Not sure if this has been done before but over the years we have had 100s of nighter tunes recorded by white singers ,so what's your favourite and why, mines Lynne Randell stranger in my arms because it was one of the first records I heard on my 1st trip to Wigan and sounded awesome coming out of them speakers

Yes, that's what this treads about, favourite all nighter record ever by a white artist.

Think I put that wrong I thought little Richie was black, must be me Alzheimer's kickin in lol

Edited February 4, 201213 yr by sheldonsoul

Think I put that wrong I thought little Richie was black, must be me Alzheimer's kickin in lol

Well he is isn't he?

A wtf moment...

Well he is isn't he?

As far as I know he's white! But he really sonds black

Well he is isn't he?

Now I am feckin confused lol, can anyone rustle up a photo of little richie

Edited February 4, 201213 yr by sheldonsoul

Have a look here, there's well over 100 listed

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Have a look here, there's well over 100 listed

Yeh but that spoils the fun !

Matt Lucas - Baby You Better Go Go

good choice proper stomper' and still very rare on KAREN.

I GOT A COPY MANY YEARS AGO QUITE CHEAP.

i forgot about the Temptones, "Girl i love you ". One of darryl Hall ,s earliest offerings. A little cracker not often found played or heard.

Not seen Paul Anka- Can't Help Loving You- yet..

had to be one THE biggest tunes around early 70's.

Tony

Err...Mitch Ryder anyone....Wayne Gibson...Charlie Rich...you've started now ...lol

Now I am feckin confused lol, can anyone rustle up a photo of little richie

Mission impossible, searching for Little Richie in pictures mostly give you Little Richard...

chris clarke-somethings wrong awesome tune as good as any black female atrtist 100mph tune

fookin awful lol

i'll go for oxford nights....i'm such a lonely one......

Deadbeats

and the lost soul ....secret of mine

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD WHATS IT GONNA BE !!!

Edited February 19, 201213 yr by wiganelli

fookin awful lol

showing your age mate-is it to fast for you?

fookin awful lol

WHAT????

showing your age mate-is it to fast for you?

faster the better mate, ask Tony P

faster the better mate, ask Tony P

oooh sounds like a challenge????. tony who

Holly St James - That's not love

Quality through and through,what a voice and she was gorgeous.

bobby paris -i walked away always like this tune

Has to be the IDLE FEW with that middle eight vocal section, possibly the greatest middle eight in Northern, full stop...'Every day, I've seen so many hurt, in so many ways...I have an answer, we must love one another...Not just the love of a sweetheartt we must love like a brother, I've seen the light and I know I am right...'...Very relevant in this time of Racial tension in this country and the hatred being stored up on both sides....

I also have a lot of time for what I believe to be the original version by P.J PROBY, but maybe I am wrong about that, PETE?....

Edited February 27, 201213 yr by rich chorley

Has to be the IDLE FEW with that middle eight vocal section, possibly the greatest middle eight in Northern, full stop...'Every day, I've seen so many hurt, in so many ways...I have an answer, we must love one another...Not just the love of a sweetheartt we must love like a brother, I've seen the light and I know I am right...'...Very relevant in this time of Racial tension in this country and the hatred being stored up on both sides....

I also have a lot of time for what I believe to be the original version by P.J PROBY, but maybe I am wrong about that, PETE?....

Could well have been written for P.J. Proby Rich, wouldn't like to hazard a guess which came out first to be honest.

Has to be the IDLE FEW with that middle eight vocal section, possibly the greatest middle eight in Northern, full stop...'Every day, I've seen so many hurt, in so many ways...I have an answer, we must love one another...Not just the love of a sweetheartt we must love like a brother, I've seen the light and I know I am right...'...Very relevant in this time of Racial tension in this country and the hatred being stored up on both sides....

I also have a lot of time for what I believe to be the original version by P.J PROBY, but maybe I am wrong about that, PETE?....

Never cease to amaze me what yer find out about music at times....first time hearing.......not bad at all....Delxxxxx

First I've heard the Proby. Jeez, like it a lot

Turley Richards I feel alright

Hi everyone

i've just discoved this jem,

Perhaps not my favorite of all time but the flavour of the month at the moment.

