did this only come out on a 12" on arista

dont seem to be able to spot a 7"

hi.

did get a 7" release.

cheers just have to look a little harder then

you dont need to look to far.

soul source will do that,so you dont have to,lol.

Here's the US 7"

It was also released in the UK by the way, I have it on a UK Arista 7"

Yep, I have it on UK and US. I think I may have a spare too.

I have the 12 and used to have a 7 (I also have the album for that matter!) Can't remember what happened to the 7 but I am not sure there's any difference in playing time between any of the versions. A great side whichever format it comes in!!

Edited February 12, 201213 yr by steveh73

The 12 is longer at 4:17 than the 45 (3:42).

You wouldn't have thought that the 30 or so seconds makes much of a difference but to me the 7 inch version always sounds 'chopped-off' as one of the percussion breaks into a vocal crescendo at the end is truncated.

UK 45 used to be everywhere, but in my experience the US 45 is strangely difficult to acquire, particularly on an issue. Cheap when it does turn up though.

got a us arista us 7" copy for sale 20-00 - its not that easy

Edited February 12, 201213 yr by keithw

It's worth buying the LP for the uptempo version of the Lou Courtney tune - I Don't Need Nobody Else

Yeah I have spare US demo copies too if anyone wants one?

Brilliant record, well worth reactivating imho

Cheers

Steve

did this only come out on a 12" on arista

dont seem to be able to spot a 7"

First heard this spun by Steve Womble a few years ago in Modern Room at Cleethorpes Weekender. Great record. Didn't think it was that rare/hard! Found a US demo on Manships website straight away. Think I paid £8 for it

He's got an issue for sale https://www.raresoulm...CONNORS,_NORMAN at £8 if you want one Andy. (sorry Keith )

Edited February 12, 201213 yr by Stubbsy

First heard this spun by Steve Womble a few years ago in Modern Room at Cleethorpes Weekender. Great record. Didn't think it was that rare/hard! Found a US demo on Manships website straight away. Think I paid £8 for it

He's got an issue for sale https://www.raresoulm...CONNORS,_NORMAN at £8 if you want one Andy. (sorry Keith )

I was with you in the Modern room when he played it John if you remember, and asked what it was. You got it the following week and me the week after. A great record imo, although a friend of ours (you know who, lol) branded it "disco". Was it played back in the day, and if so, where?

I was with you in the Modern room when he played it John if you remember, and asked what it was. You got it the following week and me the week after. A great record imo, although a friend of ours (you know who, lol) branded it "disco". Was it played back in the day, and if so, where?

Hi Geoff

Yes, it was massive for Richard Searling etc in the early/mid 80's (Morecambe etc)

Think him and others played it as a new release too but i think it really came to the fore in the mid 80's?

Hope this helps

Cheers

Steve

I was with you in the Modern room when he played it John if you remember, and asked what it was. You got it the following week and me the week after. A great record imo, although a friend of ours (you know who, lol) branded it "disco". Was it played back in the day, and if so, where?

Yes Geoff, remember it well. Liked it so much, after Steve had given us the low down, returned from Cleethorpes and sourced mine same day!

Can't imagine who that would have been who branded it "disco" though

As we've often discussed - whatever, disco just another form of soul music

It was a big sound at Rotherham Clifton Hall niters (again for Richard Searling) in the early/mid 80's.

Hi Geoff

Yes, it was massive for Richard Searling etc in the early/mid 80's (Morecambe etc)

Think him and others played it as a new release too but i think it really came to the fore in the mid 80's?

Hope this helps

Cheers

Steve

Yes correct Steve, whilst I'm logged in I'll have me pennies worth................a big North West 1980 new release tune played first from the album by Richard, Kev Edwards, Colin Curtis and Greg Wilson...................Then reintroduced as a classic played along side the likes of newer released mid eighties stuff like Beau Williams - All Because Of You, Will King - Back Up Against The Wall............... . Ha ha regression is it healthy........I'm told so !!!!!

Edited February 12, 201213 yr by Nick Harrison

Yes correct Steve, whilst I'm logged in I'll have me pennies worth................a big North West new release tune played first from the album by Richard, Kev Edwards, Colin Curtis and Greg Wilson................... along side the likes of Beau Williams - All Because Of You, Will King - Back Up Against The Wall............... . Ha ha regression is it healthy........I'm told so !!!!!

Thanks for the info gents. I don't know those other ones mentioned, will check them out. I think Take It To The Limit is a fabulous record, played it out myself a few times.

Thanks for the info gents. I don't know those other ones mentioned, will check them out. I think Take It To The Limit is a fabulous record, played it out myself a few times.

Hi Geoff and whilst hunting vinyl - I do seriously recommend you also checkout Norman Connors - You Are My Melody. Released on a US Capitol 45 from around 86. Taken from a album that escapes me at this present time, but should be easy enough to pick up on a major label like Capitol. Its a nice dancer up there with TITTL and a tenner well spent.

Regards,

Nick H .

Take It To The Limit was a regular play at the Cleethorpes Winter Gardens allnighters in the early 80's along with the likes of Mandrill - My Kind Of Girl, Dramatics - I Can't Stand It and Rufus & Chaka Khan - Any Love - all nice tunes but easy to pick up as recent releases at the time

Take it to the limit was massive everywhere as a new release. I remember Adam also used to champion it.

