BBC Orchestra goes Northern Soul ...

[jsmith]

When the stick-in-the-muds objected to newer recordings being called NS, the more enlightened DJ's / folk just rebranded it MS [[Modern Soul) and kept playing it / dancing to it.
By the time Wigan ended & Rotherham Clifton Hall was the top niter venue, rooms would play both styles to full dancefloors. You'd get obscure newies -- such as Otis Clay "The Only Way Is Up", Jan Jones "Independent Woman", Brotherly Love "Whole Lotta You In Me", Jewel "Paradise" [[EW&F soundalike) played alongside LVD's "Never Too Much", Corey Blake's "How Can I Go On Without You", LTD's "Love Magic", Barrett Strong's "Man Up In The Sky" & Peabo Bryson's "Why Don't You Make Up Your Mind". GREAT TIMES, GREAT RECORDS.