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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.

It surely is a terrific tune. There are quite a few compilations which show how Beach Music and Northern Soul coincide on a number of tracks...this is a good example. https://www.amazon.com/Love-Beach-Music-Various-Artists/dp/samples/B0000012CK/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1 Maybe this is a groove that one of the UK's foremost compliers could plough. One for Backbeats series 4 maybe?

Current Beach Music top 40. https://www.beachshag.com/ImagesSoundsResources/BMT40%20Feb%204%202012.pdf I listen to 94.9 The Surf on internet radio a fair bit.

What Good am I Without You - Mickie Champion and You've Been Cheatin' - Impressions No doubt somebody's played out oldies, but never mine.

Brilliant stuff as usual. Thanks Pete.

Bobby Womack - The Poet II By All Means - By All Means Shirley Brown - Shirley Brown Will Downing - Will Downing Sam Dees - Secret Admirer

Cheers Pete, the first one is blinder. Lots of stuff that's new to me. I'm looking forward to the second.

Thanks Rob for the link. It's fantastic stuff. Joe Tex - Show Me and the Contours are my favourites so far. Tyrone's collar is a belter.

Cheers for this Pete, absolutely top stuff. Tommy McCook - Down on Bond Street; is just fabulous. Merry Christmas

This is a new one on me: https://cgi.ebay.com/70s-Soul-45-LENA-ZAVARONI-Ma-Hes-Making-Eyes-STAX-/270613368234?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f01d04daa How did that ever happen?

The Complete Stax Singles - three box sets of 9,9&10 CDs. The Complete Motown Singles - I stopped at Vol 10 of these The Temptations - Emporers of Soul 5CDs There are also a superb couple of 3 CD sets of Brunswick stuff, The Best of Brunswick Rhythm & Blues and Chicago Cool Breezin'

I picked one up in King Bee at the weekend for £3. Bargain! I listen to 94.9 The Surf on internet radio quite a lot, consistently better music than most UK radio and the adverts are pretty funny...if ever my swimming pool needs tiling and I am in Carolina....

I've never understood why How Come My Bulldog Don't Bark? never really got played. It's a fabulous, R&B type thing.

It's that Boden clad, whole food, earthmother thing.....and that's just the blokes.

Proper live soul music. What an incredible performance, only spoiled slightly by the proportion of the crowd who looked like they came from Didsbury and seriously did not know when to shut the fuck up. Sharon's talking between songs was drowned. Nice to see her do Everybody Needs Somebody to Love as a tribute to Solomon Burke. If you didn't go and could've, you should've.

In some specialist fields, this kind of pedantry is very helpful. Now if you could just persuade everybody else to work with this mighty sensible nomenclature that would be lovely.

I watched it on Sky Indie a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed it on the whole. A lot of poetic licence was taken. Beyonce's singing was great but her overacting wasn't so good. The guy playing Howlin' Wolf was terrific. In the general spirit of movie reviews on SS... the wallpaper was unconvincing, the lighting was much too understated, the hairstyles were slapdash and the trousers were all the wrong length.

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Thanks for that. It was fabulous. I think Edwin was taken for granted; mainly because he was so accessible. It seemed he performed within half an hour of wherever you lived every week. He lit up some of the dodgy cabaret venus in the North West whenever I saw him.

If you are happy with 2nd hand, there are a few about. https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/northern-soul-top-500-kev-roberts-/250696788435?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3a5eb169d3

I had a look on my bookshelf to see if there were any there I had forgotten about and found an interesting one from 1969: "The Soul Book" An A4 - ish sized soft back from The Soultown Press, Chicago, Illinois; Editor Gary D Friedman. It's a kind of A-Z thing with big pictures and some basic text. What's weird about it is that it includes, amongst the obvious Jackie Wilson, James Brown etc, sections on Jose Feliciano, Blood Sweat & Tears, Elvis and Bob Dylan . You couldn't make it up