Love Lynn xXx

Hi everyone

i've just discoved this jem,

Perhaps not my favorite of all time but the flavour of the month at the moment.

Love Lynn xXx

Lynn, this got in the charts at the time BUT I'm always finding it in collections so it must have definitely been a big record at the time, charts or not. Great track.

Stemmons Express- woman,love theif.

The Nightwatch-Lips To Your Heart-ABC Always loved this track,a bit frantic maybe. Have never seen an issue ??

Hi Pete

Honestly never heard it played out before, and had no idea that it even charted (i asked my Pete and he said the same that he had never heard it played) with you all the way babe, a great record chart sound, blue eyed soul or not

love Lynn xXx

Edited March 6, 201213 yr by lynnissohot

Don Ray - Born a Loser - <2 minutes of magic.

Wasn't Nancy Ames white too?

Dana valery and Danny Wagner by far!!!!!!!!!

" I was out last night and tried to see if another woman could satisfy me" ........favourite blue eyed soul got to be Shane Martin, closely followed by Paul Anka (Idle Few's ace but didn't know they were white!!)

Danny Wagner - I Lost A True Love (immediate thought)

but now there's all this talk of The Idle Few it's made me rethink a little. Have to get back ....

Lynn, this got in the charts at the time BUT I'm always finding it in collections so it must have definitely been a big record at the time, charts or not. Great track.

Junior Campbell's "Hellelujah Freedom" and this track where both big sounds in your normal soul type clubs back in the early 70s.

P.S. The female backing singer on "H. F." was Doris Troy.

P.P.S. I didn't know untill now he was in Maralade.

Edited July 27, 201212 yr by davetay

I thought Don Ray was 90 seconds of magic.

Chapter 5 You cant mean it

i have to agree with you on this one ted.great

atmosperic sound.

dusty springfield-whats it gonna be

the veluors-im gonna change

two alltime classics

dean parrish-bricks,broken bottles and sticks- fantastic record, and oh so underplayed

Well he is isn't he?

Probably missing the boat here, but apparently Sky Saxon (nutty lead singer of the Seeds - Pushin Too Hard etc) toured the Southern States doing the white RnB thing calling himself 'Little Richie' in the mid 60s (according to the California Dreaming book - which I sadly got knicked/willfully unreturned) - no definitive link of course.

Dusty Springfield - Live It Up - now THERE'S a great underplayed white track!

From what I remember of seeing pictures of them the Velours were hispanic rather than white - didn't they tour Britain as the Fantastics?

Doesn't get any better than Stronger Than Me - always had a major soft spot for Evie Sands too.

Dx

PS Bricks Broken Bottle and Sticks - total load of crap - there were SIX white demos at £1.50 each in a record shop round the corner from Sid Scarborough's in in Hull in the mid 80s (I guess about 85 - I left Hull Art College in 86) - anyway we all knew they were there and thought it SUCH garbage that they couldn't sell any of them - however wish I knew then what I know now about records coz the numerous second hand record shops in Hull (about 10) were stuffed with some great US 70s soul - plus of course Paul Madden in the covered market still had a lot of his really good stuff.

Edited August 30, 201212 yr by DaveNPete

Paul Anka's tunes at at Wigan.

When we get there, Can't help lovin you, both pretty fly for a white guy!

Dean Courtney Love you just can't walk away, good white ( I think) tunage.

Worse white song I ever heard at a niter, Robbie Porter That's the way love goes, truly awful.

Aid.

Dean Courtney Love you just can't walk away, good white ( I think) tunage.

Black

Black

Ah.... Got that wrong then.

Don't know why I always thought blue eyed.

Cheers ears

Aid.

There's Ian's video of him on youtube - but he also turned up at King's Hall, Blackburn - nice bloke - fabulous record of course.

After just listening to it again,yeh why not,its up there "People thats why",by the idle few.well I can be a lazy bar steward meself,phu ket ,its a good one .