Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Northern Soul
Stop Sign Rapid The song by Stop Sign Mel Wynn & The Rhythm Aces has got that rapid beat loved by Northern Soul dancers. Love the girly sounding male chorus. A sixties white band with a black singer in the U.S. – way ahead of their time. Billy Angelo Stella
She’s Looking Good (1967) This track was better known by Wilson Pickett who had the hit with this although the original was by Rodger Collins. Rodger was a soul and funk artist who converted to Islam and adopted the new name of Hajji Rajah Kasim Sabrie. This was after touring with Joe Tex – one thing … Read more
Come Back With that Bashing, Smashing beat that the Northern Soulers loved so much. This time by Ken Williams.
A Case Of Love The Sequins
Your Magic Put A Spell On Me Falsetto voiced rapid Soul with rapid violins by L. J. Johnson – EXCELLENT! This 1975 song was written by Ian Levine. AMAZING! L.J. Live
Soul music is basically an uplifting type of music, like the blues. Blues music although the tone and lyrics are most often about loss, misery, etc., the effect of the music is in fact uplifting. Even more so with Soul. Soul lyrics are mainly about emotions and a lot about love ; falling in and … Read more
A Brother’s Guiding Light were a Doo Wop group of the sixties who released Bless You in 1965 and Getting Together (1973) which is Smooth, smooth Soul of the highest quality. They were a five piece outfit from Philadelphia who were originally called The Dreamlovers and that’s as much as we can find out. A … Read more
Are You Ready For This (1977) This was a disco instrumental by The Brothers featuring George Young. They were genuine brothers from Sydney in Australia. George Young – Celebrity Mirror George Young – Wikipedia
It’s Your Voodoo Working A great Northern Soul find by Charles Sheffield, and Voodoo hoodoo seems to be a theme in some Soul tracks, but most are in Blues, e.g. Screaming Jay Hawkins. Love Potion number 9 etc.
Theme from Coloredman (1967) Teddy Vann Orchestra – no biography details found so far. One detail to note: the American release spells it ‘Coloredman’, the UK version ‘Colouredman’ (see below) and the tune was written by Teddy Vann. Of course, the very name ‘Coloredman’ may possibly offend today and it is interesting to see how … Read more