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Best Wishes John Ponomarenko ________________________________________________________________ Dear John, No Problem at all Andrew -JP ________________________________________________________________ John, Many thanks Andrew, the efforts greatly appreciate. -JP ________________________________________________________________ Enjoyed the website, especially the review of Soul Music (The Birth Of A Sound In Black America) by Michael Haralambos - is he the same guy that wrote all those sociology books that were required reading for any sociology student in the 80's and 90's? If it is, it would explain his style! Nicci Talbot Judging by the style of writing I'd guess this is the same guy. Keep the faith -JP. ________________________________________________________________ Name: Andrew What more indeed, and may I say how much I enjoyed your
site as well. -JP. Name: TONY ANWAS No doubt about it Tony, the Night Owl is a fine site.
Mine has a different outlook however and I do not intend it to become totally
Northern dominated. I want to cater for other soul styles as well. stay sexy
yourself. -JP Name: Bob McGrath Name: Marva Holiday Glad to be of service, Keep the faith Marva - JP Name: Dave Clark Many thanks for the comment Dave. I wasn't knocking your music in any shape or form. I just think Goldmine should stick to its market and remain exclusively Soul based. - JP ________________________________________________________________ Great website, keep it up mate. Ron Wood - Blackpool Don't worry mate, I will.- JP ________________________________________________________________ Hello and can you help. I'm a 50+ year old who spent many of his younger years at the Wheel in Manchester and Blackpool, the Golden Torch in Tunstall, Stax in Manchester etc etc. I'm still heavily into Northern Soul and its all I will play whilst driving. I'm looking for some reasonable venues in the Bury/Bolton/Manchester areas to go to where I can relive some of my decadent younger years. Cheers John Edgington
John. Good news. The Wheel has now re-opened. Check details with the club, or try the 'What's on' pages at other websites JP Hii John, Just found your website and found the cd reviews very helpful & informative. Only had my computor a few months but I'm learning all the time. This is all new to me but I'm really enjoying myself surfing from one northern site to another. Personally (didn't Bobby Paris sing that one...) I love to browse through all the label scans of Northern 45's on the various sites & listen to the ones I don't know. Been collecting soul since 72' and if anyone wants to swop tapes of Northern/Modern etc.. Feel free to get in touch, I'm always looking for new sounds to listen to.I hope to have a site of my own one day, but at the moment.....I'm enjoying great sites like yours & countless others I've visited. Keep up the good work.....I'm now going back to view the rest of your site. All the best Rob Pheasant (Willenhall/West Mids) Glad you enjoyed it Rob. Keep the Faith JP Looking for my mother's records--Sharon Soul. In particular,
"His Love Is Best bet Nate is to join a soul list. I suggest you try Mike Hughes 'Soul Talk'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear John, I am a 6th grade student doing research for a history field
day Steven, Your best bet is to read my page 'The Motown Contribution'. I'll also send you some other peoples E-mails who might be able to help JP _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hey there John, Just discovered your site, looks good. I used to do the all-nighters in the seventies, Wigan, Cleethorpes, Sams etc etc. Just got back into it in the last year or so and created my own site [never thought I would be able to do anything like that] I wanted to be one of the first soul sites in the Cambridge area as there does not seem to be many, unless you know of any?? [ I know of one "Martins box" from Bedford] Just as you did, I wanted to deal with not just northern soul, I am a great Motown and Stax fan as well, the thing is I don't seem to get much interaction with the "soul" side of it but loads from the northern side, although I had a few e-mails from Billy griffin the ex Miracles frontman [ http://billygriffin2001.com ]. Anyway It's great to see there are lots of the old crew getting back into it again with loads of sites popping up, but I still think there is not enough people on the net yet, we are so behind the US with everything are we not? My site is getting known slowly as I have only been on the server for a few weeks but have had over 1000 visitors [reset my visitor counter by mistake at 230]. I am currently planning a big event in St-Ives for October, [money to charity] perhaps you would but a link to my site or even sign my guestbook ?, I have signed yours Keep the faith, Johnny T. [soulie] I've seen your site Johnny and you're doing a fine job. It's nice to have links with a true star of soul. Keep the Faith JP You're on dangerous ground John, upsetting the missus. Make sure your little toy doesn't get confiscated. JP ___________________________________________________________________________ John, Bill, your best bet to get the Wigan 25th. Anniversary programme is to contact Pete Smith at Planet Records. You'll