Soul and Motown Session at Camber/Bognor

[fletch]

Anyone who doesnt appreciate soul music....is a total waste of space.

I'm quite passionate about my music.

I'm not on my own anymore

[Trouble]

Oi you! cheeck g!t Less off the 'dear'

I'll give you a run for your money anytime

there ain't many of you 'young'ens' can keep up with me

yeah......

and i'll be giving Fletch directions when she is outrunning you...

[Groovemeister]

Anyone who doesnt appreciate soul music....is a total waste of space.

I'm quite passionate about my music.

As you've been to Prestayne you are obviously into your music.

I think though from a "soul music" lovers point of view it maybe difficult to play some of the real stuff. There will be a real tug of playing the classics from what everone knows to playing classics that a soul music lover knows

A set like this and you might be talking for me

01.Atlantic Starr – “when love calls”

02.Ozone – “(our hearts) will always shine”

03.Active Force – “give me your love”

04.Omari – “after loving you”

05.Lamont Dozier – “you oughta be in pictures”

06.Rhyze – “bizarr”

07.Gloria Gaynor – “lets mend whats been broken”

08.The Chi-lites – “try my side of love”

09.Arthur Miles – “helping hand”

10.Khemistry – “can you feel my love”

11.Frankie Kelly – “ain’t that the truth”

12.The Brothers Johnson – “caught up”

13.Sunfire – “step in the light”

14.Rose Royce – “still in love”

15.The Jacksons – “strength of one man”

16.Randy Brown – “love is all we need”

17.Sylvester – “here is my love”

I am in the minority I know and anything is better than nothing

[Double Trouble]

As you've been to Prestayne you are obviously into your music.

I think though from a "soul music" lovers point of view it maybe difficult to play some of the real stuff. There will be a real tug of playing the classics from what everone knows to playing classics that a soul music lover knows

A set like this and you might be talking for me

01.Atlantic Starr – “when love calls”

02.Ozone – “(our hearts) will always shine”

03.Active Force – “give me your love”

04.Omari – “after loving you”

05.Lamont Dozier – “you oughta be in pictures”

06.Rhyze – “bizarr”

07.Gloria Gaynor – “lets mend whats been broken”

08.The Chi-lites – “try my side of love”

09.Arthur Miles – “helping hand”

10.Khemistry – “can you feel my love”

11.Frankie Kelly – “ain’t that the truth”

12.The Brothers Johnson – “caught up”

13.Sunfire – “step in the light”

14.Rose Royce – “still in love”

15.The Jacksons – “strength of one man”

16.Randy Brown – “love is all we need”

17.Sylvester – “here is my love”

I am in the minority I know and anything is better than nothing

THAT'S what I'm talking about. I was just in the process of putting together my own top ten uplifting soul tunes to ceroc to, but you beat me to it...and your list is better than mine.

[Groovemeister]

And hear lies a problem because to go and get these records (unless you download them of course) are going to cost you time and money. Some of those tracks are readily available on CD comps now but it take a lot of effort to get a good collection of soul music together.

[Double Trouble]

Ok, but if you went a little more commercial. Like this list for example.

Cheryl Lynn - Got to be real
Earth wind and fire - September
Rose Royce - Car wash
Micheal Jackson - Dont stop til you get enough
Oliver Cheatham - Get down Saturday night
Skipworth & Turner - Thinking about your love
D. Train - You're the one for me
The Whispers - It's a love thing
The Whispers - and the beat goes on
Earth Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed Delivered, I'm yours.

[Gav]

-lot's of stuff-

How about:

Tavares - Let me heal the bruises
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's dead
Isaac Hayes - Walk on by
Lauren Hill - The miseducation of Lauren Hill

[Double Trouble]

Oh...Oh...OOooooooohhhh. I forgot one of my favourites.

Natalie Cole - This will be.

It makes me feel all bouncy and tingly just thinking about dancing ceroc to that tune.

[JiveLad]

The great thing about this thread is that there a bunch of tunes which are new to me (and I consider myself something of a soul aficionado) and so I will be busy downloading later - thanx guys!!

For me there are some albums in my collection with great tracks on for Ceroc, with varying tempos/BPMs/moods, eg:

This is Northern Soul (vol1 &2): Motown Northern Soul Rarities
The Philly Sound (vol1,2,3)
Complete Stax Collection (vol 1 - 9)
Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures vol 1/2
Temptations Early Years
Marvin Gaye Anthology
Edwin Starr Early Years

.........and that's just the start - you could do a whole weekend just on these!

