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BEST OF NORTHERN SOUL - SHOW 485 WITH AL RANDALL

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The Best of Northern Soul with Al Randall Step into the dancehalls, record shops, and all‑nighters that defined a movement. This episode digs deep into the rare grooves, floor‑fillers, and forgotten gems that shaped Northern Soul culture. Featuring Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers, The Flirtations, Bob Relf, Chris Clark, Harvey Scales, Major Lance, Lorraine Silver, and more — plus charting history, label trivia, and the stories behind the records that kept the UK dancing till sunrise. A full hour of high‑octane soul curated for collectors, dancers, and true believers. 

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Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers – Nowhere to Run

Porgy and the Monarchs – That Girl

The Flirtations – Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

The Emotions – Runnin’ Back (And Forth)

Sam Nesbit – Black Mother Goose

Bob Relf – Blowing My Mind to Pieces

Eddie Floyd – Bring It on Home to Me

Dusty Wilson – Can't Do Without You

Chris Clark – Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

Alice Clark – Don't You Care

Damon Shawn – Feel The Need

Cajun Heart – Got to Find a Way

Al McCarther – His True Love For You

The Extremes – How I Need Your Love

Wilson Williams – I Can't Get Used to Losing You

The Marvellos – I Need You

Puffs – I Only Cry Once A Day Now

Barbara Lewis – I Remember the Feeling

Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds – It's Midnight

Major Lance – It's the Beat

Four Tops – I’ll Turn to Stone

Lorraine Silver – Lost Summer Love

Ted Wilson – My Aim Is to Please

Ronnie Jones – My Love

The Temptations – Forever in My Heart (Come on Back to Me Baby)

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SPEAKER_12

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and Indian dogs and cats from New York City of the Al Randall Show.

SPEAKER_00

And welcome back to another episode of the Bastard Northern Show. You're true, the Al Randall and the L. Randall Show. If you want to get a hold of me, you can email one word at the L Randall Show at gmail.com. One L and L to L to Randall, the L Randall Show at Gmail.com. 1964 Motor Record label. And it's gonna be Wordy and the Minor. That girl 1964 musical record. A New York record that became a winning favorite decade later. And this is an old flirtation. Will you love me tomorrow 1968 under the Ram record label? A British recorded covered at Northern Soul Dancers and adopted for the soaring harmonies and the floor of filling the tempo. Without further ado, Joe Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers nowhere to run.

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She makes me feel so bad. It makes me feel so good. And I wanna take you at that sweetest thing. She's as good as it's sweeter than I said to my best place. Why will you love me tomorrow? Shannon Shaman Shagna Shakesha Believe the magic of your side. Unspoled You say that I'm the only one But will my heart be broken in the night at night meets the morning sun Shadlight, shadow, shall I shed your love? Shadow, shall I love my care? Shall I show? Shadowna show down with that one as again. Will you still love me tomorrow? So turn out of asking. Will you still help me tomorrow? Will you still love me to love? Will you still have me to love?

SPEAKER_00

Flirtations, will you love me tomorrow from 1968? The flirtations, very active on social media. Check out their um geez, their their their Facebook page, I'm sorry, their YouTube page as well. Uh YouTube channel is uh things also are auctioning off now a lot of their uh merchandise, um some of their 45 singles, some their album covers, things like that, autographed by the girls and all that. You do listen to the L. Randall show. I do promise you. You mentioned it, you hear about him on the Al Randall show. I follow them, they follow me back, we communicate. One of these days I'm gonna get somebody else on for an interview for a later time. Coming up with the emotions bringing Chicago he was running back and forth in 1969 on a Voltage record label, I don't know. It became a cult classic thanks to the U UK collectors. Yeah, myself included, man. I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy.

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Ray Grooves right here, running, running, running, running back and forth. Which way to run away, your love's gonna go. Run it, running, running, running, running back and forth.

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Which way to run away, your love's gonna go. Sometimes you win me, sometimes you win her. You keep running from da-da-da. What kind of like you looking for? I'm trying to hold on you in a cover. Must be something in your blood. Make you feel up so much later.

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Running, running, running, running, running back and forth. With a way to audio, you love's gonna go. Running, running, running, running, running back and forth.

SPEAKER_10

Which way you ask me, you love's gonna go. I call you on the phone, but you ain't never home. You keep on to play the field, you can let yourself be still. You rude too bad. How load came to last, and with you, not here with me. Ain't but one place you can be. Running, running, running, running, running, back and forth.

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But you are you always wing, your love's gonna go. Running, running, running, running, running back and forth. But you ask you where we love's gonna go.