find a link on my Links Page. Hope the helps JP ________________________________________________________________________ Good evening John. Julie, consider it done. I'll include this letter on my 'Your Comments' section and add the link to my links page. JP ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From: Dan Garrity <DGarrity@igainc.com> Dan, ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Many thanks for the Web Site looks good and the content is excellent. what comes through is your love of music and that is something to praise.I read your history stuff and it's pretty good covering the main points well. Feel like a but coming, here it is Your comments on Modern Soul are a bit harsh and a little derogatory. Let me put it this way, I'm 42 I went to Wigan and hated it (Soul Music with 10 Black people in the place-do me a favour). A few weeks laterI went to Sobers Club in Manchester for a Soul All Nighter. The DJ was Persian, the music was "Soul" but you would call it Funk. They played stuff like the bottle -brother to brother, Cymande the message and so on. Attendance started poor and after a few weeks got worse. A few years later I was at the Ritz constantly lobbying for "Funk". Getting Mr Curtis to play such as Rare Gems Oddessy and "Killer Joe". Those days when Richard Searling finished his set with Paris Blues we couldn't wait for Mr Levine to spin spring rain oh how we applauded it and rubbished Mr Middleton. Of course I was only a young man at the fag end of my teens back then and as Baldness and wisdom's wrinkles set in I reappraise that music. Not only do I still play Paris Blues but Love you Baby and quite a few more. Also I would run a mile from Spring Rain and Center City these days. Thanks to Mp3 I have been able to collect a lot of Old Northern and the truth is;Northern has only 2 types of song/sound 1. Camp as tit's type . Need more lets put it this way when I burn a CD for a friend that's Northern the Folder is called "the camp side of Northern Soul". Now I am not homophobic it's just my sense of humour.As I usually put on the cover "think 1960's Melodrama", think "lip synching" "eye shadow" and those Women getting another man. Examples well anything really "little Anthony and the imperials" struth he's even a castrato!. Time will pass you by, end of our Love (little eartha kittish), Frankie Valli come on join in.Now as I say I've nowt against campness but say this to a northern fan-well they think I'm calling them gay (there's a difference between campness and gayness) and they get angry. Type number two is what I call "boomy" they may be shit sound systems bad pressings nope they are just boomy. Uptempo ponerdous bass and a sixties production wash turn them into a kind of techno boom and echo situation. Examples well anything almost that isn't camp.Last week I went to "everything's Tuesday" a "soul night" in Bolton. It was a 30 mile round trip which in my Car costs and takes time. Supposedly playing Soul they did not even own a record made after 72. They had no CD's what so ever (crazy) and the result seemed to me like Joe soap and his mates eyeing each others collection (along with long suffering wives and girlfriends). Some one must have turned up with something "modern " because they played the moments "9 times". To my amazement people danced to this in that unrythmic foot slide called dancing. Come off it when the moments played the Ritz large numbers of northern fans turned their backs. Back then they would have sooner walked on hot coals than dance to nine times. The joke was I had made them a CD with some of my records which you would say are Funky all from the early to mid seventies (Night People Lee Dorsey, Little Beaver let the good times roll everybody-and such. Needless to say I didn't hand it over. One star DJ played at least one record which featured a female Vocal to a backing track which had been "pitched" most likely at the time of recording (which must have been the 60's). This did go on then usually by varispeeding of even applying a gloved hand to the tape to slow it. This was done by experimentalist (Zappa) because if you do it to a tune the arrangement either sharpens or flatness meaning Woman is in key music is not. This record was so dreadfully out of key that a horn riff took on the style of fingernails on blackboard. I couldn't let this pass so said to the DJ "why is it flat". He looked amazed and said "flat what are you on about" my god, clueless or what. Please don't take this all seriously I realise that when I disliked northern as a callow youth it was for the wrong reasons. Now when I'm listening I judge each record ( whatever narrow enforced "type"/category) on it's own merits. Right all my comments on northern are as biased. As for lyrics . Truth is Black music has never had a rich tradition of poetic or studied lyricism. Lot's of reasons it's dance music, white music claimed the intelligent lyrics spot as it's own( at the cost of good black lyrics). Not withstanding that lyrical appreciation is a part of "white intelligencia", as they deem its art or not. Of course the cream rises to the top and for every Joni Mitchell there is a Gil Scott Heron. As art though we both know that something soulful means a bit more than the lyric-the way it's sung