CD Album - Various Artists - The Essential Northern Soul Story - Goldmine Soul Supply

CD Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	The Essential Northern Soul Story
Label:	Goldmine Soul Supply
Country:	UK
Date:	1990
Catalogue:	GSCD001
Barcode:	5018255000299
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	The Inspirations	No One Can Take Your Place	Ivey, Bell, Gibson	Rate
02	Bobby Treetop	Wait Till I Get To Know You	K. Williams	Rate
03	The Velvet Satins	Nothing Can Compare To You	Artie Kornfeld, Trade Martin	Rate
04	The Majestics [LA]	(I Love Her So Much) It Hurts	Arthur Robles	Rate
05	Dena Barnes	If You Ever Walk Out Of My Life	G. Barnes, D. Browner	Rate
06	Larry Clinton	She's Wanted	J. Soloman, E. Holman	Rate
07	The Inticers	Since You Left	Harold Andrews	Rate
08	Herb Ward	Strange Change	Bishop, Randolph, Styles	Rate
09	Moses Dillard And The Dynamic Showmen	I'll Pay The Price	Moses Dillard	Rate
10	George Blackwell	Can't Lose My Head	Kenneth Ruffin	Rate
11	The Bell Boys	I Don't Want To Lose You	K. Tarleton, G. Davis	Rate
12	The Group Featuring Cecil Washington	I Don't Like To Lose	Bill Tuthill	Rate
13	Four Perfections	I'm Not Strong Enough	Steals, Thomas, Steals	Rate
14	Frankie Beverly And The Butlers	Because Of My Heart	F. Beverly	Rate
15	Yvonne Vernee	Just Like You Did Me	Tony Clark	Rate
16	Ronnie McNeir	Sitting In My Class	McNeir	Rate
17	Sandra Phillips	World Without Sunshine	T. Kemp, G. Kerr, H. Murray	Rate
18	Little Jimmy Scott	It Rained 40 Days And Nights	J. Armstead	Rate
19	Patti Young	Head And Shoulders	C. Otis, N. DeCoteaux	Rate
20	Epitome Of Sound	You Don't Love Me	Robert Paladino	Rate
21	Jimmy Mack	My World Is On Fire	M. Coleman, C. Bassoline, M. Valvano	Rate
22	Jackie Day	Naughty Boy	Cyril D. Robert Jr	Rate
23	Edward Hamilton	I'm Gonna Love You	Melvin Davis	Rate
24	Robby Lawson	Burning Sensation	Paul Kyser Jr	Rate
25	John Hampton	Not My Girl	Hampton	Rate

Notes

Digitally remastered from original Tapes/45s
Compilation: Kev Roberts
Insert notes: Kev Roberts & Dave Evison

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Northern Exile 16th Nov 2017		Great review Roger, you know your stuff! I too had heard that one of their biggest sellers was a funk CD. I'd love to know which one, as although I have them all I can't say I have enjoyed a single track!



RogerFoster 1st Jan 2016		Review I consider this to be the CD equivalent of Helen of Troy. OK, it didn't quite launch a thousand ships but it did spawn a few hundred Soul Compilation CDs on the famous/notorious (delete as applicable) Goldmine Soul Supply imprint.. This was the very first CD issued by Goldmine, it quite clearly has the year of publication of 1990 on the disc, though strangely the essay that came with their 1993 Sampler CD GSCD 13 claimed that the idea for the label didn't come around until late 1991!! The idea was quite simple, dub a couple of dozen little-label "in-demand" 1960s "Northern Soul" tracks onto CD, put it out and see what happens. What happened was that it sold well enough for the formula to be repeated with other styles of Soul ... soon there were other "Essential" collections out there and within two or three years Goldmine were bringing out new compilations seemingly every week. Most of the compilations were aimed fairly and squarely at the "Northern Soul" scene, though they used to claim that their biggest seller was actually one of their "Funk" compilations. The big spanner in the works was that Goldmine had a reputation for (ahem) not always sticking to the niceties of properly licensing the tracks they included on their discs, even though they sometimes involved some of the big record companies and well known 1960s music producers in their projects. This led to a number of irate songwriters and performers wondering why they weren't receiving royalties for what were obviously strongly selling discs and after a run of about 15 years Goldmine imploded. Anyway ... as to the music on this CD, this is typical mid 1960s NS fare (generally 1964-67) and most of the tracks had become well known favourites among "Northern Soul" fans in the preceding 20 years. About a third of the recordings are from Detroit, with Philadelphia also being well represented. Some of them are quite raw (some might say underproduced), but they all have that driving sound that "Northern Soul" fans look out for. Hard to pick a favourite, but if pressed it would probably be the Patti Young track at #19, a stomping Detroit recording that seems tailor made for inclusion in a shampoo commercial .... 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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