From the heart and soul of Manchester.
It's all about soul and it's got to be Northern.
The power of the scene lies not just in the quality of the
music, but in the memories that have been made and continue to
be forged, experiencing this great music together.
I got a new dance to know it sometime.
This new dance is out right now. Come on everybody.
You dance, baby. Let's head on your way now.
Oh, yeah. Whipping on you. 9A day now.
All right. The stamp is catching on like a
fan desert. I got to whip it on me.
You want to get some ease now. All right, all right, all right.
Oh, do not put it on me. Do not put it on me.
Help. We've been on me one more time.
And I believe in you. You'll know that this is
everybody. I want you to know all that.
Oh, yeah. Know when you can do it if you
let yourself go. Now, come on.
Loosen up and whipping from your left to right, baby.
Thank you. Whip it on me with all your
mind. Now.
You're looking good there. All right.
All right, the man. All right.
Whip it on me. You'll not whip it on me.
You'll got the whip it on me in
the morning. You'll got the whip it on me.
They were in there. Whip it, whip it, whip it down.
We're in hell. Dance crazies are a goal mine
for record labels. You only need to look at how
many follow-ups Chubby checkers, The Twist inspired to see that
So if an unknown artist could create the next big dance craze
to sweep the nation, they were more or less guaranteed success.
Unfortunately, that plan didn't quite pan out for Pennsylvania
performer Bobby Newton, who in 1969 attempted to introduce the
whip to the dance floors, but it failed to gain much traction.
Even if the whip didn't catch on, the unrelenting up tempo
energy of Newton was enough to make the track a storming floor
filler on the Northern Soul scene.
That you understand that I'm your man.
Because maybe I can't do without you.
Please don't turn me away. Let me ask you, Hey, please
don't let me go, girl, stop me from walking.
I'm the girl because I can't do without
you. Girl, you know you're doing
good, treating me nice. Everything is just like sugar.
All you got to do is stay at the fight.
Girl. Now just take my head.
Tell you that you understand. Tell me that you need me.
So, so you know. Deon Jackson never really hit
the big time, despite his prolific range of recordings
throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s.
Realistically, his only nationwide entry into the pop
charts came with 1960 Fives Love Makes the World Go Round, also
released on Carla Records. Yet he is amongst the most
beloved figures in the realm of Northern Soul, thanks largely to
the timeless efforts like Oh Baby.
Could this be the end of time? The heavens are falling down
from the sky. What's the sun doing shining so
bright? I just got to bed at the middle
of the night. I reach out for him to touch his
sweet lips. Open my eyes and no lips to
kiss. The light and the storms coming
home. The whole wide world of my baby
dolls. There's an earthquake.
Heartbreaking. I'll shake it all around me.
Tears falling out around me. Earthquake,
my heartbreaking. It saved my life and make it so
wonderful. Come, come around.
Make it worth living for. Let's face it, he's gone.
And that he'll always be The sweet magic of his love.
He's gonna go. My heart's breaking round.
Shaking all around me. Tears falling by the ground.
Me. Earthquake, Earthquake.
I'm breaking when I shake it all around me.
Tears falling around me. Earth way.
My heart breaking. I shake it all around me.
Tears falling around me. Earth way.
Earth Way. It's only 2 1/2 minutes in
length. Earthquake is a short, sharp
soul anthem driven by orchestral strings and a strong baseline,
but with the powerful vocals of Lynne always at the core of its
appeal. Its adoption by Northern Soul
circles was lightly helped along by the fact that the 1968 single
was issued in the UK on the Stateside label before being
reissued again in 1971 under the Bell record label.
Whoever Bobby Lynn was and what her fate was after her
fledgering soul career, it remains a mystery.
But Earthquake still lives on as an incredible Northern Soul
anthem. Break your heart in a minute.
It breaks every room. Yeah, Anything I can do with
girl. I know what you're making, girl.
Maybe I'm maybe I'm jealous. I'm so jealous.
So that friend of mine.
Oh yeah. When it comes out for you to go,
remember what I had to say. The spirit day.
Yeah. You believe to love ever after.
You don't really live here. Listen to listen to the
laughter. Listen to the laughter, because
I'm so I'm that friend of man. I'm that friend of man.
Don't be surprised of whatever you do.
You know who's better than me? That's you on my back with one
hand and pick your pocket with the other.
Yeah. This track features the
production work from Chicago's finest A Guy Called James
Shelton Junior, and this slice of Northern Soul excellence is
one of only two singles ever recorded by Samuel Moore.
Not to be confused with some Moore of the iconic soul duo Sam
and Dave. Both of those tracks were
released via the Chicago label DJO, and both are equally as
capable of getting people up on the dance floor.
It's a stomping dance track, telling the typical soul tale of
a heartbroken lover. The rhythm section of the
backing band credited to the TNTS forms a particular
captivating aspect of this single.
I wanted to put me down. I was headed for a heartbreak
town. I just picked myself up.
I knew that I hadn't hidden them all the adventures all over my
bed. If I can't leave it, baby, I
can't tell you where. No, I can't leave out and tell
you when you're lone. I'm going to win something.
Dated lady. No breakdown and lovely girl.
Breakdown and lovely girl baby. No wind, rain, steepest snow is
going to keep you away from you no matter where you always go.
Hey, I'm going to be there too. And I'll be able to say I told
the soul no, I don't know. I don't know the plan and I
can't even change the time. But I'm gone.
