Soulfinger

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.

The Dells for me. It was the first version I heard. I can't remember where I was but, I was somewhere on a dance floor thinking: this is the Dells, how do I not know this. Great song!

The Champ - Johnny R

That's a very fine tune. Looking forward to the vinyl.

I didn't know that about Barry's - thanks! I always bought albums in Piccadilly Records because my pal worked there. I only remember Robinson's being on Blackfriars. I particularly remember being completely gutted when it stopped being a record shop, I stood outside "Robinson's hang em and bang em" in a state of misery, looking in disbelief at the window display of mirrors wondering what had happened to all those lovely 45's.. From my foggy memory, I think Mike Raven did the sleeve notes to Motown Memories Volume 2, which was one of the things that introduced me to slightly less mainstream Motown.

Happy days indeed. I was trawling the same shops as a youth with a list of tunes I'd heard on Mike Raven too. Also looking in Mazel's on London Rd and Hime & Addison (though I don't think I ever bought anything in there) and later, with a bit more success, in Robinson's and Global.