Northern Soul

[Lucy Hamilton]

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

The record collector resource Discogs says the "Soul" label as pictured in the video is a bootleg and not affiliated with Motown, although Motown did have a sublabel by that name using a different design. And it lists this Wilson single as first released in 2012, even though the bootleg "Soul" label clearly credits "Jobete" and gives a copyright date of 1965.

---- which is not to say Motown itself never released it, as Discogs is a user-driven database and isn't comprehensive.

Lucy Hamilton

That Soul Label record is 100% a Bootleg of the ACTUAL pressing, well not in literal sense ie. they got the Acetate and copy it direct but it's a traditional Bootleg and they put Soul on the label it is NOT an original copy ONLY two copies of the record now exist. Soul was a subsidiary of Motown that they set up in 1964, they had multiple subsidiary labels the most famous being Tamla.

Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" was pressed up on Soul and the catalogue number is S 35019 the B Side is "Sweeter As The Days Go By", the 7" was pressed up in ONLY 250 copies as a Promo Only record numbering and it was NEVER RELEASED as anything OTHER than a Promo as Frank Wilson decide that he did not want to go into recording artist at that time but instead continue just as a record Producer and Engineer at Motown and on Wilson's orders ALL existing Promo Copies that did NOT already get mail to Club DJs were incinerated INCLUDING the Acetate BUT someone in the studio secretly keep some of the 7" I am NOT certain if also they keep the Acetate, but it is from the secret amount that they keep that the below occur:

It DID get a different and OFFICIAL release in 1979 with the same B Side and released on 7" on Tamla Motown and the catalogue number is TMG 1170.

The Bootleg copies of the record were all made by either Club DJs and/or peoples associated with them.

Fantastic. Not for pl

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

I have an original copy of Frank Wilson's record I posted about it in my music thread I will get my post and post link to in this thread.

As ogo knows Pogo I have been collecting records since age 11 years in age and now have approx 20,000 thousand records this include 7" 10" and also a lot of Blues original 78"

Fantastic. Not for playing though ?

No not for playing, you never play the rarest of records, if I want to hear that song then I have it on a CD.

 

[Mindful]

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

^^^^ That is NOT Northern Soul the genre of Northern Soul this thread.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

The record collector resource Discogs says the "Soul" label as pictured in the video is a bootleg and not affiliated with Motown, although Motown did have a sublabel by that name using a different design. And it lists this Wilson single as first released in 2012, even though the bootleg "Soul" label clearly credits "Jobete" and gives a copyright date of 1965.

---- which is not to say Motown itself never released it, as Discogs is a user-driven database and isn't comprehensive.

Lucy Hamilton

That Soul Label record is 100% a Bootleg of the ACTUAL pressing, well not in literal sense ie. they got the Acetate and copy it direct but it's a traditional Bootleg and they put Soul on the label it is NOT an original copy ONLY two copies of the record now exist. Soul was a subsidiary of Motown that they set up in 1964, they had multiple subsidiary labels the most famous being Tamla.

Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" was pressed up on Soul and the catalogue number is S 35019 the B Side is "Sweeter As The Days Go By", the 7" was pressed up in ONLY 250 copies as a Promo Only record numbering and it was NEVER RELEASED as anything OTHER than a Promo as Frank Wilson decide that he did not want to go into recording artist at that time but instead continue just as a record Producer and Engineer at Motown and on Wilson's orders ALL existing Promo Copies that did NOT already get mail to Club DJs were incinerated INCLUDING the Acetate BUT someone in the studio secretly keep some of the 7" I am NOT certain if also they keep the Acetate, but it is from the secret amount that they keep that the below occur:

It DID get a different and OFFICIAL release in 1979 with the same B Side and released on 7" on Tamla Motown and the catalogue number is TMG 1170.

The Bootleg copies of the record were all made by either Club DJs and/or peoples associated with them.

Fantastic. Not for pl

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

I have an original copy of Frank Wilson's record I posted about it in my music thread I will get my post and post link to in this thread.

As ogo knows Pogo I have been collecting records since age 11 years in age and now have approx 20,000 thousand records this include 7" 10" and also a lot of Blues original 78"

Fantastic. Not for playing though ?

No not for playing, you never play the rarest of records, if I want to hear that song then I have it on a CD.

All om my vinyl is boxed up in the garage now. Has been for the 20 years we have lived here. Now and then I get the house to myself and bring a few boxes in for a session but it annoys Mrs T so I have to be careful.

Back in the day i used to wag school on a monday morning to go into town and buy the newest Jam single. There would be a group of us waiting for the doors to open. The bastard knew we had to get to school but he still wouldnt open till 9.

