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| From | Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Dave Godin |
| Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:23:07 -0700 (PDT) |
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Wow. His lost soul treasure comps are never far away from
my stereo and I have them all loaded on my iPOD. Such a
shame. He opened my eyes to some long lost incredible soul
music.
michael vg
--- Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> wrote:
> Hate to pass another one along.....Another death this week was Dave Godin.
> He was almost singlehandedly
> responsible for sparking the UK's love of soul music. Here's his obit from
> the Times of London....
>
>
> DAVE GODIN was a writer, record label owner, publicist, vegan and
> animal-rights campaigner, but it was as a single-minded and devoted
> enthusiast of American soul music that he will be best remembered.
>
> In the early Sixties, when soul music was unknown to all but a hip minority
> of the record-buying public in the UK, he championed the cause of Tamla
> Motown and helped to build it into a force on this side of the Atlantic.
>
> He also founded his own record label, Soul City, and coined the phrase
> “deep soul” for the more adult-sounding and grittier examples of the genre
> that he helped to discover. It became the name of another label he owned
> and, in recent years, it graced a series of various artist CDs that drew
> huge critical acclaim. The fourth in the series came out only a few months
> ago. He was also attracted to the grassroots following that the faster,
> more danceable, forms of soul music in clubs in Manchester, Blackpool and
> Wigan during the Sixties and Seventies and named the music “Northern soul”
> a name that is now enshrined in popular culture.
>
> He also took the blame for introducing the joys of black music to a boy who
> was a few years below him at grammar school called Mick Jagger.
>
>
>
> Peace,
> Bruce
> @ Not Lame
>
>
>
>
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