Going back through some old mags the other day got me thinking of various venues over the years and ONE record that instantly made the memories flood back. I found its not always the 'best' record that came first!)

Starting off:

Baileys Doncaster - Five and a penny - you dont know where your interest lies

Brickyard Mexboro - Al Kent - The way youve been acting lately

Assembly rooms Rotherham - Jeanette White - Music

Windmill Rotherham - Jody Mathis - Dont you care anymore

Cleethorpes Winter Gardens - Rain - Out of my mind

Wakefield Trinity Hall - Seventh Wonder - Captain of my ship

Green Dragon Thurcroft - Bobby Womack - Home is where the heart is

Soul in the sun Tenerife - Sam the sham - Wully Bully

Over to you.........

St Ives - Blue Sharks - TTWKMLY

Wigan Casino - Will Collins: Anything i can do

Nottm Palais - Wolfman: Strange

Cleethorpes winter gdns - Flame n king: oh happy day

Clifton hall- The Magnetics: lady in green

The Painted lady - Phil Coulter: a good thing going (seriously)

The After 8(Grantham) - Lou Johnson: unsatisfied

ok, a couple of them were'nt the biggest clubs on the scene, but they were always busy and always popular

I know what you mean, some records just always remind you of a certain place (even if they weren't played there first) here's mine:

Morcambe Pier - Jimmie Bo Horne - If You Want My Love

Hinckley Leisure Centre - The Metros - Since I Found My Baby

Oddfellows Club, Leicester - The Mighty Marvellows - Talkin Bout Ya Baby

Mr M's - Saxie Russell - Psychedelic Soul

Stafford - The Magnificent Seven - Never Will I (or The Commands - Hey It's Love)

Stars & Stripes, Yate - Beverly Ann 'He's Coming Home'

Hinckley - Duke Browner 'Crying Over You'

100 Club - Deon Jackson 'I Can't Go On'

100 Club - Butch's Jean Carter c/u 'I Wanna Know'

Bradford Queens Hall.. Tempest.. someday...

Warrington Parr Hall.. Pyramid.. soul inc..

Bretby.. Purple Mundi.. Stop hurting me baby

CIS... Carol Anderson.. Taking my mind off love..

Middleton... Carol Woods.. Heartbreaker..

Soul Or Nothing.... Old Man Me.. Frank Hutson..

Droylsden... Room full of Tears... Johnny Gilliam

100 CLUB.... This is the thanks i get.. Barbara Lynn

Morecambe Pier.. Frank Wilson..

Rotheram Clifton Hall.. James Coit.. Black power

Manchester Ritz.... Ritchie Haven.. " I can't make it anymore "

A few places there off the top of my head..

Abshott Hotel & Country Club - Uptown Down South Promotions......Barbara Lynn - Moovin On a Groove..........Was taking the roof off the place, way, way before the rest of the country caught on......this awesome soul dancer will always hold a very special place in my heart, cos it became, amongst others, our anthem......

Best Russ

Edited November 19, 201113 yr by Russ Vickers

Wigan Casino (later days)---Court Davis--Try To Think What Your Doing

Stafford---Lonnie Lester---You Can't Go

Clifton Hall---Four Below Zero---E.S.P

Keele (90s)--Gladys Knight--Stop & Get A Hold Of Myself

Harder than you think to go for just one as soon as you start thinking more tracks flood in,thinking now of loads more that knocked me sideways at Clifton Hall.Agree with Parkash about Flame N King for Cleggy W/G monster sound.

WIGAN CASINO

CAN NEVER FORGET COMING OUT OF M's & LOOKING DOWN ON A PACKED DANCEFLOOR CLAPPING AWAY TO GEORGE BENSON'S ON BROADWAY

AND YATE STARS & STRIPES

MICHAEL & RAYMOND MAN WITHOUT A WOMAN ALWAYS COMES TO MIND

KEV

Wigan Casino - Will Collins: Anything i can do

Nottm Palais - Wolfman: Strange

Cleethorpes winter gdns - Flame n king: oh happy day

Clifton hall- The Magnetics: lady in green

The Painted lady - Phil Coulter: a good thing going (seriously)

The After 8(Grantham) - Lou Johnson: unsatisfied

REMEMBER GOING TO A DAYER AT THE AFTER 8 ROUND ABOUT1980

WAS FAIRLY WELL ATTENDED

CARSTAIRS SPRINGS TO MIND AS I REQUESTED IT

KEV

ok, a couple of them were'nt the biggest clubs on the scene, but they were always busy and always popular

Wigan Casino - Not My Girl - Johnny Hampton. Crazy Baby - Coasters. Cool Off - Detroit Excecutives. I need You - Shane Martin. The Shotgun and the Duck - Jackie Lee !!!!!!!

