Attention Northern Soul fans

I hate to disagree but....

 

Stereophonics do do a good cover........



Me mam always said if u can't say owt nice, dont say nothing at all.......so I'll keep me Springsteen opinions to myself, suffice to say, I don't see the point, he's bringing nowt to the party.

 

From a new Springsteen album of soul covers ‘Only the Strong Survive’ out in November. Back to his early RnB roots and Southside Johnny.

 

A question for you Northern Soul fans. Springsteen often played RnB covers live before hitting the big time with Born to Run. There’s a strong RnB feel with the horns in his live shows pre-1976 (culminating in 10th Avenue Freeze Out). He wrote a lot of songs recorded by Southside Johnny and Gary US Bonds including Talk to Me and Club Soul City. Were these ‘cross-over’ hits on the soul scene? Was a lot of Northern Soul music from New Jersey in the late 60s/early 70s?

 

Not sure mate but have seen Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth four times and they are sensational. References a number of songs Springsteen wrote for him/gave to him.

 

Southside does a great version of Don’t Walk Away Renee and the plays what I’d call RnB - a mix of soul and rock. Just wondered where the connection is with Northern Soul as I assume a lot of the soul songs were popular in the US in the late 60s and then over here in the early 70s

 

Sam Moore from Sam & Dave featured on Springsteen album

 

Don't know a huge amount about Northern Soul but I know Do I Love You. It's a great song. Plenty of energy in this version too. It's not as good as the original imho but it definitely doesn't sound rubbish to me. And what's the point of it? Well...

The reason I know Do I Love is I really liked Tainted Love by Soft Cell. Marc Almond spoke about it being a Northern Soul song, so I looked that up and read about Wigan Casino and listened to recommendations of other songs in the genre and Do I Love You was an absolute belter. I dipped my toes in and found some songs I really like but my musical interest went elsewhere, although I sometimes include Northern Soul tracks in play lists. But the story of Northern Soul, both in terms of the artists who recorded the music and how it became a scene in Northern towns in England is fascinating.

Bruce Springsteen covering this track will open all that up to a lot of other people who'll get pleasure from listening to that music and reading the story, some of whom will go on to produce their own music.

 

…I’ve already got an hit on @exiled,
My take on it is that’s it’s better than I expected but not as good as the original, I’ll probably still buy the vinyl (just to keep my collection going) I can see me playing it once or twice and probably never listening to it again, with regards of bringing nothing new to the original I got to agree but then again the stereophonics version of handbags and gladrags brought nothing new to the original or Rod Stewart’s version…in my opinion of course,

 

i'm not a springsteen fan but my cousin has seen him in concert over 70 times worldwide, i think its a good cover and nowhere near as good as the original but few songs rarely are except born to run by frankie goes to hollywood kicks the bosses ar5e to shredded duck....................... just the humble opinion of a broken down old jedi

 

Whaaaaaat!!!!!!….now that’s going too far

 

I think a lot of the American Soul and Blues music wasn’t popular with the American public until as with the Blues music was taken and repackaged by Brit Bands in the sixties .
I think a lot of the soul songs went same, made popular by the Northern soul circuit , many of the Northern Soul were made specifically for the NS market of Britain with lots of Underground record labels and session payed artists making the vast majority of the movement .

 

I wasn't much of a springstein fan but he has grown on me a bit, he speaks for the blue collar rust belt of his country and is quite political. Reagan wanted to use born in the usa as a campaign song but he refused, Reagan didnt realise its irony even though it mentions Khe Sanh (google it kids-especially if you think Putin has a monopoly on wasting the younger generation on a lost imperialistic cause)
As a northern soul fan, I'm okay with covers. I hope it makes a new generation look into the music and its heritage. He doesnt strike me as the type to lay claim to it. Hope he gives a plug to its origins, well not its origins, the reason for its enduring appeal.
If anybody doesnt know what it is, I'd recommend this as a starting point on youtube:
The Culture Show. Northern Soul, Keeping The Faith {2013}

Two fun facts:
1. Kylie did a disco version of Time will pass you by but it was never released as a single as the record companies couldn't agree rights, its on youtube though (I have a painting in my house based on the line I'm just a pebble on a beach)
2. The original single of Do I love you was once the most expensive single ever purchased (by the Wigan DJ Russ Winstanley) It was thought to be the only record of it. The rest were pulped after Frank Wilson left the Motown subsidiary and decided he wanted to be an accountant rather than a singer (LoL). However, not long after it was auctioned, Motown found another copy in their archive.

 

Two words. The Londoner.

Were you there? Indeed I was.

 

Hi mate, I was a bit late to Northern soul, late 1970s on. The general consensus is that it originated in the UK in the late 1960s to early 1970s when mods in the north still wanted to go to late night clubs and dance all night to fast 4 beat soul music. In the states the early 70s had brought in a more funk based sound so the scene went delving into back catalogues of soul labels that were spin offs of Motown or were subsidiaries of it, such as okeh. The term Northern soul was apparently invented by a London rare record shop owner who had spotted northern people were buying this kind of music. A lot of northern classics were either unreleased demos or flops as black America had gone funky as witnessed by such Motown stalwarts as the temptations and Stevie wonder releasing tunes such as ball of confusion and higher ground, plus stuff like Gill Scott heron, the bottle and the force of nature known as George Clinton. I would say the music itself was more centred on Detroit. Once a template had been established and refined, northern did suck in the odd mainstream act, Frankie Valli being the only jersey boy I can think of and the odd up beat tune by established soul singers such as Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye.

 

Yep ,battle of the bands ? Two more words “Light Fantastic “

 

Nowhere near as bad as 'Wigans Ovation.' I still shudder at 'Skiing in the Snow'

 

Yep. on a regular basis

 

Don't agree but it takes all sorts!