Welcome. And tonight it's all about love.
The kind of love that lives in the grooves of a 45.
The kind that crackles through the speakers and straight into
your soul. And tonight we're talking about
love that aches, love that lifts you higher, love that makes you
move your feet and sometimes just close your eyes and feel.
From the heart and soul of Manchester.
It's all about soul and it's got to be Northern.
And now, a classic Northern Soul groove that's all about love and
devotion. And it's from the precisions.
Babe I keep telling you girl this love is true so don't keep
refusing for making angry. I know what you love, like to
feel with so much confusion and you think that you love.
Why girl, can't you hear my feet?
Why girl, let your heart get breathe?
Why girl do you turn to me? Why girl?
Why I cried myself and got one
on my man. I've done everything to make you
understand. I turned.
Deep down inside, you want to let go, survive.
You like to let you be in the shade.
Why, girl? Can't you hear my bee?
Why, girl let your heart decreed?
Why, girl do you turn to me? Why girl?
Why?
Yeah. So hold up your hand.
Just leave me that way. I love you.
I need you to say what more can I see while I live in the past
that you teach you need me while I hide from your heart and
reactivate my girl. Can't you hear my feet, white
girl? That your heart can't breathe?
Wiger, do you turn to me? Wiger.
Wiger, I love you. The Precisions and Why Girl is
smooth, melodic and heartfelt. The elite vocals carry a gentle
urgency, asking the question we all know it matters in the
heart. Why can't love be simple?
It's tender, sincere and full of the 60s soul charm that keeps
collectors and dancers coming back for more.
Perfect for tonight's Love Theme 60 minute journey, reminding us
that Love's questions as much as its answers.
When I need your loving, you are away in the world.
You got kisses Sweeter than a honey.
Sweeter than honey. I know that you love this.
That's just that's why I love you, baby.
I really love you. That's what I need, your money.
I really, really need you. Whenever I'm feeling this land,
you'll be insane. You got that kind of kisses that
makes me feel bad in your love baby.
It's got so much soul that I know you're sweeten yourself
hard and never ever ever ever go pick me here ever up now I'm
rundown. When I need your love you're
always around. That's why I love you baby, I
really love you. That's why I need you baby.
I really need you girl.
I really love you. You got kisses and I know that
you love this. That's why I love you baby.
I really really love you. That's why I need your honey.
From the heart and soul of Manchester.
It's all about soul and it's got to be Northern.
And keeping the love flowing. A record that says it all in the
title The Professionals, That's Why I Love You.
This one. Smooth, heartfelt and an
absolute classic. The kind of song that makes you
smile, sway and feel the warmth inside.
Perfect for tonight's theme. Reminded us why we fall in love,
we hold on, and why music itself is one of the greatest
expressions of love. I can't see that you've been
hurting, written all over your face, the way you act and carry
yourself. I'm feeling any owing praise,
but all I need is my moon. Just show me some sign that you
won't let me yours and you want to be mine.
And let. Me love you oh baby, let me love
you with my loving. What you got me good turn the
word round. You safe and looking hard times
all that you ever see but it can be old before you knew if you
just believe in me and if you do you own the love.
Let no one. Say ahead and I'll give you
different names for everyone you have there.
If you let me love you, oh baby, let me love with my loving what
you got? We could turn the word around.
Don't throw in the tongue, baby. Don't give up, gay.
If you love me, love you baby, I will make you.
Out of Chicago and notably the first female artists signed to
Stax Records, Gene Wells had the perfect blend of gospel feeling
and soul sophistication. She recorded tracks like Have I
Little Mercy and work within the rich Southern soul tradition.
But like so many artists tonight, her biggest recognition
came later through the Northern Soul scene here in the UK.
With My Love is smooth, heartfelt and full of sincerity.
The kind of record that quietly builds and stays with you.
A real gem. Oh baby, here we are, alone at
last, together, just the two of us, with no one else inside.
Oh baby, I can feel my heartbeat bad, Feel a sweet desire to kiss
your lips and urge to hold your time.
Oh yeah, right now. Come on honey, right now, baby,
there's so much I want to say, But when I try to speak, I find
my thoughts. I'll slip away, baby.
I don't think my heart can tell more away from you.
So come on, take my hand. Full yet.
Right now. Come on honey, right now.
Let's take a trip to paradise and a legal world behind.
Oh yeah, The time's like right now.
Come on, honey, Right now the time is like Fuller and I'm a
titfuler. Need some hugging and occasion.
Find out what I've been missing. The time's like all right now.
Very much an underrated artist out of Chicago, one of those
voices that never quite broke through in the States but found
a home on the Northern Soul dance floors.
And there's a warmth and optimism in this one, a sense of
seizing the moment, holding on to love while it's there.
He's trying so hard to. Hide.
When he's supposed to look in my eyes, but the little things he.
Does reveal. I can see through his eyes.
What am I going to? Do What am I supposed to say?
I think he's been lying. I feel something dying.
And I can feel him slipping away.
Yes, I can feel him. Slipping away, keeping losing,
always understanding. I feel like I've been wasting my
time. Liverpool.
Thinks he's been demanding. Sure, I know what's on.
Is mine, my tin. The touch seemed to have been
turned off. He tries not to show it, but
someone I. Know him, my heart can feel him.
Slipping over me? Yeah, I can.
Feel him slipping. Over me.