it's felt (the unique sincerity that soul brings). When Donny Hathaway does his gospel take on say "he ain't heavy" the lyrics resonate with a different meaning then when it's done by the Hollies. When Lamont Dozier says "You won't mind pushing away your pride, for whatever needed just shoot your best shot. Give it all you got. It all depends on how desperately you want it, and how bad. For it definitely can be had" sounds to me like he means it. Ditto Bobby Womack and countless others. The Music industry gives not a shite for lyrics all it wants is money so Black Artists (and white) are still encouraged to follow whatever hit formula is around at the time. Most formula music feeds off itself and ends in parody. Rick James and Tina marie doing fire and desire I mean they must be taking the piss At wedding last year I argued (bet your not surprised) with some friends about Dancing Queen (not camp but is now believed to be). I said that I would NEVER dance to that record not ever. I also was less than complementary about all aspects of the dirge. When asked to justify this outburst well I couldn't, after all it's a classic brought pleasure to millions yada ya. So I shut up sat still and waited for it to end. A couple of weeks ago I was playing "It seems to hang on" by Ashford and simpson when it dawned on me. Same year as dancing queen, which is a "classic" and yet no one at that wedding had ever heard of "it seems to hang on"-bloody criminal. That's why I was angry. Now that songs lyrics are poetic "like a snowball rolling down a hill I look behind me it stands still". What a song been there felt the feelings and danced to it last month in Preston (no not a wedding). Struth I've gone on a bit sorry about that-I just have a need to write. Despite all I have said I really admire what your doing your committing yourself and that's a noble thing to do so keep on we need you. Fear not I don't expect to see this up there on your comments page- I'm a realist thanks John ( :¬) You have to be joking John. Do you think I'd miss out a letter of epic proportions like this one? :-) JP _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best Many Thanks for the Info greg, I'll include it next update. JP
Bobby thinks your Web site is; "way the hell better!" AND HE SAYS; "you have my permition to print that on your site! Judi Paris Tell Bobby I'm highly flattered that such an NS legend has this opinion. Keep in touch JP __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hi John My name is David Powner and I want to say how much I enjoyed your site, which I found thru the Northern Soul Circle. By the way, I'm Cindy Scott's current UK record producer and I thought that you might be interested in featuring some Cindy Scott news on your pages. As you are probably aware Cindy Scott is really Sundray Tucker, the vocalist cookin'
with Stevie Wonder on "Ordinary Pain" from the Songs In The Key Of Life album.
But of course Cindy is better known for her UK Northern classic "I Love You
Baby". Actually the Loving Country CD was recorded at very short notice and we didn't have
time to prepare any original material. However, the 2nd (and as yet untitled) studio
album, half of which was recorded during 2000 will contain just that. Cindy is in the
middle of writing new material as we speak and these songs will be recorded during the
trip planned for later this year. In the meantime, I have just released a live CD, which
should hopefully fill the gap for fans waiting to hear the follow-up to The Loving
Country. More details about this CD can be found at www.drivingwheel.co.uk Excellent News that Cindy might be visiting the UK. best wishes with the project Dave JP Hi, Whitten, Heather No problem Heather I'll put your Banner on my home page JP RE Gospel Conversion HI! THANKS! Dexter Hinson No problem Dexter, I'll see what I can do JP hi Sounds like "That Beatin Rhythm" by Richard Temple, unless anyone know better. Hope this helps Ciaran JP _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HI JOHN, AGREAT READ.LONG LIVE THE MECCA.IKNOW
UFROM MILLFIELD Masterqueman So put me out of my misery! Who is it? ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, i'm currently in my last year at Lancaster university, one of my final assignments is on leisure history between 1930-1977. As my dad is a real fan of northern soul and often made trips to Blackpool and Wigan in the 1970s, I have become interested in the music over the last ten years, and thought that the movement of the northern soul experience would be an interesting assignment to do. I'm asking for your experiences and documentation (newspapers e.t.c) on northern soul the whole culture that came along with the music and the impact it had on kids in the cumbria area. Please give me an e-mail if you have time to help me out. Thanks Craig Pearson. No problem Craig, just fire your questions at me. JP ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hi John: I was checking out your site and really like it. As a big fan of soul music, You may want to check out a promotion the band is doing where you can If you like the album or have any questions, I would love to hear from Thanks for listening! Tyler Suchman No Problem Tyler, I'll post the Links so hopefully the site will see a little action. All the best JP
