By david, glasgow, scotland (62.6.102.221 - 62.6.102.221) on Friday, April 12, 2002 - 10:33 am:

i will be visiting popcorn shortly and think it would be a nice idea if i took him along some e-mails from the forum.

he doesn't get out much these days due to severe athritic problems and i know something like this would give him a lift.

if you knew popcorn personally or if you have ever enjoyed his wonderful music as a northern soul fan, drop me an e-mail at david@soulfuldetroit.com, and i will see that he gets it.

let's set a target of 20 e-mails, so get typing! please.

By Carl Dixon London (195.153.219.170 - 195.153.219.170) on Friday, April 12, 2002 - 12:24 pm:

Is that 20 each David??

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Friday, April 12, 2002 - 12:48 pm:

...or 20 grand?

By Carl Dixon London (195.153.219.170 - 195.153.219.170) on Friday, April 12, 2002 - 01:35 pm:

I first became aware of him on my Golden World stuff and Platters stuff. I was listening to Jamerson, I think on 'With this ring' yesterday afternoon, for my 'run of the mill Thursday afternoon Funk Brothers Bass guitar lesson'! That beginning octave - I just love it - and listen to the next bit just as the verse comes in. I remember my mate telling me in 1974, that he had heard a great record on the radio called 'With this ring'. He went straight to the record shop and ordered it! I was rather jealous that he had heard it first, so I said, Yeah...not bad! Here I am 25 years later playing it on CD and working out how the bass line is constructed and how I missed the fact,that for all these years, Funks were playing on the track!

By Ritchie (62.254.0.6 - 62.254.0.6) on Friday, April 12, 2002 - 01:46 pm:

I've loved those sixties Platters sides as long as I've known them. I used to have :o( a copy of a great Stateside album called Sweet Sweet Lovin' (ca. 1968) which went into that Bermuda Triangle of lost records that I'm sure we're all familiar with. I have to ask this... Doesn't it ring a bell?

Now I have a pretty early ? CD (1986) - the Platters' 20 Greatest Hits, pressed in Japan, would you believe...? It's great music but obviously released before "digital remastering" was invented. Just listen to all those scratches!

By david, glasgow, scotland (213.107.27.25 - 213.107.27.25) on Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 06:39 pm:

last chance for you all to send a message to popcorn.

please do it via david@soulfuldetroit.com