Various - Groove: Belgium Popcorn / Various (UK) [CD]
Groove: Belgium Popcorn / Various (UK)
Various
CD
OUTTA SIGHT presents THE GROOVE, a truly authentic retrospective of the Belgium 'Popcorn' scene that has run parallel to the UK Northern Soul scene since it's inception in 1969. Our 'Popcorn' playlist combines a unique blend of soul, R&B and exotica based largely around the shuffling, fifties, cha cha beat immortalized in Mary Mazza's "Cha Cha Italiano" and Frank Pizani's "Steady Cha Cha". Our album title is derived from the Groove club in Ostend, Belgium, where the 'Popcorn' sound was first introduced by pioneering DJ Freddy Cousaert. As the sound developed - a hybrid of 60s soul, jazz, funk, R&B and American pop - the scene began to take off and came of age in a converted farm at Vrasene, near Antwerp, which was christened the Popcorn. Enjoy the Groove.
Tracklist:
- Jimmy Breedlove - My Guardian Angel
- Buddy Lamp - Promised Land
- Bobby Day - King's Highway
- Kylo Turner - I'll Be Thinking of You
- Curtis Knight - Voodoo Woman
- Bobby Scott - I Gotta Run
- Carol Connors - That's All It Takes
- Gene Stridel - Let Her Go
- Birdie Green - Tremblin'
- Johnny Darrow - Love Is a Nightmare
- Azie Mortimer - Lips
- Plas Johnson and His Orchestra - Downstairs
- B K Anderson - the Minimum Wage
- Diane Maxwell - Love Charms
- Mary Mazza - Cha Cha Italiano
- Barry Martin - Minnie the Moocher
- Billy Grammer - Princess of Persia
- Ruth Christe - Strange Exotic Melody
- Hal Miller and the Rays - An Angel Cried
- Don Rondo - Quite Girl
- Ben E King - It's All in the Game
- Frank Pizani - Steady Cha Cha
- Randy Lee - Like the Feller and the Girl on the Late, Late Show
- Merv Griffin - Along Came Joe
- Ronny Douglas - You'll Come Back
- Donnie Brooks - Boomerang
- Bob Conrad - the Great Magician
- Lenny Miles - Living Dream