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The guy singing Night Owl doing a great job on the phrasing. Impressed.

Good start.. MVPs (not MPVs as was on the website listing 🤣)

I've just tried the link as, like others, I can't see anything on any BBC TV station for this evening. It shows the 'Prom 2 Northern Soul' as one of the listed proms within the TV guide, but clicking it takes you nowhere. As a test I clicked the link for tomorrow's prom (Vivaldi, The Four Seasons). That works and tells you it will be on BBC4. So I'm guessing that you can listen live to the Northern Soul one tonight, but it won't be on TV yet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Nv86dGXjPQr1GQxQTfgWYS/proms-2023-on-bbc-tv

Not sure how many people were in the MPVs (🤣);

I think @Amsterdam Russ has the definitive answer on this, see above!

Just spotted this documentary coming up this evening, Friday 9th June 2023. BBC4 at 10pm - 11pm.

2 great tracks!

Just spotted this earlier - like yourself, interested to see them perform.

Guessing that's the Questlove Summer of Soul? Even if not, I'll nominate that if it counts.

Just heard it earlier today via Simply Soul sound samples - excellent track!

Strangely similar Phil, in case you've not come across this, is a wonderful recording by Gil Scott-Heron released in 2010:

That had me salivating! I loved buying soul packs, but never got from from Oldies Unlimited. Sounds like I missed out....

Not much information on this link to the Gallery event but if people know a bit more maybe chip in with a bit more detail. https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/soul-bag/?utm_source=Whitechapel+Gallery&utm_campaign=bed97d935b-Exhibitions+Monthly+-+Nov+2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9a2c76a12-bed97d935b-253330905&mc_cid=bed97d935b&mc_eid=28e9a0a770

My box set of the singles arrived this morning. Excellent photos and information in the accompanying leaflet (as you'd expect with Kent). Although I've got several of the 'This is Loma' compilation LPs, these are my first Loma singles, and what a joy they are to behold! Looking forward to a session listening to them all later on today. Thanks @Ady Croasdell 👏

Hi Graham, and welcome to Soul Source. The only book I've got that seems roughly appropriate is 'Temples of Sound' by Jim Coogan and William Clark, published by Chronicle Books in 2003.

https://acerecords.co.uk/loma-northern-soul-classic-revelations-1964-1968 This looks interesting, both the CD and this set of 7 45s. Due to be released late January in the new year. Came across it via the Ace email newsletter today.

Covered in today's Guardian, at least the online version of it. Mainly stoking up differing stories of the discovery of the record between Russ Winstanley and Richard Searling: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/19/bruce-springsteen-cover-reignites-row-over-lost-northern-soul-classic

It'll have to be catch up if it's available for me - I've been reading it was really good.

A quick search didn't turn this up so hopefully I'm not doubling up on a posting I couldn't find here. This arrived in yesterday's post, via a message I saw on Facebook. On Creative Soul, Don Bryant 2 excellent sides, with 'A world like that' the A side but an equally great B side of his self-penned 'It was jealousy', the same song that was recorded by Otis Clay: https://creativesoulcouk.bigcartel.com/product/don-bryant-a-world-like-that-it-was-jealousy

Thought people might find these photos from the 1980's in today's Guardian of interest. In particular there are two of Mod revivalists at one of the regular Friday Northern nights at Notre Dame Hall just off Leicester square in central London in 1983. I used to go to these and play some of my records in the opening hour; it was a good sized venue and you used to get a good mix of people attending, not just the Mods. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/oct/07/looking-for-trouble-1980s-youth-culture-in-pictures

Just listening to their 2018 CD 'Half Mile Harvest'. My wife got it for her birthday, she's not sure where she'd heard of them put popped it on her Amazon list. It's a very good listen, various tracks definitely put you in mind of Southern Soul, including as you say, the lead singer sounding a lot like Otis Redding. Other tracks a bit more country, but all really well put together.

After seeing the article about Ikea and vinyl storage and a turntable, I thought people might be interested in this offer from Richer Sounds. If you are a 'VIP' member (free and easy to join) you can get one of these for £99 instead of £199. Just while stocks last. https://www.richersounds.com/project-primary-e-black.html

My wife saw them too, at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley - long before I met her! Sad to hear this news, some great music.

I've always rated this one, though don't know that it ever got played out:

A great listen - thanks for posting this. As an aside, I've come across the line "You got my nose wide open" in several other songs too (I can't even recall in the listing above - was it in "What am I gonna do about you girl"?). What is it taken to mean? Is it just along the lines of "I'm hyper alert, interested in you"? Any ideas where it came from originally? Was it fairly current street talk or an old saying?