My kids dont own a single record or cd and I dont think that music is as big a part of their lives as it was for us. Its a great shame, we have lost something.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

The record collector resource Discogs says the "Soul" label as pictured in the video is a bootleg and not affiliated with Motown, although Motown did have a sublabel by that name using a different design. And it lists this Wilson single as first released in 2012, even though the bootleg "Soul" label clearly credits "Jobete" and gives a copyright date of 1965.

---- which is not to say Motown itself never released it, as Discogs is a user-driven database and isn't comprehensive.

Lucy Hamilton

That Soul Label record is 100% a Bootleg of the ACTUAL pressing, well not in literal sense ie. they got the Acetate and copy it direct but it's a traditional Bootleg and they put Soul on the label it is NOT an original copy ONLY two copies of the record now exist. Soul was a subsidiary of Motown that they set up in 1964, they had multiple subsidiary labels the most famous being Tamla.

Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" was pressed up on Soul and the catalogue number is S 35019 the B Side is "Sweeter As The Days Go By", the 7" was pressed up in ONLY 250 copies as a Promo Only record numbering and it was NEVER RELEASED as anything OTHER than a Promo as Frank Wilson decide that he did not want to go into recording artist at that time but instead continue just as a record Producer and Engineer at Motown and on Wilson's orders ALL existing Promo Copies that did NOT already get mail to Club DJs were incinerated INCLUDING the Acetate BUT someone in the studio secretly keep some of the 7" I am NOT certain if also they keep the Acetate, but it is from the secret amount that they keep that the below occur:

It DID get a different and OFFICIAL release in 1979 with the same B Side and released on 7" on Tamla Motown and the catalogue number is TMG 1170.

The Bootleg copies of the record were all made by either Club DJs and/or peoples associated with them.

Fantastic. Not for pl

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

I have an original copy of Frank Wilson's record I posted about it in my music thread I will get my post and post link to in this thread.

As ogo knows Pogo I have been collecting records since age 11 years in age and now have approx 20,000 thousand records this include 7" 10" and also a lot of Blues original 78"

Fantastic. Not for playing though ?

No not for playing, you never play the rarest of records, if I want to hear that song then I have it on a CD.

All om my vinyl is boxed up in the garage now. Has been for the 20 years we have lived here. Now and then I get the house to myself and bring a few boxes in for a session but it annoys Mrs T so I have to be careful.

Back in the day i used to wag school on a monday morning to go into town and buy the newest Jam single. There would be a group of us waiting for the doors to open. The bastard knew we had to get to school but he still wouldnt open till 9.

My kids dont own a single record or cd and I dont think that music is as big a part of their lives as it was for us. Its a great shame, we have lost something.

Vinyl should always be boxed and in a place not going to be exposed to moisture, so your garage a good place. Why playing records annoy Mrs. T?

What is wag? The Jam one of the GREAT bands, everything they recorded is FANTASTIC.

Bizarro your children not into music, I play my Kid A and Kid B records this to get them interested in music, Kid A now age six years in age this on 28 December 2018 he is developing very good music instinct ie. he knows that Myley Cyrus type things are CRAP this because I introduce them to the HORRORS of Pop Music very early on this so they know to avoid and ignore.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

Another GREAT Northern Soul record is Shirley Ellis "Soul Time" released on 7" in 1966 on Columbia Records the catalogue number is 4-44021 the B Side is "Waitin'"



^^^^ The picture of the record in the YouTube that record the White Label is a Promo Copy pressing that would have only been released to Club DJs and Radio DJs.

This below is the official Columbia Records pressing of the record the Red Label:

 

[Tommy Tainant]

She wants me to sell my records or take them to the charity shop to free up space. I think she is waiting for me to pas before doing it.
The kids are into their music,they have itunes and similar.I just dont see them having the connection with it that we have. When we were teen we would go round each others houses and listen to records all day. Discuss lyrics and read sleeve notes.I think that obsessiveness has gone.

Wagging is leaving school without permission. It was a bad thing.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

She wants me to sell my records or take them to the charity shop to free up space. I think she is waiting for me to pas before doing it.
The kids are into their music,they have itunes and similar.I just dont see them having the connection with it that we have. When we were teen we would go round each others houses and listen to records all day. Discuss lyrics and read sleeve notes.I think that obsessiveness has gone.

Wagging is leaving school without permission. It was a bad thing.

In my opinion you should NOT sell your records.

I never listen to music on itunes the sound quality is inferior to listening to music on the record player or in a CD player on itunes you cannot hear every instrument coherently.

We also used to do that, we still do that friends listening to records and reading sleeve notes but I agree in general that peoples not interested in that type of thing now.

