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Some tunes, back in the day, used to be massive, then over and done with very quickly and seem to get lost forever.

A few examples:

Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce

Black Soul Music - Black Soul

Mack Simmons - Turning Point

Attractions - Mammas Baby

Cant say I've heard any of these at a soul night in 30 years.

Any others deserve a mention?

Ed

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ERNEST FITZGERALD - ACE IN THE HOLE. - big for alan rhodes for a weeks then disappeared, only a cheapie too

Can't find one to buy, let alone hear it out anywhere now!

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Some records I only ever remember hearing once at Wigan:

john gary - hang on to me

john andrews - it's just love

jacki bond - why can't i love him

prince ella & sidney jones - baby sugar i love you

blue chips - tell him

barry st john - everything i touch turns to tears

probably hundreds more

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Twans - cant remember the last time i heard that out!

Lesley Uggams - both of them

Paula Durante - If He Were Mine

Al de Lory - Right On

Margaret Mandolph - Something Beautiful

Frankie Crocker

ete etc

All biggies once...There's hundreds more like this....dunno maybe they get played at torch reunions/twisted wheel sessions so would never know :no:

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Twans - cant remember the last time i heard that out!

Lesley Uggams - both of them

Paula Durante - If He Were Mine

Al de Lory - Right On

Margaret Mandolph - Something Beautiful

Frankie Crocker

ete etc

All biggies once...There's hundreds more like this....dunno maybe they get played at torch reunions/twisted wheel sessions so would never know :no:

are we you may be missing the point, those records were monsters but the topic is records that were played once or twice then forgotten isn't it? Or not. I dunno.

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are we you may be missing the point, those records were monsters but the topic is records that were played once or twice then forgotten isn't it? Or not. I dunno.

Dunno Pete how would we know if it was only played once unless at oNe venue you attended every week :) certainly the first post states cal tjader, heard that out quite a lot back in the day and many a time since, never heard of matt simmons or earnest fitzgerald so they may have been one-offs I guess? (can name a few records - some so-called big 'uns of today that showuldve been one-plays :lol: maybe another post there.

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Dunno Pete how would we know if it was only played once unless at oNe venue you attended every week :) certainly the first post states cal tjader, heard that out quite a lot back in the day and many a time since, never heard of matt simmons or earnest fitzgerald so they may have been one-offs I guess? (can name a few records - some so-called big 'uns of today that showuldve been one-plays :lol: maybe another post there.

Well yeah we did attend Wigan every week, thats why I listed ones that I'd only heard there once. Well no I went every 2 weeks in 76, 3 out of every 4 in 77 and every single week in 78 up til august.

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Some tunes, back in the day, used to be massive, then over and done with very quickly and seem to get lost forever.

A few examples:

Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce

Black Soul Music - Black Soul

Mack Simmons - Turning Point

Attractions - Mammas Baby

Cant say I've heard any of these at a soul night in 30 years.

Any others deserve a mention?

Ed

INSTRUMENTALS

Boots Randolph---take a letter maria(massive for John Vincent at the casino

Gerry & Paul---the cat walk

Ace Cannon----sea cruise( massive at the casino

Earl Wright---thumb a ride

VOCALS

johnny Dynamite---the night the angels cried

JEAN Carter---like one

Nancy Wilson---end of our love

Eddie & Ernie--i can do it

Richard (popcorn) wylie---rosemary what happened

Diane Renay--can't help loving that man

Al Kent---the way you been acting

haven't heard these in many years

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Does the fact that a 45 might have been played only once or twice at the Wigan Casino make it 'forgotten'? I don't think so.

Anyone got the comprehensive list of every track played at every venue, large and small, national, local and parochial, across all the years? Of course not.

So, the question is then: forgotten by whom?

Seems the answer is only old timers who went to clubs that existed for a few short years and closed their doors - how long ago?

Let's have some criteria to define 'forgotten' before the usual statements of "When I was at the [insert name of decades dead venue here]..."

Which is usually followed by the lonesome cry along the lines of: "...it's not like the old days..."

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INSTRUMENTALS

Boots Randolph---take a letter maria(massive for John Vincent at the casino

Gerry & Paul---the cat walk

Ace Cannon----sea cruise( massive at the casino

Earl Wright---thumb a ride

VOCALS

johnny Dynamite---the night the angels cried

JEAN Carter---like one

Nancy Wilson---end of our love

Eddie & Ernie--i can do it

Richard (popcorn) wylie---rosemary what happened

Diane Renay--can't help loving that man

Al Kent---the way you been acting

haven't heard these in many years

Popcorn Wylie, played this out at SOULFUSION to a packed dance floor..

