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My very tall Sunflower has just the one bloom which has opened today. It's a rubbish photograph; but the plant is tall! It's just about reaching the branches of the Mock Cherry tree in next doors drive - should I try and climb it tonight. Could there be a crock of gold up there? 🙂
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14 hours ago, Dr Ray Dj said:
One thing that amazes me are the lyrics that seem to echo the scene but were of course written in a different decade, country and context. Obvious one is out on the floor but even the various Breakaway songs talk about being out of the mainstream.
Music and lyrics are universal.
Peter
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34 minutes ago, Twoshoes said:If you are interested in the history of Hungary and Budapest we found The House of Terror museum to be very good, frightening what people will do to their own citizens. You do though to get the best out of it have to spend time watching the various videos so if your time is short best to give it a miss and stick to the sights. Great pics by the way.
Even in modern times the people of the old eastern bloc suffered a great deal under the old communist regimes. I've spent time in Romania, was an unpaid Director of a childrens orphanage for a while, and as an aside to that work I learnt a great deal from my Romanian friends. Romania is a stunning country. Some of you will have seen the video we produced back in 2009 I think. I'm one of the lead protagonists in our infamous annual Lupta cu apa! I always let Costica win - you can see me with the hose pipe!
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34 minutes ago, Chris Turnbull said:
Very interesting - I know that feeling
I was too young to have gone to Wigan, but spent an unreasonable amount of time early - mid 90's thinking about it, feeling like I'd missed out, nostalgic for something that I'd never even experienced - bit strange really 🤣
Hi Chris
I hope you're ok my friend.
The pull of the memorable aura of Wigan Casino. 😅
I was very young too but went a few times. The magic for me was Richard's mixed sets - his 81 60's, 70's and 80's have stood the test of time for me; never been beaten. I also recall the "Keep the Faith not the Funk" banner, and the backlash aimed at Soul Sam, who never appeared again after that night. Me and my mate Mick Bradbury (ex of Boston), did a paper petition in support of Sam.
Halcyon days - but the scene survived and flourished after the demise of the Casino; don't grieve too much! 🙂
All the best my friend.
Peter
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1 hour ago, Windlesoul said:
Females in the soul music industry—and resilience for that matter, as mentioned in the OG post— was a theme I was asked to comment on for Women's History Month. Was written for a mainstream audience but may be of interest / relevance here:
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! That Woman's Got Soul!
https://windlefreelance.com/2020/07/26/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-that-womans-got-soul/
"Let’s face it. There would be no need for a Women’s History Month over forty years on from inception, if under-recognition of female contributions to culture, society and the workplace wasn’t still a 'thing'. The music business is as guilty as any other male dominated industry of inequality and denied opportunity. Female recording artists are still, on average, earning less than male counterparts. Less women reach music executive positions, and less are employed as songwriters, musicians within the industry.
The good news is that strong, determined, pioneering women are well represented though the decades, and in all facets of the business. Take Hattie Leeper, the first female African American DJ to be employed on a commercial radio station in North Carolina. At fourteen years of age, she would hang around the WGIV station. Hattie would make coffee for staff, answer the phone, file 78rpm records for DJs – just about anything to get her foot in the door. From these humble beginnings a chance to introduce records was offered after a DJ failed to turn up for work. “Chatty” Hattie, as she became known, was an established household name by the time she had moved up through the WGIV ranks and onto Big WAYS, two of the most popular stations in the Carolinas for R&B in the 1960s. Her secretarial position at the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers allowed her to meet luminaries such as Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records and Berry Gordy, owner of Motown. This helped further Hattie’s interests in promoting, managing and recording soul music artists in the region. Hattie enjoyed an extremely successful career in the media and was inducted into the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2015.
Back in her early days, Hattie struck a friendship with record label owner Florence Greenberg, another woman who worked in what was traditionally deemed a man’s world. She was not African American, but a Jewish middle-aged suburban wife, with two children in tow. Florence was captivated by the song-writing creativity coming out of the Brill Building in New York and driven by a strong passion for R&B. If it wasn’t for her Scepter-Wand label empire, the careers of The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Chuck Jackson would not have been catapulted to fame so quickly, if at all. Maxine Brown, another of Greenberg’s high-profile artists, commented once: “She was a brave woman – one of the few to own a record label in this business, competing with men and standing in there toe to toe with male producers and record owners.”
Background tales of poverty and prejudice are found within the profiles of many of our female African American icons. Billie Holiday and Etta James had their demons, including heroin and alcohol addiction. Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin endured years of physical and mental abuse from their respective partners. Many artists succumbed to the consequences of their circumstances. But circumstance can also inform creativity, and some make it despite it all. Within just a few years of divorcing her manager-husband, Aretha’s “Amazing Grace” LP was a global big seller, and her Queen of Soul status was assured.
