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A surprisingly good night, with some great music from John, Fraser Dunn and Butch from Dundee. (For some reason or other I always thought Butch was a girl's name in Dundee.) The Royal Andeluvian Order of Buffalos has an L shaped room as a lounge bar in its Glasgow premises. A portrait of the Queen overloooks the dancefloor and she frowns at talc throwers.A compact dance floor meant not too much room but enough space for the crowd that was there. Lots of people jammed round tables which meant you had to chat to your neighbours. Lager was £1:80 a pint and I stayed till almost the end so it must have been good.

Of course in Dundee Jazz is a film about a big fish with loads of teeth;)

"What I know about Joe Hinton could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Extensive detective work (ie: Google) reveals that he was gospel singer before turning to soul music but none of his releases were big hits and, sadly, he died of skin cancer in 1968 at the age of 39. That's it basically, I've never seen a picture of the guy and "Funny" is the only recording of his I've ever heard, but it's great enough for me to want to hear more. A 1964 cover of a Willie Nelson song, Hinton turns in a sublime half-sung, half-spoken vocal with a high note at the end that's like clouds parting and a host of heavenly angels appearing. I'd love to know if the rest of his work is as fabulous or was it just a one-off moment of Godliness but unfortunately his entire oeuvre is long out of print. So if some kind person from the record label that owns his stuff is reading this, I'd like it re-issued on nice shiny CD please (pretty please) so I can answer that question without shelling out major greenbacks on the original vinyl. So come on Mr. Record Exec, the world doesn't need anymore Bob Dylan box sets, rescue Joe Hinton from dusty obscurity." https://www.duvigneaud.net/James_Crawford.html Londonlee

try here enquiries@obanhigh.argyll-bute.sch.uk

One would think they might have added that given the high price of CD's in the UK that's not surprising. Ask a journalist to query a press release,

Your spelling is as accurate as your gossip. Kenny is selling some of his records: true. The rest of your statement mmmm..... Where's Dave Flynn, he nailed the Chicago find.?

I hope to catch some of it whilst i am on my break tonight, Last year I tuned in with a flask of coffee in one hand and a Tuna salad roll in the other, sitting with a car engine on and tuned to radio 2 before ducking back into The Edinburgh College of Art and hitting the decks. Home listeners may care to hit a chat room try www.nightowlclub.com

You can hear Nilsson's version here https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...008925?v=glance Has Randy Newman recorded a version as it is not any of his albums in my collection? There's a version by Caludine Longet and another by Haper's Bizarre. He wrote Somebody's Waiting for Gene McDaniels. B side of Spanish lace?

Tall Paul Robinson plays The Sonics and other 6T's garage stuff at his monthly night The GoGo in Edinburgh. He and Angus A GoGo have a guest each month playing Northern Soul. It's a young crowd and a great gig full of people who want to dance. For me it's a chance to play out some records that others would regard as too played out or too well known. Len Barry's 1,2, 3 and Shirley Ellis and The Clapping Song sound wonderful played off 45's in a club. They went down a storm. I've played Patti Austen, the Butlers and other recent Northern plays too. The GoGo is a chance to indulge oneself by playing records that meet the criteria of instant danceability. And you can certainly dance to The Sonics Try their version of Money.

