A mix and the first installment, 481-500, of the list of my 500 favorite original soul 45s from the NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off party (since 2007!). I’ve put this together like a mixtape for a friend and hope this also feels like one of my live sets and a podcast of sorts!

Playlists with rips of each individual record and information about the songs and artist are on my YouTube and can be found individually here where you can hear the songs in their entirety and learn more about the artists and the songs. My hope here isn’t merely to give you something to listen to, but to provide inspiration to start a journey into the lives and music of these often unsung or merely deserving heroes – some of whom are still alive and active and others whose legacy needs to grow.

Since COVID I’ve been trying to make some order out of my vinyl, and because one Quixotic project deserves another, I’ve also digitized thousands of my records and organized them into categories and lists as both an intellectual exercise and a way to locate titles in this mess. I assembled the Soul Clap 500 as twenty-five self-contained entities of twenty tracks. I’ll try to keep these coming once or twice a week until it’s a complete list.

Anyhow, its been over a year since I’ve worked and, since I assume its gonna be a while before there are dance parties again, I hope this gives ya something to cut a rug to at home in the meantime…

thank you for your kind indulgence,
jt