[Double Trouble]

.........and that's just the start - you could do a whole weekend just on these!

If there was a soul/ceroc weekend...I would be first on the list. Just imagine how amazing that would be.

You could have three different rooms with different types of soul music in each.

And everyone would be really cool, funky and friendly.....just like all the soul weekenders I used to go to.

I can only dream of such a weekend.

[Groovemeister]

Go to Southport in May and your dreams could come true

Saturday afternoon in the Connoisseurs Corner dancing to classic modern soul MJing would be excellent.

You know you want to book www.southportweekender.co.uk the 40th one

[Double Trouble]

Go to Southport in May and your dreams could come true

Trust you to mention the only weekender I am not going on.

[Dance Demon]

Go to Southport in May and your dreams could come true

Saturday afternoon in the Connoisseurs Corner dancing to classic modern soul MJing would be excellent.

You know you want to book www.southportweekender.co.uk the 40th one

Careful you don't upset the "Blues Room Police"....I had my plans to play some classic Doo-Wop....the forerunner of Northern Soul....scuppered last year. Hope you get away with it though, I've gradually introduced some soul stuff into my Southport sets as a lot of it is great for WCS, but I recall Chef referring to it as "disco"

Whoops...just realise you are talking about an entirely different Southport weekender........sorry

[TheTramp]

Careful you don't upset the "Blues Room Police"....I had my plans to play some classic Doo-Wop....the forerunner of Northern Soul....scuppered last year. Hope you get away with it though, I've gradually introduced some soul stuff into my Southport sets as a lot of it is great for WCS, but I recall Chef referring to it as "disco"

Ummm. I think that it's a different Southport weekend John....

[fletch]

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Earth wind and fire - September

Earth Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland
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Rob Ambridge play's these tunes, i'm round my handbag for these.

[Groovemeister]

The wording of soul "and motown" is something that I wounder about do you mean northern soul. With Motown still being a record label today, is this a generic way of saying Northern soul.

Here are a few more for you to search out some a bit more recent

01. Dwele – I think I love you
02. Sharon Redd – love is gonna get ya
03. Michael Wycoff – looking up to you
04. Ben E.King – street tough
05. Prince – beautiful, loved and blessed
06. Sounds of Blackness – I believe
07. Jean Carn – bet your lucky stars
08. The Rebirth –sum same
09. Alton McClain & Destiny – it must be love
10. Zingara – i surrender
11. Rose Royce – best love
12. Benjamin Devigne – mess up
13. Fat Freddies Drop –flashback (jazzanova mix)
14. Heaven & Earth – i really love you
15. Tom Browne – brighter tommorrow
16. Alicia Myers – i want to thank you

[Chef]

Careful you don't upset the "Blues Room Police"....I had my plans to play some classic Doo-Wop....the forerunner of Northern Soul....scuppered last year. Hope you get away with it though, I've gradually introduced some soul stuff into my Southport sets as a lot of it is great for WCS, but I recall Chef referring to it as "disco"

I think I said something along the lines of "then suddenly about 3am the blues room seemed to go Disco". I don't know if you find it funny that I refered to something as "disco" when a more precise definitation of the musical style was more approriate. I have no objections to the music as such. There are those that like it and those that don't. I am one of the latter and as a result I have not made an in depth study of the different sub genres. Likewise, I wouldn't know the difference between acid house, garage and trance musical genres. Don't know the difference and don't like any of the styles enough to educate myself.

My comment was because I thought the uptempo beat and style of the "disco" music was jarringly inappropriate (IMO) to a blues room at 3am. Perhaps it would have fitted in in the latin room, the tango milonga, or the ballroom session much more seamlessly.

I would be interested to hear WHY and by WHOM, you think your planned Doo-Wop session at Southport was scuppered. Was it just a case that you put forward your proposal and people said - thanks for the offer but no thanks? I am not sure that I have heard Doo-Wop music before (might have heard it but it was not identified to me as Doo-wop) and would have been interested to have the opportunity to hear some - even if that wouldn't have guaranteed that I would have liked it.

[Andy McGregor]

The wording of soul "and motown" is something that I wounder about do you mean northern soul. With Motown still being a record label today, is this a generic way of saying Northern soul.

