Greg Edwards Soul Spectrum

Greg Edwards Soul Spectrum radio show

[@barraib]

I always used to listen to Robbie Vincent Saturday lunchtime then Soul Spectrum with Greg. In 1978 I was 20 and I took my Mk11 Cortina car down to the South of France and I taped several Greg Edwardes Shows to play in the car. In 1978 the music was great.

[@daveculver9299]

We did the same Wembley boys x

[@markdavis3171]

How I miss those days Recording every show on TDK The man was a legend.Happy happy times

[@brandon2912t]

mee too! It was such a great show with hardly a dud track for the whole show!

[@JazzFunk22]

TDK was my fave cassette tape ....🎧....🙋🏾‍♂️

[@misst.e.a.187]

Greg Edwards blasting out of the radio, early Saturday evenings, whilst you're were getting ready for a night of clubbing late evening. Greg played so much hot American imports - funk, soul, jazz - that you could only obtain from providers, like Contempo Records off Oxford Street - a poky little place full of the best transatlantic black music in the world. Great times.

[@Muswell]

Wonderful wonderful years. I loved Greg & his Soul Spectrum. Would never miss it. I still have about 1000 vinyls from back in the day.

[@TheJazzburger]

A legend! Only a handful of DJ's in the UK are worth listening to.

[@Junayd100]

Wow!! takes me back to the Saturday nights getting dressed to go out and googie the night away - Soul Spectrum blasting away syching us up for the night. Those were great days.

[@starzzegamer]

Oh, The Best Disco in Town at the Lyceum I remember so well with my mates in The East London Groove Platoon ... regards Mystic Merlin :) and a shout out to all the members of the Croydon Cruise Control .. I'm 63 now and how the time passes, best days of my life. I used to record every episode from the Lyceum but sadly, moving around a lot since they got lost in time :(

[@marknaylor2149]

we used to go every week to the Lyceum from Sutton ,,,,,,Fantastic times ,,,,,,Fantastic music

[@FlyGoodGroove]

@@marknaylor2149 Yep same here, from Croydon to Lyceum in the Strand.

[@s.wright6945]

@@FlyGoodGroove Same, Coulsdon to the Lyceum. I once stood outside Greg's house until he came out. Today it would be called stalking! 🤣🤣 Was also a huge Robbie Vincent fan. Best days ever! 💖🕺🏾💃🏽

[@FlyGoodGroove]

@@s.wright6945 Does that mean that you would've also frequented the old Tiffany's Nightclub on Brighton Road, which I think is a fitness gym now?

[@martinplatt5928]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Edwards_(DJ) - you're famous now Starzze Gamer. I've edited his entry so take a look. He deserved a lot more recognition as a brilliant soul DJ.

[@HertsCommuter]

Turns the clock back to the early 80s Saturdays - Robbie Vincent on Radio London at lunchtime whilst I made the Ford Escort roadworthy, and Greg's Sould Spectrum on Capital from 5.00 to wind me up for the night out. Happy days, not a care in the world (apart from my bank balance - or lack of it!)

[@sueharmes9443]

oh boy that voice memories im 59 now where the hell has it gone

[@siypic]

You and me both sue........ Friday night, Goldmine ............. Sat Lacy Lady............

[@DiscoLover79]

Soul Spectrum only just about reached me in Witney from the Euston Road every Saturday, but had a massive influence on my music taste. I was the only Jazz Funker in the Village! Love to Greg, a true legend, devastated when Capital ditched him.

[@brandon2912t]

Ditto! I owe Greg Edwards Saturday night show called The Bathroom Call for most of the music that I still listen to! I am very grateful as he introduced me to Jazz funk and so much more

[@misterpotatoheaduk]

During the late 1970's a saturday would be spent listening to Robbie Vincent on radio London lunchtimes,and then Greg's Soul spectrum show on capital from 5pm till 8pm. I worked with Greg a few times at Epping Forest country club in essex,really nice guy,allways happy,allways smiling. Thanks for posting this clip!