If there was one recording which epitomises the sentiment of this month’s theme, Aretha Franklin gave us that too. In her initial recording period with her first label Columbia, she was mainly resigned to presenting jazz and standards and was prevented from straying too close to soul music. Columbia just didn’t know what to do with her artistically. Signing to Atlantic in 1967 and “Respect” was a game changer. Placed near the top of Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, the song landed two Grammys including the award for “Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, FEMALE”. Aretha’s unique spin plus the musical punch from the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section transformed Otis Redding’s original take as weary, bitter male commentary into a woman’s unambiguous demand for respect in the domestic setting. But it came to represent even more than that. “Respect” was recorded when the country was about to be embroiled in violent political unrest. The song hit the airwaves just at the right time to be adopted by the civil rights movement. And thus, it became a banner for both social and racial freedom. There may not have been any explicit political commentary within the lyrics but then there didn’t need to be. One word said it all."
Great stuff as always Mark; thank you for sharing.
Aretha was, is, one of the greatest female singers in our history. I also put Gladys up there with her. Two of my best.
Peter
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Good thread.
The lyrics have always moved me on the dance floor. I was, I guess I still am, looking for a love.
Never worked out - now that's a Blue's song for sure. I still grieve for the love that never was.
There's a Welsh word, beautiful, it could have come right from Alabama.
Hiraeth is an untranslatable Welsh word that describes a longing for a home, a place, or a feeling that no longer exists or never existed.
It’s a homesickness for the places from your past you can’t return to or even those you’ve never been to. Hiraeth can also mean nostalgia for your past self, the people who are long gone, or the emotions you used to feel.
Peter
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6 minutes ago, Greedy said:
Hi Peter
I remember the photo but don't remember names. Who's the lad with towel round his neck and what is the name of the lad on left of the photo as I spent a few nights at his house.. and what was the name of the lad who owned/ran a clothes shop on the main street?? 🤔
No wonder I remember who you are. I remember having photos taken with you all. Shame I'm not in the one posted 😕
Terry with the towel round his neck, Ross on the left. It was Rob Mellors who ran the clothes shop - he was going out with Juliette the girl at the front for ages. Rob lives in Thailand now, Ross and Terry are still in Mablethorpe.
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12 minutes ago, Clee93 said:Was chatting to Adrian Guite at the Samantha’s reunion very recently and told him about the project I have been working on for the last few years now for the 50th anniversary of the Talk of The North allnighters, With me being way younger than everyone I didn’t even realise who I was talking to and it came up in conversation when I mentioned I was from cleethorpes and then showed him a section of the project about the 80s scene.
Here are some of the bits which I’m going to include from After Dark promotion era of Cleethorpes…
I have a few things like this on my Instagram, more so from Talk of the North days if anybody wants to see more you can check it out here: www.instagram.com/nathanpickard
Good job mate. The After Dark promotions were wonderful. Happy days for me and my crew. I'll have a look at your instagram link.
Peter
Here's me - then, in the moment..................
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9 minutes ago, Ian Parker said:
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/gallery/image/26161-cllethorpes-pics-015/?browse=1
Eric Hall . he still dabbles a bit, lives in Devon these days
Yep, Eric and I were really good friends back then. A really nice lad.
Peter
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51 minutes ago, Kathryn Magson said:
Is anyone watching Sherwood on BBC 1? It gets a big thumbs up from me - I do like my gritty dramas! 👍
No, not at the moment. I started watching series 1 and lost interest.
Like wise, I've found Slow Horses, to be, well, incredibly slow.
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I've only just seen this thread. It would be good to get it going again.
Steve Croft ran the After Dark Niters - Rotherham Clifton Hall, with Alan Senior, then Cleethorpes. Both my old stomping ground, and I did indeed live in Mablethorpe at the time. Great times.
I'm already reunited with quite a few regular friends who are on here.
Peter
ps, I was just Peter back then. Then became Peter99. 😂
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29 minutes ago, Steviehay said:
wonder how jodie as in jodies got your girl gone by ann sexton fits in??
I'd have thought perfectly.
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39 minutes ago, Geeselad said:
Jody, references in soul songs are male.
And Jody has nearly always got your girl.
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9 minutes ago, Chalky said:
There was a market before eBay you know. I've seen plenty of copies sold privately too, sold copies myself. The first archer press certainly sold well enough to warrant further presses in other areas. Going round in circles here.
Well I'm lost for sure. I can't keep up with the thread. Can't we have - original press, second press, something simple. A bit like me.
Simple.
Peter
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I'm looking into my very limited pension options - any advisors on here who can, well, recommend someone who could help. Just putting my feelers out.
Thanks
Peter
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Butch Plays - Titles Wanted Please
in All About the SOUL
That's some list of great records. Thanks for sharing Mark, top man.
Peter