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Amen to all that. He was the man when he was at the height of his powers. The thing that sometimes gets overlooked with Gil was just how funny he was. I saw him live many times and he'd always do a little soliloquy / mini stand up routine. Jaws - ain't hardly no black people in no horror movies. Genius.

This is by far the best Motown compilation imho. The other (earlier) Motown Memories volume 2 with Barbara McNair and R Dean Taylor on is a favourite too. Bobby Womack - Poet 1 and Poet 2 Impressions - Big 16 Betty Wright - Danger High Voltage The O'Jays in Philadelphia John

I couldn't agree more. Fantastic post.

Fortune Teller..... I don't mind if it's Benny Spellman or the Del-Rays. This song epitomises why I love soul music. Seven chords in, I'm dancing and hooked as I ever was. I simply don't care if it's somebody else's played out oldie....

Thanks for the link. Blinding stuff for free!

Nice pic about a minute in on the video of RE and Martin the Architect who DJ'd at Roger's brilliant R&B Nights at Rafters in the late 70's. The book is available for twelve quid here. https://www.empire-uk.com/SitDown.htm

The Dells - All About the Paper

Cheers for that. I'll try this out on the treadmill at the gym tomorrow. I'll see how it compares to my usual diet of 60's stompers,

I've travelled to listen and dance to soul all over the North West for 30 odd years but, on reflection, I have never been to a soul night in Liverpool. Even when I briefly lived in Birkenhead years ago. Weird really.

Little Anthony & The Imperials - Better Use Your Head The Impressions - You've Been Cheating Proper conversation stoppers. Only a very short intro, but it's deadly: The Dells - Thinkin' About You

Joe Tex - You Better Believe it Baby Denise LaSalle - Here I am Again Diplomats - Cards on the Table Al Green - Keep on Pushing Love (Absolute Remix) The Joyful Sounds of Selma Al - Take Care of me

Apart from all the Jr Walker stuff referred to above, my aim was always to play the sax break from What Good am I (Without You) - Mickie Champion. One for the anoraks....This guy made a study of R&B sax solos. I'm working my way slowly and painfully through these. https://athenaeum.libs.uga.edu/bitstream/handle/10724/17202/costigan_christopher_j_200712_dma.pdf?sequence=1 It's good to be ambitious.

This was a top tip! My Loakes have recently died after many years of great service- it's not only the outside of shoes that wear out. Trusting Cunnie's recommendation, I got a pair of these of Schuh on ebay for £35 and they are very comfy. I had a good dance in them on Saturday and they took little breaking in. Less than the new Loakes I bought too from Slaters.

Yeah, that'd be it. Used to go in a pub on the corner of Hamilton Square first...The Letters.

Jesus! No wonder I'd nearly forgotten him....

Andy Peebles Soul Train on Piccadilly on Fridays and Sundays. I have a stack of tapes somewhere....often brought Richard and Russ in as a guests. I also have a vague memory of a bloke on Radio Manchester who went under the moniker of The Baron from the BBC who used to sometimes do a Northern segment and I think there was someone on Radio Blackburn ?Trevor Hall? maybe. It's all a bit of a blur..... I did a year living in Merseyside in 76-77 and Terry Lennaine was pretty good on Radio Merseyside. He used to do a club in Birkenhead I went to a few times but I can't recall the name.

The Carlton Club in Whalley Range in Manchester 1972 Landslide, You're Ready Now, and, very appropriately, I'm Gonna Run Away From You Handy lads from Sloane Street in Moss Side and Ayres Road in Old Trafford waiting outside to kick off most Sunday nights. I was a good runner.

No, it has to be a ringtone file (.m4r) If a luddite like me can make my own, anyone can. It's like this: In Itunes right click on the song you want as your ringtone. Click create AAC version.....a few seconds later a duplicate pops into itunes below the one you started with. Right click on the duplicate and select Get Info. Click Options. Click in the box next to stop time so a tick appears and change the time to 0.30 (or a similar length - can't go too long as Apple rejects it) Click in the box next to start time so a tick appears. Click OK Reduce your itunes window so you can see your desktop, and drag your song and drop it on the desktop Right click your song, choose rename and change the .m4a extension to .m4r It'll ask you if you're sure - say "sod off I know what I'm doing" and click yes Drag your newly created ringtone to tones in the pane under library in itunes Go back and delete the AAC version you created or it hangs around in your library playing an irritating 30 seconds. Sync your phone Select your groovy new ringtone on your phone. Amaze your friends with your £1K rarity ringtone

When I found that album aged 13 in 1972 I was blown away, but Barbara McNair was way better than R Dean Taylor (even more so now).

I alternate between: I Got to Go Back (and Watch that Little Girl Dance) - Otis Redding and Take Me In Your Arms (Rock me a Little While) (Instrumental) - The Isley Brothers Once I'd worked out how to put my own tones on th' Iphone I was a happy chappy.

She's no fool! There's all these kids she's taught who will forever associate learning French and Spanish with Northern Instrumentals.

Thanks for the tip. I've passed it on.

Both my kids, aged 20 and 18, having started off coming out with us now go to soul nights independently of me and Mrs S. My lad's introduced all his Uni mates to proper music at Move On Up at the HiFi Club in Leeds. My daughter will no doubt find somewhere similar (or start her own) when she goes to Uni in the autumn. They love the music, although they aren't enormously enamoured with "the scene". They reckon some of the grown ups are not as friendly as they think they are. My Mrs teaches in Wigan and lots of her pupils are regulars at soul nights locally. She uses soul instrumentals as backing tracks for particular exercises / tasks and half of them know 'em and love 'em and half of them moan because it's what their parents listen to. One or two have been winning dancing competitions.

If it was the one in Hyde Park - I agree. Gil was on top form that day. Eddie Floyd - The International Manchester Bobby Womack - The International Manchester Curtis Mayfield - The Hacienda Gil Scott Heron - The International 2 Bobby Womack - The International 2 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Southport All early eighties Four Tops - The Odeon Manchester 1972 Marvin Gaye - Liverpool Empire 1976 Al Green - The Apollo a couple of years ago. BeBe and CeCe Winans - Somewhere in Oldham 1990 ish

I was doing this last night and when reading through B&S 210 from October '76 spotted a letter from David J. Cole bemoaning the reversion of B&S to fortnightly publication. In what turned out to be his usual, erudite fashion he went on to encourage no further "enlarging of the "Northern Soul" patronisation - you do have readers south of Watford." I'll miss In the Basement. I have bought it from issue 13 onwards. Not sure how I missed the early ones. Good luck to Mr Cole in the future. I know the internet's marvellous and instant and everything, but I like records, books and magazines about soul music better than the electronic equivalents.