The 33rd FSVB Mix

Here's the 33rd Soul Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by The Vertical Group , its called "Spring Classic", there's some classic Soul Tracks on here, including Isley Brother's, War, Earth Wind & Fire and New Birth.

Either press play to listen or press link to go to and download to your pc.

SPRINGCLASSIC from THE VERTICAL GROUP at Letsmix.com.

THE ISLEY BROTHERS 3+3 ..... Part 4

From 1976 to 1979 the Isley Brothers released 4 Albums (their 13th 14th 15th & 16th Album releases), and all going to Number 1 in the R&B Charts, apart the 4th release that charted at number 3!

All Albums were Self Produced and on their T-Neck Record Label!

1976 saw the release of "Harvest For The World" this Album was one of the Fastest Selling Albums of all-time, Selling Half a Million Copies in 3 Weeks!

The Best Tracks on the Album were "Harvest For The World" Who Love's You Better & "Let Me Down Easy"

This Album also Charted at number 9 in the US Pop Chart.1977 saw the Release of "Go For Your Guns" this Album attained Platinum Status (selling 1Million copies). It had some Great Tracks on it, including the Number One R&B Hit "The Pride"
Voyage to Atlantis and my Favorite " Footsteps in the Dark"

This Album went to Number 6 in the US Pop Chart!
The Album "Showdown" was Released in 1978, As well as getting to Number 4 in US Pop Chart, it also attained Platinum Status!

It also contained the Number One Hit "Take me to the Next Phase"
1979 saw the Double Album Release of " Winner Takes All" this Album did'nt Sell quite as Good as previous 3 Albums, Selling Half A Million Copies ( Gold) it did reach Number 3 in R&b Chart though!

The First Single off the Album was "I Wanna Be WithYou" this was the Isley's 5th Number One R&B Single. This Album also contained the Track " Its a Disco Night" this Charted in UK Pop Chart at Number 14!

By 1979 The Isley Brothers had been making Records for 20 years.

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This Isley Brothers Photo was put together by my Grandaughter "Jess" Check Out her Blog!

The 32nd Soul Mix for F.S.V.B

Here's the 32nd Soul Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by The Vertical Group , its called "Spring 2010 part 2", there's some classic Soul Tracks on here, including Al Green, Dramatics, O'jays and Main Ingredient. 

Have a listen to the first of the Dramatics Tracks, its a Great Soul Classic, look out in the future I will doing a  feature on the Dramatics!

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SPRING2010 PT 2 from THE VERTICAL GROUP at Letsmix.com.

DECORATING AND THE CARVING KNIFE

We were now into Autumn/early Winter of 1979, work was going alright although I didn't really like the Job!

Susan was about 4 /5 months away from having our Second Child, so we were in the process of Decorating as many rooms as we could before the New Baby came.

We also started Painting Outside the Front and Backway of the Property, the Picture above is us with Nathan and our Niece, outside near the Back Door, and Nathan on his own. as you can see the Walls and pipework and back Door are all painted and the window is half done!

I remember our Neighbours to our Left were an Old Couple, but we got on with them really well, A few years later (about 7 years ago) we moved back to that same area, and the Old Couple were still about, but I remember after a short time we never saw the Old Boy anymore, so he must have died!

But the Old Woman, lived a few years on her own,we have not seen her for about 3 years now, so we think she must have Died as well, we are often in that area as our Daughter still lives there!

As for the other Neighbour, he was a right Prat, about 2/3 years older than us, we both knew him from School, and neither of us liked him back then!

One incident I remember, our linen line had snapped and the Washing went on the ground, so as I didnt have any more linen line to mend it, I had tied the line to the house dividing fence, well later that day we were in the back garden and the neighbour came outside with a Big Carving Knife, he came running over to the fence where the linen line was, and cut the line down then he took a swing at me! luckily he missed, but I always thought he was Mental, and there was my Proof! needless to say we never spoke to him again. I wander now, why we never got the Police on to him!

Getting back to work, one Great thing about working in a Butcher's Shop was I did used to get money off Meat on a weekly basis, I believe if my memory is correct we used to get about £2.50 per week off Meat, which back then was a Good Saving, but not as Good as the Shop Manager used to get, or his Assistant Manager, who just happened to be his Nephew!

There were some right Fiddles going on in that Shop!

