Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Northern Soul
My Heart’s Not In It Anymore You’ve Been Leading Me On FANTASTIC double ‘A’ side 45 with two really great Soul tracks by The Steinways. Yvonne Gearing is the lead vocalist on My Heart Is Not In It Anymore and the male members of the group feature on the other. 493 on Kev Roberts Top … Read more
We Gotta Keep On The Casanova Two
There Comes A Time SOUL from Eartha Kitt. And we thought she was “Just An Old Fashioned Girl”. Eartha Kitt was loved in the UK and appeared on many TV shows in the sixties and beyond. Her reputation took a bit of a hit after her many revelations in the more salacious of the British … Read more
Nobody But Me We classified this record by The Human Beinz along with the Monkees as a white band pinching our originals. God alone knows why this was made popular on that second Soul scene – its listed as 458 out of the Top 500 Northern Soul recordings by Kev Roberts. Surely this is a … Read more
Another Day Another Day by The Ascots is the one that makes it onto the Northern Soul scene positioned at a set of fours: 444 on Kev Roberts Top 500. Originally a Doo Wop group.
A Good Thing Going Sounding derivatively like Sounds Orchestral but in fact by Phil Coulter and his Orchestra, this strange instrumental made it onto the Northern Soul scene at 428 on Kev Roberts Top 500. Well he does come from the UK – Northern Ireland. He wrote Puppet On A String for Sandie Shaw. This track sounds … Read more
Goodbye Nothin’ To Say (1974) Positioned at 424 on Kev Roberts Top 500. Great bouncy pop Soul from The Javells with Nosmo King Later remade by several artists including Maxine Nightingale as Right Back Where We Started From
Bari Track This instrumental is good – brilliant bass sax, but Doni Burdick’s version of Edwin Starr’s I Have Faith In You is awful, bland and unconvincing in comparison to the fantastic vocals and Soulful feelings that Edwin put into that song. Watcha Gonna Do is another but I just don’t like the guy’s voice. … Read more
Too Many People What, are we crazy? Bobby Goldsboro a Soul artist? Well now, just this one was identified as a Soul tune by the 70’s Northern Soul scene, and it reaches 396 on Kev Roberts Top 500. It has to be said, in our opinion, it’s just a little bit too cheesy – if … Read more
Don’t Start None (1965 un released at that time). ‘B’ side – My Baby Changes Like The Weather Both sides are crunching beating dancers; full on Northern Soul sounders by The Mayfield Singers. Curtis Mayfield’s label and his production backing vocalists. Even the instrumental scoured on the Northern Soul Scene.