Happy Holidays If by any chance you wish to hear two hours of soulful Christmas tunes on Saturday at 2:30pm (GMT) just head for www.radiomagnetic.com and Listen. The Archives have been updated too so lots of soul for the holidays Christmas Reflections 2004 Lou Rawls I'm Coming home For Christmas Clarence Carter Back Door Santa The Miracles Christmas Everyday Stevie Wonder What Christmas Means To me Little Milton Santa Claus Wants Some Loving Nathaniel Mayer Mr. Santa Claus Otis Redding Merry Christmas Baby Hank Ballard The Midnighters Santa Claus is Coming Booker T and The MG's Jingle Bells James Brown Go Power At Christmas Time The Staple Singers Who Took the Merry out of Christmas The Poets Merry Christmas Baby Honey and The Bees Jing Jing A Ling The Del-Vets I Want A Boy for Christmas The Temptations Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Jackson Five Up On the House Top Stevie Wonder Some Day At Christmas Luther Vandross Sleigh Ride Charles Brown Please Come Home For Christmas The Platters Christmas Time Big Dee Irwin Little Eva We Wish You a Merry Christmas Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Medley James Brown Let's Make Christmas Something Special This Year Freddie King I hear Jingle Bells The Funk Brothers Winter Wonderland The Supremes My Christmas Tree Kim Weston Wish you A Merry Christmas Sister Rosetta Tharpe Little Town of Bethlehem Dinah Washington Oh Santa Otis Redding White Christmas The Youngsters Christmas in Jail Ramsey Lewis Trio Here Comes Santa Claus FrankM

You'll find the Carol Fran version of Roll with the Punches on a CD called Dr. Good Soul. Unfortunately the week I played it on reflections was not captured for the archives.

I played it on Friday night at the Caledonia Soul Club . Tommy Cockburn put me on to it (I think). It's also on the Best of Darlene Love CD https://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/...arlene+Love.htm I must try Stumble and Fall. This could be the night by The MFQ is a favourite of mine and Brian Wilson. Rodney Bingheimer used it as the theme for his Los Angeles radio show.

The Archives on radiomagnetic.com have just been updated. If you head here and then click on 20004-11-20 https://www.radiomagnetic.com/archive/index...?genre=&show=65 or just click here https://wm9.easystream.co.uk/archive/Week_1...Reflections.asf you will hear the reflections show with Kenny Burrell as Guest. The First four plays are mine and all of the spelling mistakes too. Barabara Randolph I got a feeling The Spinners Bad Bad weather Bettye Lavette I feel Good All Over Little Caesar and the Empire Everybody Dance Now Kenny Burrell Cody Black It's our Time Mr. Soul What Happenned to Yesterday Ward Burton Sweet Temptation The Springers Nothing's too good for my baby The Enticers Baby Since You left The Antellects Love Slave Soul Brothers Inc Pyramid Paul Thomson Special Kind of Woman The Girls The hurts is still here Kenny's Big Five Frank Wilson Do I Love You The Mello Souls We Can Make It Esther Grant Let's get the most out of Love Don Gardner Cheating Kind The Inspirations No One else can take your place Satin Give all your Love to me Master Plan dance all night Linda Hawley Use Your head Richard Lackey the Greatest gift Jimmy Bo Horne I Just can't speak Gerry Shivers Let's try it Again Jesse James Love's all Right Peggy Byers I wish You a World of happiness Dennis Edwards Johnny on The Spot Jerry Shaw A little Less Talk Marilyn Barbarin Just a teenager Sugar Pie deSanto Be Happy The Passions If You see my baby Tobbie Bowe I can feel him slipping away The Inmates This is the Day The Nu-rons All My Life Joey DeLorenzo Lost My sense of Direction

I'd be interested Pete. I used to iron me Levi's to the show before heading out on Sunday nights..

I used to play Bring it Up at Goodfoot. i can't say it filled the floor but I like it. Of course now I'm playing Santa Claus go straight to the Ghetto Huh!

Look for a laptop with a LINE IN as well as a MIC input.if you want to record in stereo. You can use an external sound card with an ethernet connection. And if you are going to use it to DJ with you'll need Traktor or PCDJ. and possibly powerpoint to show you have the original singles;)

The annual reflections on northern soul Christmas party will be on air on Saturday 25th December if you fancy tuning in to radiomagnetic.com at 2:30pm for two hours of festive fun.

https://www.jukebox-world.de/Forum/Archiv/Discomatic.htm https://freespace.virgin.net/slot.machines/...ent_adverts.htm I am sure this is long gone

Marvin Gaye purple snow flakes

Lennon and and a whole load of other sixties bands played Arthur Alexander songs. A few years ago Record Collector did a survey on what Merseybeat bands performed live and recorded. After I(I think) Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, Arthur Alexander was the third most popular source of songs. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates must have been the first UK group to do a cover of "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues". As you said the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered his songs along with The Bee Gees. Lennon did have a portable juke box which he carted about with him on tour and there was a film about it on The South Bank Show earlier this year. Unfortunately Arthur did not make the cut for the accompanying album probably because no film existed of him which they could have used in the documentary. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=samples#disc_1. FrankM

They might have heard it on the new Double CD that they wrote the sleeve notes for.

