Soulfinger

It would have to be Curtis Mayfield for me. I bought a soul pack in 1970 which had Sometimes I Wonder in it. I loved it and didn't know it was meant to be a b side. I picked up a couple more Impressions singles on Shude Hill market for pennies. A bit later Move On Up came out and I bought it as a new release. Soon after I found a copy of Big Sixteen and that was me utterly hooked. He was responsible for so much wonderful music through his writing and work on productions for Okeh, then all the glorious stuff on Curtom. His influence on Soul music was immense. My absolute soul hero. In the 70's and 80's Curtis played live in Manchester very regularly and I saw him many times. He was brilliant every time. Honourable mentions for Gil Scott Heron and Bobby Womack. If I were allowed a shout for a female artist as well, it'd be a tough, tough choice between Aretha, Gladys or Brenda Holloway. So I'm not choosing.

It is Al Green - Give It Everything from his Don't Look Back album. Shazam'll be being fooled because they've monkeyed around with the speed a bit.

Couples dancing together? It's the thin end of the iceberg. It'll lead to everyone sitting round in a circle in Carolina shag dance completion style.

That's superb. Thanks for posting!

That's a cracking story. What a great find!

I always think the ropey vocal on One Way Street - Sharon Tandy needed redoing by Ann Sexton or Veda Brown...

Ray Gant & Arabian Knights version of Don't Leave Me Baby Jackie Wilson - It Only Happens Odia Coates - Showdown

My Kind of Woman / You're my Mellow - Edwin Starr

Time - Edwin Starr You've Been Cheatin' - Impressions And as previously mentioned- Landslide. 👏👏👏

I have picked up quite a few of the Original Gravity releases. Floyd James, Rachel Maxann and Jodie are all enjoyable. I like the reggae stuff too.

Bobbie Ember - Why don't you bring me home? it's simply awful.

When the fair came to Longford Park in Stretford late 60's early 70's, we always got The Showstoppers - House Party, Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now, The Drifters - Saturday Night at the Movies, Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel, Roy C - Shotgun Wedding, Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose, Booker T - Time is Tight, Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances. For a 12 year old, the sounds were absolutely captivating.

Takes his CD's with him when he goes too.🥺

I normally belong to the anorak fully zipped up school of don't you dare mess with my music...but I thought this was very well done.

I go to the gym and swim Monday to Friday, run and volunteer at Parkrun and play walking football. I cycle and walk regularly too. I can't understand why I never lose any weight!🤷‍♂️ I don't do so much dancing nowadays as it tends to knacker my dodgy knee.

Big Maybelle by some distance. Maxine Brown's version is nice too.

We were at the BoTW too, it was a privilege to see and hear both the Wiggins brothers. Age had certainly not diminished their voices. He was such a great practitioner of slower material, but his uptempo numbers were magnificent. A sad loss.

That's really interesting. There's a lot of other stuff on there that looks equally so. Thank you for posting.

2007. After a lot of lurking.

Wow! They are terrific. Thanks for posting.

I still buy at the same rate as pre-covid. I buy around 5 each of 45's, albums and CD's a month. My main change is that I no longer buy from the US having been stung once too often for ludicrous customs charges.

We were in a beach restaurant in Byron Bay in New South Wales last week. There was a DJ mixing lots of random stuff into a variety of Samba and Bossa Nova tunes including Aretha - One Step Ahead, Bobby Womack - I Can Understand It, Cissy Strut - The Meters, Who Is She - Gladys. Nice bits of ska and rocksteady in there too. Lovely!

One or two questions being asked about the presence on the float of the Black Sun symbol. Hopefully it's a misguided attempt at a Twisted Wheel badge by someone who didn't know any better, but it'll do very little for the profile of Northern Soul to have the scene associated with a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist symbol.

I agree completely. I thought this was possibly an inspiration for those Italian Piano Dance House things that were very popular in the 90's.