31st Mix for FSVB

Here's the 31st Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by Ray Bausa, its called "Motown, Northern Soul & Modern Soul", there's some classic Tracks on here, including Lamont Dozier, Diana Ross, Isley Brother's and Chuck Jackson.

Either press play to listen or press link to go to Ray Bausa's page and download to your pc.

see the podcast page for full track listing!

Still on the Modern Side

Motown - Northern Soul - Modern Soul

BARRY WHITE Part 3

During 1973 around the time of Love Unlimited Second Album Release "Under the Inflence of" while working on Demo Recording's for a Male Singer, Barry White was persuaded to go front of the Microphome for the first time, he was very reluctant to be in the Spotlight!

The resulting Album was " I've Got So Much To Give" it went straight to the Top of the US R&B Charts. It contained 2 Singles " I'm gonne love you just a little bit more, baby" 3 in Pop Chart and number 1 in R&B Chart and "I've got so much to give" number 5 in R&B Chart and number 32 in Pop Chart.

Barry White's Second Album was also released in 1973, it was called "Stone Gon" this also went to number 1 in the R&B Album Charts.

It also contained Two Hit Singles, " Honey please, cant ya see" this went to Number 6 in the R&B Chart! and also number 44 in the Pop Chart. The second single was "Never gonna give you up" also a Hit, R&B 2 and Pop 7!

By 1974 Barry White had Married Lead Singer from "Love Unlimited" Glodean James, his new Album was his Biggest Ever " Cant Get Enough" it went to the Top of both Pop and R&B Charts in US and number 4 in th UK, his Highest Chart positions in both countries!

The first Single was "Cant get enough of your love, babe" number 1 in both R&B and Billboard Hot 100 Charts!

The other Single was " You're the first, the last, my everything" number 1 in R&B and number 2 on Billboard Top 100, it was also his Biggest Single Hit in UK, Reaching number 1.

Barry White's first 4 Albums (all recorded on the 20th Century Record Label) all went to number 1 in US and all went GOLD!

This Album was also Voted in the "Rolling Stone Magazine" Top 500 Greatest Albums of all time at number 281. This Barry White Photo Montage was put together by my 11 year old Grandaughter "Jessica" 

CHECKOUT HER BLOG!

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30th Mix for FSVB

Here's the 30th Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by DJ Colin Cruz, its called "Disco Classics", there's some classic Disco Tracks on here, including Fat Larrys Band, Evelyn King, Inner Life and Billy Griffin.
Either press play to listen or press link to go to Colin Cruz's page and download to your pc.

see the podcast page for full track listing!

DISCO CLASSIC

DJ Colin Cruz 100% real SOULFUL GROOVES

3 PIECE SUITE AND A PIGS HEART!

I remember when we first moved into our rented House, we had hardly any furniture, coming from a one roomed place!

So we had Second Hand Stuff, I remember going to a Second Hand place with Susan's Dad, cant remember exactly what we got , but I remember getting a Black Plastic and green Material 3 Piece Suite and a Large Rug for the Front Room..................From my Parents, I cant remember them buying us anything!

I also remember being taken to a Furniture Store in Town (with Susan) by Susan's Dad, He brought us some New Furniture, a Bed and some Wardbrobes, it was a case of "you'll have that and this and that overthere"

We were Grateful for the Help, apart some Carpet my Father got us, about 3 years later, that was the only Help we ever had off both sets of Parents!

Things were going Great in the new House, we had started Decorating all the rooms, this is where we were to find out Susan was a better Wallpaperer than me!

Its the same now, I can do all DIY apart from Wallpapering, Susan is much better than me and anybody else I know, she has Wallpapered all our Houses we have lived in!

My one and only attempt at Wallpapering was in our Front Room in our first House, it was a patterned paper with circles, and after I finished putting it on the Walls it looked like a Aero Chocolate Bar,,,,Full of Bubbles!

Most members of the Family remember my attempt at papering!

As for work , that wasn't going to bad, I never really liked Serving Customer's though, and as I said before, I did'nt like the Manager too much either!

Some of the Tricks they used to do, to make the Meat look Better always made me Laugh, the main thing that they would do (but would not get away with these days), was put Pig's Heart in the Beef Mince, to make the Mince a better colour of Red, in turn the Customer's thought the Mince was lovely and Lean!

Trading Standard's couldn't have been that Hot, back then! and I never heard of any Customer Complaining either!