[@MrDoncos]

In the 70's Capital was a great radio station that recognised Soul and Funk music.Now the clowns who run that station wouldnt know a good broadcaster if they fell on them Greg Edwards=Broadcasting legend

[@louisokeefe8307]

Along with robbie vincent tom holland and froggy rip.... music now is fucked.... no good presenters anymore rip funk and soul.....

[@minekara6407]

Sooo so true...

[@carmanbazza]

Yes, 1979 in my Mk1 Escort with recorded Soul spectrum on cassette , great times , now I’m 60 with memories of Them days.

[@Muswell]

There are certain tracks that ALWAYS remind me of Greg. One of the main tunes is Savanna "I Can't Turn Away". Takes me right back.

[@MrDoncos]

To all fans of the great man Greg can be found on Jazz FM every sunday 10-1pm.Still playing the great grooves.The man is a legend

[@misscritique84]

Greg is from my Caribbean Island of Grenada

[@martinplatt5928]

Have finally managed to get Greg a Wikipedia entry after all these years. Just type into wiki "Greg Edwards (DJ)

[@martinplatt5928]

@@Muswell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Edwards_(DJ)

[@Muswell]

@@martinplatt5928 Brilliant Martin ! Great stuff ! I hope people remember the "DJ" bit. There's another Greg Edwards who is very unsavory !

[@martinplatt5928]

@@Muswell Thank you. Expanded it for all his latest input. Greg is a very important DJ. There has to be (DJ) after his name as there are two others I'm afraid.

[@soulboyasb]

What a great voice Greg has as well as a fantastic taste in music.

[@BarryCroucher]

Great Show ! used to listen eack week and record nearly all of it onto cassette -how times have changed !. 6 pm to 10 pm I think. Thanks for posting

[@Muswell]

Yeah - recorded onto cassette. Oh gosh. The most wonderful years.

[@chaydavis7389]

Can you convert the show from tape to digital and then upload the content?

[@roger40000]

here here what a joke the station has turned into

[@BarryCroucher]

1970's Soul Spectrum. Great Days. Not a care in the world while i was listening to this stuff ! Thanks for posting it.

[@TheAudiostud]

I had the pleasure of working with Gregg on several occasions when he visited our club in NW London known as The Bandwagon, Monday nights when we started with Jazz Funk, Fusion & Soul hoping to meet up with him in April

[@collettechandler7733]

I was there 😅

[@susanosman7046]

I used to listen to Greg whilst getting ready for pre Satnight out @ Dun Cow then onto rest night Lyceum Strand.Brilliant days, music & times! 1975/6

[@albiej6407]

Those were the best nights and great venues ..remember them well! Bug eye buddy and refugee from across the sea....respect ..Mi Soul each Sunday

[@markhastings417]

This was my shower station before I went out to the disco

[@paulkillick527]

So many great memories getting ready to go out listening to soul spectrum and the Friday nights at the Lyceum with Greg on the decks and being broadcasted live on capital radio 📻 everyone from south London blow your whistle’s and everyone from east London blow your whistles then north and west London brilliant times ☝️👍

[@G.A.R.2002]

Yes, the lyceum ball room. Friday or Saturday nights🎉🎉🎉 Soul full nights

[@grahamd5418]

Still going strong on Mi Soul radio. Has been at Margate soul festival in recent years.

[@cantantephoto8696]

I still have a couple cassettes which I recorded live off of “Capital Radio 194 we’ve got all the hits and more” back in the late 70s, I dusted them off today and they still sound surprisingly good after 40 years, this guy Greg (piles of smiles and stacks of wax” really introduced me to soul music and it’s never left me. Thanks Greg.

[@michaelrock5615]

Magical times tuning into Capital and discovering new music every Saturday with GE on Soul Spectrum and Tommy Vance with TV on Reggae. Blessed to have lived through this time!

[@brandon2912t]

I would never have discovered a ton of brilliant artists if it weren't for Greg! One of my favourites that he used to play was Dear Limmertz by Azymuth....I could not remember the whole song for years and then one day I remembered the band and went through the tracks and found it.....and it was as if I could see a polaroid of me back in the day, I danced round my kitchen as if I was back in the 80s as a teenager! Music is so healing and gets to your soul.

