soulfulsaint

....Listended to first thirty minutes chilled at home, great stuff Frank, thanks. Will try to listen to the whole show this weekend, then Booglaoo Down Bothwell Street.... Stuart

...Almost certain it was played at the Torch and at other NW venues at same time. Don't know if it was played in Settle where Les C. lived but convinced it was played at Tunstall.... Convinced....

....My mate from the Mecca, Ali Craigen, who sadly emigrated to Australia, had two pet budgies called Sam and Kitty. Personally they looked like bootlegs to me, but he assures me they were originals. ...are there other pets out there called after rare soul acts....?

...Disgraceful, I was the Janny at Keb Darge's primary school, they must know I'm at least 63...

...yes your right Hammy off the scale of believability - they hassled me at work about the thread last week on hooligansim, I can't belive how pathetic it is.... ...enough to make you cringe but big thanks to Shane H for managing to help whilst I was under tabloid seige. ...maybe I'll stick to threads about Mel Britt in future....

I think you'd like Mellow Madness rare and soul - the kind of sound I'd keep and pay homage to in a dsico-jessie kind of way and you'd trade for a dobber. Its that kind of record.

...."Blurry Boots by Raynoma"..How many Motown titles did she bootleg Rod? I know Mary Wells 'My Guy' was the one she was charged with but were there others too? ...Some of the proceeds went to fund the setting up of Shrine Records does that let her off the soul police hook or not?

Must confess I like 'Save The Youth' but its hardly classic Beach is it?

I have tried hard over many years to give Beach Music the benefit of much doubt. I've even spent a few days in Myrtle Beach shagging, but that's a long story. Everytime I listen to a record released on the Beach Scene, even by those artists with great soul heritage, I am disappointed to the point of despair. Those that have been played on the rare northern scene from Admiral Ice to Oxford Nights are pretty insipid too. Okay, the two scenes share a few things in common, not least a love for the music of the past and according to a recent posts they are now even 'covering up' sounds in Carolina. But are the two scenes really that close? I have always found the northern scene 'grittier', more informed, and more passionate about the music. We are much more obsessive and have a greater number of nutters per hundred. The Beach Scene, by contrast is really a lovers' nostalgia scene for divorcees, and I've given up caring what gets played there. Most of it is gash beyond belief. If I'm wrong then please help me with the list of great unkowns - especially the hard core rarities that you'd strangle your neighbour to own. Name one Beacch sound that really touches the soul? One will do.

For me that tends to be great black music from 1963 to 2006 so that's way to broad. So if I were you Blake, I'd narrow it down to your prefered era and buy the classics of the genre....Get anything else you like on CD/MP3 then your collection will have coherence.

...Ruined it fro me too - that Spanish Picture DIsc of 'Ernie' is in the bin already...

Possibly not Steve - it wasn't a stratospheric pop-soul Torch sounds like say 'Slow Fizz' nor 'Ski-ing in the Snow'. Nor was it one of those import sounds that were more generally played even in mainstream clubs. Things like Jay and Techniques 'Apple Peaches Pumpkin Pie,' Bobby Hebb 'Love Love Love' etc. To use current parlance it was a 'chin-stroker's' sound

I remember his DJ debut was at the West Indian Club, Venn Street, Huddersfield. In those days Frank DJ'd with another guy called TWINK as 'Frank and Twink', their rivals being 'Ginger and Eddie' . What happened to TWINK and to Eddie for that matter? I lent Frank a copy of Othello Roberston on Baby Luv to play at Cleethorpes and he cracked it with the lid of his box. Back to topic - lists - the very early list that Soul Bowl did out of Glasgow when it was 'Groove City' take some beating. 50p sounds thare now big money. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

...yes it was and it was played by a Manchestre DJ called Barry Tasker in the big midweek clubs in north west too... ...I agree that cataloguing by club is fun but flawed, so many last hour sounds at the Mecca resurfaced at Stafford, so many big 100 clubs 6Ts sounds were long buried oldies from places like Catacombs etc. What it proves is that the scene is always borrowing from itself.

'Set My Soul On Fire' by the Vosonics on Top Flight Records, Oakland California. Of course it could be huge, great exchanging voacals and particularly like James English the bass singer, shades of Tempts and Melvin Franklin. Come on guys what 30 secs on synth among friends. Last time I saw it sold it was a couple of years back it was over £100 then - Japan. LP is a mix of ballads and funkier sounds.

Just about everything but this one Steve it just slipped through my fingers.

I'm reading a book just now by Mertis John who was the brother of Little Willie John (King) and Mabel John (Motown etc). He describes the memorial for Little Willie John in 1968 as a souful affair. The perfromers on the day included: Joe Tex, Johnny Taylor, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd, Johnny Mae Mathews, Lee Dorsey and the Combinations. Not bad. Funerals, memorials and send-off are always a good time for soul music. What's the great soul 'send off' you remember or wish you'd been at.

....I'm still desperate for a US original of 'TryLove Again/I Want To Wrap You In My Arms' by Pro-Fascination (MOT). My CD and MP3 are not enough and never will be. In fact they are just a tease. Help

...no idea who the vandal is? but if he's watching this police broadcast. "You can break a piece of black plastic but you will never break the spirit of modern soul..."

Forget what came through our doors - think of the poor postie for once. What would his rare soul collection be like? It would definitely include a mint demo of the Marvelette's 'Please Mr Postman' and a copy of J J Barnes' Rare Stamps' Album. But I doubt he'd be a fan of Mad Dog and the Pups. Any other rare soul postie suggestions?

All the best Dave and I hope you are really well. its been too long Stuart Cosgrove

....unless there are late great entries then The Silver Spoon in Cirencester wins it will be mentioned on Radio 4 tomorrow...what a legendary club.

..Around the same time as the Talahassies appeared in Soul Survivors Leny Henry appeared in a soul band doing cover versions, they appeared on TV but it was cringeworthy and I have deliberatley forgotten their name. .

,,,There is a very sizeable Jamiacan community in Atlanta Georgia and other major southern Cities. So several 'southern soul' hist were covered by Jamiacan artists. Backbeat would definitely be on their radar. Not sure if Carl Dawkins is now based in USA ......?

Don't worry that point will be forceably made promise