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It's me and hold me to me. Let me know your mind. Running, running, running, running, back and forth.

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But you ask you away, you know it's gonna go. Run and running, running, running, running back and forth. Put your way, you put you in, your love's gonna go.

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Keep on moving, run and running, keep on the pushing. What's the matter with your favorite? I'm your lady. Come on now, baby boy. Hey, I'm not your toy. Put your way, your love's gonna go. I'm trying to hold you.

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna tell you a black mother goose. The story was lady smile on the loose. She says, Well, black as black as crayons. A lady with soul. A little boba blues, a king with a chocolate, the king with a chocolate, a soul brother tooth brother tooth. A little more blue, it's a little more black. Black mother tooth. Jack be number, that be more, Jack be quick. Jack and top of all the candles stick, the candles stick, and all that was that brother can drop like that. She's loaded with fat. Hello to mama.

unknown

A mama goose no.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, Sam Nesbitt's Black Mother Goose, 1967. It's the best of Northern Soul. Yours truly Al Randall. Up next, Bob Ralph. Yes. This is a Bob Ralph from the group The Laurels. Deliver is blowing my mind to pieces. 1966 on a Capitol record label. A record that commands any dance floor even today. Followed by Eddie Floyd to bring it on home in the main 1968 on a sad record label. Sam Hogan Classic. Reimagine with Memphis Horns and almost fakable Zaddish launch. And then we're gonna have Dusty Wilson's I Can't Do Without You 1967 on a bronze record label? A rare press favorite then. Or there's old DJs. Oh boy, they guarded like gold, but you know that better than me.

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Oh no need, you don't leave me. But baby, you didn't have to do what you've done behind my back with someone new. You holdin' me, kiss him, just the way we used to love. You say you realize mistakes you made, and I keep a trying to hear you, baby.

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You just blowin' my mind a pieces, you just ruinin' my life some more. You keep a blowin' my mind a pieces. You got me hurting like never before. Hey, you got to stop the dream. Hang it up.

SPEAKER_17

Girl, I'm gonna have to put you down. Cause I'm so tired of being messed around. Baby, I told you it's a long time ago. You keep a blowin' my mind. I'm gonna have to let you go. Yes, I gave you everything that I had. But baby, you just wouldn't let me be your man.

SPEAKER_07

I said I got to get me out of this race. I said I got to get me back in the race. No need to mind. No need to mind.

SPEAKER_05

You made me cry. But you only only hurt yourself. So won't you bring your be loving? Bring it all on to me. Here's what I'll do for you, darling. I'll give you jewelry and all my money. And that ain't all I'll money I'll do for you, no. If you just bring your children, pay all through me.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Won't you bring your sweet loving? Honey, bring it on back to me. I won't bring your sweet loving. Oh, bring it on to me.

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Let me talk into you, baby. Bring it on home to me.

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Have you exceeded? The cutaway! The cutaway is here. I'm gonna go where the winds don't blow down in it, and that sun doesn't shine. I'm gonna go and jump in that river. If you don't hurry up and say I'm mine, hey, I'm gonna play Russian The Six bullets in the gun. If you don't say that I'm yours, pretty baby, and then I am the only one. Cause I can do it Oh baby. Magic win die Magic in the kind of mama I might as well in my misery So you can stop torturing me. That's in the absolute make the heart profonder. So I went away, but couldn't buy the thought of up being without it. And I came back the very next day.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06

I might as well end my misery. So you stop torturing me. Well, I thought I'd join better for the Legion and try and forget about a you But every time I tried to leave you, baby, there was nothing I could do. Cause I can do that, baby. I might as well in my missile be so you can stop touching with me.

SPEAKER_07

I see my baby dancing out there with someone else. He's dancing out there. I just want a little more. Please tell me so. Baby, baby, tell me. Don't you care? Don't you care? Don't you care? Don't you care?

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I want you so hold desperately To hold your baby so close to me.

SPEAKER_07

But the way you treat me, it's so hard to say.

SPEAKER_10

Baby, baby, tell me, don't you care? Don't you care?

SPEAKER_07

You're trying to drive me completely away. Forgetting the love we shared just yesterday. But the way it acting now doesn't seem to fit somehow. For all I see or seem is just a dream within a dream. I see my baby, and he's filled with joy. And he sees that I'm not filled with joy. All I hear is laughter, laughter from up there.

SPEAKER_10

Baby, baby, tell me, don't you care? Don't you care?

SPEAKER_07

Don't you care? Don't you care? See your baby, and you're filled with joy. And you see me, baby.

