Kev Cane

Your last paragraph sums it up Robert

And there lies the problem with the misrepresentation of the genre Robert, total bollocks, my previous post more than touches on that perception

Paul represents what a lot of us on here think, yet he's the only one prepared to put his balls in the vice, so to speak. Nostalgia is the buzz word, yet not fully representative of a massive chunk in the history of the genre. He's right, 90% of media or/and documentation of the scene, has been downright lazy and without proper research. We're sick of being tarred with the "Footsee, The Kid, You Don't know where your interests lie" brush, everything seems to hinge on the pre Wigan and Wigan era's. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of awesome stuff came out of it, but, as with Proms, it is never represented. Things changed massively after that, and that's where the misrepresentation, laziness and clueless media perception and documentation is so apparent. Each to there own I suppose, but from what I've seen and heard about it (Proms), it only serves to make me embarrassed when people say " oh, you're into Northern Soul aren't you " when the truth is, I, along with a lot more on here, absolutely love the music and scene that developed when the chaff was weeded out and it was allowed to move forward

Get there if you can, away on holiday myself, but you won't be disappointed if cutting edge, Sweet Soul and Group Harmony is your bag Kev

That's what he told me Chalkster, and they sound identical voice for voice to me , i

The guy who has the Harthon catalogue lives in my village, Paul Mooney, he confirmed to me it's The United Four, a take they did and canned obviously releasing the more polished take on Harthon, listen to the actual release, voice for voice, the exact same personel that's on the Leo Wright c/up Kev

Brilliant, so refreshing to see stuff like that being played out at a gig, rather than confined to a backroom token gesture 👍

I'm going for Shaft, tell me a more Soulful scene than when Richard Rowntree is walking around Harlem looking for "oh, that Ben Beauford " to the Isaac Hayes masterclass, "Soulsville" Kev

Don't know if this qualifies, but, The Dramatics were heavily involved in the fact based "Detroit" gripping, and disturbing at the same time Kev

Yes Roburt, remember The Temptations dramatisation, it was on a channel called Hallmark over here, the guy who played David Ruffin looked more like Ruffin than Ruffin himself 😆 Kev

Took the exact words out of my mouth Dave 👍

Fantastic, "thinking out the box" playlists 👏

Classic male "Sweet Soul" Ken, Falsetto lead can be mistaken for female vocal, or adolescent male lead, superb record anyhow 👍 Kev

No, big want here, male group harmony at its zenith 👌Sweet Soul heaven, male falsetto intro, backed by tight male harmony Kev

R.I.P Greg Treasure the "One For The Road" set, a masterpiece Kev

Rob Marriot played an alternative version out back in 1990ish, sure it was an unissued acetate version sourced from the can Kev

New Jersey Turnpike-Stay away-Vitrech Aristocrats-Be my lady-Rondo X-cessors-Silent weapon-Lu-Tall Cold Bold and Together-Lets Backtrack/All the time-Ice Cold Bold and Together-Dedication Pm if you can help Kev

New Jersey Turnpike-Stay Away/Baby it's so hard-Viterech Please PM if you can help Kev

Really saddened by this, Karl was as keen as mustard about his soul, great nights at the legendary DDA sessions at Lowton, like everyone says, great character, good to be around, RIP Karl 🙏

Still looking Aristocrats-Be My Lady-Rondo Cold bold and together-All the time-Ice X-cessors-Silent weapon-Lu-Tall Kev

There were two groups called Blue Magic, the "Can I say I love you" which you duly played, think, not 100% though, they were a West Coast group, then there was the Philly group, who were quite prolific output wise, serving up typical for the era (early 70s) and area (Philadelphia) Sweet Soul ballads Kev

Is that The Soul Ambassadors on Ovide?

Gotcha my man Kev

⁷Just listened to the hour show, while having my monthly bath (taken regardless of needed or not) veerry nice listen !!! Amongst others, good to hear Odds Against Tomorrow, Point of no return being played out by someone, a few years ago I said, like many others, it will disappear from the face of the earth, surprisingly though, it is still accessible, used to listen to the Solar shows when Junior was guesting, always a good listen 👍 Kev

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