J.J. Barnes - Our Love Is In The Pocket

"Our Love Is In The Pocket" by J.J. Barnes is just about the quintessential Northern Soul record, loved and acclaimed by soul lovers everywhere over almost the last forty years. J.J.'s other monster Northern Soul record, "PLease Let Me In", was the first record I ever found on the Ric-Tic label, in a tiny junk shop in New Orleans, when no-one in England had ever heard of this wonderful singer, and the sound of it musically changed my life into discovering more and more records like it, with that magical Motownesque sound. J.J. has been my lifelong friend. He started out on several small Detroit labels before being picked up by Scepter, but then J.J. got his career into full swing, by the mid Sixties, when he and Edwin Starr both started out on the same label, Ric-Tic Records in Detroit. I first met J.J. Barnes in 1971 when my first business venture with my Father, when I was eighteen, was to put him on at Blackpool Mecca. I had written an article about him when I was fifteen for Collectors Soul Magazine called "J.J. Barnes The Uncrowned King Of Soul" Eighteen years later he signed to Motorcity and recorded about twenty five songs, this being one of the standout ones, our re-cut of the legendary Detroit classic, and released on the CD, "The Very Best Of J.J. Barnes"

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Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• Motorcity
• Motown
• Detroit
• Sixties-Soul
• Disco
• Male-Soul-Singers
• Soul-Classic

[legendarytobi]

Please can you tell me where this was filmed?  Thanks!

[IanLevine]

@legendarytobi - In Detroit - I think it's called Belle Isle

[purcie0001]

what a song ... brill

[door2yourheart]

So brilliant!

[scottswarbrick]

brill days jj is a legend ormskirk civic to wigan what memories

[scottswarbrick]

legend fantastic nipper keno sadly missed pete lawson great days all the ormskirk crowd piling on to wigan bus after civic hall

[lowflyer284]

fantastic another "casino" classic , cheers john .

[67splitscreen]

Great to hear the old sounds from the highland room, we all had some great times, I wonder if you remember heading off down to the casino, all piled in the back of Jebb's van.

From Accrington thanks for the memories some who are no longer with us, guess they'll still be listening somewhere.

[allwayssoul]

A HUGE track love it x

[cokildare29]

You actually introduced JJ B to both myself and frank Sanderson from Preston, when he was at the Blackpool Mecca, together with others that you brought in, And I just want to say many thanks Ian for all the effort. time and committment, that you have put in over the years,and for allowing people like myself ( Paul CJ Fielding ) and Andy Simpson to dance to some of your brilliant records.Many Thanks PCJF Pollenca Mallorca