SPEAKER_10

I'm not filled with joy. But just tell me, don't you care? Yeah, hell, don't you care?

SPEAKER_07

Baby, don't you care? Yeah, hey, don't you care? I love your baby, with all my heart and soul. I love your baby. I just came to let you go. Oh, don't you care? Oh, don't you care?

unknown

Hey, baby.

SPEAKER_07

Tell me, don't you care? I just call the mobile heart.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, from 1972, that was Alice Clark with Don't You Care. Listen to the best of Northern Soul with Al Randall on the Al Randall show. Up next, Damon Shaw's Feel the Need. 1966 on the okay record label. I'm talking pure Chicago Soul here, man, with a driving beat at Northern Soul. Fans adore. And then you're gonna hear Cajun Hartley Got to Find a Way. 1968 on Aventure Record Label. A West Coast Rarity that became a monster. Yeah, in both the torture and the mecha.

SPEAKER_07

See how I'm walking. See how I'm talking. No is everything I need. Feel the me. Oh feel, feel the need of me. I need you by my side to be my guy. Can't you see my arms are overwise? Oh, feel the knee. Oh feel, feel the need of me. I need go love. Every day I need, every way I need that. But I just mean sweet love, I die. I love it constantly. Listen, just put your hand in mind. Love me all the time. I prove you will play the sea. Oh, feel with me. Oh feel, feeling need of me. I need you on the case.

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To meet my heart and bless you. Make me what I need to be.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, feel the need. Oh feel, feeling needing me. Your love is tough now, can't get enough. Girl, your love is so important to me. Feel the need, oh feel, feel the need of me. Listen, just picture it in my head. You will play the sea. Oh, feel the need. Oh feel, feel the need of me.

unknown

See how it's walking.

SPEAKER_13

Turn it up, here comes a floor, filler. Save my mouth where I've never been, or in a place that I'm likely to know. There's only one thing I won't do. I gotta find a way to find a view in a time of year. Hey, I'm a bearing patient one. Just as long as a season is near. There's only one thing I want to do. I gotta find a way to find a new. So I wonder where the will go. And once I stop to watch a go.

SPEAKER_11

I've seen a summer and before. I've seen the best. I've seen it all.

SPEAKER_13

But it's not, no, it's not what I need. Not what's keeping the breathing. Not at all what I need. There's only one thing I want to do. I gotta find a way to find you. And so I wonder where the room grow. And once I stopped to watch a tree grow I've seen a summer turn to foam.

SPEAKER_11

I've seen the best. I've seen it all.

SPEAKER_13

But it's not no, it's not what I need. Nothing's keeping me free. Not at all what I need. There's still just one thing I want to do. I got to find a way to find you. Got to find a way now, baby. Got to find a way to find you. Got to find a way to find you. Well, I'm gonna look it all day now.

SPEAKER_00

Got to find a side. That's the best of northern soul of yours truly, Al Randall. That was Cajun Heart. Got to find a way from 1968. Al MacArthur's true love for you. 1967 on a tracker record label. It's a gossip root of this. 1963. I can't get used to loving you in 1973 on the ABC record label. AJ's rediscovered back in the 80s, baby. Here's Al MacArthur and his true love for you on the Al Randall show.

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He may say that he loved you, he'll put you on a throne. But when his game is over, you be left alone. And though he'll promise you a star, promise you a movie. A love that's true. Oh that little star is not quite so far as his true love for you. I've watched him every day. I've seen the handsome smile. All that's his style. You know the hill promised him a star, promised him a movie. A love that's true. And that little star is just as far as it is true, love for you so that you promise you a star. Promise you a moon be a love that's true. It is true love for you. It is true for you.

unknown

It is true for you, my darling.

SPEAKER_02

Here I stand, alone in misery, wondering where my love could be. Oh my darling. Oh my little darling. Oh, I need your love. Oh, I need your love. Since we've been apart, loneliness has filled my heart. All I wish is for the day. I find my way back to your heart. And oh my darling. Oh my little darling. How I need your love. Oh, how I need your love. Can't break these chains that'll find me. Alone at night, you'll find me lost And will the reason until my love fucking finds me. These jackals will remind me. I need your love to set me free.

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Oh this five bread, not dead to the two. Would she care? Those words, those words I said. And would she care?

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Oh, would she care? Oh, I need to love. Oh, how I need you love It's Day the Gold Girl. I need you more and more. I hunger for your cue.

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But let's get things started with another blast from the past.

