did you know that the bread has an
international fanclub there's one part
of the world that loves our city because
of the music but we're not talking about
music but we're tum sorry we're talking
about music that didn't come from
Hitsville alright photojournalist Alex
at well shows us why people from the UK
may be some of the biggest Detroit bands
on earth Detroit has certain energy we
had the sound that nobody else had our
music the music here you to me Detroit
is a wealth of imitative to this day
there is no sound like the Motown melody
and lyric you know when you got music
you got happy times and it's the kind of
music that speaks to you you know for
every single experience you can have in
your life there's a Detroit record that
fits right into it people here in
America we move so fast as we discard
today I'm just so glad the people in the
UK embrace this move
more town obviously is the music made
just up the street and Northern Soul is
the same kind of music we're not made at
Motown those records are not shared
amongst the general public we can keep
them for ourselves it's our secret
underground thing it's great British
brothers oh yeah
come on maybe it's something about the
air over there they hear things that we
don't even hear over here I think they
kind of gravitate to
maybe the rhythms and the messages we're
actually bigger over there then we are
here now that's a great feeling
UK accepted us and they pretty much take
nowhere music they love it they love
Detroit music over there I mean the
older the more rare the better they like
it it's a thrill especially overseas
everybody knows us everybody knows our
music my records been playing over there
for 50 years it is a great feeling to
know that people to appreciate you after
all the hard work and everything we do
it is unbelievable to know these people
know you and your music after 50 60
years and people still enjoy your music
that's real it's a great here I mean to
be loved the music of Detroit
kind of touches our hearts they just
spoke to us and it just really made our
lives
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all right live in-studio our singer
Spyder Turner and Pat Lewis happy
birthday Pat thank you and Phil dick one
of the organizers of Detroit a go-go -
what's going on - tell us all about it
yeah so we decided many years ago my
wife and I when we were in Detroit where
we got married here at the Motown museum
like some years ago and I've been coming
to Detroit looking for records like
these old sixties Detroit records mm-hmm
for 30-some years and fell in love not
just with the music of Detroit over the
city itself so we decided to put on this
event to show our friends primarily in
the UK just what a wonderful place
Detroit is and it's just grown from
there we did the first one last year and
now it's bigger and better this year all
right well good morning to you both as
well good morning good morning I'm just
talking about shaft was like to sing on
that record I mean it must have been
really cool oh yeah it was cool but it
was even cooler to see to hear it once
it was put to the movie - sings yeah
it's Richard Roundtree had a hard time
walking you know to that beat okay
spider did not spiders like he's good
that's like about these 45 so that we
have some of our some rarities here is
that really yeah well I mean the whole
ethos of Detroit a girl girl is around
the music that was made in this great
city
sure and these are just some of the
labels that people might not be familiar
with I mean during the 60s Detroit had
so many different levels all springing
up kind of in competition to Motown they
saw what Motown and done and thought
well we can do that
and we can do it just as good if not
better so we had labels like Thelma
records Karen records boo wheels ville
wheels Village real wheel
groups hectic yeah velvet sound yeah
what do you spider when you look at
these what comes to mind what do you
think it brings back memories like the
Precision's I grew up with those guys
yeah they live right around the corner
matter of fact one of them used to sing
in my singing group I had a group called
the nonchalance back in high school so
and I got the lead singer into the
Precision's when I when I see records
like that it brings back a lot of
memories so when you hear about your
popularity overseas how do you react to
that I mean there there are pockets of
fans all over the globe but the UK
Berlin Germany I mean is there everyone
yeah I thought I was dead that I
discovered a web TV but when I when I
got all the way up two years ago and
started looking and going into different
sites and say oh wow I'm still alive
people still like me yeah what does it
mean for people to travel to Detroit and
be able to hear the music we see all the
names and the t-shirts here October 24th
to the 28th yes Feroze soul fans who've
listened to these records from early
teen years actually been here in Detroit
listening to these guys performing these
wonderful songs live in in the city
where they were originally made it's
just indescribable it's fantastic well
there's something in the area there
really is really that feels so good when
we go over there you know it's amazing
that ambassadors yes tsunami tsunami
baloney and then when you get home you
just turn into Dwight
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