Okay about wag now, yes without permission not a good situation.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

For peoples who are interested in the introduction perhaps to Northern Soul there are some excellant CDs available on Amazon, multiple CDs hundreds of them but I would to begin recommend "Northern Soul Story The Start of An Era" a double CD with 50 tracks on it:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07D5P75K4/?tag=

Also not Northern Soul but Trojan Records one of the great record labels that released some GREAT Ska records I recommend "This Is Trojan Ska" a double CD with 50 tracks on it:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B078X679JL/?tag=

 

[Pogo]

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

The record collector resource Discogs says the "Soul" label as pictured in the video is a bootleg and not affiliated with Motown, although Motown did have a sublabel by that name using a different design. And it lists this Wilson single as first released in 2012, even though the bootleg "Soul" label clearly credits "Jobete" and gives a copyright date of 1965.

---- which is not to say Motown itself never released it, as Discogs is a user-driven database and isn't comprehensive.

Lucy Hamilton

That Soul Label record is 100% a Bootleg of the ACTUAL pressing, well not in literal sense ie. they got the Acetate and copy it direct but it's a traditional Bootleg and they put Soul on the label it is NOT an original copy ONLY two copies of the record now exist. Soul was a subsidiary of Motown that they set up in 1964, they had multiple subsidiary labels the most famous being Tamla.

Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" was pressed up on Soul and the catalogue number is S 35019 the B Side is "Sweeter As The Days Go By", the 7" was pressed up in ONLY 250 copies as a Promo Only record numbering and it was NEVER RELEASED as anything OTHER than a Promo as Frank Wilson decide that he did not want to go into recording artist at that time but instead continue just as a record Producer and Engineer at Motown and on Wilson's orders ALL existing Promo Copies that did NOT already get mail to Club DJs were incinerated INCLUDING the Acetate BUT someone in the studio secretly keep some of the 7" I am NOT certain if also they keep the Acetate, but it is from the secret amount that they keep that the below occur:

It DID get a different and OFFICIAL release in 1979 with the same B Side and released on 7" on Tamla Motown and the catalogue number is TMG 1170.

The Bootleg copies of the record were all made by either Club DJs and/or peoples associated with them.

The original authentic Soul release from 1965 (the promo Oosie refers to above) should look like this:

-- not a very good likeness but you can see Gordy's various affiliated labels listed on the jacket. Supposedly he did this to spread his output around between several labels so that DJs wouldn't be suspected of playing "too many Tamla records".

(The sub-label that bears Gordy's own name was originally called Miracle Records ("If it's a hit -- it's a Miracle") but only for one year, 1961, when it released about a dozen titles. The next year it was rebranded as "Gordy" so as not to be confused with their own recording artists called the Miracles.)

The version Oosie refers to in the latter half of the post (TMG 1170) was released by RCA's distribution deal with Motown in the 1980s and looked like this:

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

Another GREAT Northern Soul record is Shirley Ellis "Soul Time" released on 7" in 1966 on Columbia Records the catalogue number is 4-44021 the B Side is "Waitin'"



^^^^ The picture of the record in the YouTube that record the White Label is a Promo Copy pressing that would have only been released to Club DJs and Radio DJs.

This below is the official Columbia Records pressing of the record the Red Label:

View attachment 238266

ogo Pogo in this thread mention Allen Toussaint and another excellent Northern Soul record this written and co-produced by Allen Toussaint and this is The Rubaiyats "Omar Khayyam" released on 7" in 1968 on Action Records * for the European market the catalogue number is 4516 the B Side is "Tomorrow" also written by Allen Toussaint.



Action Records was a subsidiary of Trojan Records both British and Independent record labels and Action Records established in 1968 it was distributed by Chris Blackwell's Island Records which at that time and into the mid 1970s Island Records was itself an Independent record label as ogo know my ADORED Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention and Nick Drake all on Island Records and I know ogo this from my own music thread that ogo is Co-President of that thread he ADORES them also. I add that Chris Blackwell and Lee Gophal co-founded Trojan Records in late 1967 this the means for them to Import on license from Kingston, Jamaica the artists of Ska, Dancehall, Rocksteady and other Reggae Sub-Genres.

* The Rubaiyats "Omar Khayyam" was released on 7" in 1966 in America on Sansu Records the catalogue number is 456 and the B Side also "Tomorrow"

This below a White Label Promo pressing of:

 

[Pogo]

A bit more from DJ Ian Levine -

The original version of this song is quite simply the most sought-after Motown and Northern Soul record of all time. The legendary Motown producer, Frank Wilson, made this solo record for Motown which was so rare, and so in demand, that someone paid fifteen thousand English pounds for a copy.

He was a big help with the Motorcity project, in 1989 and 1990, and he and his wife Bunny always stay at my house every time they're visiting London. The Motown single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" became so huge that everyone wanted to see Frank perform it. For years he refused, but finally he gave in and did so at Fleetwood in 2000, in front of two and a half thousand people, the one and only time he said he would ever do this.

