MOD Jazz
Mo’ Mod Jazz Oh Yes! Great sounds on this CD. In the early sixties Mods and MODern Jazz went together. The Twisted Wheel played many of the tracks to be found on this and other MOD JAZZ collections.
CD / Album Reviews
The CONA Coffee Bar Manchester – Modernists CD
The CD called Modernists has a picture of some ‘Mods’outside the Cona Coffee Bar on Tib Street Manchester. Whether this is a spontaneous photograph or (as we suspect) a posed ‘scene’, is open to debate. The Cona Coffee Bar was a Mod hangout for Manchester Soul Mods. My one recollection concerning the Cona was going … Read more
The Epitome Of Sound
You Don’t Love Me (1968) A really great recording by The Epitome Of Sound, one we completely missed at the time, it had no equivalent UK release, but thanks to the Northern scene at Wigan Casino (in 1974) we have this song which is at no 7 in Kev Roberts book The Northern Soul Top … Read more
The Popeye
The second album from The Mar Keys with Booker T and The MG’s was Do the Pop-Eye. Tracks included The Popeye, The Pop Eye Rider and The Popeye Stroll. The dance craze called the ‘Pop – Eye’ was started by the Sherrys, an all girl group. The track was released in 1962 on Jamie USA … Read more
Bobby Freeman – Discography
Bobby Freeman – Discography Bobby Freeman – Bio Bobby Freeman SINGLES BAYTONE 101 THE ROMANCERS (feat. Bobby Freeman) You Don’t Understand / Baby I Love You So 1956 DOOTONE 381 THE ROMANCERS (feat. Bobby Freeman) I Still Remember / House Cat 1956 DOOTONE 404 THE ROMANCERS (feat. Bobby Freeman) This Is Goodbye / Jump And … Read more