Hi, I'm a german student and I´m writing my diploma about soulmusic. Now my problem: it is very hard to find informations about how they produced the records. Maybe you have material about their recording techniques, what equipment they used, the tricks of the engineers and producers. Thank you very much Robert Stoltzenburg Robert, Many of the books listed on my website cover some aspect of record production. "Spinning Blues Into gold" and "Soulsville U.S.A" might be good places to start. Good luck with the Studying JP
Hello John, I remembered your name from last year when you made some postings to the Bob Davis soul-patrol mailing list. I was on the list too. Are you still a member? I got to your site from the eddys soultime one and thought that I would check out your site when I remembered your name. I enjoyed your site and I will return to it soon - a lot of the things that you mentioned mirrored my own experiences back in the day.The store in Blackpool sounded terrific and I wish I could have rummaged through the records in there. You know I morn the days of the record shop bargain bin, the Sunday markets where you would always find at least one record stall and if lucky you could find a few imports on it. Second hand shops as well would be quite exciting. I'm afraid to say that I don't know the Marlene Shaw track, but you seem to be into more deep soul that I am, none the less I will keep my eyes and ears open for it. I first got into soul music in 1972 after hearing "Have You Seen Her", "Backstabbers", "Me and Mrs Jones". If You Don't Know Me By Now" and it developed from there. I still rate the Philly sound and I have been buying reissue CDs over the last few years, particularly the late 70s.Can't say that I agree with your views on Blues and Soul though.Did you know that it's the 2nd longest running music journal, only NME as been running longer; says something about the devotion of soulmusic fans (hate the term "Soulies"). Editor Bob Killbourne was right there with the magazine in the 70s and always writes a friendly informative fortnightly editorial.I have had an order with my local newsagent for the magazine for around four years, which I placed when the B&S ran a feature on the 100 most significant albums. Sure it's not the mag that it once was but I always find something of interest in there and it does keep me up to date with what the record companies are issuing and they do issue some oddities for instance in the latest issue "Hidden Strength" from 1975 is out again! You are right that the magazine is becoming very hard to find now, however I have seen it in "Ritas Cabin" in Coronation Street and I wonder who the soul fan is? My lad says that it's Archie 'cause he saw him thumbing through it once!It will be a sad day if B&S goes the same way many other things have from the 70s. Take care now and all the best for 2003, From Jools. Hi Jools Sadly I am no longer a list member of Soul Patrol, I got kicked off for a breech of ettiquette. Story of my life I'm afraid. Glad you liked the site and it's good to find someone from the 70's who still reads B&S. Thanks for the comments Take Care JP Hi John! Just checked out your web-page update, some very interesting stuff. Haven't made my way through it all yet but have so far read the Gloria Gaynor bit. She did actually release LOADS of stuff prior to "This Love Affair" (it is from 1978 and it was the 45 released a couple of months prior to "I Will Survive"). There is a very fine 45 on a label called Jocida from 1965 or 1966. It featured the tracks "Let Me Go, Baby" and "She'll Be Sorry", the later being something of a largely forgotten northern soul oldie. A fabulous track in my opinion that probably would be big on the scene if it had been a bit rarer or by another artist. If you want to listen to it, go here: http://www.soulclub.org/ type "gloria gaynor" into the search engine. There will be two songs for your listening pleasure. The other one being "Tell Me How" and taken from her "Experience Gloria Gaynor" LP. It is a very fine 70's soul track (if that isn't soul I don't know what is). Have you read this interview with Gloria: http://www.disco-disco.com/artists/gloria.html Keep those reviews coming (same goes for the soul/funk/disco thread on the SouthernSoul list), I don't agree with all of your comments but it makes for interesting reading and I always think it's nice to see things from another perspective than your own. Take care! /Sebastian Sebastian, this is really great stuff. The book virtually ignores all her Soul music entirely. Thanks for putting the record straight. Any chance of any more details of her soul releases? Take Care JP ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
John
Great site, but you need to correct some of the inaccurate information on your Drifters' page.
The original Drifters were not known as The Five Crowns.
The first group (who may not have had a name at that time) to record with Clyde McPhatter in June 1953 was made up of William "Chick" Anderson, David Baldwin, James "Wrinkle" Johnson (from the Mount Lebanon Singers) and "Little" David Baughan. But Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records were not happy with the sound of that line-up and asked Clyde to produce another group.
