Party time!!
From Wikipedia:
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England in the late 1960s from the British mod scene. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound.
The northern soul movement, however, generally eschews Motown or Motown-influenced music that has met with significant mainstream success. The recordings most prized by enthusiasts of the genre are usually by lesser-known artists, released only in limited numbers, often by small regional American labels such as Ric-Tic and Golden World Records (Detroit), Mirwood (Los Angeles) and Shout and Okeh (New York/Chicago).
Time to dance, night owls.
Frank Wilson – Do I Love You
Al Wilson – The Snake
Garnet Mimms – Looking For You
Bobby Paris – Night Owl
The Exciters – Reaching for the Best
Tobi Legend – Time Will Pass You By
Chuck Wood – Seven Days Too Long
Jimmy Conwell – Cigarette Ashes
Really, go to YouTube, search on “northern soul”, and just luxuriate in some of the best music of the 60s.
Dance away, night owls.
The Obama Diary 
Huh?
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It’s become one of my life’s goals to teach you to appreciate great music! 😆
Thank yooooooou LL, I thought I knew Northern Soul …. but you are completing my education!
I haven’t listened to it in FOREVER. BBC World just had a Culture Show on northern soul. Hence, this post.
Ah, well – an excellent collection, going through them one by one, foot tapping insanely.
Lib-L described himself as ‘odd’ last night, but I am beginning to wonder if you aren’t the ‘odd’ one. I can’t reconcile how you can appreciate this music spotlighted here right now but not like Billy Joel. Not that I’m looking to get the banned finger or anything 😉 but I’ve seen you dancing joyfully and praising music Lib-L, or one or another of TOD DJs have shared that seem mighty sub-par compared to Joel’s. I just don’t get it.
BTW, full disclosure, I have NO musical genes! I’m the one whose infant son used to prod her in church and whisper ‘That’s not what they’re singing, mom.’ Or earlier still, used to put his hand over her mouth, or cry until she stopped, when she ‘sang to her child’ as instructed by some baby book or other. /Dang, that still hurts my feelings every time the memory resurfaces./
VC, you have very almost committed a crime against humanity even mentioning BJ – oh yes – in the same breath as Northern Soul.
When I rule the world, he will share a cell with Mariah Carey.
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Well, give me a heads-up. I may as well willingly take the adjoining cell (before being forced there) if you’re going to be supreme ruler.
VC – Your story about your singing “talent” (and your son’s responses) made me fall down on the floor laughing, which was my “exercise” for the day. You are A HOOT! Thanks for sharing it.
JO’B, sadly 😉 it IS true, not really a ‘story’ at all. He did a number on my singing ego, I can tell you. 😀
Hey, that’s the first time *I* have shared ‘music’ for your exercise with you! 😀 😀
Yes, you are “too good” to me! 🙂 🙂
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BTW, VC, that’s supposed to be “our” exercise program.
Ha!
Rats, didn’t sneak that one by you successfully! 😀
In truth, JO’B, I actually exercised (once) this week in keeping with my promise to you last week to do something next week. 😉
I shall make the same “promise” to you, VC. I will exercise next week, as well.
Does painting a wall count as exercise? If so, I exercised this week right along with you. 🙂
Upper body exercise. Sure it does!
😆 😆 Good luck with that, Lib-L. My son, a musician, has given up – I’m convinced, though he’s too polite to visibly do so, that he rolls his eyes mentally when I start to criticize music/musicians.
In fairness, this time my bewilderment stems from the link. I was on twitter when the link passed under a name I did not recognize. The first part of the title was familiar and there was a WordPress link so I followed, thinking another blog was using our patented 😉 titles. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself back in the village.
I grew up in a house and neighborhood full of music, as I’ve written about before. And my father was a singer in an amateur combo back in Cuba. Made my mom fall in love with him. Music is in my genes. 🙂
On my son’s behalf, I envy you that aspect of your upbringing. Poor soul would have been farther ahead musically if I had had a smidgen of musicality or musical sense or interest.
Well done, VC!! 🙂
I’m a bit bewildered, Bobfr, because that link looked both unfamiliar and familiar.
Once again, LL, really appreciate your expanding my horizon on music!!
The #GOP are the Pro-Inequality Party and that message can be made obvious to Red State Bubbas …. it’s already happening in Kentucky … my hope is that OFA and other groups will be loading Red County & Red State Ballots with all kinds of Expand Medicaid and Medicare, as well as, Minimum Wage Initiatives.
Yes We Can
It’s a party for Madiba!
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BTW, LL, as I listened to the selection of ‘Northern Soul’ you shared with us one of the memories it elicited was of the first time I heard this ….
Thank you 🙂
BTW, the comments (from the bottom of the previous thread + an additional tweet) are entirely inspired by listening for the 3rd time to the speech President Obama delivered on Wed on the core issue facing America – INEQUALITY not just of income but of opportunity.
As noted before, Dr Angelou’s tribute to Nelson Mandela and this particular speech are likely to be gifts that I will listen to many more times in the days and years ahead.
#FORWARD
Absolutely!
Fiiiiiiirst!