Stafford - Naughty Boy - Jackie Day. You Don't Even Know My Name - Hytones. Three Lonely Guys - Brilliant Corners

Keele - Touch My Heart - Vonettes. Look At Me - Delettes. What Goes Around - Sammy Lee. I Still Love You - Seven Souls.

Ritz - Hey You - Monclairs. Could It Be - Micki Farrow. Lets Get Back Together - Honeybees. Let Your Love Grow Higher - Eula Cooper.

Shotts (Scotland) - Carlena - Just Bros. I'm Coming Home - September Jones. Too Late - Mandrill. Thank You Baby - Matt Brown. You Satisfy My Needs - Big Dee Irwin.

Edited November 19, 201113 yr by Guest

Mr m's Rene Renee barbecue this used to get me, Julie bebb and a guy called vinny racing tomthe dance floor

Big floor Frankie vallli I'm gonna change awesome sound when all the dance floor was clapping to this

Samanthas skull snaps I'm your pimp small packed dancefloor stomping like bad devils

The re -openend twisted wheel bill black little queenie first record indanced to after 28 years absence from the scene felt like I'd never been away

Steven ( born again stuck in a time warp dinosaur)pike

Cleethorpes,Pier All nighters - Don Thomas, Come on train

Cleethorpes Winter Gardens All Dayers - Fats Domino, It keeps raining

Wigan Casino, Carl Trajar, Soul source

Lughbrough Town Hall, Flaming Emeralds, Have some everybody

Coville Tiffs, James Coit, Black Power

KGB Sheffield, James & Bobby Purify, Shake a tail feather

The Fleet, Peterbrough, Alexandra Patton, A lil loving

100 Club - Lorraine Chandler " You Only Live Twice"

Drummonds - Tony Middleton "To The Ends Of The Earth"

St Ives - Blue Sharks - TTWKMLY

Hi Ritchie

Good choice and that was a popular spin in the Main ( newies) Hall. Others played in there which remind me of St Ives include Adams Apples - Don't Take it Out On This World , Bobby Hutton - Lend A hand, Jo Bell Orch - Never Gonna Let You Go, Todays People - SOS Time for Love , Lainie Hill - Time Marches On. Oldies Room - Lee Roye -Tears, Herbie Hunter - Born To Love You, Joe Hicks - Don't It make You Feel Funky.

ATB Mike

Hi Ritchie

Good choice and that was a popular spin in the Main ( newies) Hall. Others played in there which remind me of St Ives include Adams Apples - Don't Take it Out On This World , Bobby Hutton - Lend A hand, Jo Bell Orch - Never Gonna Let You Go, Todays People - SOS Time for Love , Lainie Hill - Time Marches On. Oldies Room - Lee Roye -Tears, Herbie Hunter - Born To Love You, Joe Hicks - Don't It make You Feel Funky.

ATB Mike

Hi Mike

Others that I heard there for the first time include Tony Middleton - Paris Blues (sounded really really slow in the current climate) of , Maurice Williams - Being without you , The Ellingtons -

Destined to become a loser, Jewells - We Got Togetherness,, Quite a number of what became known as Wigan tunes were broke at the Ivo centre. Happy memories indeed

And the oldies room possibly the darkest place ever... Lee Roye & HB Barnum stand out for me in there, and jumping off the terraced seating round the walls...

As you say, oldies room St Ives almost pitch black apart from the light above the DJ's decks and when the doors opened at back or down the front.

Wigan Casino - Will Collins: Anything i can do

Nottm Palais - Wolfman: Strange

Cleethorpes winter gdns - Flame n king: oh happy day

Clifton hall- The Magnetics: lady in green

The Painted lady - Phil Coulter: a good thing going (seriously)

The After 8(Grantham) - Lou Johnson: unsatisfied

ok, a couple of them were'nt the biggest clubs on the scene, but they were always busy and always popular

Jesus Christ....

Someone actually remembers the After 8 Club. It was a dive but the music was great. What a sad occasion though when at one of the all-dayers, right in the middle of Rob Smith's spot, some hooligans decided to rip apart a teddy bear in the middle of the dance floor. There was stuffing all over the place while I was trying to dance to Toni Basil's "Breakaway" which was huge at the time. As for the memories of record and venue's... Richard Searling playing Curtis' "How Can I Tell Her" at the Clifton Hall in Rotherham and the floor being alive with the Preston Street Dancers. Now that's a memory that will stay with me.

Steve

Edited November 20, 201113 yr by soulman

I dont know if these records are particularily associated with the venues but are strongest in my memory !!

Wigan - Fantastic Johnny C -Dont depend on me

Brum Locarno alldayers - Omni - Keys to the city

Rotherham Clifton Hall - Cheryll Burdell - Giving it all to you

Leicester Notts odds - Traamps - Scrub board

100 club - Chuck Jackson - Hand it over (Really hard to pick one from over 28 years of sounds !!!!)