Sorry to sound picky chaps, but even Richard Searling himself would admit.... this was a Hampsey 'Niter' tune at Clifon, Cleggy and everywhere else (and everyone else ) thereafter!

Not that it really matters LOL.

Still sounds alreet don't it!

Sean

Edited February 12, 201213 yr by Sean Hampsey

Vocals by Adaretha, don't know if it's spelt right.

https://youtu.be/3Co-J24YgEU

Sorry to sound picky chaps, but even Richard Searling himself would admit.... this was a Hampsey 'Niter' tune at Clifon, Cleggy and everywhere else (and everyone else ) thereafter!

Not that it really matters LOL.

Still sounds alreet don't it!

Sean

They don't call you the Poser Man for nothing Sean :lol:

12 inch is a different mix than the LP version (UK 12 anyway)

Nick, "You Are My Melody" is from the "Passion" LP

Cheers Paul

They don't call you the Poser Man for nothing Sean :lol:

:lol:

Dead right matey.

Even Ward can't claim this un! (but I bet he'd feckin try!)

Sean

Hi Geoff and whilst hunting vinyl - I do seriously recommend you also checkout Norman Connors - You Are My Melody. Released on a US Capitol 45 from around 86. Taken from a album that escapes me at this present time, but should be easy enough to pick up on a major label like Capitol. Its a nice dancer up there with TITTL and a tenner well spent.

Regards,

Nick H .

I'll check that one out too. I've got Once I've Been There and Valentine Love by Norman Connors on 45 as well as TITTL, there was a CD issued not that long ago of his tunes, must see if it's still available. i've just played it off TITTL of the link on this page and found myself shuffling around my landing, not a pretty sight. Again thanks for the information. Trouble is there are too many records I like and want, good to hear of one in my price range.

cheers stubbsy, been wondering what to do with that £10 manship voucher my old man got me for christmas...result

this used to get spun at viables in basingstoke mid 80's, my introduction to northern nights

i was having a flashback and thought, i fancy getting myself one of those for old times sake. it definitely did it for me at the time and now almost 30 years later still sounds cracking

Got the promo US 12" of this, long & short versions and the pressing is phenomenal......

Superb LP btw

It's worth buying the LP for the uptempo version of the Lou Courtney tune - I Don't Need Nobody Else featuring Al Johnson

Sorry to sound picky chaps, but even Richard Searling himself would admit.... this was a Hampsey 'Niter' tune at Clifon, Cleggy and everywhere else (and everyone else ) thereafter!

Not that it really matters LOL.

Still sounds alreet don't it!

Sean

Think you'll find that Andy Peebles played this quite a few weeks before your good self or Searling off a pre release copy on his Soul Train show Sean.

Still does sound alreet though don't it

Think you'll find that Andy Peebles played this quite a few weeks before your good self or Searling off a pre release copy on his Soul Train show Sean.

Still does sound alreet though don't it

We're not talking Radio Martin. Its the 'Niter' context I was referring to (as was everyone else ).

Andy Peebles would have been one of scores of Radio DJ's, on both sides of the Atlantic, who might have given it a spin. That could be said of most of those early 80's major label titles, from Keni Burke to Atlantic Starr.

I guess, if we're splitting hairs, Norman Connors probably played it first, to his mates in the pub after the session... but that wouldn't really have counted as a first play on the Northern Scene would it!

There's a lot of rewriting of history, as regards what went on and who played what in the early 80's.

It's an era poorly documented... and filled with urban mythology.

Just thought I should put the 'record' straight on this one, at least!

Sean

Actually Sean, this period in time is properly documented. An old copy of Blackbeat reveals that Norman Connors was played first by 'Arry 'Ardbottom at the Ferrett & Pidgeon allnighter a full 2 weeks before you spun it mate

We're not talking Radio Martin. Its the 'Niter' context I was referring to (as was everyone else ).

Andy Peebles would have been one of scores of Radio DJ's, on both sides of the Atlantic, who might have given it a spin. That could be said of most of those early 80's major label titles, from Keni Burke to Atlantic Starr.

I guess, if we're splitting hairs, Norman Connors probably played it first, to his mates in the pub after the session... but that wouldn't really have counted as a first play on the Northern Scene would it!

There's a lot of rewriting of history, as regards what went on and who played what in the early 80's.

It's an era poorly documented... and filled with urban mythology.

Just thought I should put the 'record' straight on this one, at least!

Sean

Yawn! I thought this thread was about Norman Conners himself.

Yawn! I thought this thread was about Norman Conners himself.

Dead right DaveD.

It's tiresome reading stuff like this innit.

Who played what and when, first... as if it matters.

And more especially when its reported wrongly.

Sean

Actually Sean, this period in time is properly documented. An old copy of Blackbeat reveals that Norman Connors was played first by 'Arry 'Ardbottom at the Ferrett & Pidgeon allnighter a full 2 weeks before you spun it mate

Now that I can 'almost' believe Steve.

'Arry' was always way ahead of everyone else at the time...

Sean