I knew Oh sophista get it laid in devastating laid at oh
breakdown and lovely girl Breakdown and lovely girl
just I love you. Heartbreak anthems make numerous
appearances on tonight's episode.
Given just how reoccurring that theme has been within the
landscape of funk, soul and R&B music since the very early days,
however, this particular stomper takes a more self affirming,
rousing approach than many others.
With incredible horns and of course a vocal performance from
the mysterious Chicago Outfit, Sophisticated Lady is an
undisputable Northern Soul classic, and for a very good
reason. Within the song, the summits
capture the kind of feeling that really resonated with audiences
at the Torch and Wigan Casino, and continues to resonate with
modern audiences too. In terms of the summits
themselves, little is known about the group other than they
were from Chicago and released 3 singles between 1964 and 1968.
Every time I hear your name, yeah, your name makes me wonder
if things will ever be gonna say.
It's so hard to realise with all my love with Castor Sand.
You think it's funny, but you don't know what you've done has
hurt me So. Because I love you back here.
I still love you. If I love you.
Yeah. I still love you.
Tell my friends I ain't no good. That's all right.
I understood. But I love you all right.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never
change the way I feel about you. About you, all right?
That's the way we got to be together.
When you let both agree that your love will always be
together, 'cause I know if you take it back there'll be no
hurry, 'cause I see that here I still love you, 'cause I love
you, here I still. The Seven Souls and the group
formed in Los Angeles in the mid 1960s during a period when the
West Coast had a thriving soul and R&B record industry.
LA studios were producing a huge number of vocal groups and often
recorded quickly and released on smaller independent labels.
The Seven Souls were part of this scene, a tight vocal
harmony group influenced by Motown and Chicago soul, but
with a slightly raw West Coast edge.
One reason the group attracts attention from soul historians
is the involvement of Bobby Smith.
Bobby Smith later became the lead singer of the legendary
Motown group The Spinners. Sometimes I love sometimes.
Sometimes the sun just can't be bad.
Some days are good. The.
I. None.
Tonight's episode is featuring rare and some familiar soul
music and this was from a group called the Broadways and they
were a chicago-based soul vocal group who recorded during the
golden era of 1960s soul music. Chicago at the time was a
powerhouse for soul recordings with labels and studios
producing A distinctive sound that makes gospel style vocals,
strong rhythm sections and sharp horn arrangements.
The group is best remembered for recordings released on the
Chicago label Midas Records, but also the most notable member of
the group was Willie Hutch. Same old 2 feet walking down
your feet, same old hand. There it goes knocking on your
door. The same old boys to her so many
times before. It's here.
It's here once more, baby. Please let me in.
Love you. Love you, baby.
Just let me love you. Once more than I did so many
times before. Yeah, call me.
I love you. Same old loneliness.
I love you, Sammy. Only you love me there has a
power and only let me come back home.
No more more will I go baby, please let me in.
Just let me love you once more like I did so many times before.
Yeah. Love me.
Wait that to him. I love
you. Wait that to him.
I need some more softy tea. I'm shady once more.
Please hear my lonely feet. Come on, baby.
Shield by me only. Let me come back home.
No more. No more will I hold baby.
Please let me go back. A classic soul track from JJ
Barnes, and he was part of the Detroit soul scene of the 1960s,
recording during the same explosive period that produced
the sound of Motown Records. Before launching his solo
career, Barnes performed in a vocal group called the Falcons,
and this group was an important training ground for several
future soul stars, including Wilson Pickett.
By the late 1960s and early 70s, Barnes records were being played
in the underground soul clubs of Britain.
They fitted perfectly with the high energy dance floors at
venues like the legendary Twisted Wheel.
Today, JJ Barnes is regarded as one of the great cult figures of
Detroit soul. Golly, there's a one experience
of my life. There's a one experience of my
life as I walk along the lonely St and I walk home, keep the
tide. I began to feel the lonely legs
for the first time in my life. And then I say I'm the pain in
life and the birth and die. Then I fly back from the
timeline. So I must go down to the
newspaper and begin to advertise Darling.
They're the double winger, but they're the double winger.
Want to see the cross and learn, Want to take the job and mend
his heart. Come my heart fool you now.
I went to see a blocker, the play of the day.
I explained that thing to wait down there and he turn me.
By the way, you're the field that can prescribe Stella.
You've got to see some newspaper and begin to advertise.
I really feel some cinder. I don't want to hold on my back
like a plane. Well, that's about it for
tonight's episode, and it's been a journey through the rare raw
and underplayed soul with just a few familiar names along the
way. We've heard great sounds from
the Del Larks, JJ Barnes, the Broadways, the Summits, and
many, many more records that might have been forgotten over
time but found a second life on turntables and dance floors.
Thanks for listening, until the next time, bye bye.
So many things you give to me. Why not?
I'll never be free. No one else I keep doing.
That's why I keep on telling you.
People can think that they will lie, but in my heart you'll not
sleep. But I got love.
I got love hallucinating what happened this way when you walk
out for me, that's too long. I did it wrong.
I'm not gonna be. Please forgive me.
Come along and take me back in your heart.
And we will never. I'm so much too much.
Give it a Sharon and I always care all about everything we've
do so much harder. If I do my way, there's a little
more time and I'm going to prove this love of mine.
I'm going to make our life much stronger.
Hurdles together. First time I've got to laugh.
I've got a heart. I've got a kiss with emotion.
I'm a true love and desire. I've got a heart and a fire.
I've got a keys full of emotion, understand and love and desire.
I've got a heart.