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So who cares what happened? We've still got our whole life before. I've lost this love before. But that's no reason to believe we can't make. So let's show the world what true people in love can do. Will you please, please come back home?

SPEAKER_08

To get along since you've been gone burning a different song. I yes to do Why don't we lay? Why don't we go? Don't let me see another night alone, baby. I just don't know.

SPEAKER_07

I don't know if I'm trying to be up on that and we're just following that Baby I see you away. I said I need you a baby baby I want to see a fan sketch to fall and just say. So need to go to the bottom of the food. Get yourself out of here. I love you. I got the head bear. I love you. I think I won't get the head. I see that you don't need to get yourself out of you. I love you. I don't need you. I want you, baby, baby. I love you, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Only cry, only cry once a day now.

SPEAKER_10

Once a day, once a day over, you once a day over. I only die, I only die once a day now.

unknown

You and I are through. Only hurt, you heard once a day now. And you don't care.

SPEAKER_10

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, but you just come away now.

SPEAKER_07

Once a day now, for our most tears they float where they take back, I say well, they I'm gonna be a big man. Since we have I only got a tie once again, but it's from morning till night.

SPEAKER_01

I only got once again to night, I die the following was delayed for broadcast in this erogenous zone. Squid zone.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, sir. Squill me, yo, sweet, sweet loving, and I always will It's been a long time that he will be Since I've been gone on the way I still remember your kid That I was gonna I tried to forget you have snow Still remember Still we never Yes we won't And I always will I watch you so much baby I'm gonna watch my mama I'm gonna go to my change But everything's the same Stop and love Stop and Stop and Sword And I always win What good would it do?

SPEAKER_00

And the Uber the feeling sweet sweet love Barbara Lewis nineteen seventy I remember the feeling northern Remember this track, remember this track It's Al Randall It's midnight so that it's midnight Nothing But people walk in the water come on the spinning spin team that makes you walk back to being the thing that makes the business that makes you more when you get on the ball that makes you wanna be a thing that makes you wanna be water about that too Do you think it's now I turned so I told you to be all this I think I must be wanna be the stone Just Summer is over and we have parted Nothing is left to the dreams we started out All I can see is lonely memory Lost summer Lost summer Remember the surfing and the life and sun The moonlight dancing at and all the flood instead of a love that was mine on the woodlands for all time we won't made lots of promises but couldn't keep them but a handful of tears and eyes on a weep for talking about every place with you on a street in bread play to your sweet in breeze last summer lost summer summer silver with lost summer love nineteen sixty five on a pie record label. Oh folks! Look up at the clock and my time's just about up. You can listen to the best of northern songs with L Randall and the L Randall show. Once again, you want to get a hold of me, you can by email the L Randall Troy, you email that one Lord L Randall the L Randall Troy, Gmail that's a little bit recording.

SPEAKER_05

Your idea of love is strange. You don't believe in pleasing me. That mortal love and death's holding hand, stop some kissing and squeezing me. Warm loving and gender kissing. Let me feel what I envy.

SPEAKER_07

My aim is to teach you feel. My aim is to make you feel right.

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My aim is to feel and you're aiming to speak. Let's say goodbye.

SPEAKER_05

Give me love as well as take it. She got to meet me halfway, girl. On a way we can make it.

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Let me feel what I've been missing.

SPEAKER_07

My mission. My miss, make you feel right.

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And if you aim it to speak, let's say good night. Let's take it.

SPEAKER_03

She got seen everybody. She's high-look. My girl. She's a pretty girl. My girl. The prettiest girl in the world. She's got a face like a me. Black in the shine. A smile that keeps me happy. She's my face, my love. Sent from heaven up. I get a funny feeling with shit all the time. I know that everything's gonna be alright. She makes your friends, and everything has my love. My love. Talking about my love. Oh, pretty love. Talk about my love. Like the sweetest love down from heaven above.

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Come on back to me, baby. I'll pretend that you never been born. Come on back to me, baby.

SPEAKER_07

I'll pretend that you never do me know the pretend That you were true from the stuff.

SPEAKER_03

The bad times I will remember. But the good times I'll have forever.

SPEAKER_07

I would tell the man show it with you. I'll have a shit. I remember baby, I remember that made my heart feel good. I have a care about, I have a care about some help from you. I know I couldn't go. I know I could go, I know I don't mind come all back to the day of it. Come on back to the day of it. Come and give you all my choice. We can make you pray to go. I'm gonna get the bed because I'm a chance we'll let wherever Come, come on, let's forever, and you didn't Come on, we I want you to be Come on back, we can be