I was speaking to Russ W over a year ago about the phenomenal turnover of records at Wigan Casino and if something wasnt taken to instantly then it was dropped.He quoted John Bowie-Youre Gonna Miss A Good Thing........amazing record but it just didnt work.Dropped after 2 weeks.Tobi Legend-Time Will pass you by...Russ started playing I Can Take It Like A Man after Time ,,,,,bombed.I bought it and think its an amzing record.Im finding that Im buying more and more of these records that fell through the cracks.The records that werent instant there seem to be better than a lot of supposed new discoveries imho.John Bowie I asssociate with the 80s.I also associate The Chandlers with the 80s another one Russ said didnt take off as it wasnt instant enough and had a tricky timechange.Come on forgotten Wigan soul sounds that fell through the cracks or are lauded as 80s 90s classics...when in fact they were failed Wigan spins.

 

Did the Soul Response version of Loving On The Losing side ever get played??

 

Don't know, never heard of it to be honest...

I've got something of value - male singer, can't remember the name, definitely not Del Royals and Barkley didn't come out til 79.   Contenders correct.  Tommy Hunt was played for ages before it was released and was a huge, huge record at the Casino.

 

Eddie Ray.

 

Aid.

Eddie Ray.

 

Aid.

 

Thats the chap!

On 23/03/2013 at 09:56, Godzilla said:

 

Double Crossing was the instrumental to Bobby Mandoplh's "Gotta Get You Back" it was released (legally?) credited to the Cliff Goldsmith Orchestra  - on vault if I remember correctly.

Looking through old Soul Groove sales lists and I see Rudzy had Cliff Goldsmith (Vault) - Double Crossing on his July 1976 list for £10 (£89 in todays money with inflation) on a page headed "the following are ALL Massive Northern Monsters fresh from the states. All are originals. GET EM QUICK"

This seems to be a seriously obscure record. Not on 45cat, not on Discogs as far as I can tell. It is on YouTube, and that is the only other reference I can find. The YouTube vid shows the record which looks like it has a catalog number (519) that does not fit in to any of the Vault catalog number runs (unless it is 919, but it doesn't look like it).  If it is in fact 919 that would date it to 1965. Bobby Mandolph vocal version is 949 dating to 1969 according to 45cat.

Sam Fletcher does have a documented release on Vault (but not the same Vault as has different label design to all others on the label?) sometime in the 70s (1972?) with a catalog# 502. 

So was Double Crossing really a legit 60s Vault release?   

Just looking through this again and another 2 that spring to mind that we're early Casino plays(maybe before). Barbara Lynn I Don't Want A Playboy. And Brown Bombers and Soul Partners Wait For Me.

 

Paul