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The Younghearts - A Little Togetherness Plus a few from the OKEH stable if that did not work Steve

Would have to keep two for my funeral I'll Always Love You - Detroit Spinners and I'm Gonna Miss You - Artistics So if I had to sell the last one before them it would be Harry Hippie - Bobby Womack, favourite record by favourite artist. Steve

Some brilliant vinyl tracks mentioned on here, but one of the finest CD's in my collection is Standing Ovation- The Very Best of The Dells 1966-1981 39 tracks put together by Richard Searling in 2007 and featuring many of these from the posts. Steve

I Can remember seeing him at the Attic in Doncaster but not sure whether 69 or 70. Steve

I Assume your referring to the record by Mood Mosaic which I think was either Dave Lee Travis or Johnnie Walker's theme tune on pirate radio. The record was also played at my local where a lot of the records were played at the wheel first at that time. Steve

Chris Clark - I Want To Go Back There Again Always played towards the end of the night at my local soul club and still an all time fave of mine regardless of colour. Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now Caused a tremendous buzz when first played at above nights.Prior to that Opus 17 was the popular spin by his group the Four Seasons. Dusty Springfield - What's It Gonna Be Heard of Dusty from earlier pop success and have always loved this dancer as well as most of her other stuff. Steve

Got a few including All Of a Sudden/What Can I Do, Cashing In. Long Gone , How To Make A Sad Man Glad. This weekend I have been tiding the garage up, as some if not all of us do now and again. I took the lid of one of my boxes of soul mags and the top one was Blues & Soul from March 1971. In Dave Godin's column he wrote " I Hear that a real racket in white label dubbed copies of in-demand records is flooding the Northern Soul Scene. It will be short lived I think" He covers the illegality of it, the unfairness to those involved in the making of the records not receiving royalties and tax avoidance. Dave's closing sentence" There is a world of difference between taping a rare record for your own use, and this wholesale illicit manufacture for gain. So don't be a sucker - the originals can often be bought quite legally much cheaper too !. Interestingly there was not one advert in the mag for a function. Certainly changed not long later. Steve

Saw her twice at Manchester Apollo many years ago Baz, and she would not even come back to sunny Scunny. If I was asked to nominate just one favourite all time album, Caught Up would be that one. Stunning versions of I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love For You, I'm Tired Of Hiding, and Summer (The first time ). Steve

MILLIE JACKSON - CAUGHT UP AND STILL CAUGHT UP BOBBY WOMACK - UNDERSTANDING, FACTS OF LIFE, THE POET 1 and 2 DETROIT SPINNERS - Ist ATLANTIC ALBUM TEDDY PENDERGRASS - 1st SOLO ALBUM CHI-LITES - A LONELY MAN MAJOR HARRIS - MY WAY JJ BARNES/ STEVE MANCHA - RARE STAMPS JOHNNY TAYLOR - TAYLORED IN SILK ZZ HILL - THIS TIME THEY TOLD THE TRUTH ISLEY BROTHERS - THIS OLD HEART OF MINE, 3 + 3 MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON MARVIN GAYE/ TAMMI TERRELL - UNITED DETROIT SPINNERS - MOTOWN ALBUM To name a few from my collection Steve

Mine is the same as yours and dips down at 1 cm except that the LW is at 3 o'clock Steve

Hi Mate, Not sure, assume these were wheel sounds, but they some that were big in sunny Scunny at the that time.. Doris Troy - I'll Do Anything Chuck Wood - 7 Days Too Long Carrolls - Were In This Thing Together Esquires - Get On Up Platters - Washed Ashore / With This Ring Percy Sledge - Baby Help Me Drifters - Baby What I Mean / Come On Over To My Place James & Bobby Purify - Do Unto Me Francis Nero - Keep On Lovin Me Four Tops - Since You've Been Gone. Shorty Long - Function At The Junction Stairsteps - Stay Close To Me Chubby Checker - At The Discoteque Seasons greetings Steve

A local record shop had loads of British Motown and Soul albums for sale in the late sixties. I purchased many including Motown Memories 1 and 2, Edwin Starr,Mitch Ryder, Impressions, Shirley Ellis, Jay & The Techniques, Stevie Wonder, Collections of Motown Big Hits etc. I Was not really into sending off for stuff in them days apart from the odd one. Most of these had at least one track that was played at the local Soul Club which played many of the sounds Brian listed, and I used to play uptempo tracks off these albums to like minded mates at the local youth club.I was expanding my knowledge ( and theirs ) of the music we were into, and hence that was why I was aware of You Ought To Be In Heaven and Ghost In My House. and stated that others may have played these in other surroundings at the that time. I think the first time I heard Tell Me It's Just A Rumour was at the Compass Club around 1973 but dare say was aired earlier, and got to admit I had not heard a number of Brian's list until around the Torch days, but without going to the Wheel, I can only go with what Brian says. My heritage came from older mates letting me play their Soul stuff at the youth club 67/8, buying my own records and going with my mates to soul nights in Scunthorpe, then to the Attic at Doncaster. Do not want to re-arrange it, in the words of Chris Clark- Just want to go back there again. Steve