Sigh! You forgot ‘morally’, I guess. [ 😀 ]
It goes without sayin’, VC!
{rant) This is exactly one of the problems with today’s media! They create their own meanings for words, drop them in the ‘news’ often enough, people start accepting their definition, and lickety-split they start assuming their false meaning ‘goes without saying’ and a new norm is created!
You are ALWAYS Fiiiirrrsssttt, Chips 🙂
Thanks Bob, I know. 😆
We should all bust a move like Barack did at the tree-lighting ceremony! Thanks for the music, LL! Oh, and congrats to VC on top spot.
Hi Judith! I still don’t understand how that happened this time, as I followed an unfamiliar name, but I ain’t saying no to the trophy. 😉
In matters more serious: how the HELL did both the US and England get drawn into Groups of Death? Meanwhile France is in the Group of Fluffy Bunnies. Jaysus.
My heart goes out to Australia, I mean …. holy smokes!
Group A: Brazil, Croatia, Mexico, Cameroon.
Group B: Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia.
Group C: Colombia, Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan.
Group D: Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy.
Group E : Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras.
Group F: Argentina, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Iran, Nigeria.
Group G: Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA.
Group H: Belgium, Algeria, Russia, South Korea.
Sorry, Brazil is in another Group of Fluffy Bunnies.
Well – we weren’t going to win anyways – always amazing that we get there. We play rugby union, rugby league & our home grown Aussie Rules as well as football (soccer as we wrongly call it).
Football UK style really took off here when the government brought in thousands of migrants and refugees from Europe after WWII – they did amazing things building our infrastructure and named their football teams after their home countries/localities. Eventually that was stopped because the games and supporters started to resemble battle fields in the changing political divisions in Europe.
Two countries which I hope to visit but intend to NEVER attend a football match: Greece and Turkey. It seems like every match breaks out in a riot.
Amazes me – as in UK – in the 50/60/70s we didn’t have armed police (other than the special armed units) – they would be running around with batons evicting folks from the games.
I love all that history of sport 99ts, the way immigrants brought their beloved sports to their new countries. It always cracks me up that the full name of Genoa is the Genoa Cricket and Football Club – we can guess who emigrated there!
Indeed – Cricket has always been our first love – and given the weather – we should just play it 365 days per year.
I used to love going to the cricket when you could take your own food & an esky full of drinks – cost $1 to sit/lie/sleep on the grass and wake up for the “interesting” bits. Then they build cement stadiums – charged a fortune and made you queue up to buy food/drinks at inflated prices – free enterprise took over sport.
And you’re kicking the bejeesus out of England in the Ashes.
Surprised us as much as the “poms”
BREAKING: U.S. mens team has been eliminated from the group stage of 2014 WC
I will now pull for Iran (perk the nation up), unless Chips tells me I have to cheer on the Brits……
No, Chips would tell you to cheer for anyone BUT the Brits.
😯 As if I would be so tribal.
Gooooooo Uruguay, Costa Rica and Italy!
Ok, I will just follow the BT’s lead then…. I’m just dreading the Klinsman/Germany narrative I’m going to have to endure for the next 5 months……..
Of course, I will root for England and the US in their respective groups, sure in the knowledge that neither will make it out of them to the knockout stage. Then it’ll be Spain or bust.
Quite frankly if Ghana, doesn’t knock us out for the 3rd straight World Cup, I’ll be satisfied……(lowering expectations as much as possible) I would take the under in Vegas, if the prop bet was 2pts for the U.S.
Don’t know anything about the sport that could possible matter. So, sure, would love to see the US do well. What I’d like more than anything would be for Iran to go all the way 🙂
^^possibly^^ not ^possible^
President Obama in Europe, watching Ghana eliminate the U.S. in 2010 World Cup…….. 😦
But one of my favorite pics from Camp David, when English & German teams played for Champions League final last year
You are such an optimist, Bob! Iran may possibly beat Bosnia, but i am not so sure they can beat either Argentina or Nigeria. As for the USA, I think our team is in the toughest first round group. Germany is a powerhouse. And, both Portugal and Ghana are no slouches either. As far as I am concerned, the USA, unlike Brazil, ended up in one of the toughest groups.
Al Wilson — The Snake! A Classic!! 🙂 Thanks for the music LL! My older cuz who I thought was the coolest cat on the planet with an awesome “fro” used to blast this on his stereo all the time!
You’re welcome!!
“Oh no you didn’t play that nasty song! You are going straight to hell!” — My grandma would exclaim whenever someone played The Snake! LOL!!!! 😀
Then she’d go outside and smoke a cigarette. 😀 😀 😀
I think VP Joe would make an excellent President. He is transition would be so easy.
He would be a the best keeper of Barack Obama’s legacy. He’d probably be less bold than President Obama but he would fight for the poor and the middle class. Joe is not really a DLC type. He has never ever lost touch with ordinary people.
Sigh… he would be the perfect candidate for a one term presidency, before Bill de Blasio is ready in 2020.
Americans haven’t seen enough of him, because the Media doesn’t give him a lot of exposure. But if he was the democratic nominee, boy it would be a beautiful ride. First, he would get all the votes of the Obama coalition because he’s always had the president’s back, he GENUINELY cares about minorities and women, and the youth. But he would also get a good portion of the senior vote, and the white working class I think.