DON THOMAS COME ON TRAIN AFTER 8 CLUB GRANTHAM WORST TOILETS IN THE WORLD

Lots of sounds reflect these venues but I will always remember these

TOTW stafford - padded cell-mr misery,vince appollo- i bear witness,tony middleton-spanish maiden

Notts palais- little nicky soul- i wanted to tell her

Leicester oddfellows- ree flores- look into my heart

morecambe- otis clay-the only way is up,the stairways-dont you care

Wigan Yvonne Baker, Cecil Washington

St Ives Ellingtons

St Ives Oldies Room Tempos Countdown

Peterborough Bits n Pieces

Mr Ms Freddie Chavez

Ritz Alldayers Eddie Regan and Bernie Williams

Yate Cant remember one record that did it for me. Not having a go, just cant recall.

Kettering North Park Club Ann Perry

Kempston Rovers Tony and Tyrone

Various Stockport Venues Pyramid,Bari Track,Mel Britt, Darrell Banks and lots of Detroit Spinners stuff

Forgot Samanthas

Ernie Bush Breakaway

Brother Are you ready for this

Davis and Tyler Hold on help is on the way.

Yate - Marva Hicks - Looking Over My Shoulder

Hinckley (first venue) - Reggie Garner - Hotline

Hinckley (Second venue) - Anthony & The Aqualads - I Remember

Stafford - Betty Turner - Winds Kept Laughing

100 Club - Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe

These Old Shoes - The Dells - Make Sure

Capitol Soul Club - Purple Mundi - Stop Hurting Me Baby (Steve's fave too I see)

Gloucester Wheelrights - Joey Dee & Starlighters - How Can I Forget (Vocal)

Archie bell - here I go again-Wigan

Marva hicks- looking over my shoulder- cleethorpes W/G

Alfie davidson- love is a serious business -Todmorden

Lenny Williams-gotta lotta luv-Bradford Q/H

Leon ware-What's your name-Clifton hall Rotherham

Pookie Hudson -this gets to me-KGB -sheffield

Just a few to be going on with

DON THOMAS COME ON TRAIN AFTER 8 CLUB GRANTHAM WORST TOILETS IN THE WORLD

you ain't wrong there........

Wigan big room. Frankie Beverley ITWYW. I Need You, Shane Martin, Towanda Barnes

Mr Ms Looking for You. Ann D'An Drea Don't Stop Looking

Samanthas. Al Kent TWYBAL

Mecca. Younghearts, Williams and Watson Too Late, QOF Barbara Mills

Ukranian Soul Club Todmorden Lenis Guess!!

Yate....Up and Over-Jay Traynor

Wigan...I dont Like to Lose-Cecil Washington...Didnt Say a word/Yvonne Baker

Bedford...First round Knockout-Joe Frazier

Peterborough Fleet - Trick Me Treat Me...

Hinckley- to The Bitter end -Bobby Hill

just a few that i immedietly sprung to mind....Del..xxxx

These Old Shoes - Little Hank - Mr Bang Bang Man

tony's blackburn, soultown days- michigan mood, george freeman- down and out

100 club- butch's old teen turbans cu- fred and the turbines- bernadine

keele- dough Banks- kept on Dancing

Bradford- Queeens hall- kel osbourne- quicksand

that'll do for starters. great thread idea.

Blackpool Mecca........Bari Track

Wigan....Ann Perry...Ritchie Adams....Jewels....Frank Wilson

Samanthas..... Soul Yogi...Freddie McCoy

Darwen Tiffs....The spy.. Men From Uncle

Cricket Club Burnley.... Come On Train

Blackbeat Bolton ....Joe Matthews......ANYCD

Circulation Club Burnley......Chaumonts..... You Know I Need your love.

Ritz Alldayers........Shes Wanted.... Larry Clinton.

Edited November 24, 201113 yr by Koolkat

Soul In The City - Celeste Hardie - You're Gone

ben e king-i cant break the news & roosevelt grier-in my tennement 100 club.joe tex-under your powerfull love parr hall.tony galla-in love wigan.eddie holman-night to remember wigan maximes.gentlemen and their lady-like her ritz manchester.little john-heart breakin time keele.brainstorm-lovin is really my game blackpool mecca highland room revival.edwin starr-my weakness is you twisted wheel the first revival late 80s or early 90s?..most recently chris clarke-somethings wrong prestasyn 2009 weekender and the parisians-twinkle little star kings hall stoke.along with dj genesis-tribute to betty wright blackpool tower weekender 2009..loads more but these stand out to me as they made my hair prickle on my neck in these venues