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Tamla Motown Connoisseurs 2

by: Various Artists

Release Date June 02, 2003
anyone needing a new path away from the tried and tested commercial motown sound need to look no further than this collection of gems.searling has put together a very entertaining and original bunch of absolute quality tunes.bring on volume 3.

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Northern Soul Connoisseurs

by: Various Artists

Release Date May 28, 2001
As a new convert to NS I was intrigued as to what I would find on here.
I was pleasantly surprised at the content and there are a few tracks that have already become real favourites.

For me the standout track has to be the hair-raising Al Kent:The way you've been acting. Whilst this is a brilliant track unfortunately it does suffer from being a copy from a record and there is some distortion on the left channel and some of the other tracks are similarly from records and not the original master tape. Still I would rather have them that way than not at all.

All in all a bargain at £3.39 at a large supermarket chain at time of writing.

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Northern Soul Connoisseurs Volume 2

by: Various Artists

Release Date October 31, 2005
I've wanted this CD just off the strength of The Dells' "It's All Up to You", which is the most gorgeous song I've ever heard. Typically, this compilation is unavailable in the States, and I can't buy it off of UK iTunes (where I got to hear a sample of each song), so I'm just going to have to buy it here. As a Yank who loves her Northern Soul, I gotta say that the British are first class when it comes to championing and cherishing good music.

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Big Hits & Hard to Find Classics triple set

by: Various Artists

Release Date November 16, 2001
I was delighted with this album. There are many wonderful recordings here, including the two beautiful Originals' tracks "Baby I'm for real" and "Bells", Bobby Taylor's "Does your mama know?" and my all time favourite "Heaven must have sent you" by the Elgins.

There were however about half a dozen tracks on the album which grated a bit with me and didn't really seem to belong with the others - for example Charlene's "I've never been to me" and the (in my view) rather bizarre Tom Clay version of "What the world needs now is love/Abraham Martin and John". Nevertheless a good alround effort by the person who put this compilation together and marvellous value.

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Big Hits & Hard To Find Classics

by: Various Artists

Release Date April 29, 2002
The others in the series seem to be called Big MOTOWN hits and...but this one is the most interesting as its not screwed up by actually including hits-that is hits in the top 40 sense.
Its also the only way you can get the Lewis Sisters' You need me-a record which is actually closer to pure high school pop and my favorite one on the labels.
In fact you begin to notice T M dabbling in high school when they sign up Paul Peterson-whose hit singles were on Colpix in 1962 and are more Frankie Avalon than anything.Fortunately the track included here is not as cloying as his Colpix stuff.
Peterson was really an actor who found himself like his co star Shelley Fabares roped in to make records.He was interviewed recently by Ronnie Allen and the ... Read More:

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It'll Never Be Over for Me: 20 Northern Soul Masterpieces

by: Various Artists

Release Date September 28, 1998
This cd took me a while to get into but when I finally did get into it its fantastic! Its that good this is my second copy. A must for any northern soul lover.

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The Northern Soul Story Vol.1: the Twisted Wheel

by: Various Artists

Release Date July 30, 2007
What an excellent idea to create a northern soul "mecca" around the clubs which gave it birth!. All of these hallowed names now so familiar to those who loved the music and the scene and which are in no small way totally responsible for its success both then and again now.

Born in 1963 I was not considered old enough to go to the all dayers and all nighters of that time. Therefore back then I loved the music but only heard a tiny portion of it and never had the honour of entering the sacred halls themselves; Blackpool Mecca, The Torch, The Twisted Wheel and Wigan Casino. Thanks to Richard Sterling however I have enjoyed the revival and added extensively to my northern soul knowledge and collection. Now with these 4 CD's, this being the first, ... Read More:

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A Cellarful of Motown

by: Various Artists

Release Date June 03, 2002
So what's this all about-Motown spending huge amounts of money then shovelling the results into the vaults where it would remain for 40 years!
How do these "experts" know what the public will buy? After all it was only through the Beatles that TM took off in the U K.
It must have made the artists wonder what they'd done wrong!
Especially Gladys Knight who was already seeing all her Fury and Vee Jay things reissued on LP.Then TM issue her cover of The Nitty Gritty-hardly essential really as Shirley Ellis had cornered the market with this one.
Interesting though the way T M covered their own songs with their own artists but through the years the CD Age has seen a mass amount of the music using any excuse to reissue it and then repeating the ... Read More:

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The Northern Soul Story Vol.2: the Golden Torch

by: Various Artists

Release Date July 30, 2007
So what's this all about-Motown spending huge amounts of money then shovelling the results into the vaults where it would remain for 40 years!
How do these "experts" know what the public will buy? After all it was only through the Beatles that TM took off in the U K.
It must have made the artists wonder what they'd done wrong!
Especially Gladys Knight who was already seeing all her Fury and Vee Jay things reissued on LP.Then TM issue her cover of The Nitty Gritty-hardly essential really as Shirley Ellis had cornered the market with this one.
Interesting though the way T M covered their own songs with their own artists but through the years the CD Age has seen a mass amount of the music using any excuse to reissue it and then repeating the ... Read More:

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The Northern Soul Story Vol.4: Wigan Casino

by: Various Artists

Release Date July 30, 2007
He didnt like it that much it seems hes hardly played it , so the music cant be that great.

However it did the job , and it was what he wanted so meh,