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I feel like a fishwife here down in the snug talking about her up the street but if you check the buyer's history he's a big spender. Boom Bump a Boom Boom Boom.

Is there only room for one dramatic representation of Northern Soul? The film that won the Beck's prize has been shown in Dundee where it was set and filmed in a hall which had been an NS venue. Long After Tonight was shown at Genna's earlier this year so perhaps some of the Dundee crowd might comment. /index.php?showtopic=24257 and for those readers who don't know much about Northern Soul here's a helpful article https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/westmidland...hern_soul.shtml

Went to one two months ago in Dumfries. I'm going back to DJ in September. Probably says something about my record collection. It was a fundraiser, it sold out and it was a great night out. The venue had a sprung wooden dance floor and it was occupied from opening to closing time. I enjoyed hearing the original vinyl version of Motown classics and had even more fun ribbing the DJ about playing tainted love. And I did that because I knew he would be sensitive rather than Tainted Love being a bad record. My wish to remain anonymous colleagues did play some current Northern tunes and a few people danced but with Seven days is too long the most popular tune of the night one can tell it was oldies a GoGo. There's nothing wrong in hearing great tunes played out once in a while. The young people that were there were dancing to stuff that is not on a Film soundtrack or on an ad or on whatever 40 Motown greats CD is current. They had no preconceptions about the records they just danced to what are still great records.

Mercy by Willie Mitchell was a favourite at Goodfoot. I and at least one other Glasgow DJ play his version of Wllie Dixon's My Babe and I still Love The Champion and That Driving Beat. i must dig out my Hamilton Bohannon singles.

Isn't there a DJ with a Shrine single in bits still sealed in a mailer without packaging. He might be interested in it.

Chris Clark Do I Love You First UK issue here https://tinyurl.com/ktk3a A Side has Frank Wilson

Thank you J Edgar, now please name a terrorist activity that the gangsters, murderers and political activists who made up the Black panthers committed.

The Roundel came from Pop Art which was first assigned to British artists like Richard Hamilton who used popular cultural motifs in his collages. US artist Jasper Johns later used the American flag for inspiration in the late fifties. Combined with the British Invasion and pop music the Union Jack was used as a fashion item. Keith Moon had a T shirt with a roundel on it but I don't know who came up the idea.

According to Phonographic Performance limited "When is a PPL Public Performance licence required? Under UK copyright law (the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988) a PPL licence is required when sound recordings subject to our control are played in public. By 'public' we mean any event except a family or domestic gathering. An event such as an office party, a Christmas disco or a Valentine's Day dinner dance is public. An example of a private event would be a wedding reception or birthday party. Many people ask, "If it's my CD, why can't I play it whenever and wherever I want?" Owning a sound recording does not give them an automatic right to play it in public." All venues should have a PPL license if music is played. The Copyright on recordings in Europe is Fifty years .Do not believe what you read about Marginal, or any other dodgy european re issue companies. Cliff is lucky enough to have renoegotiated his contract early on. Plenty of his contemparies recieve FA royalties due to the contract they signed. Lonnie Donegan got a session fee for Rock ilsand Line a hit in the UK and the US. I am sure the record companies are paying Cliff to act as their mouthpiece. If a seventy year old rocker still has records and acetates he recorded as a twenty year old he can at the moment make his own CD comilation write up his own sleeve notes add personal photographs and release it on any label that will have him and earn himself some money. And as long as he he pays the song publishers it's all perfectly legal. Here's Courtney Love's take on who the real music pirates are. https://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000.../index.html

i Heard Country Fool (1961) at Friday street recently

I think if you search the soul source archive you might read a post from Kev Roberts pointing out that a DJ with a lap top plugged into the mixer was recording his own set. This may have led to some confusion. Some DJ's record it for their own reference to check on their own performance. Other DJ's in other scenes record sets to sell as CD's. Some DJ's have very kindly let me record sets for broadcast on reflections. The Excerpts on the radiomagnetic Hi Feed play at about 96kbs so it is not exactly Hi Fi. You can check them here https://www.radiomagnetic.com/archive/index...?genre=&show=65

Top twenty hit in 1967.

People who were there at the time say "What'd I Say" was sensational. Even people who had not heard Ray Charles's record heard a cover and knew things had moved on from Rock'n'Roll and Blues. Georgie Fame, Lonnie Donegan, Alex Harvey were all gigging in the UK then and recognised this was something different. The combination of Rock'n'Roll and gospel.

Maybe a foreign release or a French E.P. but it appears to be an album cut. I'm surprised as it's a familar track. ahh found it 1966 - Get Away (Columbia SLEM 2250) Portugal Get Away (Powell) / El Bandido (Powell) / My Girl / Sweet Thing 1966 - Sitting In The Park (Columbia ERSF 1751) France Sitting In The Park / Sweet Thing / Ride Your Pony / The World Is Round 1966 - Sweet thing / Last Night (Columbia DB 2315) Sweden Check this discography https://www.geocities.com/mikegriffiths6/th...iscography.html

The Instrumental El bandido gets plays at mod clubs along with Somebody stole my thunder from his CBS days.

