The list could be endless for this one but myself I'm gonna hold to my favorite three:

Stewart Ames - Angelina, Oh Angelina

Betty Lloyd - I'm Catching On

Metros - Since I found My Baby

Well remember Patchs at Stafford .. brilliant record , the lead always reminds me of Lew Kirton

Ahhh Simon was wondering where you were

Yes Gav , Im here .. Well remember Patch's , Martin AKA Soul Sam introduced it as the best soul release of that year or something ??.. Just been playing it , sounds great , easy to dance to . Is there a 12 of it ??

Gavin, how U fellin. Yes 12" of Patches go for a fair bit, the US East Coast collectors chase it

Dave

top man jimmy, knew him wellish, big friends with rob marriott, played some great stuff after stafford closed at the white swan, mansfield all nighters, and yes he was trying to buy a fair ground ride, or so the rumours went

he did get the rides, they were/are(?) on Thorsby Market. Simon I think said he got £30k....I heard that just for the choice stuff, rest of collection still to go after that. Maybe Rob Wigley will know bit more.

Mucky Duck, some great nights there, lethal dancefloor

Hi Dave,

Think Patches was first played at Steve Crofts Cleethorpes niters, 84ish ?

Steve

Hi Steve,

Dave is not claiming that Stafford played Patches first and that's fair enough, nevertheless, I think you're right in that it was played at Cleethorpes prior to being played at Stafford... for those who are interested in the "who played it first shit".

I reckon it's the dates that are slightly adrift, although Dave is simply saying it was a big record at Stafford.

You (as well as anyone) know that quite a few of the records played at the Steve Croft / Alan Senior venues of the early 80's were later acknowledged as 'Stafford Tunes' ...which is what they became, to those who first heard them there.

And that's also fair enough!

But to you & me they'll always be Clifton Hall or Cleggy records...

Sean

Jimmy, also did some of the very last Staffords for me, then went on to do the Chesterfield Niters, that I ran with Danny

Dave

Jimmy, also did some of the very last Staffords for me, then went on to do the Chesterfield Niters, that I ran with Danny

Dave

best venue I've been to Dave the Winding Wheel, such a shame about the squad

Flyer from the first one......

Hey Dave , I remember you playing an Atlantic Starr.. Acetate ... One Love ... Boom Boom

Just to end on this note. Many records would get their first play somewhere other than a influential venue of that time. Many toones first played at Yate, where know as Wigan or Stafford tunes later. Toones that were big at Wigan, would regularly first be played in small clubs around the north west, by Dj's at wigan as a way of trying them out. It is a conversation that is circular. Wigan, Stafford, Cleethorpes, Blackpool, Yate; great clubs that made people happy, and the people that went there will have their own memories that no one can take away from them.

Dave

.....and finally. People ask me why I don't write here more often. Because a nice conversation gets so out of hand. My love is and always will be the music first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gavin, how U fellin. Yes 12" of Patches go for a fair bit, the US East Coast collectors chase it

Dave

About the same, thanks Dad.

..... My love is and always will be the music first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen Dave.

Good to see you at Yarmouth the other week, by the way.

Don't be a stranger.

Sean Hampsey

Hi Steve,

Dave is not claiming that Stafford played Patches first and that's fair enough, nevertheless, I think you're right in that it was played at Cleethorpes prior to being played at Stafford... for those who are interested in the "who played it first shit".

I reckon it's the dates that are slightly adrift, although Dave is simply saying it was a big record at Stafford.

You (as well as anyone) know that quite a few of the records played at the Steve Croft / Alan Senior venues of the early 80's were later acknowledged as 'Stafford Tunes' ...which is what they became, to those who first heard them there.

And that's also fair enough!

But to you & me they'll always be Clifton Hall or Cleggy records...

Sean

I wasn't going down that route, it was as much of a question as a statement, so @ive pm'd him with pipe of peace

he did get the rides, they were/are(?) on Thorsby Market. Simon I think said he got £30k....I heard that just for the choice stuff, rest of collection still to go after that. Maybe Rob Wigley will know bit more.

Mucky Duck, some great nights there, lethal dancefloor

I heard someone grassed Jim up to the inland revenue cos he had sold more than the £6000 allowed each year is it just a rumour or true?

I wasn't going down that route, it was as much of a question as a statement, so @ive pm'd him with pipe of peace

Good for you Steve,

Make Love Not War

...but I'd have chinned him if he'd lost his paddy like that with me!

Sean

Good for you Steve,

Make Love Not War

...but I'd have chinned him if he'd lost his paddy like that with me!

Sean

what, you mean if both of us were there ?

what, you mean if both of us were there ?

If you were both there I wouldn't know which one to chin first!

Seeing as it seems to have been a popular call, did i miss :ook On the good Side at Stoke?

(BTW Dave, I was the muppet who interviewed you there for Scootering)

storming instrumental by the kinnets, massive spin for dave thorley, think roger banks has it now

Know the one - Kontets? Twelve bar guitar, crashing horns led thingy Someone posted it on here a while back didnt they?

Also Thanks Simon for MP3 Ernest Sparks, not heard in ages. One of the many Dean Anderson tunes as I remember (Guy snatched it off him and banged a cover on it in one movement using slight of hand )

storming instrumental by the kinnets, massive spin for dave thorley, think roger banks has it now

Know the one - Kontets? Twelve bar guitar, crashing horns led thingy Someone posted it on here a while back didnt they?

Also Thanks Simon for MP3 Ernest Sparks, not heard in ages. One of the many Dean Anderson tunes as I remember (Guy snatched it off him and banged a cover on it in one movement using slight of hand )

Cindy Scott is Gerri Diamond on Counterpart

Three more truly great Stafford sounds for me :

James Dockery - My Faith In You Is All Gone

Gracie Dumas - Song Of A Woman

Oscar Perry - Face Reality

sums up stafford for me perfectly,well done to you,wat about carl holmes..soul dance part 3