This thread stems directly from my including
Felice Taylor’s
It May Be Winter Outside in the Necrolog entry for Bob Keane...
It got me thinking - Northern Soul[and Soul in general] isn’t really catered for on Hipforums, but when it comes to 1960s music it’s top of my list, along with Jamaican music. With one or two exceptions I dont think I’d have really got the Hippie scene, and still dont really “get it” nowadays. Cest la vie, or whatever...
So Northern Soul ? Wikipedia introduces it thus...
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound. The Northern soul movement, however, generally eschews Motown or Motown-influenced music that has met with significant mainstream success. The recordings most prized by genre enthusiasts are usually by lesser-known artists, and were initially released only in limited numbers.
Read the whole entry here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul
Here’s some scenes from, I’d guess, the early 1970s.
Wigan Casino was probably the legendary venue. I was far too young back the, of course, to be part of it
And to get things started, here’s one that you probably all know, in one form or another...
Gloria Jones went on to be Marc Bolan’s girlfriend, an associate member of
T.Rex, mother of Rolan Bolan, and was driving the fateful car in which Bolan died in 1977...
Northern soul jukebox
R.DEAN TAYLOR - There's A Ghost In My House
JUDY STREET - What
DORIS TROY - I'll Do Anything
Linear Mode
