jumping all over them. The guy asked me if I went up there to look after the dogs and pay the builders because they were building a barn, and I’ll let you sort through the records and we’ll sort out what you want when I come back. So I went to this place and I’m like holy fucking shit. I came out with two boxes of quality Northern soul that no one had heard of, out of a million records. So after that I went to a gig and there were all the big Northern soul dealers at a record bar, who knew all the tunes since 1968. I played this set and watched them empty the record bar. It was an emotional memory, I had done it. What the fuck was that they all said? Two hours of records no one had ever heard of. " Just curious if anyone knows of or recalls the "gig" that he is referring to around 1983 at which he played a set full of records which the big dealers had never heard of ? What was the date / venue / event etc ?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-7th-AVENUE-AVIATORS-YOU-SHOULD-O-HELD-ON-CONGRESS-NM-WLP-45-NORTHERN-SOUL-/171987309537?nma=true&si=pfZFaVBp6Z%252Brdtuvni4uj7bWQeU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The interesting thing is that on Popsike listings the Sound Facts release often appears to sell in the $40-50 US price range while the original on Decca sells for not much more than that.

The Sound Facts label issue looks to be a much later 80's issue of the original Decca release? Sound Facts , being out of North Carolina, presumably released for the Beach Music scene ? Anyone have any thoughts ?

O C Smith "Glad I Fell In Love" .... originally on South Bay then picked up by Motown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJiC9zTglhY

The Milton Campbell vocalist with RDM Band is not the same person as Chess RnB recording artist Little Milton (Campbell). Composers are Gamble , Huff and Jerry Butler, not Billy Butler.

This gives you a rough idea of chronological evolution of the label design https://www.45cat.com/label/twinight

Frank, I have always taken the view that Marcia's first two singles were both dead slow ballads but they were huge top ten chart hits in Australia. Her third single was the uptempo You Gotta Let Go B/W the midtempo Don't Let The Grass Grow but the record clearly wasn't cutting through with the Australian public or the charts so Wizard probably dropped promoting it almost immediately and may well have even withdrawn it from the shops. Her next two releases were again slow ballads and not surprisingly they both returned her to the top ten on the charts. It was only when she released You a little later that she had a big hit with an uptempo record. That's how I see it anyway ...

As a matter of fact just sold today on ebay for a staggering $720 US ... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Northern-Soul-45-SUNNY-SUNLINERS-Should-I-Take-You-Home-If-I-Could-See-You-Now-/271992180189?hash=item3f53ff4ddd Northern Soul 45 SUNNY & SUNLINERS Should I Take You Home/If I Could See You NowStunning Texas Northern Soul Double-Sider! Hear Both!$720.0038 bids Sep-30 18:54

Great if those are your personal choices but there'll be a tsunami of people insisting that Sam Dees' "Show Must Go On" would have to be in any such list, from an objective and critical point of view anyway !

Been doing a little more research on Gene Latter and came across this nice press photo and flyer of a very dapper looking Gene :

And the irony of this thread is that there is the other current thread on "what's killing the soul scene"...

Original please on Cherry Red, no second issues or boots on Virtue. Many thanks