• Update March 2020

    Thanks you to all my visitors over the years.  As you have probably noticed this blog hasn’t been updated regularly for several years as time hasn’t permitted me to do so as I also have another blog SoulStrutter  so I would invite and encourage you to visit SoulStrutter which is now being regularly updated.  I will…


  • Inspired by my attendance at the Debbie Taylor gig at Wilton on Saturday 9th November 2013 spurred me to reactivate this blog after a long sabbatical. What a great lady and a true performer.  She did two sets, the first kicked off with probably her best know track on the Northern Soul circuit ‘Dont Nobody…


  • Format: 45 A: Set My Heart On Fire B: Can’t Stop Label: IF Cat No: ZC 8355 Year: 1979 Value: LP $1225 Miss Misty is one Diane Heron a reggae singer.   Can’t Stop was the flip side of a 1979 single Set My Heart On Fire.  It was also released on 12 inch with the…


  • Format: 45 A: Too Much of Anything (It Ain’t Good) B: I Know I’m Falling in Love Label: AIP Cat No: 1001 Year: 1979 Value: $77 Quality smooth 70’s soul dancer from Detroit on Arnold Ingram’s label.  The featured track is the B side.  I can find absolutely no information about Chantique.  I suspect this…


  • Teena Marie R.I.P.

    De Ja Vu Someday We’ll All Be Free It was a great shock whilst listening to Solar radio last week to discover that Teena Marie had died in her sleep on Boxing Day 26th Dec 2010 at the age of 54. I bought her debut album ‘Wild & Peaceful’ as a US import on spec…


  • Update March 2020

    Thanks you to all my visitors over the years.  As you have probably noticed this blog hasn’t been updated regularly for several years as time hasn’t permitted me to do so as I also have another blog SoulStrutter  so I would invite and encourage you to visit SoulStrutter which is now being regularly updated.  I will…

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  • Inspired by my attendance at the Debbie Taylor gig at Wilton on Saturday 9th November 2013 spurred me to reactivate this blog after a long sabbatical. What a great lady and a true performer.  She did two sets, the first kicked off with probably her best know track on the Northern Soul circuit ‘Dont Nobody…

    Read more

  • Format: 45 A: Set My Heart On Fire B: Can’t Stop Label: IF Cat No: ZC 8355 Year: 1979 Value: LP $1225 Miss Misty is one Diane Heron a reggae singer.   Can’t Stop was the flip side of a 1979 single Set My Heart On Fire.  It was also released on 12 inch with the…

    Read more

  • Format: 45 A: Too Much of Anything (It Ain’t Good) B: I Know I’m Falling in Love Label: AIP Cat No: 1001 Year: 1979 Value: $77 Quality smooth 70’s soul dancer from Detroit on Arnold Ingram’s label.  The featured track is the B side.  I can find absolutely no information about Chantique.  I suspect this…

    Read more

  • Teena Marie R.I.P.

    De Ja Vu Someday We’ll All Be Free It was a great shock whilst listening to Solar radio last week to discover that Teena Marie had died in her sleep on Boxing Day 26th Dec 2010 at the age of 54. I bought her debut album ‘Wild & Peaceful’ as a US import on spec…

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  •   Very little known about The Paramount Four.  It would appear that they were a 60s group from Gallatin Tennesse. I’ve uncovered four tracks, three of them I’ve linked to You Tube and the other ‘You Must Leave Her Because You Love Her’ appears on a Kent compilation CD ‘Deep Shadows The Best Of Kent…

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  • The Northern Soul Top 600

    Just starting a series of posts of the top 600 Northern Soul records as defined in ‘The Nothern Soul Top 500’ by Kev Roberts (one of the original Wigan Casino DJs) over at my sister site http://soulstrutter.blogspot.com Posts will include mp3, label scan and as much information I can find about the artist, label, history…

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  • Ty Karim

    Ty Karim

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  • Curtis Gadson – K.I.S.S. Y.O.U.

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  • Island Inspirational All-Stars

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