Keep Love Alive Mix - Summer of Love 2010

A bit late but its been a busy summer. Inspired amongst other things by the impending wedding of my little bro, here is a mix of lurve songs that takes you from the surprisingly good soft rock of ONJ and Fleetwood Mac into funky balearic beats through disco and ending on a jazzy tip, phew! Everyone a winner IMHO. Congratulations Chas and Emma! Here is the tracklisting:

1. Olivia Newton John - Love Song
2. Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes
3. Max Berlin's - Elle et Moi
4. Rob - Make it Fast, Make it Slow (Gerd edit)
5. Patti Austin - Body Language
6. Barbra Streisand - Promises
7. Tony Orlando - Don't Let Go
8. Demis Roussos - I Dig You
9. Main Ingredient - Everything Man
10. Henry Mancini - Love's Theme/TSOP
11. FBI - Talking About Love
12. Benitez - We Are The One

James Brown - Funk Bomb

My favourite tune from the Godfather.

Keep Love Alive Mix - Funk and Soul Sevens

Another post for the Dad Dancers. A mix of original funk and soul sevens from the 7" Box of Love accompanied by a video of the Godfather himself with some dance moves to practice in the kitchen. Off you go!

Tracklist:

1. Voices of East Harlem - Can You Feel It
2. George & Gwen McCrae - Mechanical Body
3. Ultrafunk - Indigo Country
4. Rimshots - Dance Girl
5. Vicki Anderson - Answer To Mother Popcorn
6. Idris Muhammad - Super Bad
7. Smokey Brooks - Spin-it Jig
8. African Music Machine - Blackwater Gold
9. The Marvelettes - Here I Am Baby
10. Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg
11. James Brown - Lowdown Popcorn
12. Vibrettes - Humpty Dump
13. Ann Sexton - You're Losing Me
14. Marva Whitney - I'm Tired, I'm Tired, I'm Tired
15. Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
16. Fabulous Counts - Lunar Funk
17. Barbara Randolph - Can I Get A Witness
18. Variations - Sayin' It, Doin' It
19. Peaches & Herb - Down Where It's At
20. Honey Cone - Want Ads
21. Jenny's Daughters - Dirty Feet
22. Melvin Bliss - Substitution

Ketty Lester - Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid

Anonymous Dad Dancer, we salute you! Check out the talc on the kitchen floor and a great tune too!

Judy Street - What

A few more northern soul posts, this time with musings on one of my favourite topics, Dad Dancing. The essence of Dad Dancing is to remain convinced that you are busting brilliant dance moves when even a 2-year old would recognise a creaky old duffer prancing around in some kind of jerky, breathless, fantasy state. Northern soul is great for Dad Dancing. Everybody thinks they can do that northern soul backward-stepping dance move but only proper northern soul dancers can. I am not a proper northern soul dancer, I'm a Dad Dancer, and I've always been inspired by the clip above from Wigan Casino as it appeared on Granada TV's This England documentary. Marvel at the high energy precision of those dancers and wonder where are they now or, more importantly, are they dads?



An example of good northern soul dancing of the kind that even a Dad Dancer could aspire to. This guy was apparently captured mucking about at work so someone has edited the video adding Judy Sreet as the backing track. Genius!



Try this at home.