Agree with your analysis, Lp08. My hope is that he’d select Elizabeth Warren for his VP 🙂
Um, I’m hoping for that Warren-OMailley ticket in 2020, with Atty Gen Kamala Harris,
I’m in! What about the Kentucky Governor? Anyone know anything about him? He sure supports the ACA. VP candidate?
Looks like a posse.
That’s how Cool Joe rolls! 😀
And now on BBC World: a documentary on the Kindertransport of 1938.
Danny’s ‘indestructible’ hedgehog? RIP. In trash.
I do believe I told you that there is no such thing as an indestructible dog toy, no?
You did LL, I believe you now. 😕
I know, I know.
Links for genuinely indestructible dog toys?
It’s like yeti. It’s a myth. Nothing can survive those canine tooths (sic).
Especially my flippin’ fingers!
When the missus and I were young and starry-eyed young pup parents, we bought Stewie one of those indestructible toys advertised on TV late at night. It lasted two days.
Two days! That’s not bad! 😆
My post was in the wrong place: AWESOME SWEET BABY DOG!!!!
Magapie, tell that to the hedgehog!!
My wife has a ginormous basket of “sewing”…compromised of dozens of stuffed (unstuffed) dog toys with various sized rips and holes and stages of …yeah Plastic squeakers removed and chewed or so damaged or full of slobber that…….OH! You know ALL ABOUT IT!! Of course we have a “pack” of THREE sleeping with us in the “den”. What’s up with the quotation marks? It IS a PACK and it IS a DEN! But they let us belong and be in it.
Sleeping at night is a constant negotiation between me, the missus, the dog, and various arrangements of four cats.
😆 You crack me up Magapie, and I can relate to all that slobbery chewed-up-ness, I am now surrounded by it!
try putting a water bottle inside a heavy work sock;the sound of the crunch from the bottle is like music to their ears
Yep. Been there and done that. It took JR five minutes to destroy his indestructible fox.
😆 I’m so relieved to know Danny isn’t the only one to destroy indestructible things, Jackie!
he is such a nice baby
At least he destroys the toys – unlike the hundreds of stuffed toys that accumulated in a very large container in my house until one fine day (when the daughter was about 25) I put them all through the washer and donated them to a charity – who sell them off at $1 each –
When I think what they cost! I could get into a “war on Christmas” & suggest Jesus should have been born on February 29 giving us a celebration once every 4 years.
My thoughts must ring a bell with a few others!
AWESOME SWEET BABY DOG!!!!
I’m still wondering if your shoes are becoming Rascal Danny Haute Couture! 🙂
This is pretty insane:
Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks
By JADA F. SMITH
Published: December 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — The technology troubles that plagued the HealthCare.gov website rollout may not have come as a shock to people who work for certain agencies of the government — especially those who still use floppy disks, the cutting-edge technology of the 1980s. Every day, The Federal Register, the daily journal of the United States government, publishes on its website and in a thick booklet around 100 executive orders, proclamations, proposed rule changes and other government notices that federal agencies are mandated to submit for public inspection.
So far, so good.
It turns out, however, that the Federal Register employees who take in the information for publication from across the government still receive some of it on the 3.5-inch plastic storage squares that have become all but obsolete in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/us/politics/slowly-they-modernize-a-federal-agency-that-still-uses-floppy-disks.html
I can remember using them to back up my hard drive in the early 1990s – took about 45 I think.
It’s just so mind-boggling and frightening to think there are still some agencies in the fed govt that still use them exclusively. Crazy!
Evenin’, guys – There was talk of this on a previous thread, so I found it for myself … and it’s glorious … so, if ya don’t mind, I’ll add it here! And now I’ll go listen to some of the songs LL posted!
It’s not going to go well for Yanukovych as news spreads that he’s done a deal with Putin ….
Methinks that “macho” Putin will soon suffer an humiliating defeat…
Mebbe he’ll go shirtless horseback riding again…
Gross! Please not!
He’s certainly set himself up for just that. The Ukrainians, even many in the East, already despised him. Our hope has to be that not too many die or are harmed in the process of Ukraine being truly free and democratic.
LL – The beauty of songs is that they always remind us of more songs. I saw your “Do I Love You” choice, but this clicked in my (old) mind, instead! Found this “rare footage” (read: poor quality, but, hey) – looks like it was a great concert and some might recognize a whole bunch of folks in the background on stage. Looks like this was after Tina ditched Ike.
Hah!! I didn’t know Americans even KNEW about Northern Soul. I thought it was just a regional thing. Well done Liberal Librarian. You know how to Dewy your Decimal and that’s a fact.
As I tell my patrons when I surprise them with some arcane knowledge: I’m a librarian. It’s my job to know stuff.
DM’d you, Chiparoo.
Just replied LL, thank you!
Pete Souza.
I do hope folk at the WH follow you, Chips, and view TOD – they’d be missing some hearty laughs, otherwise!!!!
Jesus, cricket: the only sport in the world which breaks for lunch.
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/06/a-photographer-supreme/
On President Mandela