Soulstu

Thanks for the posts everyone! I'll let you know how I get on. Mr Nice - that's just what I was thinking - sweet and mellow 70s all the way.............not.

Good point - do people still chuck themselves about as much these days? Obviously the 'world champion' and the same old young telly faces do, but what about people of my generation, of the, ahem, 'hefty' persuasion!

So, who would have thought that on that warm summer Sunday evening in June 1980, as I packed my sweat-soaked shirt into my canvas toolbag and walked into the clear Nottingham evening that this would be the last time I danced to rare soul in public....... ...until now! Nearly 34 years later I'm out tomorrow night, largely thanks to Soul Source to be honest (all that enthusiasm is catching!): Black short sleeve shirt - check. Levi's, check. Bedded in shoes - check. Dance moves...hmmm unchanged since last time out. Hope I don't look out of place - could be a dream or a disaster.... Reading the Fiona dance lessons thread people are pretty much saying that you just feel the music and everything else doesn't matter - that's how I'm going to approach it (as I used to to be honest). Which brings me to the point - what's the longest gap anyone has had between soul nights? Will I hold the record? If so, it'd be the only decent record I own . Any stories about first nights back after a long gap would be good. Stu

OK I'll start with the usual 'What'????? £400 quid????!!!! When will this madness end?!!!!

Crap! I wish I'd read this earlier. Just bought and waiting for Deon Jackson from Florida - looks like it's gonna end up costing double what I saw it for on here the other day if those extra charges are applied. Note to self - search closer to home and buy from your Soul Source mates!

Ha ha it is! Just complementing you on your eloquence. Loads of people say 'mind'...... and 'should of' instead of should have. Drives me 'balmy'! Anyway, I think I'll get the book - ta for the heads up.

I'd like to have been the guy stood in front of the band ready to count in Bari Track. - 'One Two Three Four.....'

Done!

Cheers Chalks I'll check that out. I'd like to know more about doo wop groups who cut great northern sides at the fag end of their careers. ps - Refreshing to hear someone use the term 'mine' rather than 'mind' of information!

I'm with Jaco - The Tracks Of My Tears. Beautiful. I was gonna go for I'll Keep Holding On by the Marvelettes on Tamla, but that's cos I've just bought it.

Surely by doing what Bearsy says you get your total anyway!

Left a 12" of Uptown Festival on the parcel shelf of my dad's car. The sun warped it like a b****d. I used my mum's iron to flatten it out. Thoughtfully I sandwiched a yellow duster between the iron and the vinyl. Ended up with a very furry yellow disc - still warped. Could have been worse - could have been good (sorry Ian).

Hmmm.. Edwin?...Edwin Hawkins?.... was it Oh Happy Day?

Agree - top, top tune - how could that not have got a release?!!!! Great piece of digging from Harboro Horace! (or whoever it was).

OOOh Peter, thank god it was only a 70s soul track!

Wow, great topic, superb answers as usual! This was a question that always bugged me too.

Simple - every single second of Little Girl Lost - Shephards - oooohhhh

Here we go...... the last 10 minutes! Think I'll go for a walk.

I'm going to get a kicking at work tomorrow!......crap.

None of us really answered your question Jon, we were caught up in vinyl heaven (or hell). So, did anyone ever mime at Wigan?

Wanda Young - listen to 'The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game'….wow Darrell Banks Ask me tomorrow and I'd say someone else - depends on my mood.

Try this Arnie Stu /forums/topic/136684-mr-floods-partycompared-to-what/page-2?hl=%2Bfloods+%2Bparty#entry2051345

Yep, sorry about my original comment on 'the notts couple' - I don't know them so was being unfair... they're contributing a damn site more to the scene than I am sat here on the sofa.

Good job you didn't say "what a load of crap" before he told you who he was. Mind you he'd probably agree with you.

Don't know where Culcheth is mate (Manchester way?), but that is (and has always been) a very, very, very good record indeed! I first heard it on holiday on a barge in the Norfolk Broads, very early 80s - thanks to a tape from my mate Kev Smith - I think he might have taped it of a Radio Hallam show called, wait for it, 'Richard Searling's Soul Source' (Sauce?). Thanks for reminding me what an awesome sound that is - Northern in a nutshell.