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Hookers.

1. Further listening;

Billy Butler.

Singles.
Found true love/Lady love 1963
Gotta get away/I'm just a man 1964
Can't live without her/My heart is hurtin 1964
Nevertheless/My sweet woman 1964
I can't work no longer/Tomorrow is another day 1965
(You make me think) you ain't ready/Your gonna be sorry 1965
Right Track/Boston Monkey 1966

Albums
Right track 1966

All on Okeh records.

2. Northern Soul is purely fan driven. If it's fast black American Soul and danceable, then it's all good.

3. So very true.

4. Incredibly, his identity is an ongoing mystery.

5. The Bottle. This record is regarded as not being true Northern Soul by purist, due to it's funk content and still causes divisions. I love it.

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http://www.cooloff.net/site/video/index.html
^ Just a taste of Northern Soul dance styles.

Note; some of the footage dates back to the mid 70s.
Proof that breakdance and hip/hop styles originated on the 'Northern' scene, here in England.

adidasss

bless you for trying....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox609...orthern%20soul

The Reverend Cecil Washington (yes he really was a Reverend).
Incredible considering the song title and the feeling put into this...'I Don't Like To Lose'.

It builds and builds. Unique track.
Also a great insight into the Northern Soul scene, with old and recent footage from various allnighters.
Keeping The Faith.

TheBig3

You know Right-Track, I don't get why I wouldn't just listen to MoTown. My father loved that **** growing up and this sounds like MoTown raw. Which isn't a bad concept but Im missing some of the...magic.

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Suggesting I listen to Motown instead, is the equivalent of recommending Green Day to a Punk.
I love Motown, but compared to the upbeat 4/4 time sig. of most Northern Soul, it comes across as too polished and produced. And in my opinion the raw sound adds to the overall feel.

You've obviously seen the clip in the link of my last post.
The music, the dancing, the people and the whole scene, go hand in hand with this brand of soul.

Even the musicians involved in the making of this music are of high quality, many of them big name jazz players from the 60's. Some of which included members of Motown's own in-house band members, such as the Funk Brothers, moonlighting for the smaller R&B labels to earn a few extra bucks (anonymously of course). The rawness of this sound is in part due to the tight budget these labels were working to. It wasn't unusual for these spins to be cut in one take.
Add all this to the obscureness and rarity of these wonderful tracks...and therein lies the magic.

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I need to add some of those dance moves to my arsenal. Good track also.

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Yeah I see your point is there is some jazz in what I've heard but it lacks in song quality. Like everything you said makes them authetic, and hey, more power to them, but then you'd need to be in love with that genre, and if you're not, you're lost.

MoTown, as overproduced as it was, knew music, they had alot going for it. Not that I dislike Green Day, but to compare MoTown to Green Day is a sin most high.

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Motown to Northern Soul = Green Day to punk. In my eyes.
It's true to say Motown knew their music. They knew how to take an artist, knock the rough edges off and polish and present the finished package.
They knew how to produce sugary, presentable Soul to tap into the white American record buying puplic. They sold out Soul.
Northern Soul stayed true to it's black audience, it's content far sexier than it's watered down adversary.

Northern Soul was raunchy and took risks. When Motown artists were singing about falling in and out of love for the thousandth time, Northern artists were dealing with issues like promiscuity and adultery, drugs and bigotry.

I love Motown...but in the world of Soul...nothing compares to Northern.