[@matthewblundell3422]

also Tony Blackburn week day show on radio London great music nothing like it nowadays

[@collettechandler7733]

I used to listen to Greg whilst getting ready to go clubbing on a Saturday night. Wonderful times. It was all about the music and dancing.

[@PaulJamesUK]

Thanks ---

[@richardeelze]

In 2010 I was searching for Greg Edwards on the web and the first thing that came up was this KZbin video. From thousands of hours that Greg must have broadcast this short clip happened to be the one that contained my request from the USA. back in 1978. I never heard the request back in the day but was blown away and elated to come across it 32 years later. Thanks PaulJames. Awesome!!!

[@Soul-Jazz-Funk-Time-Machine]

That's amazing, what are the chances?

[@stephenhall6595]

Memories of my miss spent youth. Greg was the best soul DJ ever.

[@marknaylor8957]

remember seeing Greg Edwards at the royalty southgate ,travelled up most weeks on the tube from Sutton,did the best disco in town,Lyceam and Thursdays at flicks them were the days , did lots of private work to get the money to travel,

[@marknaylor8957]

twat, if you cant say something nice save your breath

[@Muswell]

Hey Mark - yeah, I went to The Royalty quite a lot & saw him there once with Robbie Vincent.. Man. Those were the days.

[@MrNooneseesme]

ROY AIRES, WELL OF COURSE, JUST TIMELESS CLASSIC, LOVE IT

[@minekara1848]

I truly miss the days when capitol rado and jazz fm had greats such as greg edwards. There is nothing today to go to for the best new, old and up coming jazz soul music. It is sad. Thanks for this post. My heart is singing

[@agfagaevart]

+Mine kara Try www.solarradio.com

[@siypic]

Saturday night listening ...before the Lacey Lady 78-80

[@albiej6407]

Greg is da Man! I have been a loyal follower of since I was 14, now approaching 60 and still do a wicked 2step..Croydon boy, Scamps, Doctor Jim's, Tiffany's, Bon Bonne, Flicks, Lyceum, Stage 3, Sherry, ..this man no longer does gigs...but still listen on Mi Soul...much respect Albie John ...

[@robinlumbus]

Fantastic times.

[@helmsly2010]

@radioianj thanks for letting us know, I've been waiting for him to return to the air since he left Gold

[@ldb281]

Had hundreds of tapes recorded. Put them in the loft . 25 years later they were all ruined. God I loved greg

[@leetax]

Went and saw Greg appearing at Chessington Zoo in the late 70's or early 80's he was terrific!

[@Thefunksoulbro]

Memories great memories flares and hair and far too much lager .............counting the pints until i couldnt

[@roger40000]

omg! hi tension now they are a legend! what memories i have dancing to that night after night and with greg at the winninpost twickenham.. there was simply nothing like it at the time. thanks soooo much. regards roger.

[@mrbillhicks]

@julia71127 You need to be getting some of that Steve Barnard reggae time stuff out there.... I used to know his cousin for a while back in the day....

[@Nigel-ef2ft]

Edwards was racist and refused to play music by white bands.

[@tonydtheoriginalindamix9654]

GreG ED waS Ahead of His TiMe wiT hiS SpecTrum of SouL he Was on A RoLL wiTH thE American Accent anD GreaT MusiC

[@FlyGoodGroove]

Although born in Grenada in the Caribbean, Greg grew up in New York, hence the accent.

[@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858]

Uncle Gregers best disco in town lyceum Ball room in the strand ❤

[@misscritique84]

Im 53 and I listened to SOUL SPECTRUM every week

[@yvonnegoble354]

wonderful old memories of the wonderful GREG

[@HertsCommuter]

Stevenage - Mecca Ballroom (which became Annabella's (incorporating the Nocturne chill room)), Bo Jangles (which became Strebs) and several lousy pubs. Aaah, the 1980s!