Nancy, Earl & Eddie get played out at Oxford Soul Club & Soulfusion

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are we you may be missing the point, those records were monsters but the topic is records that were played once or twice then forgotten isn't it? Or not. I dunno.

I thought the question was about tunes that went big very quickly, then disappeared just as quick...

Maybe I'm wrong too :D

Tony

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I thought the question was about tunes that went big very quickly, then disappeared just as quick...

Maybe I'm wrong too :D

Tony

But apart from that....

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Does the fact that a 45 might have been played only once or twice at the Wigan Casino make it 'forgotten'? I don't think so.

You could always try actually reading the question. Played for a few weeks then disappears. As Wigan casino was the venue I attended, thats the one that I can relate my experiences of.

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Yes, but 'Wigan' features in this threat seven times and 'Casino' eight times. Sorry, make that eight and nine times respectively :lol:

I know but if I'd spent most of my time at the 100 Club, I'd namecheck that place - I can only go by where I've been and what I've heard (or not heard)(again)(ever)

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Some tunes, back in the day, used to be massive, then over and done with very quickly and seem to get lost forever.

A few examples:

Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce

Black Soul Music - Black Soul

Mack Simmons - Turning Point

Attractions - Mammas Baby

Cant say I've heard any of these at a soul night in 30 years.

Any others deserve a mention?

Ed

Got the black soul music and just bought a copy of mamma'a little baby, was wondering if they'd been played, when and where these two first aired? i think I'm right in saying soul saurce was a wheel thing though I know it was also spun at the golden torch too.

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T.L.C by PJ went on a quick curve dinnit??

Tony

Been spinning this again.....someone on here actually requested it at our last gig.

Some you never hear out but must have been big at one point as they were pressed.

Bobbi Lynne-Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

Edie Walker -Good Guys

Carlettes/Corlettes-Im Getting Tired....I'm spinning this again

Joey Dee-How Can I Forget

Cortez Greer-Strong On You...in the box

I've got that Attractions Mammas Baby record somewhere....blue label springs to mind.Gave it one or two spins then filed it.Thought it was a poor record.....will give it another try.

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Been spinning this again.....someone on here actually requested it at our last gig.

Some you never hear out but must have been big at one point as they were pressed.

Bobbi Lynne-Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

Edie Walker -Good Guys

Carlettes/Corlettes-Im Getting Tired....I'm spinning this again

Joey Dee-How Can I Forget

Cortez Greer-Strong On You...in the box

I've got that Attractions Mammas Baby record somewhere....blue label springs to mind.Gave it one or two spins then filed it.Thought it was a poor record.....will give it another try.

From that lot, the Joey Dee was a truly massive record in early 76, bootlegged twice in fact, one of the biggest records of that year.

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Lynda Marcelle - It's not like you, Massive for a couple of months.

Leslie Uggams - Dont you even care, Bigger than Jesus in 77. I still have it at the back of the box unplayed for donkeys years.

I think you will find that Leslie Uggams went big in 76 covered up as Nancy Ames.

Lyndia Marcelle got pressed in late 76/ early 77, both great records in there day and I still like them.

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Been spinning this again.....someone on here actually requested it at our last gig.

Some you never hear out but must have been big at one point as they were pressed.

Bobbi Lynne-Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

Edie Walker -Good Guys

Carlettes/Corlettes-Im Getting Tired....I'm spinning this again

Joey Dee-How Can I Forget

Cortez Greer-Strong On You...in the box

I've got that Attractions Mammas Baby record somewhere....blue label springs to mind.Gave it one or two spins then filed it.Thought it was a poor record.....will give it another try.

Cortez Greer is a fine record, and the other side is quite passable too, price started going up this last year or so too. The only thing it has against it is it was one of my first wifes favourite records (and still is), I still have a copy and would play it out. There's a version by someone else on a UK label too I seem to remember

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Been spinning this again.....someone on here actually requested it at our last gig.

Some you never hear out but must have been big at one point as they were pressed.

Bobbi Lynne-Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

Edie Walker -Good Guys

Carlettes/Corlettes-Im Getting Tired....I'm spinning this again

Joey Dee-How Can I Forget

Cortez Greer-Strong On You...in the box

I've got that Attractions Mammas Baby record somewhere....blue label springs to mind.Gave it one or two spins then filed it.Thought it was a poor record.....will give it another try.

ede walker / good guys / rising sons...got pressed as patience valantine / you cant tell the good guys from the bad.... i think? mid 70s use to get an air play, along with the likes of jessica james and the outlaws / we,ll be making out. Can anyone remember or as heard any where the ikettes / two timin double dealin ? that got a short life span mid or late 70.s? not heard that for years ,im pretty sure some of the folks who have been collecting since 70,s period will have a copy tucked away ? ...ktf.
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I think you will find that Leslie Uggams went big in 76 covered up as Nancy Ames.

