Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
STORMY You Are Everything Chain Reaction Diana Ross of course was the lead singer of The SUPREMES. She was always a favourite of Berry Gordy the owner of Motown, having a child by him and marrying him, but not at the same times. She went solo after leaving the Supremes and had a chain of … Read more
(Like) A Nightmare -1964 This song was never released. Early Holland Dozier Holland song. The Andantes were the main backing group and vocals team for Motown – they can be heard on many Motown tracks. Raynoma Liles, aka Miss Ray, eventually Berry Gordy’s second wife, developed the Rayber Music Writing Company and started out as … Read more
Human The ‘B’ side of Total Satisfaction by Brief Encounter, a stylish Soul group from the mid 70’s who recorded at Muscle Shoals.
TWIST AND SHOUT The Beatles loved Soul music and did their own versions of many R&B, Blues, Soul and Motown recordings. Through appreciating the Beatles and finding out the original artists of some of the songs they did influenced many people to find their way to the original artists. This Twist and Shout EP was … Read more
Grab Your Clothes And Get On Out Great dance track at the Blue Note Manchester in 1968 This track by Minnie Epperson was first released in the USA on the Peacock label and soon snapped up by ACTION records of Blackpool UK. ACTION Records
You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me) This track by Alice Clark had become a huge hit on the Northern Soul scene. Alice Clark apparently had children and life wasn’t always easy for her. It was just one of those amazing thing where a fairly obscure artist has released a single which is defined … Read more
MOVE ON UP WE GOTTA HAVE PEACE Miss Black America SO IN LOVE Curtis Mayfield was the lead singer for the vast majority of the hits by THE IMPRESSIONS taking up that role after Jerry Butler left after the group’s very first hit: For Your Precious Love. Watch the whole story on this Youtube clip … Read more
Strange Brew – Reaction 591 015, 1967 Sunshine Of Your Love – Polydor 56 286, 1968 Cream – all three members of Cream played at the original Twisted Wheel in Manchester with various other groups. Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce appeared with The Graham Bond Organisation and Eric Clapton with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Jack Bruce … Read more
Almost everything that Chuck Berry released got played at the original Twisted Wheel in Manchester. In 1963/4 there was a blues boom in the UK and leading it was Chuck Berry. Rock & roll and blues songwriter, singer and guitarists and great performer. He was born Charles Edward Anderson Berry to a large family in … Read more
Competition Ain’t Nothing Babe – USA Backbeat / UK ACTION Little Carl Carlton released Competition Ain’t Nothing – a recording that was played at the end of many sessions at the Twisted Wheel. For us Wheelers his very best ever is: Nothing No Sweeter Than Love Carl Carlton went on to release Everlasting Love and many … Read more