I was playing You Ought To Be In Heaven off The Fabulous Impressions album and Picture Me Gone by Evie Sands UK CP at my local village youth club in the late sixties and also Theres A Ghost In My House off Motown Memories 2, so highly likely could have been discovered in more famous surroundings than mine. Steve

Hi Brian, Our old mate Fred Benson used to play a large number of records listed at the Riddings Soul Club- Scunthorpe at the same time the Wheel was on the go. Fred nearly always finished with a combination of the following. It's So Hard Being A Loser - Contours I Want To Go Back There Again - Chris Clark For All We Know - Spinners Make Me Yours - Bettye Swann I'm Gonna Miss You - Artistics Although I never made the Wheel,the sounds played there has shaped the rest of my life musically and introduced me to hundreds, if not thousands of friends with the same love of this wonderful scene ( and just as many who want to argue about it as well ! ) Steve

Santana Steve

Good one, kept thinking along the lines of Joey Dee, but the Beatles clue threw me into thinking along the likes of The Truth,Young Idea and Cliff Bennett which were wrong of course. Keep them coming. Steve

Educated guess at group called the Ebonies on Mid West . Steve

Reached USA no 2 in 1972 on United Artists. I can remember this and their other big hit Treat Her Like A Lady at the time of release. Too Late has been played a lot over here and I also believe Big Time Lover has as well. Check our their Classic masters CD which contains all their major songs. Not a bad song title for an airport if you don't like flying Steve

Too Late To Turn Back Now ( I Believe x 3 I'm Falling In Love - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose from the early seventies ? Another even longer shot ! Steve

Another long shot Steve- it might be Cee Lo Green's new single - It's Ok ( to say that you love me ) which fits the male vocal and recent although sounding 60's. Steve

Started going to weekly Soul Nights playing rarer stuff than my local youth club in 1968, and came across Boogaloo Party and At The Discoteque (both UK issue ) for about a bob in my local village supermarket. Did not even have a record player in the house so talked ma & pa into buying a cheap one for me, and promptly used my paper money savings to send off fifteen schillings and sixpence to FL Moore at Leighton Buzzard for the Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You on VIP, my first big buy, although Chubby Checker worth more. My first EMI discs were given to me by a DJ at Cleethorpes Pier in exchange for another record I got from a supermarket Jo Armstead- I Got The Vibes. Looking back I think this was a mistake but at the time Bllly Prophet, Jeanette Williams and Debbie Fleming appealed to me more, even on that format. Steve

Up The Junction In Crewe- Never actually went but recall seeing the building during my first trip to see the mighty Iron at Crewe many years ago. Cleethorpes Winter Gardens would have been a perfect building for nowa days had it not been demolished. Steve

Some dates including Sheffield (3rd-9th September) are starting to appear on the film website. Cannot see it coming to an outpost like Scunthorpe Malc, even though we have always had a loyal be it not too large following of the scene here. Steve

Don't actually own a copy. but Otis Blue must be one of the best soul albums of all time. Of my own collection, I would rate Millie Jackson's- Caught Up as the finest with sparkling renditions of Phillip Mitchell's- I'm Tired Of Hiding, and Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time), not to mention the other tracks. Other favourite Soul albums of mine are, Bobby Womack - The Poet and Looking For A Love, although I own many of his albums and love them all, as I do with Millie Jackson's until she got too vulgar !! Johnnie Taylor - Taylored In Silk - 1973 Stax Shirley Brown- Same - Arista 1977 Dorothy Moore - Same - Malaco 1977 Major Harris - My Way - Atlantic 1974 Stylistics - Same - Avco 1971 Tracks include- You Are Everything,Stop,Look,Listen-Betcha By Golly Wow, Point Of No Return. Chi-Lites - A Lonely Man- MCA 1972 Tracks include-Oh Girl,Living In The Footsteps Of Another Man, Inner City Blues and the brilliant Coldest Days Of My Life. Various Artists - Soul Deep (Volume Two) - Atlantic/ Contempo 1978 I seem to think Dave Godin was involved in the compiling of this and includes wonderful soul from the likes of Bettye Swan, Bobby Patterson, Oscar Toney Jr, Tami Lynn, J.J Barnes,Tamiko Jones, Reuben Bell, Sam Dees, Doris Duke and Jackie Moore amongst the big names from Atlantic. Steve

Hi Jim, Luther Vandross was a vocalist with a group of session musicians under the name of the New York City Band, recording one album 1n 1979 on the American International Pictures label.This was a music soundtrack( Sunnyside ) and Luther sung lead on a couple of tracks which I have not heard as yet. Info comes from an excellent Ralph Tee book which I have. Steve