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my two would be,linda jones,just cant live my life and ray pollard,my girl and i, and my third would be,i am nothing,al williams.

hello all,the other half is taking me away this friday the 9th november for a few days in palma,majorca for my birthday so just wondering if any of you good s/s folk know if there are any bars/clubs in palma/magaluf that will be spinning any northern soul tunes i know the summer season is over but hopefully there will be somewhere open it would be nice to have a few beers and listen to a few tunes,thanks.

hello mistresslongdog,im the same as you mate do not know many people on this site but i keep looking,listening,learning,etc but just hoping phil stays with us i still love the soul-scene and my message to phil keep with it mate...

i agree miss we need to keep phil on here!!!,he must have had a bad day,lots of good people on this site to help him through it!!!

hey phil i dont know you but dont do it mate im probably the same as you dont contribute much on s/s but still like to look at the posts listen to the tunes posted on here etc etc you have obviously done your "soul-time" like me,anyway the soul police will not let you go that easy!!!,just keep looking at this site you do not have to contribute but the one thing i know you will not "lose the faith" ever...

motown studio `A`, plus me old mate from biggleswade,bedfordshire always rated va-va`s in bolton so if it was good enough for him then that would be my choice,woops thats two venues,sort of.

gloria jones,tainted love..saw her live in the mid 70s at a p/boro all-nighter not sure which venue though. and the one that really makes me cringe these days,danny monday,baby without you, what was that tune about !!! i never really liked it in the day,somebody call me a doctor somebody call me a nurse, i think thats how it went!!!!,yuk,a big `homer` shuddder from me.

does the usa motown yesteryear series count a bucket load of them were issued ???, plus all the columbia special series ???,ie french fries,otis blackwell,cant remember any other ones in the series but im sure someone remembers the other 45s,mid/late 70s issues i think.

went down the pub last night had a few with me mate dave.t have not heard from him since so hopefully he is still live or alive

for skips or crud in the groove(s) i put a blob of neat washing up liquid in the area to be cleaned leave it for a while then i use a couple of sharp wooden toothpicks i use a couple because the wooden tip collapses quickly then do what joe does above using your deck or on a flat surface i normally use a clean teacloth flat on our dinner table then wash the washing up liquid off under the cold tap using cotton wool keeping the label clear of the water,sounds drastic but this has worked well for me lots of times.

i still love the intro to the gypsies,its a womans world,but for me imo the rest of the tune gets a bit messy.

how about (dick) van dyke,save my love for a rainy day

hello sean and thanks for the reply im glad you agree with me about why wernt you there side which i think is a top tune but i cannot ever remember it being played in the mid 70s at wigan etc i just wanted to know who "flipped it over" etc,another tune that i flipped over was what becomes of the brokenhearted,jimmy ruffin a good old bum squeezer from the early 70s(err local disco days!!!) but with the great b-side baby ive got it,i still love it.

hello all+ n/nev,hopefully this is in keeping with your thread but for years(mid 70s) i have listened to thelma lindsay,prepared to love you on magic city only for years later to be flipped over and the other side was played,why wernt you there,which to me is a great tune and hidden away for years??? i can only ever remember the prepared to love you side being played at wigan/st ives/p,boro all nighters so who was the dj who flipped, prepared over and what year was it???

i own up to buying some of these around 1976/7,tavares,heaven must be etc/dont take away the music.esther phillips,what a diff a day makes.miracles,love machine.the moments,ive got the need,also got the spooky+sue version around the same time,the zoo,the commodores.supership,george benson,the moments,nine times.betty wright, where is the love/love dont grow on a love tree.silvetti,spring rain,all big tunes in the day and most of these tunes played as new releases methinks

benny curtis,dirty hearts, the dealers,you got it, the jokers,soul sound, bobby diamond,stop, keep on,deuces wild, harry deal,i still love you, lots of r+b 45s from buddy ace, the cheater,bob kuban, im busted,ray charles, ace of spade,by (i think) ov wright on backbeat????, money wont change you,james brown, winner takes all,geraldine hunt, twisting postman,the marvs, twisting kings,xmas twist

i agree,mr smith!!!

ouch!!,god never played g/lewis errrrr

hello macca,i think this was a levine/curtis blackpool mecca spin at the time but made its way to wigan,nice tune though.

gary lewis,my hearts symphony joanie sommers,dont pity me, bryan highland,the joker went wild, life,cats eyes.(still total cr*p imo) jon ford,you got me, sue lynn,dont pity me, ray merrill,tears of cr*p(imo), but maybe all ok at the time!!!

hello jim g,do not mention the carstairs otherwise that nice mr pete smith chappy will not add part two of his wigan thing.

mr searling playing gary lewis????,more like russ or ???

bring it on pete!!!!

nice one pete,groovy early wigan tunes time,high keys,belles,smokey/blades,little joe,commodores(yes a big tune in the day and still sounds great to me!!!),wombat,footsee!!!,reperata,td valentine,great mems and the sound quality is great thanks for sharing the tunes pete.

great clip sunnysoul but them two dancing geezers have stolen my early tentative wigan moves and my celtic footy shirt which were all the rage at wigan for a while sadly though my dancing has not improved!!!!