Dave Godin
David Edward Godin (21 June 1936 – 15 October 2004) was an English fan of American soul music, who made a major contribution internationally in spreading awareness and understanding of the genre, and by extension African-American culture.
Biography
Born in
After working at an advertising agency, and as a hospital porter in place of
In 1967 he founded Soul City, a record shop which in 1967 developed into a record label on which he released such then-obscure soul classics as "
"I had started to notice that northern football fans who were in London to follow their team were coming into the store to buy records, but they weren't interested in the latest developments in the black American chart. I devised the name as a shorthand sales term. It was just to say ‘if you’ve got customers from the north, don't waste time playing them records currently in the US black chart, just play them what they like – ‘Northern Soul’."[5]
In his career he also coined the term
His second career was in cinema exhibition. Having studied art, design and film course at Sheffield Polytechnic, he became a senior film officer for the British Film Institute[4] and helped found and was the manager of the Anvil Cinema, Sheffield (1983–90), the only cinema in the UK to be funded by a local authority.
In the mid 1990s he started to compile a series of CDs of rare (and some not so rare) recordings – Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures – for
Godin, a
A biography, Dave Godin: a Northern Soul by Stephen Stevlor, was published in 2020 on the anniversary of Godin's death.[6][7]
References
- ^ Richard Williams Obituary: Dave Godin Archived 26 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 20 October 2004
- ^ "Jon Savage: interview with Dave Godin, February 1995". Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
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- ^ a b Obituary: Dave Godin Archived 9 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, The Daily Telegraph, 28 October 2004
- ^ For Dancers Only Archived 20 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine by Chris Hunt, Mojo [2002]
- ^ "A Northern Soul". Adam White. 28 August 2020. Archived from the original on 15 October 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ Stevlor, Stephen. "Dave Godin - A Northern Soul - Book Preview". Soul Source. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
Further reading
- Stevlor, Stephen (2020). Dave Godin : a northern soul. OCLC 1294367907.