[@mixinstyle]

HA HA awesome! As a young teenager I used to spend Friday evenings with a 2L bottle of coke, huge Hitachi ghetto blaster listening to Greg Edwards and Mike Allen on Capital to the wee hours of Saturady. And occasionally sliding the dial over to LWR. Respect to Ron Tom and Jasper the Vinyl junkie!

[@misscritique84]

Same here ... Greg , Mike I listened to and Westwood

[@johnobrien4177]

Beautifull memories.....Listening from Monchique, Portugal

[@funkyfeverbadboy666]

i need a time machine any ideas lol

[@markhastings417]

Loved him at “man in the moon” in Stevenage

[@markhastings417]

It was only a pub, and we got this kind of quality

[@msea66]

This is great to hear again. Does anybody remember Alex George, who did a Saturday night show on Capital a few years later? He also did a great show with really good jingles. I wonder what happened to him... "Rythmns and sounds, in leaps and bounds, alright all night on Capital, the biggest party in town" Sung by a lady with a great voice. A jingle to rival some of Robbie V's on radio 1. Strange what you remember from you youth:-)

[@agfagaevart]

+msea66 I remember Alex George doing his show on Capital, circa 1988 - 89. Also recall Chris Forbes (Solid Soul) doing one on Saturday nights too...Do you remember Best Disco Out Of Town with Phil Allen??

[@owenmckoy6356]

Used to jump around to this man's music at the 100 club on Oxford St. Every Thursday night religiously and yes I taped pretty much all of the spectrum shows on Sat. Night. Saw you recently on You Tube doing Merva's birthday Greg, still looking good my man!

[@chylogurti]

Would love to hear some of those shows Owen. Looking for the four Robbie Vincent tapes from September 1980. Can anyone help me find my Holy Grail?

[@truro007]

Check out Morpher Radio.....just google 'morpher radio' This station plays all these superb soul/jazz funk tracks from the 1970s and 1980s that Greg and Robbie Vincent were famous for promoting.

[@funkymartin]

Great to see "the man" MC'ing at last Friday's Legends of Soul Volume 3 with Patrice Rushen, The Jones Girls and Kenny Thomas at London's IndigO2. He also did a DJ set after party when the concert ended. I sincerely hope he gets back on the radio again very soon. Surely there's a slot at Jazz FM or Colourful.

[@deluxe853]

Hi does anyone remember robert (bob) Atkins AKA The Dude?

[@theshanghaisi]

He`s great ,saw a couple of years ago at AGINCOURT CAMBERLEY 2011ish , Still got my Hi Tension and British Hustle 12inchers !

[@chrisspoonerisgreat]

I use to go see him at Frenchies in Camberley/Surrey. ignored the birds and danced all night long... :)

[@stephenhall6595]

Best Soul Presenter ever so many memories of Soul Spectrum.

[@Muswell]

He was born & raised in America - no false accent at all. I don't know him well-enough to know what he likes doing.

[@charlottebray606]

Indeed he was American :)

[@highdefboxing8056]

@@Muswell He was born in Grenada, but raised in New York.

[@ianpurcell4445]

Great day's

[@fluff1242]

brilliant :) does anybody know where he is playing over the next few months??

[@robbiechandler7858]

Oh mydayzzzzzzzzz Roy Ayres

[@MamaFunkGrooveJunky]

Bring ole greggy an real soul back!!!

[@juniorblanco64]

whats the eddie russ snippet greg plays after roy ayers tune

[@mct1970]

@juniorblanco64 Eddie Russ track is "Feelin' Fine"

[@stephenhall6595]

Best soul presenter ever

[@MrNooneseesme]

EVERYBODY SING IT EVERYBODY SING IT

[@mct1970]

4:58 Dennis Coffey "Gimme That Funk"

[@desiredqued]

@mrbillhicks for reeaalll

[@markbryant8958]

greg was the best ever

[@Soulhead1981]

NICE :)

[@tonylewis6187]

Best dj and sounds from the 70's