I should start by saying I like Northern Soul (Music, not the nights or any of the stuff that goes with it)
Brendan, et al. All you need to know is that it's called Northern Soul becasue out of Town Northerners buying records down south couldn't get the bog standard Motown/Stax 'commercial' style anymore, because no one was making it or selling it in any great quantities - most people had moved onto Funk & Soul styles Some dude in a record shop in London labelled all the old style stuff Northern Soul because that's who were asking for it, according to him (Midlanders included) So people wanted songs sounding like Sugar Pie Honey Bunch but couldn't get them. For some reason a tiny record buying population with their head stuck in the past mutated into all nighters where the more obscure of these tunes (REv's is a perfect example (and a perfect song, it has to be said) - one song that a Producer at Motown made and was pulped because Berry Gordy or someone decided they'd rather have him producing than making records) are discovered (or sometimes made recently and faked as discovered) by DJs crate digging. I think there are only 3 or so records that knowingly exist of 'Do I love you' (2 by Berry Gordy & the dude himself) - which is daft isn't it? One record floating about going for a quarter of a million. Both digital copies I have of it are awful, all tinny and one sided (you could say that's the whole style of music/production!) It's a bizarre musical movement. > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:07:15 +0100 > From: bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk > To: brendan_mcwilli...@hotmail.com; rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk; > leedslist@gn.apc.org > Subject: Re: [LU] Aznavour(*)..... > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul > > Rarity/Exclusivity has often been part of the deal Brendan. Whilst there are > many Motown footstompers, there's a grittiness and often a rougher production > around cracking songs that sees unfamiliar and commercially unsuccessful > songs given cult status. Occasionally these cross over - for example, Frank > Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I do) - no matter how many times I hear that > record I love it! > > I understand the 'let's keep this hidden' mentality, but if you like > differing genres of Motown you'll love all the better-known Northern Soul > compilations. I remember DRB 'loaning' me his NS records for a couple of > weeks - I think I loved every one, but had only heard of about 10%! Had I a > bit more cash and a missus who's not obsessed with clearing out my vinyl (a > battle she has yet to realise she will lose) I'd have made him an offer for > the lot! > > Anyway, don't get hung up on labels and dip your toe in. Try 'Okeh - A > Northern Soul Obsession' (vol1) for a comp with loads of fantastic tunes you > probably haven't heard before. > > John > > > > On Thursday, 10 October 2013, 20:08, Brendan <brendan_mcwilli...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > Excuse my ignorance (honest), but what's the difference between Northern Soul > and say listening to Motown, Jackie Wilson etc? > > Or rather, what are the emblematic Northern Soul tunes that are not your > regular Motown etc? Anyone have an eclectic playlist at hand...? > > Also - and I may get stoned to death by The People's Front of Judea for this > one - but is/was there much overlap with the mod scene? > > God bless this list (given that the shower we follow are shit)! > > BMW > > > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "John Lee" <bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk> > Sent: 10 October 2013 14:51 > To: "Richard Naef" <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk>, "'leedslist'" > <leedslist@gn.apc.org> > Subject: Re: [LU] Aznavour(*)..... > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER
