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I'll give you my take on how I feel about how soul was taken away from its roots.
A 'soul boy' from the late sixties, start of my teen years, it just grew from there,seeked out clubs that played a fair few soul records. record shops that you could get imported discs from the States, some of them on relatively well known labels but then they were not released into the UK market or London anyway for a good few months, but also get some that maybe only had a few thousand pressings and were new groups etc from NY or East/West Coast, each had their own sound, found some really great discs that way.
Ran a mobile disco for a while, nothing big, youth clubs , private parties etc as long as made enough pound notes to buy discs and clothes ( essential) was a happy bunny.
It all changed around the mid seventies , this dirge of pop songs with a so called 'disco beat' started hitting the pop charts, and then the very worst 'Saturday Night Fever' completely fcucked the club scene for those of us that loved our soul.
Every where you went, shite 'John Travolta' imitators, and of course then got deluged with fake disco hits, hitting the main airwaves except for a few, Robbie Vincent for example,. a few hours a week on Radio London playing some faithful true soul tunes and not the garbage' that was masquerading as the latest 'in thing'
My example is a tribute to the record labels, producers who inflicted us with the 'disco scene' tunes.
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