From then on, The Drifters consisted mainly of Gerhart "Gay" Thrasher, his brother Andrew "Bubba" Thrasher, and Bill Pinkney, with several people drifting in and out of the group including Willie Ferbee, Charlie Hughes, Bobby Hendricks, Johnny Moore, Tommy Evans, and Jimmy Millinder (also guitarists Walter Adams and Jimmy Oliver).
In May 1958, the remaining line-up of this group were fired by their manager, George Treadwell, who replaced them with The Five Crowns, who were James “Poppa” Clark, Benjamin Earl Nelson (Ben E King), Charlie Thomas, Dock Green, and Elsbeary Hobbs. However, James “Poppa” Clark left shortly thereafter and the remaining four were renamed "The Drifters".
Bill Pinkney responded by forming “The Original Drifters", made up of himself with Gerhart Thrasher, Andrew Thrasher, and David Baughan.
You presume that Faye Treadwell is the daughter of George Treadwell, but she is actually his widow.
You talk about "the Grittier sound which emanated from the Stax studios". I think you mean the Atlantic studios.
If I have anything wrong above, I am sure that Maxine will correct me :-)
Hope this helps.
Robert
Rob,
Many thanks for this information regarding the Drifters. I defer to your expert knowledge and I thank you for setting the record straight. I hope people reading the review also come here to read your comments as well. The relationship between Stax and Atlantic was a complex one however I believe I am right in saying many Atlantic artists were sent to record in the Stax studio to try and capture the "Southern Sound"
Take Care
JP ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hello Always glad to be of service Florent, I'll see what I can do take care JP ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
I was just browsing thru your website and
found it most enjoyable. Many thanks Larry, Kind words are always appreciated
Cheers
JP
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John, Short but sweet, but this one is from Bettye Lavette herself. Proof if ever it were needed that Soul superstars drop by at the Soul Review. Lesser Websites eat your hearts out.
I love this lady, but sadly it is too late for me now as she has just got engaged to Kevin Best wishes to both and may they spend many happy years together
JP
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Hi John:
No Problem David, the comments were well deserved. I only wish other writers would stick their necks out more and write about less obvious artists than picking the well known superstars all the time. I hope the book's a success
JP
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hello, i am
trying to get a copy of the lyrics to queen of fools by Barbara N.Samuel ____________________________________________________________________ Hello.. I'm promoting the George Clinton show in NJ. I was wondering if you could help out and list the information on the event on your website. Its at a new venue, called REXPLEX, which hasn't done these types of concerts in the past. We hope for the concert to be a success so we can continue to bring this type of music into Rexplex.. so any help you can give with your website would be greatly appreciated! Here is the info: Who: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic When: Sun. March 16, 2003 Where: Rexplex Entertainment Complex, Elizabeth Center, NJ Tickets: Ticketmaster.com & Ticketmaster Outlets Info: 877-REXPLEX or rexplexconcerts.com Rexplex is located at Exit 13A on the NJ Turnpike in the Elizabeth Center in Elizabeth, NJ Regards, No Problem Helen. consider it posted JP
First off your site is an incredibly exhaustive and comprehensive review of soul music and that alone is a hell of an accomplishment. I was hoping you could help me find a song I heard briefly, but if you don’t have time for this kind of crap that's ok, just send me a reply that says "no" and I'll get it. Anyway, going through some old records in my basement I found a tape with random songs on it, but I forgot where they came from. The one I'm trying to figure out has a chorus something like "I'm a baaaaaad baaad man, yes I am" I know this is pretty vague but it was definitely from the 70's possibly a west coast band, I think. The song was so full of great hooks and groove, and it sounded so familiar but I couldn't place it. Again amazing web site and I hope you can help but if you can't, that's fine. -Alejandro, an appreciative soul man I have to confess this has me stumped. If anyone can identify this please contact me and I'm make sure the response is posted JP Hi, Mike, Goldmine's "Casino" series are a little dated now, but in my view still the best The Right Track can be found on "Its Okeh Up North" - Sony Music I can't remember seeing any of the others on CD, but I'll keep my eyes open cheers JP ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I've been looking for the old ramada singers group music to purchase but I have not been able to locate them. Do you remember the old gospel songs by the ramada singers ex:stand still jordan and wade in the water. How can I find their music? Please help if you can. Claretha Craig Sorry Claretha but I don't know the answer. If anybody else out there can help please get in touch JP
I'm trying to find who this song is by & what it's called, it's an Aamir Zahid Sorry Aamir, I don;t recognise this. Is there canyone else put there who can help JP
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Soul Review, Hi, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Stacey and I work with the independent
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regards, Stacey
Ioannou Sr.