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For what it's worth I've played It's Better at Goodfoot as it was a nice pacy up tempo bit of soul. I must dig it out and play the B Side. A fellow Fresh Air DJ was known as Erik The Viking but that nmight have been after the book. I paid about 50p for it.

All the Motown singles from 1966 were well engineered and properly EQ'd. What were they playing?

Well the Reflections on Latin Soul created a bit of a buzz and maybe I'll do another one some time but this week I've recorded a new Reflections on Northern Soul wit a great mix of Motown, Southern, Modern, and classic and not so well know Northern Soul. The album of the week is On The Philadelphia Beat Vol.1 from The Bear Family re issue specialists. Check the complete play list here and click on the link to the show at the bottom of the play list. https://www.radiomagnetic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2948 or just go straight to the show https://wm9.easystream.co.uk/archive/Week_2...flectionshi.asf FrankM

I put the lack of shirts down to east Coast Poverty and got put down by City of Discovery Davie. God knows what's he gonna say about Dave's Homo Erotica jibe.

More of a live scene than record scene. And the records are not that difficult to find and not particuarly valuable as listeners prefer CD's The original recordings are on 78's. There must a bar within ten miles of you that has a trad jazz band playing Sunday lunchtimes. Half the UK Jazz festivals are based on Trad outfits. On the other hand 78's Blues collecting is still big but Blues fans don't meet up to listen to scratchy old records. They will turn out to hear anyone with a tenous connection to Robert HJohnson and Chicago Blues. Soul music will last and there will be an audience in twenty years time still toe tapping to old tunes. Wheelchair shuffling will be all the rage. And the talk will be about hip replacements. Here's the Radio 2 Sunday night schedule for 2026 21:00 Your 500 Best Tunes Kev Roberts presents a selection of your favourite popular Northern Soul classics. 22:00 Malcom Laycock Celebrating the age of Sixties Soul with music from the record labels of Britain and America. This week's Feature "Pye Disco demand - The Unissued Acetates" 23:00 The David Jacobs Collection The best in easy listening Modern Soul, plus Download reviews and Our Kind of Mid tempo let's not disturb the peace sort of soul Music.

You can check Davie's choices here for soulfulness. Unfortunately the show is not in the archive. https://www.radiomagnetic.com/forum/viewtop...ht=davie+hudson However Davie very kindly sent me a seventies mix. Read the play list then listen to the show here. https://tinyurl.com/m4bep FrankM

It depends on your definition of soul but the show is normally called "Reflections on Northern Soul" so i swapped "latin" for "northern". Just to retain a connection. Technically it should have been called "Reflections on Latin R&B" or "Reflections on Bugalu". Mind you there are some weeks on Reflections on northern Soul where you would have to search very carefully for the "soul" in some selections. Personally I think The Sandpipers Lonely too long is a great Pop record that could have been done by The Association or produced by Bones Howe. But for me the soul content is zero. Thanks for the comments everyone. I have been out recording live sets and I'm saving them for when Radiomagnetic relaunches. In the mean time I'll let you know when I've done another Reflections.

Out of the blue and into the Groove. Radiomagnetic has moved but we're still refurbishing. In the meantime here's a special 100 minutes of Reflections on Latin Soul. Some of these tracks have been played at Northern Venues, others at Mod nights, and even some saw the needle in their groove at acid Jazz does but they are all dance tunes with roots in R&B and Latin. This is Bugalu with Ricardo Ray and Orchestra Harlow playing soul tunes, The Aztecs and King Curtis playing Latin and Tito Puente and Willie Bobo setting a path for Santana. Bob Valentin, Joe Bataan and Hector Riviera may be familiar names but catch some genuine rare grooves from The Moon People, Harvey Averne and The Latinaires. If you enjoy records with great rhythm tracks, swinging brass, handclapping and soulful chants with extra percussion on the top you'll love these records. Listen here https://wm9.easystream.co.uk/archive/Week_2...flectionshi.asf Normal Northern Soul service will be resumed shortly. https://www.radiomagnetic.com/archive/index...?genre=&show=65 FrankM

The Beach Music scne would appear to me to be more of a dance scene with live bands still playing an important part. The DJ's seem to be interested in taking on modern blues and Soul tracks and remixing them or persuading the artists to re record them to make them more suitable for Beach Music plays. Here's this week's beach music chart you may recognise some names and even some titles but how may will be played near the beach at prestatyn next year. https://www.beachshag.com/ImagesSoundsResou...RnBchTop40.html