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Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !We'll be hearing from the Webster Lewis, Foster Jackson Group, Tommy McGee, Tavares and Cymande to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
Year
1
Beggar & Co, Bill Curtis, Johnny King
Goin home to see my baby
2007
2
Foster Jackson Group
Feel the Spirit
1979
3
Webster Lewis
You deserve to dance
1979
4
Black Heat
Love the life you live
1974
5
NWG
Mystical Planet
2011
6
LaJay Alexander
Say so
1973
7
Wah Wah Watson
Good Friends
1976
8
Dexter Wansal
Solutions
1978
9
David Morris Jnr.
Midnight Lady
1976
10
Bobby Cutchins
Leavin
2001
11
Stylistics
Make it last
1972
12
Tommy McGee
Now that I have you
1981
13
Monday After
Merry go round (pt. 2)
1975
14
Tavares
Ridin High
1976
15
Curtis Mayfield & Areatha Franklin
Back to livin again
16
Santiago
Feelin good
1975
17
Gil Scott Heron
I think I'll call it morning
1971
18
Dave Grusin
Mountain Dance
1980
19
Cymande
Brothers on the slide
1974
20
Dr Villock
Hervon
1999
21
Floaters
Float On
1977
22
Billy Valentine
Wade in the water
2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Back after an extensive break for studio refurbishment, blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectables and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Just two hours of great music featuring the likes of Benny Troy, Crown Heights Affair, Frankie Knuckles, Curtis Mayfield and California Executives to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
Year
1
6th Borough Project
Planets
2008
2
Ingram
Mi Sabrina Tequana
1977
3
Toshio Asukatei
Rotation
2015
4
Crown Heights Affair
Dreamin a dream
1975
5
Love Committee
Darling come back home
1975
6
Free Spirit
Love you as long as I can
1974
7
Dynamic Superiors
One nighter
1974
8
Montana
Warp Factor 2
1978
9
Benny Troy
I wanna give you tomorrow
1975
10
Lance Ferguson
Sueno con Mexico
2022
11
Johnny Williams
It's so wonderful
1971
12
Santana
Let the children play
1977
13
Antipodelica
Life on Mars
2015
14
Frankie Knuckles
The Whistle Song
1991
15
Ceasar Frazier
Mighty Mouse
1975
16
Curtis Mayfield
Freddies Dead (Live)
1972
17
Nova Catalina Octet
Sao Paulo
2015
18
Art Webb
Good times in life
1977
19
Philippe Wynne
He don't love you
1984
20
Kool and the Gang
Jungle Jazz
1975
21
California Executives ft. Ronald Dudley
I don't know why
1985
22
Sugarhill Gang
The lover in you
1982
23
Staple Singers
Let's do it again
1975
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week this week Lonnie Liston Smith, we have "North of the Gap", three great northern tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Ingram, Pleasure, Impressions and the Hudsons to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
Year
Esperanto
Latin Strutt
Rick Clarke
Potion
1981
Masayoshi Takanaka
Rainbow paradise
1981
The Hudsons
Show me you care
1982
Ingram
Mi Sabrina Tequana (My Sister's Daughter)
1977
Pleasure
Let's Dance
1977
Three Degrees
Who is she and what is she to you
1975
Lonnie Liston Smith (Featured Artist)
In the Park
1983
Undisputed Truth
Sandman
1979
Hajime Yoshizawa
Celebration
2008
Leroy Hutson
Classy Lady
1982
Misaaki Hirao
Funky Miyo Chan
1976
The Impressions
Stop the war
1972
Frank and James
How long is forever
1982
Lonnie Liston Smith (Featured Artist)
Visions of a new world (Phase 2)
1975
Timmy Thomas
Coldest days of my life
1973
North of the Gap
4 Larks
I still love you
1968
Marlena Shaw
Wade in the water
1966
Joanie Sommers
Don't Pity me
1965
Garland Green
Just my way of loving you
1971
Lonnie Liston Smith (Featured Artist)
Mystic Woman
1974
Con Funk Shun
If you're in need of love
1981
Bloodstone
Outside woman
1973
Curtis Mayfield
Kung Fu
1974
Narada Micheal Walden
Why did you turn me on
1979
Black Ivory
Main Line
1979
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !No Featured Artist of the week this week (I forgot to prep), still have "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Hubert Laws, Doc Severinson, Damaris Carburgh, and The Originals to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
1
Hubert Laws
Chicago Theme
2
Archie Bell
It's hard not to like you
3
Notorious Miami
I'll hold the groove
4
Ronnie McNair
I'm your lover
5
Doc Severinsen
I wanna be with you
6
Herman Kelly
Dance to the drummers beat
7
Winstones
Colour him Father
8
9
Frankie Crocker
Ton of Dynamite
10
Dazzle
You dazzle me
11
Eddie Harris
It's alright now
12
Damaris Carbaugh
What about my love
13
Thelma Houston
Nothing left to give
14
Jakki
You are the star
15
16
The Five Corners Quintet
Three corners
North of the Gap
17
Crusaders
Dance dance dance
18
The Impressions
We're a winner
19
Frankie Valli
The Night
20
Barry White
Playing your game baby
21
22
Junior Walker
Walk in the night
23
Billy Paul
Windy
24
Originals
Love still lives in my heart
25
Charles Earland
Coming to you live
26
Ronnie Lovejoy
You got to know
27
Eugene Record
Overdose of Joy
28
Willis Jackson
Nuthern like Thuthern
29
Dusty Springfield
Live it up
30
Four Tops
Strung out for your love
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week, Quincey Delight Jones Jnr. plus "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Billy Paul, The Urban Knights, Elerine Harding, and Touch of Class to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
Year
1
Barry Waite & LTD
Funky Sting pt. 1
1974
2
Dinosaur L
Go Bang
1988
3
Cloud One
Disco juice
1977
4
Billy Paul
False faces
1979
5
Urban Knights
Hi-heel sneakers
2001
6
Northend
Tee's happy
1981
7
Johnny Bristol
Man up in the sky
1989
8
Quincey Jones (Featured Artist)
Soul Bosa Nova
1972
9
Mike Longo
Like a theif in the night
1974
10
Elerine Harding
To whom it may concern
1972
11
The Counts
Latin Disco
1974 ?
