Which were the most 'popular' tunes on those Fridays so long ago.....Reckon 1 is easy IMHO....Other 2 not so...So in reverse order....

3)You Better Believe lt -Joe Tex

2)I'm Falling In Love With You Baby-Little Joe Cook

and Number 1

SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER-JAMES AND BOBBY PURIFY..........................No doubt in my mind!!

Haven't a clue..never went,

Could not understand WHY anyone would want to spend all night listening to played out Oldies.

Things dont change much do they??

Still convinced that these and Mr. Ms started the trend of looking backwards that continues today.

Tony

Still convinced that these and Mr. Ms started the trend of looking backwards that continues today.

Tony

I kind of agree. Although at the time to those of us youngsters who only went in 80/81 the sounds in Ms were completely new and exciting and i spent most of my time in there. To the veterans it must have seemed like a backward step though.

I kind of agree. Although at the time to those of us youngsters who only went in 80/81 the sounds in Ms were completely new and exciting and i spent most of my time in there. To the veterans it must have seemed like a backward step though.

Yes in did, a giant step backwards.

But to be fair, it did bring a lot of new blood to the scene and like you said it was exciting for your age group.

It just seemed a bad idea at the time.

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Matt

That's spot on! They weren't 'Oldies' to you because you were new to the scene.

Oldies are only 'Oldies' to 'Old Soulies'.....................to 'New Soulies' they're 'Newies' and most of them fantastic 'Newies' to boot!

I understand the view that looking back all of the time isn't healthy. But neither is burying your heritage away so deep that in the end no one knows where it is or what it was!!!

We need a healthy mix of both the old and the new and not dogma in favour of one to the exclusion of the other.

Best

dogstoat

WELL PUT SIR NAIL ON THE HEAD AS THEY SAY

KEV

Oh All right then,lads!

1979

George Clinton please don't run was allways a floor filla

Can remeber the Monitors share a little love getting lots of plays around 79

tony newman - let the good times roll - soul-tbc

Used to love watching the dancers doing there stuff to this one, used to sit on the balcony in M`s watching in amazement. There was one lad who used to dance in front of the stage JIMMY his name was, i knew he was a scotch lad and spoke to him quite regular back then. I was djing up in Aberdeen a couple of weeks ago and asked some of the lads if they knew him. Double edged sword they knew Jimmy but sadly he`s now passed away.............AMAZING DANCER

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I'll make myself look ridiculous now (not for the first time) but as someone who was a regular at the Casino (well once a month 'ish) from 1976-1979 I don't recognise half of the titles on that list. Could be that I would know the tunes if I heard them but from the titles alone, I don't.

I played BettyTurner's "Winds Kept Laughing" at Warwick last weekend and the reaction was as if most of the crowd had never heard it!!! No adverse reflection on them....it just suggests that there are so many so-called Oldies not being played that they are being lost to this generation. I think that's a sad state of affairs.

Best

dogstoat

it's been said a million times somebodies oldies are somebodies newies.

Three more from me( in no particular order )

Green Door-Wynder K.Frog m s room sound. bag of sh,t lol

A Little Bit Hurt-Julian Covay

l Love Music-O'Jays

Which were the most 'popular' tunes on those Fridays so long ago.....Reckon 1 is easy IMHO....Other 2 not so...So in reverse order....

3)You Better Believe lt -Joe Tex

2)I'm Falling In Love With You Baby-Little Joe Cook

and Number 1

HI ALL..SHOW ME JOE TEX ATLANTIC & FREDA PAIYNE BAND OF GOLD INVICTUS, WERE MASSIVE AND WERE GUARANTEED SELLORS ON THE NIDGE.

DAVE S69

SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER-JAMES AND BOBBY PURIFY..........................No doubt in my mind!!

Sorry,Billy l missed that,mate!

wasnt clear on that one webby. she was bouncing up and down on my knee lol leave it to imagination, green door used to play it alot in the mr m's room what a bag of shite in my opinion never a soul record.

Hope you keeping well. Billy

Never in a million years was it a Soul Record,mate,but f**k me it filled the floor!

Think Mr.Frog was a member of the pop group Traffic that had a UK Top 5 with 'Hole In My Shoe'...Think Malc B. Or the like might be able to confirm that

Good bit about them in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Weaver