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Sweet Soul Music - First Episode
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1986
Tonight we’re checking out the sounds of New York. Just as it is a centre of innovation in black music today, with hip-hop and rap, in the 60s it was where new things were happening…– Dalvanius introduces the show
Computers ain't got soul and they can't sing!– Dalvanius, on whether soul has a place in the synth-heavy 80s pop landscape
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