Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Manchester
Jerryo, Radio Station DJ and the guy with a huge hit at Manchester’s Twisted Wheel with Karate Boo-Ga-Loo, started his own record label of course named JERRYO. The best release on JERRYO was by MUTT & JEFFO a name taken from DELL Comics and an original 1920’s USA cartoon series, also Count Basie made … Read more
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
Now I Know What Made Otis Blue The song by Paul Young refers to Otis Redding’s BLUE album and became a minor hit in the UK. It shows Paul’s interest in Soul music. He was in several bands before going solo. Q TIPS made an LP of Soul standards. Tragically, after an operation he could … Read more
Never, Never Gonna Give You Up Ower little Lisa Stansfield frompt Rochdale! I remember her listening to records in a red brick ‘council ranch’ house on Rooley Moor Road Rochdale in the 1970s. I knew her manager many years later. Its amazing that a Soul singer came from Rochdale England. Well she is related to … Read more
SOUL CITY MANCHESTER and MUSIC – Manchester’s youth, the Soul Mods started the appreciation of Black American music in the city in the 1960s, mainly emerging from The twisted Wheel Club and its influential DJ Roger Eagle. Elton John in Bluesology appeared backing many Stateside artists and later said you had to make it in … Read more
Excited Movin’ On Up M People, from Manchester with the leading voice of Heather Small: House – Dance-Soul, it’s definitely Soul! Their first LP was even called NORTHERN SOUL. M People – Wikipedia
Manchester – home of the Twisted Wheel Manchester is a major industrial City in the North West of England and was the original powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. There are several other Manchesters in the USA, Australia and Canada, But the original is in the UK. In the 19th century it was famous for being … Read more
The first night at the very first Twisted Wheel had the Manchester pop group The Karl Denver Trio performing Wimohwey. The club would become famous as the place that started off the movement that became NORTHERN SOUL. By early 1964’with its new DJ Roger Eagle, it was all about the music. One track that was … Read more
The Limit Club Middleton was located at the bottom of Wood Street in Middleton, number 16 – upstairs above a row of shops. Wood Street went up the hill to Langley estate, a massive 1950’s Manchester ‘overspill’ housing estate. One of the club’s first groups was Herman and The Hermits. It was fairly typical of … Read more
Granada TV Manchester 3 Scene At Six Thirty was a local news and entertainment show in the 1960’s. It had many tv presenters in what was the start of their careers on TV – Michael Parkinson, Anne Robinson’s (Weakest Link) Tony Wilson, Austin Mitchell (Grimsby MP). The programme had lots of great artists appearing; the Blues’ … Read more