As somebody who has been running soul and Motown nights for 2 years I can tell you that there are 2 definitions of Northern Soul. Ask and American about Northern Soul and he'd say it was soul music from Detroit, the home of Motown. As opposed to Southern Soul on the Stax label from Philli. However, there is another "Northern Soul" from Manchester. It's very specialised, of fringe interest, very different from Motown and, in my experience, a guaranteed floor clearer. However, there are dedicated fanatics who love this genre and will probably fight you if you say there's anything wrong with their "Northern Soul".

I've accumulated a massive collection of Soul & Motown and have now got most, if not all, of the tracks listed above. I've even got a fairly large collection of the Manchester version of Northern Soul. At one soul night I had a Northern Soul fan request his all-time favourite track: he had the attitude "with what you're playing you won't have this". I played the track on the condition he danced in the middle of the floor to the whole track. In a room of 200 people he danced alone I got everyone to give him a round of applause and then said "let's all get back on the floor, it's Dancing in the Streets by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas" a guaranteed floor filler. To my great relief they flooded back on the floor

[Dance Demon]

I think I said something along the lines of "then suddenly about 3am the blues room seemed to go Disco". I don't know if you find it funny that I refered to something as "disco" when a more precise definitation of the musical style was more approriate. I have no objections to the music as such. There are those that like it and those that don't. I am one of the latter and as a result I have not made an in depth study of the different sub genres. ~snip~
My comment was because I thought the uptempo beat and style of the "disco" music was jarringly inappropriate (IMO) to a blues room at 3am. Perhaps it would have fitted in in the latin room, the tango milonga, or the ballroom session much more seamlessly.

I did think it was funny, as I certainly wouldn't have classed it as "disco". Just my sense of humour I suppose, not meant to be a dig at anyones understanding of music genres, so sorry if it sounded like I was.My 1 hour set was sandwiched between Peter Phillips, who played a swingy set, and Trampy, who tends to play quite a swingy set at that time of the morning. Given that we had Robert Cordoba and Deborah in the blues room when I went on, and quite a few others who like WCS, I thought I'd play some stuff for them to dance to, and to change the tempo a bit. It was on the Saturday night, which tends to be busier at 3am than on the Friday or Saturday, as everyone is still in party mode and it was only an hour. judging from the feedback I received, a lot of people really enjoyed it. I don't think it would have fitted in to the Latin room or the Milonga session, as it wasn't a latin set.I payed the final sets in the blues rooms on the Friday and the Sunday nights, and the music was quite a different style and tempo.
I won't go in to the Doo-Wop thing again. My "blues room police" reference was basically to certain people with whom I had some friendly banter at the time. I have sneaked the odd doo wop track in to my sets, and nobody noticed.....

[Chef]

I did think it was funny, as I certainly wouldn't have classed it as "disco". Just my sense of humour I suppose, not meant to be a dig at anyones understanding of music genres, so sorry if it sounded like I was.

Not taken as a dig. I just thought that I had committed a faux pas by so horribly labelling something as "disco" when someone who loved and understood the music and it's differences knew that what was played was nothing of the sort.

My 1 hour set was sandwiched between Peter Phillips, who played a swingy set, and Trampy, who tends to play quite a swingy set at that time of the morning. Given that we had Robert Cordoba and Deborah in the blues room when I went on, and quite a few others who like WCS, I thought I'd play some stuff for them to dance to, and to change the tempo a bit.

So you see there were three sets that were uptempo swingy back to back. It is getting harder and harder to find a "blues" room anymore. It is starting to seem that if you want to get some blues music to dance to you have to start think about joining the swing and blues room about 4am to have any chance. I have noticed that there are fewer rooms that are labelled "swing and blues" these days. A more general term of "chillout" or "smooth" is being used. This of course allows you to play anything you like as long as it is slower than the main room.

I don't think it would have fitted in to the Latin room or the Milonga session, as it wasn't a latin set.

Quite. It wasn't a swing or blues set either. As I said, and its only my opinion, it didn't seem to fit the room at that time. In the great scheme of things it doesn't matter that much. After about 20 minutes of not enjoying the music I went to the latin room until the set was over and returned in the hope that a blues set would be played.

It is one of the great things about weekenders and events with more than one room. If what is going on doesn't flaot your boat you can always try another room for a while.