But previously to that, we had visited him at his Los Angeles home, and filmed him at the piano, so people got to see this legendary song being performed for the first ever time on The Strange World Of Northern Soul DVD. It is Wilson's only Motown single and is a prized item among collectors.

The record collector resource Discogs says the "Soul" label as pictured in the video is a bootleg and not affiliated with Motown, although Motown did have a sublabel by that name using a different design. And it lists this Wilson single as first released in 2012, even though the bootleg "Soul" label clearly credits "Jobete" and gives a copyright date of 1965.

---- which is not to say Motown itself never released it, as Discogs is a user-driven database and isn't comprehensive.

Lucy Hamilton

That Soul Label record is 100% a Bootleg of the ACTUAL pressing, well not in literal sense ie. they got the Acetate and copy it direct but it's a traditional Bootleg and they put Soul on the label it is NOT an original copy ONLY two copies of the record now exist. Soul was a subsidiary of Motown that they set up in 1964, they had multiple subsidiary labels the most famous being Tamla.

Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" was pressed up on Soul and the catalogue number is S 35019 the B Side is "Sweeter As The Days Go By", the 7" was pressed up in ONLY 250 copies as a Promo Only record numbering and it was NEVER RELEASED as anything OTHER than a Promo as Frank Wilson decide that he did not want to go into recording artist at that time but instead continue just as a record Producer and Engineer at Motown and on Wilson's orders ALL existing Promo Copies that did NOT already get mail to Club DJs were incinerated INCLUDING the Acetate BUT someone in the studio secretly keep some of the 7" I am NOT certain if also they keep the Acetate, but it is from the secret amount that they keep that the below occur:

It DID get a different and OFFICIAL release in 1979 with the same B Side and released on 7" on Tamla Motown and the catalogue number is TMG 1170.

The Bootleg copies of the record were all made by either Club DJs and/or peoples associated with them.

The original authentic Soul release from 1965 (the promo Oosie refers to above) should look like this:

-- not a very good likeness but you can see Gordy's various affiliated labels listed on the jacket. Supposedly he did this to spread his output around between several labels so that DJs wouldn't be suspected of playing "too many Tamla records".

(The sub-label that bears Gordy's own name was originally called Miracle Records ("If it's a hit -- it's a Miracle") but only for one year, 1961, when it released about a dozen titles. The next year it was rebranded as "Gordy" so as not to be confused with their own recording artists called the Miracles.)

The version Oosie refers to in the latter half of the post (TMG 1170) was released by RCA's distribution deal with Motown in the 1980s and looked like this:

The "Miracle" label above ("If it's a hit, it's a Miracle") lasted just one year but Motown also generated a label that lasted just one release, by "C.C." (Christine Clark). This was the label:

"Your favorite artists are on Weed" Can't say Berry Gordy didn't have a sense of humor.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

Tommy Tainant you are welcome to post in my music thread if you want to do this, it begin many years ago and has many thousands of posts and I and also my Co-President ogo Pogo very protective of the thread this that we do NOT allow it to be derailed with politics or arguments etc

This link to the very latest page in the thread:

What are you listening to?

 

[Pogo]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

Tommy Tainant you are welcome to post in my music thread if you want to do this, it begin many years ago and has many thousands of posts and I and also my Co-President ogo Pogo very protective of the thread this that we do NOT allow it to be derailed with politics or arguments etc

This link to the very latest page in the thread:

What are you listening to?

I can also say that while there have been several long-running music threads on this site none have ever explored the depths of the most arcane expressions, right along with the mundane and predictable, that the current one has.

I'm very humbled to be named co-President and I promise more taxes for everyone, a chicken in every pot, blah blah

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I wonder if this as just a British thing.

Long before ecstasy arrived to spark a wide-eyed, jaw-gyrating musical movement in the UK, Northern soul parties were the places to be for all-nighters in the '60s.

With a little help of amphetamines, northerners into soul records, old and new, originating from the United States often partied way into the next day, with the frenzied, sweat-inducing dancing on an importance par with the tunes being played.

There's a bunch of clubs integral to the northern soul story, from The Twisted Wheel in Manchester to Wigan Casino, and, luckily, photographers were in and among the madness to capture it.

As with any movement there was a lot of snobbery as the DJs sought ever more obscure tracks from the states. Very few Northern Soul favourites made it into the charts.

This track was recently voted the greatest Northern Soul track ever. It is an awesome piece of work and I wonder if Mr Wilson was a big name in the US ?

Enjoy.

Tommy Tainant you are welcome to post in my music thread if you want to do this, it begin many years ago and has many thousands of posts and I and also my Co-President ogo Pogo very protective of the thread this that we do NOT allow it to be derailed with politics or arguments etc

This link to the very latest page in the thread:

What are you listening to?

Thanks, I will have a look at that.

 

[Tommy Tainant]