Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Stop And You’ll Become Aware – Helen Shapiro Needless to say, but I’ll say it anyway, Helen Shapiro, being a white, British pop star on our original Soul scene, being as elitist as we were; this song by Helen Shapiro, had no chance. However, on the second Northern Soul scene this made it! She had … Read more
Under My Thumb OK, it’s Okay. Under My Thumb by Wayne Gibson will never equal the original Stones’ version which remains a classic. This was when Jagger and Richards were writing some fabulous British through and through pop songs. In the sixties on our original Soul scene, we were indeed elitist. We only believed that, … Read more
Wanting You (1967) Whatever happened to Nino ? I guess April Stevens went solo on this, but there he is on the label, Nino Tempo, April’s brother and often duet partner, arranging and conducting this recording, which became a Northern Soul hit in the seventies. Of course, it was totally ignored on the first Soul … Read more
Baby Don’t You Weep Standing at the bus station and singing a lament this time by Edward Hamilton and the Arabians … always gets it in the heart… that’s Soul. So good it gets into Kev Roberts top 500 at position 160. Another from this early sixties group: I’m Gonna Love You
A Little Togetherness A theme for the idea of The Northern Soul way of bonding (maybe amphetamines also helped?). But The Younghearts were also known as The Tempos, and then there was another Tempos: See The Tempos.
She Wears My Ring was a hit for Solomon King in the sixties, then as Levi Jackson he put out This Beautiful Day in 1970. Solomon was American by birth but settled in Bolton, Greater Manchester. He was well known on the supper club circuit and very much in the Engelbert Humperdink category but despite … Read more
I Get Around Oh YES The Beach Boys were big on the Mod scene in Manchester. Brian Wilson was a hero to many. At The Brazennose Street Twisted Wheel especially The Beach Boys music and Surf music in general had a large following. Beach Boys Twisted Wheel Play List: I Get Around , Wouldn’t It … Read more
If I Could Only Be Sure This track by Nolan Porter ends up at 91 on the Top 500 of Northern Soul. It was released in the UK in 1967 but nobody picked up on it. Then in 1972 he released: Keep On Keeping On (1971) A THUMPING DANCER: And this gets to be Nolan (NF) … Read more
I Never Knew (1967) This track by Eddie Foster Starts almost the same yet more upbeat than The Impressions You’ve Been Cheating. Gets up to 87 on the Kev Roberts boo The Northern Soul Top 500.
I Got The Fever The Prophets make number 80 on The Kev Roberts Northern Soul Top 500: A.K.A. The Creation, this white group made a Soul recording that got a release on Stateside (1971) two years after its inauguration in the USA.