Lyndia Marcelle got pressed in late 76/ early 77, both great records in there day and I still like them.

Was still going strong in 77, the tape I did Feb 12th 77, goes down well on there. Lydia Marcelle was a very rare play from what I can remember. Great though.

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ede walker / good guys / rising sons...got pressed as patience valantine / you cant tell the good guys from the bad.... i think? mid 70s use to get an air play, along with the likes of jessica james and the outlaws / we,ll be making out. Can anyone remember or as heard any where the ikettes / two timin double dealin ? that got a short life span mid or late 70.s? not heard that for years ,im pretty sure some of the folks who have been collecting since 70,s period will have a copy tucked away ? ...ktf.

I remember seeing the Ikettes in a wigan top 20 some time in 1975

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Been spinning this again.....someone on here actually requested it at our last gig.

Some you never hear out but must have been big at one point as they were pressed.

Bobbi Lynne-Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

Edie Walker -Good Guys

Carlettes/Corlettes-Im Getting Tired....I'm spinning this again

Joey Dee-How Can I Forget

Cortez Greer-Strong On You...in the box

I've got that Attractions Mammas Baby record somewhere....blue label springs to mind.Gave it one or two spins then filed it.Thought it was a poor record.....will give it another try.

I can't remember ever hearing "Mama's Baby" anywhere. Not that great a record IMO anyway....

Likewise these two.....

Bobbi Lynn - Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

They were around in droves but I can honestly say I can't remember ever hearing 'em out anywhere. The Bobbi Lynn's were virtually all water damaged from memory. I always remember wondering why there were gazillions of water-damaged Bobbi Lynn's on Look but no Freddy Chavez's anywhere!

Ian D :D

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I can't remember ever hearing "Mama's Baby" anywhere. Not that great a record IMO anyway....

Likewise these two.....

Bobbi Lynn - Jump Back In The Arms Of Love

Marsha Brody-Right Combination

They were around in droves but I can honestly say I can't remember ever hearing 'em out anywhere. The Bobbi Lynn's were virtually all water damaged from memory. I always remember wondering why there were gazillions of water-damaged Bobbi Lynn's on Look but no Freddy Chavez's anywhere!

Ian D :D

Yes they are all water damaged ........

Heres some more I rarely hear out out but must have had their day in the sunshine once

Bobbi Lynne or Zenda Jacks-Earthquake

Ellingtons-Destined To Become A Loser.....just not right for today

Ila Vann-Can't Help Lovin That man..........ditto

BJ Thomas-I Don't Have A Mind....never hear this.Last time I heard it Tim Ashibende was spinnin it.

Tommy Sands-The Statue.....not my cuppa t but must have been massive.Never heard this played out!!

Whats the story behind Val Mcennas Love Feeling as well? Must have been a big record at one point.

What was Kennard Gardner Do The Skin all about as well....must have been popular as got booted

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couple of thing I remember from the 8ts,

Joe Stampley/ uniques- not too long ago

and

Anita Hulmes - what will I do

Think the Anita Hulmes was a stafford track but was certainly a big spin around 87 for a while.

That Uniques was getting spun in London 2001/2002 by Jo Wallace quite a lot.I'm sure they were a garage band and from memory came out on UK Pye?

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couple of thing I remember from the 8ts,

Joe Stampley/ uniques- not too long ago

and

Anita Hulmes - what will I do

Think the Anita Hulmes was a stafford track but was certainly a big spin around 87 for a while.

Anita Hulmes was spun at Wigan for a while

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I didn't know that, I didn't even hear it til 1988

I'd heard it when I was going out with Colleen, Steve Fay had a copy too. Maybe it was one of those things that was played very briefly then disappeared for a while :wink:

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That Uniques was getting spun in London 2001/2002 by Jo Wallace quite a lot.I'm sure they were a garage band and from memory came out on UK Pye?

They have done loads of stuff mostly in a country style "not too long ago" came out on Dot LP with a Hawaii break in it ;-0

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and on UK Dot 45 - credited just to Joe Stampley

Have you listened Pete it's mad,there early stuff there some good one in-between loads of country stuff.

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couple of thing I remember from the 8ts,

Joe Stampley/ uniques- not too long ago

and

Anita Hulmes - what will I do

Think the Anita Hulmes was a stafford track but was certainly a big spin around 87 for a while.

Uniques goes back further than that doesn't it.Malc Burton,where are you?.

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