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Item No: 027

Posted: 28/11/05

Item: Sean O'Connor's trip to Solar Radio

Sunday Soul Selection - Shaun Robbins Show
Sunday 20th November 2005

Over the last six months, since I first switched onto Shaun's show I have been hooked. Here is a guy who is completely tuned into to my kind of soul music. His enthusiasm and passion for collecting is infectious and I have been taping these shows religiously.

Luckily for me I have the pleasure of listening to rare soul on a daily basis in the record shop in Blackpool and it was from this enjoyment that I kept in regular contact with Shaun leading up to a weekend visit in November.

Shaun had been swapping soul music titles with me and putting me onto record after record with myself scouring all the usual dealers and websites.

My passion for 70ss soul music dates back to around 1985 when I first started to listen to Richard Searling's radio show and attended all the good modern soul venues in the late 1980ss.

With a library of titles and records in my head I have managed to buy back some of the titles I had to let go in the early 1990s and in Shaun Robbins I have found some kind of soul mate who had gone through all these emotions and experiences too.

It was great to meet Shaun over breakfast on the Sunday morning at the Rowbarge Hotel, I was in good spirits having reported on a Morecambe Football victory over Woking and Shaun kindly taunted the fans on air late that morning. Shaun had a stinker of a cold but after I had played some of the tunes from my laptop over the mobile phone he wasn't going to miss this one.

We picked up the lovely Brigette but we were really not giving ourselves enough time and I'm sure Sandra C was thinking she was going to have to do a longer show, but we arrived just in time to cue up The Girls The Hurts Still Here and we were on our way.

I dropped a lot of records that I thought would blend in well through Oscar Perry, Pete Warner, new material from Sonya Greyer and some jaw droppers in Wilson Williams I think its gonna work out fine on ABC, Kristy's Wanna know more and the majestic Drifters track Pour your little heart out that set the phone lines buzzing.

The two hours just went so quickly and Shaun asked Brigette and bob to barricade us in and to make sure I couldn't escape with the drifters record!!!!

After the show we went off to Daisys diner for a great greasy spoon dinner, records were traded with The Crate and I picked up Imperial Wonders on black prince and Rena Scott La te da and then I was escorted to Soul Brother records where I was shown the Aladdin's Cave within and resisted the urge to re-mortgage the house and buy up the vinyl shelves…well the Dynamics What a Shame album on black gold was duly bought and an order placed for the excellent Chicago calling cd an essential item.

Later that afternoon we said our goodbyes but that I will be making the return journey hopefully at the end of January when the Shrimps make the journey to play Crawley Town.

Listening to Shauns show the following week he played the Wilson Williams and a couple of tracks from Gene Chandlers The Groove Situation and the lovely Sonya Greyer track which has now sold out.

The North met the South and it will be Bob's turn on Sunday 4th December and we will all have to tape the show and listen after Christmas to avoid overspending and sit in sheer frustration at the scarcity of the tunes.

Many thanks to Shaun and Bob for their time and their support to the club and I for one can't wait till they all make the visit to the Seaside Soul Club in the new year.

Sean's Playlist at Solar

The Girls: The hurts still here
Tender Loving Care: Love you baby
Hamilton Movement: She's Gone
Sonja Greyer: Right here right now
Philip Mitchell: I don't do this
Fantastic Johnny C: Waitin for the rain
Oscar Perry: I got what you need
Freddie Hughes: I gotta keep my bluff in
Jimmy Lewis: I quit you win
Otis Leaville: Nobody but you
Tavares: Judgment Day
Southside Movement: Do it to me
Sharon Paige: New to you
The Drifters: Pour your little heart out
Midnight: Keep on walking by
Willie Walker: Love makes the world goes round
Pete Warner: I just want to spend my life with you
First Choice: Cant take it with you
Soul Children: Who you used to be
The Ovations: Till i find some way
Kristy: Wanna know more
The Dynamics: I wanna thank you
Lamont Johnson: Masta Luva
Wilson Williams: I think its going to work out fine
Gateway: Can't accept the fact
Anthony White: Yes you need love
Marshal Downing: Almost had a good thing

Sean O'Connor

Last Updated: Monday 19 December, 2005 22:00