When he's supposed to look in my.
Eyes. I can see through his eyes his
moment in the touch seat has been.
Turned off he. Tries not to show it.
And now a real hidden gem straight from the Southern soul
heartland. And I really had to dig deep for
this one from the Southern states.
Maybe Lee with I can feel him slipping away.
It was recorded on Minute Records.
And really she brings that gospel influence in motion
straight into the soul performance.
Now, the current revival of the Northern Soul scene means
different things to different people, but one thing never
changes. The unique atmosphere surrounds
it. It's something you can't quite
explain unless you've been there.
The feeling when the music starts, the floor fills and
suddenly you're part of something bigger.
It's why it's so many soulies still turn up.
Week in, week out. You're in.
You're out. Because it's not just about the
records, it's all about the people.
Old friends meet again, stories being told, memories coming back
to life. And I'll be honest, when I'm
digging through records for a a show, an episode like this, it
all comes flooding back. The faces, the clubs, the nights
that never seem to end. It feels like it was only
yesterday and there's one track that we're going to play tonight
that's going to take me right back.
Many years ago the BBC brought their cameras to a weekend all
nighter, I think it was Blackburn, King George's Hall.
They filmed the whole thing, captured everything, the
dancers, the atmosphere, the energy.
And I remember thinking at the time, I just hope none of my
dodgy dancing ends up on camera. But that was what it was all
about. Real people, real moments, and a
scene that even now still lives on.
You pretend that we meet rush of this beer, but not instead of
for this city again. That's why I love it so much.
I want to know my tea. I need to know my tea.
Just one kid of a tender name. Hey,
now she knows. Now she knows I'll do anything.
And when I'm close Earth. Are you Bastrin?
Every turn that we be right. Does this mean the counting
circle for this city game? That's why I love it so much.
It help me. I want it so much.
It help me. I need it so much.
It's over. One man who had a long standing
love affair with Northern Soul is Edwin Starr.
Having played virtually every major and minor venue in the UK,
from the Twisted Wheel through to the Wigan Casino, Edwin knows
his English fans inside out. His performing career began in
1955 as a member of the high school band The Future Tones.
They developed such a following that they were persuaded to go
on ATV talent show called The Uncle Jack Show, and they've won
it six times in a row. A solo career with Detroit based
Rigtic Records produced classics like SOS, Headline News and
Backstreet. I've been living on the Main
Street where society is the wing.
People that live on Main Street, they don't know how to swing,
but the people on the back street, they swing one night
long. Although I live on the Main
Street, the backstreet is where I belong.
So show me the backstream, show me that street, show me the back
states. Show me the back states Without
knowing each other's name and soul Is the only thing you need.
Joy riding and swing. Where people stick together one
more. They're all for war.
Where they don't get how much money you got as long as you're
having for. So show me the back street.
Show me the back street. Show me the back street.
Come on, Show me the backstreet. Yeah, he had ended.
Being a stranger in any town is a very lonesome thing, but if I
find the backstreet's a big town, I I'll find the street.
So show me the backstreet, show me the backstreet, show me the
backstreet Fail. Show me the backstreet, show me
the backstreet. Show me, Show me, Show me.
When Edwin first came over to England to play live at the
Twisted Wheel, he was immediately struck by the fans
knowledge of his music. He said then.
The people in the north of England are the most
knowledgeable music people that you'll find anywhere.
He still remembers vividly the first time he was asked to play
live at the Wigan Casino All nighter.
When he was told he would be on stage at 4:00 AM, his first
reaction was who in the world would want to turn up at 4:00 in
the morning to see a show? But he and his band was taken
into the Station Rd venue by a side entrance and he was quickly
won over by the famous casino atmosphere.
He said what struck me immediately was the heat in the
building. Then all of a sudden I looked up
and it looked like it was raining inside the building.
It was pure condensation and sweat from people dancing.
I said, boy, this is my kind of place.
My love is getting stronger, everybody like a tree that keeps
growing, like a wind that keeps flowing, like a fire that keeps
burning. And then my heart, I'll keep
turning. And then my love and get me
smaller. Everybody and everybody and
everything girl you like get a little sweetener.
And everything I love gets a little deeper and I love this
get a little stronger. Rivers may run dry, mountains
they may fall, but. It's getting stronger happening
like this. Like a dream that keeps growing.
Like a wind that keeps growing, like a fire that keeps burning.
And if a little horn I'll be dirty.
And my soul is getting stronger happening like this.
This baby from the happy body.
This baby from the happy body. Yeah, that my love.
And what a journey it's been from heartfelt ballasted dance
floor gems from gospel roots to Northern Soul classics.
And like we said at the start, it's all about love.
The love in the music, the love on the dance floor, and the love
that kept the scene alive all these years.
These records may have started like thousands of miles away on
small labels in local studios across America, but here they
found a home, a second life, and a place in our hearts.
So whether you've been listening, remembering, or maybe
even having a little dance on your own, until the next time.
I'm just a baby and loving you brings me pain.
Heartbreaking sadness girl, because misery is your little
name. Oh boy, me baby, I love you, I
love you. Snapping, I jump to your side,
you weeping I cry, trying to control it.
Honey, I love. I can't hide no call.
How can I doubt you When my poor heart can leave.
We love you. Dee baby, I love you.
Dee baby I love you.
Dee baby, I love you.