Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Mustang Sally – Blue Rock 1965 LOVE SICKNESS Love Sickness was cut at STAX in 1967 by Sir Mack Rice with Booker T and the MG’s. This record became a great big firm favourite at the Blue Note Club in Manchester. Mack Rice had a great soul voice but this was the only commercially successful recording … Read more
You Don’t Know Like I Know – 1966 Hold on I’m Coming – 1966 You Got Me Hummin – 1966 When Something Is Wrong With My Baby – 1967 Soul Man – 1967 I Thank You – 1968 Soul Sister Brown Sugar The Double Dynamite was what Sam and Dave were known as but when they burst … Read more
Hit The Road Jack Unchain My Heart What’d I Say Georgia On My Mind Let’ s Go Get Stoned I Chose To Sing The Blues I Don’t Need No Doctor – HMV 1966 Get On The Right Track Baby You Be My Baby The Train Something Inside Me It’s Ray Charles’ Soul songs that we … Read more
MY ELUSIVE DREAMS / WHAT’S BETTER THAN LOVE – MALA 575 GET OUT OF MY HEART / THEY DON’T WANT US TOGETHER – BELL UK – MALA 598 USA Brothers Moses And Joshua Dillard got everyone on their feet dancing at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to these two great soul tracks. MASSIVE, MASSIVE, MASSIVE: 45’s at … Read more
Hey – Sah – Lo – Nay – Stateside/ Swan/ ITZY USA Mickey Lee Lane – This was a great raucous track played at the Manchester Soul Clubs in the sixties. It was also recorded by The Action, a UK soul styled band who appeared at the Twisted Wheel. Sadly Mickey Lee Lane did not. But the song also … Read more
SHO NUFF (GOT A GOOD THING GOING) – Warner Bros WB2082 – UK 1967 / LOMA RECORDS USABUT IT’S ALRIGHT – (Calla USA) 1967 Too Late Down, But Not Out Oo-Ma-Liddi Big J. J. Jackson had two great big hits at the soul clubs in Manchester in 1967 as a result he appeared Live at the … Read more
The Isley Brothers were a huge and constant presence on the UK Soul scene, certainly so in all the Manchester Soul clubs of the period. Even the Beatles followed them and released their own version (and it was good) of Twist And Shout. This Old Heart Of Mine might be called the theme tune to … Read more
60 Minutes Of Your Love A Lot Of Love 60 Minutes Of Your Love and A Lot Of Love and Hooked By Love by Homer Banks were absolute smash hits at Manchester’s famous soul clubs; The Wheel, The Blue Note, The Jigsaw, Rowntrees, and the Boneyard at Bolton. Homer Banks, together with Raymond Jackson and … Read more
BooGaloo Party (dancing Label) Boogaloo Party/Nearness Of You BF 1483 -Philips 1966 The Flamingos released one massive Soul record that rocked Manchester‘s soul clubs apart. It was eventually re- released due to its popularity in 1969 and reached the top thirty! Doug McClure or Tommy Hunt was the lead singer, which we aren’t sure and as … Read more