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