2 New BBC Northern Soul Documentaries

Shine Like Tokyo - Northern Soul Goes East

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 21 September at 10.30am, this half hour programme featured Anne Nightingale's trip to Japan to investigate the growing cult appreciation there of Northern Soul in city night clubs.

I found this programme very interesting, but it would have benefitted if it had lasted an hour with longer clips of the music.

It is still available on BBC iplayer for another few days.

The Culture Show: Northern Soul - Keep The Faith
TV BBC2 Wednesday 25 September 10.00pm

In a half hour programme, Paul Mason, economics journalist and once a regular at Wigan Casino's all-nighters, traces the origins, influences and impact of Northern Soul.

I'm very grateful for that update, 144man, as I wasn't aware that the programmes were being broadcast.

They both sound very interesting.

Wednesday's documentary will [[I guess) be mostly about NS's Wigan Casino years as those were the years that Paul M was into the music ..........
He's now the BBC's top economics expert. Here's an associated article he wrote in the recent past ........... .....
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/north...ino-paul-mason

Three of his fave records were .................
Frankie Karl’s “You Should’o Held On”
Rita Da Costa’s “Don’t Bring Me Down”
The Precisions’ “If This Is Love”

An article about the upcoming BBC TV show ..........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/24164508
.......... PAUL's TOP TUNES ..........
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes : Get Out [[And Let Me Cry) -- 1965
Rita DaCosta : Don't Bring Me Down -- 1969
Yvonne Baker : You Didn't Say A Word -- 1967
Little Anthony & The Imperials : Better Use Your Head -- 1966
The Carstairs : It Really Hurts Me Girl -- 1973
Doris Troy : I'll Do Anything [[He Wants Me To) -- 1965
Patrice Holloway : Stolen Hours -- 1966
Troy Keye s: If I Had My Way -- 1971
Mel Britt : She'll Come Running Back -- 1972
Gene Chandler : There Was A Time -- 1968
Jeanette Harper : Pick Me Up And Put Me In Your Pocket
The Seven Souls : I Still Love You -- 1967
Gerri Grainge r: I Go To Pieces -- 1971
Dobie Gray : Out On The Floor -- 1966
The Invitations : What's Wrong With Me Baby? -- 1965
Walter Jackson : An Uphill Climb To The Bottom -- 1966
Frankie Karl and the Chevrons : You Should'O Held On -- 1965
Richard Temple : That Beating Rhythm -- 1970
The Precisions : If This Is Love -- 1967
Chuck Wood : Seven Days Is Too Long
Tobi Legend : Time Will Pass You By -- 1968

The Paul Mason BBC 2 TV Culture Show programme on Northern Soul was well made and worth watching. They still honed in on a couple of loons but in general, he talked to the right people and it gave a balanced view on the NS scene both then & now.
The soundtrack to the show was great ........ the Precisions "If this Is Love" featured early on and the show closed with Tobi Lark / Tobi Legend's "Time Will Pass You By".
Well worth catching if our US friends are allowed to view it from across the pond.

got to say well done to the BBC for making this programme, I thought it was not to bad at all!

morph

I recorded it; will watch tonight.

Watch out for the few eddiats still living in 1976 !!

i t was Okeh.....as usual, these kind of shows home in on extremes and the clips of exibitionists dancers taken from 1 programme in mid 70s [[staged for cameras).....music was good!

Think US residents will be barred from watching it on BBC iPlayer ........ BUT ... you should be able to watch it via this youtube link ..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtaEASd2LI

Edwin provides the musical background music 7min 30 secs in to the show.

Watch the above to see the BBC's top economics expert recalling how he used to dance 30 years ago. He even tries a back-drop but only the one [[he's too old like the rest of us now).
He gets 'out on the floor' again 26 mins in.
Younger [[& more recent) dancers turn up 24 mins into the piece.

I thought the documentary was well constructed.

It's been a good few years since I've played some of those tracks, and it was good hearing them again..