Get and pay for an Northern DJ who knows what he/she is doing. FrankM

Combined with posters , on line guides and magazine articles. A feature in your local press is best of all and of course a mention on influential radio shows. My son who runs a flyer team suggests that the people who hand out flyers should use them as an excuse to talk to people and persuade them to come to the night. Your PR team should look like the people you are targetting. I like seeing a well designed flyer. Goodfoot's were designed by Andrew Divine and Baillie does the Friday street stuff. I don't know who does the GOGo but they are instantly recognisable. FrankM

The Velvelettes The Motown Anthology Motown 980 937-2 This is a collection of 48 tracks, the majority not previously available in the versions included on this double CD. About twelve of the cuts were issued on the Best of The Velvelettes released in the US in 1989. There are no original Mono single mixes of The Velvelettes A sides on this album. Their "hits" are represented by alternative takes or stereo versions. This is a great album, which covers the period from 1963/67, and ranges from the early Motown girl group sound of Selfish Lover (Stevenson/Whitfield) to late period sophisticated Motown with "Bring Back The Sunshine" (Ashford/Simpson). It also includes five songs from the Battle of the Stars, Live at the Greystone and four previously unreleased songs en Francais. I'm bouncing through the tracks as I type this and an unreleased "A Love So Deep Inside" is rocking the speakers with a great four on the floor beat. This is bound to be cut to acetate for Northern Soul DJ's. Here' a Shangri Las's spoken intro and advice for girls on "He's the One". Smokey Robinson experiments with the rhythm track on "Something's Happening" and even though it's Caldin 'Carolyn' Gill singing lead you can tell she listened carefully Smokey sang it to her. There's another gem in "(We've got) Honey Love" written by Cal's husband to be Richard Street (and Sylvia Moy) The five live tracks are taken from The Battle of the Stars and are not particularly well recorded or mixed but the vocals are great and you can hear why the Velvelettes beat out the Supremes on their own Detroit turf. To complete the set there are four French language versions of Motown songs including three the Velvelettes don't appear to have recorded in English. "Puisque Je sais Qu'il Est a Mois", "Tu perds Le Plus Mervieileux Garcon Du monde" (the only HDH song on the album) and "Je Veux Crier" "(My foolish heart [keeps hanging on to a memory])". I am sure your school French will enable you to translate the other titles. I've already played "Le Hokey Pokey" on Reflections on Northern Soul and I look forward to introducing it to the young dancers at The GoGo in Edinburgh. The sleeve notes are written by The Velvelettes and I think you should read them when you buy the album rather than me copying them out but Berry Gordy's thinking behind the above recordings should be quoted. "Berry discovered Cal had majored in French and spoke French quite well. He teamed the five girls with a French producer, Pierre Berjot. Berry was very fascinated and took great pleasure in listening to Pierre and Cal converse in French. The four songs showcased Cal's ability as a lead singer to record in French" Of course what did Berry do with the recordings? Well nothing, as they were never released not even in Motown mad France. Maybe he was anticipating a time when technology would catch up and Motown maniacs with disposable income would want the vaults emptied. Not that it takes much disposable income to purchase this box set. I don't know why The Velvelettes did not have an album issued in their sixties hey day but Motown has certainly made up for it now. This is a great album for Motown fans, Girl group enthusiasts and Northern Soul fanatics.

.....Bobby Sheen - Dr. Love I heard this last week with a whole bunch of other "classics" going down extremely well with a very under 30 audience at Move on Up in Leeds so maybe they are better heard when you're young and your hormones are all over the place.