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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

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Guest BigPaul

Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

Cant be any other "Im on my Way" Dean Parish :D

You did ask :unsure:

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Nice one,Mark!!

But in the cold light of day it's shit isn't it??!!

Although hang onto me l think l want to dance!!!! :D

I went to a Northern night at Heywood civic hall,

And asked the dj to play "Afternoon"

I cant play that he said they will hang me,

Sat having a pint and chatting when all of a sudden

"DA DA DA DA DA",(Cant do the notes)

F**k me it's Mike Post,shout my mates

CUE FULL DANCEFLOOR

A good tune is a good tune,And Afternoon of the Rhino is a good tune,

The Charades vocal version I fully admit is total wa*k

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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

Hate to mention it - but Cochise was an absolute floor packer!!

I did fall down the stairs - only about half way though - to dance to Dena Barnes!!!

Alan

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Hate to mention it - but Cochise was an absolute floor packer!!

I did fall down the stairs - only about half way though - to dance to Dena Barnes!!!

Alan

Yep Cochise was a packer thats to be sure,

There was a bit of a stink about it at the time though I seem to remember,NOTHING CHANGES :D:unsure:

Stink about the type of record being played at Wigan I meen not that it was a stinker if you catch my drift

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I went to a Northern night at Heywood civic hall,

And asked the dj to play "Afternoon"

I cant play that he said they will hang me,

Sat having a pint and chatting when all of a sudden

"DA DA DA DA DA",(Cant do the notes)

F**k me it's Mike Post,shout my mates

CUE FULL DANCEFLOOR

A good tune is a good tune,And Afternoon of the Rhino is a good tune,

The Charades vocal version I fully admit is total wa*k

Well,we have been known to play the (very) odd request

:rolleyes:

I prefer Bubblegum Breakthrough meself :huh:

ATB

Tony

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Guest Awake 502

Was there a record that stopped your conversation and you nearly fell down the stairs

to dance to!?? :boxing:

Cecil Washington :thumbsup:

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Was there a record that stopped your conversation and you nearly fell down the stairs

to dance to!?? thumbup.gif

Bari Track when it was still covered up as I miss my baby by the Lebaron Strings

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What - Judy Street is probably up there. I think it was voted top ever northern tune in Black Echoes at one point.

Judy Street was voted the number one northern soul record EVERYWHERE! I don't know this, but i would stick my money on judy street to be the most danced to track at wigan, and the most loved track of them all. I have 2 copies of the record, bought in the 70's, and both have "wigan no.1" written on the white covers ( with that carefree childhood enthusiasm, now sadly gone)

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Cecil Washington :lol:

GOOD CALL! WAS FLOORFILLER FOR AT LEAST 2 YRS SOLID BEFORE MR DRAPER GOT ONE!

SAME CAN BE SAID FOR VICKI BAINES TOO.

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GOOD CALL! WAS FLOORFILLER FOR AT LEAST 2 YRS SOLID BEFORE MR DRAPER GOT ONE!

SAME CAN BE SAID FOR VICKI BAINES TOO.

74 to 76 the biggest floor filler must have been the Casualeers

except one I usually left the dance floor

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hi all , went to wigan for the first 2 years, then stopped , got to say the biggest record played then without dought , afternoon at the ryno not to good now but then , the place just went crazy , top tune in its day yours mr j.p.

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Judy Street was voted the number one northern soul record EVERYWHERE! I don't know this, but i would stick my money on judy street to be the most danced to track at wigan, and the most loved track of them all. I have 2 copies of the record, bought in the 70's, and both have "wigan no.1" written on the white covers ( with that carefree childhood enthusiasm, now sadly gone)

:thumbup:

Quite probably the biggest floorfiller. Even after all these years, that tinkling intro and the bass strings break gives you tingles!

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Guest inspirations001

Think l danced to that on more than one occasion

l blame the back streets :thumbup:

laugh.gif a case of "getting used to the blues"!! :thumbup:

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Dont know if its been mentioned but...

I seem to remember Eddie Parker was massive countrywide during the Wigan era. Although never its greatest fan you could not get on the floor..especially on oldies nites

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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

i realy hate to say this but was it the three before eight

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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

Williams & Watson - Too Late

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Has anyone mentioned this one, was a massive tune at one time :thumbup:

That Construction tune is pure sunshine pop/soft rock. Sounds like it could've been the follow-up to The Sundowners "Always You" or something with heavy Curt Boettcher/Roger Nichols/Paul Williams involvement. Great tune!

