Richard Bayley

Kirsty's right..... Towanda Barnes "You Don't Mean It" is a killer! Another close contender must be East Coast Connection's "Summer in the Parks", which nearly killed me when Col Wood dropped it last year at York Soul Club..... As for folks finding the Chandlers hard to dance to..... learn to count! The quiet bit is in waltz time (3/4), so if you just shuffle to a count of "one two three, one two three" during this bit you'll be fine!

Thanks for posting.... nice tune!

A call to the moderators...... this thread has almost run its course.....imminent danger of a mention of Chris Waddle's missus....... terminate on any reference to Dale Winton "He loves his Northern, you know....."

Thanks for putting that up... Great tune, and I'm sure I've heard an even better version, with a great horn arrangement over basically the same vocals and backing track. Would love to hear the interview, too.

I want to put a vote in for "Spanish Maiden" by Tony Middleton as being better than both (and I love all three!) Can't argue with Sam Williams, though - and I like the backing vocals..... ethereal, but slightly desperate

Thanks for that, Chalky Loved hearing the Flirtations singing live over the fadeout!

I've never heard the Kylie version of "Time Will Pass You By"....... is it any good? Anyone for Robbie Williams.... "The Panic is On"

Thanks for posting, Pete I know the rhythm, but hadn't heard this vocal over it. More Heptones, please......

The best Motown book I've read is Nelson George's 'Where Did Our Love Go?' - very good on the Funk Bros & the internal politics at Motown in the '60's. By the same Author is 'The Death of Rhythm n' Blues', which is a longer look at the Black music business in the US right back to the 1920s. Especially good on R&B radio.

First thing that comes to mind for me is "(They Call Me) The Wrong Man" by Tony Clarke - great rocky guitar break, intense....just like the song

If I remember correctly, Leslie Uggams had a stage career....I think she was in the original Broadway cast of 'Hair'. Anybody confirm?

The demo version of "Love, Friends & Money" was put on Vol.1 of the Kent Dave Hamilton CDs (without the strings, and marginally slower), and Vol.3 contains the released version, mastered off the Temple 45 (I think). Hope this helps.

"My Ship is Coming In" - Jimmy Radcliff "He Stole All the Love That Was Mine" - Steve Mancha

Right at this moment, Barbara Lynn's "I'm a Good Woman" is on permanent repeat inside my head.... Hammy's right though..... come 5pm, could be a different chooon...

IMVHO, it's probably unlikely that we'll see a big upsurge in young Soulies, without some sort of retro youth culture taking off, whether it be a "back to the source" style movement, fed up with the plastic gangster poses of so much current Hip-Hop and R&B, or a full-blown fashion thing, like the mod revival of the late 70's/early 80's - and they will more than likely want their own scene..... Having said that, I think it's v. important to support those promoters who DO have a talent for bringing in a younger crowd - too many NS fans seem to want the scene to die with them Don't think we should be dismissive, either, of attempts to push NS at more 'mixed' events. Remember, to a newbie, what's a played-out oldie and what's the dog's wotsits at Lifeline will look a pretty irrelevant debate (until they've had the same 500 records shoved down their throat week after week..... )

Is this a different take, or is it a splicing together of EJ's version, and the Detroit Spinners' version that was on the WEA Philly compilation 'Creme de la Creme Vol.2"? Think the sleevenotes said that the DS version was (up to that point) unreleased. The CD is only a year or so old......

Wish I had a trailer.....

You never had any of this nonsense for Soulsville, did you Jamie.... apart from that very rare flyer of Lager Pete in his Calvins with a bottle of Baltika!

Breaking glass effect on intro to Roy Hamilton's "Crackin' Up..." Some very wierd sounds on 3 Degrees "Contact"

Sign me up for Team Winehouse ..... had the album for the last few weeks, and still really enjoying it!

I presume you mean the mean the 8 Min 50 sec version - 1st track side 1 of his first solo album "Curtis" (lots of bongos and sax, if I remember rightly?)

"...And there's one thing I'll never understand, just now you had the nerve to take that pen in your hand, and sign it TRULY YOURS...." (Temp's version, naturally)

Kenny, think that there's prior evidence that those parts of North Yorks with a Teeside postcode are definitely NOT on any list of KR's most popular soul towns...

Brett Franklin tells me he claps along to nothing else....

Apparently, the lyrics to this fantastic song were considered so incendiary that US Forces radio would only broadcast an instrumental version in the 1940s (remember, this was still a segregated army....) - Thanks for posting, Pete!