Artist	Song
Booker T & The MGs	Time Is Tight
Frank Wilson	Do I love You
Bob and Earl	Harlem Shuffle
Delphonics	La La Means I Love You
The Marvelettes	Only Your Love Can Save Me
The Esquires	Get On Up
TimiYuro	It'll Never Be Over For Me
Wigans Ovation	Skiing In The Snow
Kathy Kirby	Secret Love
Flirtations	Nothing But A Heartache
Judy Street	What
Gary Lewis and The Playboys	My Heart's Symphony
Tony Clarke	Landslide
Billy Paul	Am I Black Enough For You
Dobie Gray	Out On The Floor
Chuck Jackson (with Maxine Brown)	Something You've Got
Otis Blackwell	It's All Over Me
Chairmen Of The Board	Give Me Just A Little More Time
Esther Phillips	Just Say Goodbye
Freda Payne	Band Of Gold
Four Vandals	Big Strong Love In My Heart
The Soulful Strings	Burning Spear
Rubin Parker	You've Been Gone
Skull Snaps	I'm Your Pimp
Delegates Of Soul	I'll Come Running Back
Carl Douglas	Serving A Sentence Of Life
Lee Roye	Tears (Nothin' But Tears)
Rex Garvin	Sock It To 'Em J.B.
Dramatics	Shake it Well
The Stylistics	You Make Me Feel Brand New

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I wanted to share my favourite Northern Soul picks. My musical tastes run the gambit from Northern Soul to even Mongolian throat singing. They are not in order------> just 30 of some of my favs.

WHAT IS NORTHERN SOUL?

Northern Soul fans know it is something special and that the term "Northern Soul" does not refer to music from the Northern States of the USA (where coincidentally much of it did originate), but is a term used to identify soul music from the 1960s and early 1970s' that rarely made the popular music charts and which became the preferred music in a few small clubs in the North of England. trying to tell you the complete story and attempting to answer the question "What is Northern Soul" is similar to asking how long is piece of string? One thing that is for sure is that Northern Soul music is a genre that has endured for over forty-years, has spanned many generations and which even today continues to gain popularity. It has popularity wise always missed the boat, apart from a very brief period in the sun during the early to mid seventies. Northern Soul has therefore remained exclusive, the "exclusivity" sometimes not understood by non-believers having the opinion that Northern Soul is just 1960s' soul that was never good enough to make it the first time around in the USA, or that it is just a poor imitation of Berry Gordy's "Motown" sound. The fact is many records were rare, and so by its very nature Northern Soul has to be obscure. Many of the recordings were created by small independent black record labels in the US and there were often only a few hundred pressings distributed in only one state or region of the USA

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