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That Construction tune is pure sunshine pop/soft rock. Sounds like it could've been the follow-up to The Sundowners "Always You" or something with heavy Curt Boettcher/Roger Nichols/Paul Williams involvement. Great tune!

in agreement fully sebastian, it went down a storm at the time, remember a lad offering searling £400 at the height of its popularity, when it was still covered as well :thumbup::shades:

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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

Thank god no one has mentiond "wigans chosen few" :wanker: that would have done me head in lol, must say towards the later days of Wigan, i recon thay just played enything, it went funky as hell not as if it was all bad, but most of it was!!!

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Not the best,or the most soulful,or the most hard to find...........

..............But the most 'Dance Floor-Filling' at The Casino'

Me!?!?...er?? Shit but true.......................

Afternoon At The Rhino...ARGH!!!

mike mcdonald &paula parfitt always packed the floor as did...............

INTERPLAY :thumbup:

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Guest kevnewry

Was there a record that stopped your conversation and you nearly fell down the stairs

to dance to!?? :thumbup:

SANDI SHELDON :thumbup:

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Guest Little Anthony

Went to Wigan from March 1978 until it closed.

Without doubt the three biggest tunes in this time were "Hey Liitle Way Out Girl", which was followed by "Country Girl" and then "I don't like to lose" in that chronological order. They weren't the most danced to, however, as Searling had the only copies and you only got to hear them once a night.

I would say that the most danced to tune during this period, apart from the three before eight, was Bobby Paris "I walked away". I've got a tape of the last 90 mins of the fifth anniversary (Sept. 1978) and it gets played twice, once by Alan Rhodes and then again by Winstanley at about 7.30 a.m. Judging by the sound of the clapping, this had the most people on the dance floor.

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Thank god no one has mentiond "wigans chosen few" :wanker: that would have done me head in lol, must say towards the later days of Wigan, i recon thay just played enything, it went funky as hell not as if it was all bad, but most of it was!!!

I definitely never heard Wigan's Chosen Few, but the original Simon Soussan acetate of the "Sounds of Soul" was an absolute monster! I definitely saw people running pell mell downstairs to dance to it.

And if anyones got an MP3 of it I would be very appreciative!

Tainted love/Night owl/Cochise/Afternoon of the rhino/Condition red/Too late all have to be up there don't they?

Best,

RB

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I definitely never heard Wigan's Chosen Few, but the original Simon Soussan acetate of the "Sounds of Soul" was an absolute monster! I definitely saw people running pell mell downstairs to dance to it.

And if anyones got an MP3 of it I would be very appreciative!

Tainted love/Night owl/Cochise/Afternoon of the rhino/Condition red/Too late all have to be up there don't they?

Best,

RB

Check out the Hinckley Soul Club live venues section to listen to the original version of footsee and other top dancers live at Wigan

https://raresoul.org.uk/hinckleysoulclub/livevenues.htm

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I'll give you some of my Wigan floor packers:

The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard

Roger K - Give Me The Love

The Vibrations - Cause Your Mine

The Nite-Liters - K-Jee

The Deadbeats - There'll Be No...

The Royal Esquires - Ain't Gonna Run

The Q - That's The Way

The Nomads - Somethings Bad

"Ah Ba Bap Aah Yay!"

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I'll give you some of my Wigan floor packers:

The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard

Roger K - Give Me The Love

The Vibrations - Cause Your Mine

The Nite-Liters - K-Jee

The Deadbeats - There'll Be No...

The Royal Esquires - Ain't Gonna Run

The Q - That's The Way

The Nomads - Somethings Bad

"Ah Ba Bap Aah Yay!"

I never knew the seeds pushin too hard was played at wigan thats an out and out us garage track.

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Yep and yep...Love 'em both :thumbup:

So do I!

But I just thought of one that practially caused a riot at the time - but you'd never dance to it now - Gary Lewis - My hearts symphony, it might embarass a few folk now, but you couldn't get on the floor at the time....and some of those folk must be on here!

Best,

RB

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