12
MFSB
Metamorphosis
1980
13
Gene Chandler
Let me make love to you
1980
14
Fabulous Three
Answer me softly
2002
15
Quincey Jones (Featured Artist)
Smackwater Jack
16
Urbanator
Hot Jazz Buscuits
1994
North of the Gap
17
Gene Townsel
I'm walking away
1982
18
Stanley Turentine ft. Gloria Lynne
I gotta tell somebody
19
Seven Souls
I still love you
1967
20
Roy G Hemmings
You got it
1997
21
Quincey Jones (Featured Artist)
Ai no Corrida
1977
22
Dexter Wansel
What the world is coming to
1977
23
Charles Beverley
Stop and think a minute
1975
24
Touch of Class
You got to know better
1976
25
Sweet James Epps
Back in circulation
1983
26
The Underground Band
Time is running out
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week, Curtis Mayfield plus "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Norman Connors, Trammps, Brenda Gooch, and 94 East ft. Prince to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist Title Year1. Trammps - The night the lights went out - 19772. Brenda Gooch - You and I together - 19803. The Three 3P's & MFSB - Would you believe me - 20094. Fascination - Out to get you - 19845. Two Man Sound - Que Tal America - 19776. James Gadson - Good Vivrations - 19727. Cirt Gill & Jam-a-Ditty Band - Put the music in your ear - 19808. Curtis Mayfield (Featured Artists) - Love to keep you in my mind - 19719. Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen Trio - Keeper of the flame - 202010. Jaisun - Closet man - 197711. Chocolate Milk - Pluck it - 197612. Numonics - You Lied - 198213. Spirit of Atlanta - Messin around - 197314. 94 East ft. Prince - Just another sucker - 201615. Curtis Mayfield (Featured Artists) - Back in the world - 197316. James Phelps - The look on your face - 1971
North of the Gap 17. Parliments - Don't be sore at me - 196718. Venicia Wilson - I can't stop this feeling - 202219. Johnny Maestro - I'm stepping out of the picture - 1965
20. High Powered Spirit Band - I know you can - 198221. Curtis Mayfield (Featured Artists) - Back to living again - 199622. Norman Connors - Mother of the future - 197423. George Jackson - I know she misses me - 200524. Walter Jackson - Coldest days of my life - 1970
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week, The Fatback Band plus "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Johnny Harris, Lonnie Hill, Miroslav Vitous, and Mandrill to name but a few.
PLAYLIST
Artist
Title
1
Mandrill
Dance of love
2
Johnny Harris
Odyssey (part 2)
3
Rance Allen Group
Peace of mind
4
Charles Mann
It's all over
5
Mad Dog Fire Department
Cosmic Funk
6
Lonnie Smith
I can't stand it
7
Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign
Oh Baby
8
Fatback Band (Perception Years) - (Featured Artist)
Nija Walk (Street Walk)
9
Miroslav Vitous
New York City
10
Metropole
Miss Manhattan
11
Adele Sebastian
Belize
12
Lee Eldred
Shakin baby
13
Idris Muhammad
I'm a beleiver
14
Fatback Band (Perception Years) - (Featured Artist)
Dance Girl
15
Lou Donaldson
Sassy Soul Strutt
North of the Gap
16
Richard Temple
That Beating Rhythm
17
Patti Young
Head and shoulders
18
Shirley J Scott
Goose Pimples
19
Natalie Cole
Annie Mae
20
Timmy Thomas
Touch to touch
22
Fatback Band (Perception Years) - (Featured Artist)
Soul March
23
Donald Byrd
Street Lady
26
Nina Simone
Mr Bo Jangles
27
Grover Washington Jnr.