Marketing Manager Two Sheps That Pass Sorry Stacey, but not exactly my cup of tea, but I'll post your message. I'm sure there are other soul webmasters out there who might be interested All the best JP
Salutations! I was just on your site and though you might
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JP Hey man, I'm organizing a E-zine down here in Brasil, and I also
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Hi! Thanks for the tip Timo, your observations are duly noted and the information posted JP
Dear John,
Hi, this
is Stacey Ioannou again, Sr. Marketing Manger of Two Sheps That Pass, a music marketing
and consultation company. I am reaching out
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audience will love. One is an emerging Urban
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REDBONE, respectively). KJ
Denhert, the emerging Urban Folk and Jazz wonder, has her roots in Funk and R&B. She has an artistry and passion for what she does. Her personal, poetic, yet mature, lyrics will
reach out to you and your audience, encompassing your emotions. Hints of Jazz can be heard throughout her music. KJ Denhert has been likened to Norah Jones, Tracey
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Let’s Roll” is set hit shelves on May 6, 2003. Finally, Martha Redbone, the fresh new artist with a
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Martha walked away with Debut Artist of the Year award.
Martha also won NTY Rock artist of the year in 2002 and secured two (2) nominations
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Best
Regards, Stacey
Ioannou Sr.
Marketing Manager Two Sheps
That Pass… 476 Broome
Street, Suite 5A New York,
NY 10013 E-mail: Stacey@twoshepsthatpass.com Tel:
646-613-1101 Fax: 786-513-0692 Stacey, I now have all three CD's and have posted reviews on the site. I hope these help and good luck to each of the girls
JP
Hi John, Thoroughly enjoyed your site, let me know if this has been of any help to you. David Kirk, Notts. P.S unable to attach photos of booklet and CD box set with my e-mail. Can send photo's by mail if required. Many thanks David, I already have the book so I can scan it myself, but the info is very useful JP I like the website keep up the good work. Unsigned No idea whoever you are, but many thanks all the same. JP CDBABY.COM/Califlight II. Please check them out tell us what you think. They are considered a Hot Gem of soul sounds that somehow got lost in the underground soul review. We hope you will enjoy and please let us know what you think. They have over 10 LPs in the can, why now only time will reveal what really going down with this GEM of a soul band. They are great sounding group. Check it out. Anyone interested in this band need only follow the link JP Hello again further to suggestion that I convert to the ways of Wigan's Chosen
Few........(And do some silly dancing on TOTP) I'm beginning to find the thought more
tempting. 'The tune is called "Finders Keepers" & is by Bolan squashing soul diva Gloria Jones. It's also worth mentioning that it is a 1966 demo copy (Stateside records) & it is priced at £35 in the book. Condition is Excellent Maxie price £25.' It's my little bro that's selling and at ten pounds off book price could be worth a get if you collect. I presume p&p on top? Let me know if you want a contact e-mail address. Keep up the good work on your site. Best Regards David Parsons If Anyone is interested in this offer let me know and I'll drop David A line JP Hello,
Some good questions Miss Furniss, In answer to your queries the techniques which Soul borrowed from gospel are as follows "Call and response" - the lead singer sings a line, then the backing group sing an answer. In gospel the lead will sing a line and the chorus may answer alleluyah or amen or some religious response "Melisma" - the ability to bend a word over several notes "soul shouting" - very similar to relgious "testifying" sorry but I can't help with lyrics, but watch GMTV in a morning because they are currently doing a gospel challenge in which groups are competing for a recording contract. I hope this helps JP Sorry Gavinliz, but I have no idea JP Dear Webmaster, My name is Paul, with Klew Media. We're currently working in conjunction with Madacy Entertainment to promote a collection of Soul CDs containing music from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. An example of this can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000950XS/qid=1060284243/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-5975902-9511041?v=glance&s=music. In order to create promotional exposure for this release, we’re offering to give away the entire set of 11 CD’s in a giveaway contest that we’d like to host on your site, along with a promotional banner. If you’re interested in any of these promotions, feel free to contact me. Thanks, Paul Pang
Not particularly interested myself, but the offers there for all you budding webmasters out there
JP
Hi: Anyone able to help Tom out, don't hesitate to get in contact JP
JP
Charlie, Lisa, Your wish is my command JP
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