Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Motown Sound albums were released in the sixties. One of the very best things about Motown in the sixties was that they issued LP’s with lots of their hit tracks on them. It was ideal for promoting there artists and for fans who could get lots and lots of great sounds relatively inexpensively. Sneered at … 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
Ian Levine was the primary DJ at The Blackpool Mecca with Colin Curtis. The HIghland Room became a northern soul hub from 1967 to 1979. Later it became the Commonwealth Sporting Club. Blackpool Mecca – Wikipedia There is another Mecca dance hall that has held Northern Soul all-nighters The Mecca Manchester.
The venue that brought back Soul music all-nighters after the closure of other locations (primarily The Twisted Wheel in Manchester) was the Wigan Casino. It became the 1970’s epicentre for Northern Soul all night dance sessions. Richard Searling And Russ Winstanley were the most famous DJ’s at the venue and Russ was the guy who … 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
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
Memphis Tennessee A City in the Southern state Of Tennessee USA. Named after the ancient Egyptian city and home of Soul and Blues, Stax records and others. Memphis Tennessee – Wikipedia
Detroit The city is in the state of Michigan on the shores of lake Michigan USA. Detroit is famous for manufacture of and headquarters of General Motors and is the Motorcity which gave birth to Tamla Motown. Sadly, with the destruction of the American motor industry, it has now got the unenviable title of America’s … Read more
Chicago was a magnet for the blues. In the nineteen twenties a mass exodus from the southern states brought millions of Black people to the industrial North looking for work. Along with Detroit the city had its own culture of black music – gospel and blues, and eventually out from this mixture – Soul. Chess … Read more
Record Producers:- Dave Bartholomew and Allen Toussaint. Artists:– Fats Domino Irma Thomas Tony Joe White Aaron Neville, Lee Dorsey, Dr John and loads more besides came from New Orleans. Top UK reissue label Soul Jazz follow up their popular New Orleans Funk compilation with a second visit to the vaults of fifties, sixties and seventies … Read more