Twisted Wheel, Brazennose & Whitworth Street, Manchester 1963-71 – Various Artists LP 

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Twisted Wheel, Brazennose & Whitworth Street, Manchester 1963-71 – Various Artists LP 

Side One
1. Bobby Bland- Turn On Your Love Light
2. Joe Haywood – Talk To Me Baby (Put Some Sugar In My Ear)
3. The Sharpees – Do The 45
4. Big Sambo And The House Wreckers – At The Party
5. Benny Spellman – Fortune Teller
6. Alvin Robinson – Searchin’
7. Solomon Burke – Cry To Me

Side Two
1. Ernie K Doe – A Certain Girl
2. The Rubaiyats – Omar Khayyam
3. Ronnnie And The Manhattans – Long Time No See
4. The Ad Libs – The Boy From New York City
5. Alvin Cash & The Registers – Twine Time
6. Bo Diddley – Road Runner
7. Fats Domino – It Keeps Rainin’

The Left Wing Club in Brazenose Street in Manchester changed to become the Twisted Wheel.

Twisted Wheel membership card circa 1965

Slowly moving from it’s roots in, folk and jazz, to blues and RnB, it was to become the originator of Northern Soul. Mainly due to the two brothers who managed the club and its first, now legendary D-J, Roger Eagle. It was Roger who introduced a whole generation to Jimmy Smith,, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker and many more. (The first UK RnB boom.)

The Club was a coffee bar, no Booze but lots of blues! And after a Saturday night with Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, John Mayall or Eric Burdon , who can forget the Sunday morning hikes in the peak district after the All Nighter!

In 63 and 64 the influence of Soul became dominant with the rise of Motown and Stax The mod scene was here, fashion changing weekly, pop music influenced by blues and early Motown and Stax, where very rare records, everything connected with blues and soul was rare in those days, the radio did not play Soul and hardly any record shops had heard of the artists. Green Onions – you want the green grocers mate! In any case to like black musicians was seen as not quite the thing. But that sort of attitude simply encouraged us.

The mainstream soul standard classics of today, where at their time of release very rare and difficult to find. This eventually led to the situation at the end of the 1960’s when collectors sought anything rare, just for the sake of it, recordings without real merit being hyped up as Northern Soul would not have been played at the Wheel.

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