Northern Soul

[carrust]

11:30am BBC R4 this morning. I wont be listening cos it's *****, but I think tonytav will be tuning in.

[Tilly2]

(rusty, about the female falcon......?)

[tonyav]

I've tried listening to loads of it Andy. The problem with northern soul is; there's no soul comparing it with some of the Atlantic artists such as Otis, Aretha, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floydd etc

Rusty, yes, great artists. However in the Northern Soul heyday ( 1970's ) you could hear their records in most mainstream clubs.

[carrust]

Tilly. It's still there.

[carrust]

I was never into clubbing in the 70's. I was more into live bands in the local dives & halls of residence.

[emmie]

tonyav, you know my thoughts, as discussed before, great music goes across the divide.

[tonyav]

Yes it does, emmie.

[andy-hughes]

Likewise carrust - Soul was an alien concept to me in the seventies, I was a serious rock fan.

It is to my eternal regret that I had one of the greatest Northern Soul clubs three miles from where I lived, and never went there, and even worse, never went to the Casino.

Gutted!

[emmie]

massive soul and R&B fan, i had thousands of 45's and over 300 albums, many of the 45's were bought for nothing in record sales, but some i bought from a little gem of a record shop in London, imports costing a small fortune. A friend was a DJ, he would play the best sounds around, and i would often buy those i heard from him, good ole days.

[Tilly2]

I'm gutted as well, Andy. Had you gone to The Torch and met me, I may well have been the current Mrs. Hughes!

[tonyav]

andy, did you live near to the Golden Torch ?, I missed out on the Torch, I came of age just as it closed down :-(. So it was Wigan, Wolverhampton and Blackpool for me.

[carrust]

Peter Stringfellow ran a club in Sheffield which had a weekly soul night. The way I dressed I'd have been beaten-up & my long hair chopped off if I'd crossed the doors. :-(

[andy-hughes]

Tilly2 - "I'm gutted as well, Andy. Had you gone to The Torch and met me, I may well have been the current Mrs. Hughes!"

Ahhh, what might have been ...... xx

[emmie]

we had Stringfellows here, but honestly you wouldn't have gone there for the music, it was more a knocking shop.

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - "andy, did you live near to the Golden Torch ? ... "

I still do - it was about four miles from where I live now, and two miles from where I work.

Long gone, but still a legendary venue.

[carrust]

This was before he became famous emmie. He later went to Leeds then built his club empire all over the country.

[emmie]

his club in London was a massive deal, i went there only once because a male friend wanted to ogle the women, it's not what he said, but i wasn't born yesterday.. it did attract some high class clientèle, though you couldn't always tell what they were plying.

[tonyav]

andy, I think that if I had lived that close to the Torch I wouldn't have been able to stay away. Great album recorded there ' Major Lance Live At The Torch'.

[emmie]

i remember Major Lance, and many others, i had lots of rare recordings some which would have fetched a lot of money had i a mind to sell at the time. I prefer to listen to something more classical, but those were grand days.

[emmie]

tony, absolute stonking artist, music, terrible tragedy that happened to him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw

[tonyav]

Agree with that emmie, great artist.