Sausalito
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week, Candi Staton plus "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Dramatics, Dennis Coffey, Labbi Siffri, and the Dazz Band to name but a few
Playlist
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Artist
Title
Year
1
Dramatics
Get up and get down
1971
2
The Moorish Vanguard Concert
The sunset of your love
1977
3
Dennis Coffey
Some like it hot
1975
4
Tamiko Jones
Let it flow
1976
5
Tymes
All you ever wanted to know about love
1976
6
Ebony
Feels like
1999
7
Labbi Siffri
Doctor Doctor
1975
8
Candi Staton (featured artist)
Without you I cry
1981
9
Clifton Dyson
Girl I'm giving up
1980
10
Walter Jackson
Let me come back
1973
11
Dazz Band
You are my starship
12
Ndugu and the Chocolate Jam Co.
Come into my life again
1980
13
Debbie Taylor
I have learned to do without you
1973
14
Candi Staton (featured artist)
Too Hurt to cry
1971
15
Peter Warner
I just wanna spend my life with you
1975
North of the Gap
16
Lost Generation
You're so young but you're so true
1970
17
Jackie Wilson
Whispers (Getting louder)
1966
18
Barbara Acklin & Gene Chandler
From the Teacher to the Preacher
1968
20
Kenny Gamble and the Romeos
Ain't it baby
1965
19
4 to the Floor
Heavy Collar
1999
21
Candi Staton (featured artist)
Hallelujah anyway / Younghearts run free
22
Anne Peebles
Mon belle
1981
26
Guy Monk
Feeling right
2007
23
Jose James
Blackeyedsusan
2008
24
Sarah Jane Morris
Me and Mrs Jones
1988
25
Marvin Gaye
Mercey Mercy Me (The Ecology)
1971
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Blowing the dust off soulful rare grooves, collectibles and some stone cold classics that you've either forgotten or didn't even know about ! No re-mixes, no re-edits, just 7", 12" and LP track originals from back in the day !Featured Artist of the week, Mass Production plus "North of the Gap", three great northern'esq' tracks appreciated a little further up the M1. Also be hearing from the Olympic Runners, Winfield Parker, Noel McKoy, and the Rance Allen Group to name but a few.
Playlist
Artist Title Year1. Personal Touch - It ain't no big thing - 19762. Zebra - Simple Song - 19773. September - Are you free tonight - 19844. Winfield Parker - I wanna be with you - 19795. Olympic Runners - Put the music where your mouth is - 19746. Oldchap - Let's Love 7. Pat Stallworth - Questions - 19748. Mass Production (Featured Artist) - Magic - 19769. Rah Band - Clouds across the moon - 198510. Noel McCoy - Sexual Healing 11. Ovations - Till I find some way - 197812. Platinum Plus - Why must we part 13. Rumple - I think I wanna dance with you - 198314. Mass Production (Featured Artist) - Shante - 198015. Orient Express - Shine on - 1982 North of the Gap 16. Philadelphia Ambassadors - Girl (Love everything about you) - 197617. Sandra Wright - Midnight Affair - 197418. Shock - Footsteps across your mind - 1976
19. Rance Allen Group - Reason to survive - 197720. Pep Brown - I am the one who needs you - 197321. Mass Production (Featured Artist) - Welcome to our world of merry music 1976 22. Crown Heights Affair - Every beat of my heart - 197523. Santiago - Feeling good - 197524. Sandra Feva - Leaving this time - 198125. Brother Jack McDuff - Groovin - 196926. Smallwood Brothers - Day before tomorrow - 197727. Ramsey Lewis - Skippin - 1977
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Bit of a different Diggers Delight this week, no plan, no playlist just a couple of hours of 'winging it'
Playlist put together after the event, hope you enjoy.
Playlist
1
Sonny Benton & the Typhoons
Brothers on the slide
2015
2
Velvet Hammer
Party Hardy
2010
3
Isaac Hayes & Millie Jackson
Sweet music, soft lights and you
1979
4
Ripple
I don't know what it is but it sure is funky
1973
5
Eramus Hall
Your love is my desire
1980
6
Kool and the Gang
I wanna take you higher
1972
7
Lonnie Hill
Galveston Bay
1986
8
Nova Catalina Octet
Sao Paulo
2015
9
Nomad
Devotion
1990
10
Johnny Guitar Watson
Gangster of love
1977
11
McKoy
Fight
1993
12
Groove and the Gang
In the mood to party
1991
13
Machine
There but for the grace of god
1979
14
Faze-O
Ridin High
1977
15
Temptations
The Jones
1991
16
Kay Gees
Get Down
1975
17
Marvin Gaye
Let's get it on
1973
18
Isley Brothers
Smooth Sailing Tonight
1987
19
ToshioAsukatei
Rotation
2015
20
Touch
Me and You
1977
21
Gary Bartz
Music
1980
22
Gloria Gaynor
Casanova Brown
1975
The Studio
From the early 70's right up to today I've enjoyed playing and presenting great soul music. With a history of mobile discos, cruise liners, pub & club gigs, I finally decided that while the mind was willing, the body wasn't up to the physicality and late nights. So some 40 plus years later I moved into online broadcasting in 2015 where I currently present a Thursday night show on Crackers Radio at 10 pm (www,crackersradio.com) called "Diggers Delight", where you'll find a couple of hours of rare grooves, collectables and some stone cold classics, just the stuff for the end of the day.