First all nighter record that you remember most

[Sheldonsoul]

Was reading the book casino by dave shaw a couple of days ago and it jogged up a few only memories of around 77 when I was 16 and first walked up those sweaty sticky smelly stairs for the first time at Wigan and standing in awe the first seconds I walked in the main room. And it reminded me of a few tunes from that first night joey heatherton, Paula Durante,Lou Ragland, Andre brassuer !! But one song stuck to mind the following morning on that train journey home all I could remember was the chorus , stop your breaking my heart stop . Took me a few weeks to find out it was bobby diamond it's not a truefull soul record but as a lad I was gobsmaked by it, which brings me to the question at your first allnighter did you have one song played that night which truly stuck  to mind on your introduction to ns 

 

Edited November 29, 2016 by sheldonsoul

[Algsoul]

Major Lance - You Don't Want Me No More   for me

 

[Wiganer1]

eddie Holman - night to remember ..

[Sheldonsoul]

1 minute ago, wiganer1 said:

eddie Holman - night to remember ..

Was that Wigan around 78 ?

[Sheldonsoul]

9 minutes ago, algsoul said:

Major Lance - You Don't Want Me No More   for me

 

Where and when ?

[Wiganer1]

1 minute ago, sheldonsoul said:

Was that Wigan around 78 ?

nope my first of three visits end of an era 1981

[Algsoul]

2 minutes ago, sheldonsoul said:

Where and when ?     wigan 76/77 

 

2 minutes ago, sheldonsoul said:

Where and when ?

 

[Zed1]

Bobby Diamond and Joey Heatherton are two proper 'Northern' Soul records that sadly don't get the turntable time their place on the scene deserves.  Back then I didn't have the fookin first idea the colour of the Artists Skin, to me they were just two fantastic dancers.

First niter tune I remember (no idea why) was PP Arnold 'Everthings gonna be alright'.

Edited November 29, 2016 by Zed1

[Peter99]

Don Ray and Cecil Washington. Played back to back if I remember correctly at Derby Assembly Rooms circa 1979. Still like Don Ray although Cecil Washington is in a class of its own. One of the best soul records ever recorded/played. Haunting, atmospheric song not matched by many. 

Also seem to recall Sue Lynn and Tony Basil - awesome dance track. 

Pete

[Winsford Soul]

9 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Bobby Diamond and Joey Heatherton are two proper 'Northern' Soul records that sadly don't get the turntable time their place on the scene deserves.  Back then I didn't have the fookin first idea the colour of the Artists Skin, to me they were just two fantastic dancers.

First niter tune I remember (no idea why) was PP Arnold 'Everthings gonna be alright'.

Gaz. The soul police have made Bobby Diamond and Joey Heatherton  public enemy number one along with the likes of the Shakers, Frankie Valli. Innocence, good times, etc etc. Best time of my life. Fcuk the soul police.what do they know. If you dig deep enough, they know Stafford and think the world started and stopped there. 

Steve

[Sheldonsoul]

7 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

Don Ray and Cecil Washington. Played back to back if I remember correctly at Derby Assembly Rooms circa 1979. Still like Don Ray although Cecil Washington is in a class of its own. One of the best soul records ever recorded/played. Haunting, atmospheric song not matched by many. 

Also seem to recall Sue Lynn and Tony Basil - awesome dance track. 

Pete

Cecil Washington completely blew us away pounding out of wigans speakers, possibly one of the best ever played at the casino

[Steve S 60]

Stemmons Express at the Casino in '78.

[Stanley]

jackie wilson ...soul galore ....twisted wheel about late 69 ish ....just blew me away!!!

[Zed1]

36 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Gaz. The soul police have made Bobby Diamond and Joey Heatherton  public enemy number one along with the likes of the Shakers, Frankie Valli. Innocence, good times, etc etc. Best time of my life. Fcuk the soul police.what do they know. If you dig deep enough, they know Stafford and think the world started and stopped there. 

Steve

It's interesting Ste that many of those Tracks I used to love back then I've since been told were in fact just White Pop Crap........ If I'd known this back then Eh!.

[Dean]

Nottingham Palais all-nighter, 1975, (to be honest not sure if it was 74 or 75),  So Is The Sun. Remember being mesmerised by the dancing , which was a whole new ball game to the youth club shananigens previously experienced and practiced. Felt out of my league by a long way. Second strong record memory was Idle Few People That's Why, but the memory plays tricks. 

Sad thing is several young promising 16 year olds I was with that night are dead now. 

[David Meikle]

Back Street by Edwin Starr at the Wheel 24th January 1970!

[Codfromderby]

2 hours ago, Peter99 said:

Don Ray and Cecil Washington. Played back to back if I remember correctly at Derby Assembly Rooms circa 1979. Still like Don Ray although Cecil Washington is in a class of its own. One of the best soul records ever recorded/played. Haunting, atmospheric song not matched by many. 

Also seem to recall Sue Lynn and Tony Basil - awesome dance track. 

Pete

when ever i see the word wigan sue lynn comes in to my head, dont really like it but i can remember one time walking in to wigan feeling the heat, seeing the dancers and hearing this although not for the first time, can still see it now

[Jez Jones]

I got the fever..Prophets .. shook the walls (and me) at L'Ambassadeur in Bradford

[Kegsy]

20 minutes ago, jez jones said:

I got the fever..Prophets .. shook the walls (and me) at L'Ambassadeur in Bradford

Quite a few, including that one, from the same venue, but the first one I forked for was Ad Libs Nothings Worse Than Being Alone mid/late 1971 methinks.

Edited November 30, 2016 by Kegsy

[Guest]

My first niter was Wigan. Prior to that I'd only been exposed to a handful of youth club sounds, Judy Street, Franki Valli et al. My most vivid memory was the three before eight. I couldn't quite believe I was in the casino, with all it's magnificence, dancing to the three before eight. A dream come true. A night full of tracks I'd never heard before and its hard to bring one to mind, but the three before eight felt almost like a rite of passage or an inauguration! "I've really been here, Wigan Casino!". Well, I was only 16, fresh faced and easily impressed! ?

[SOULMAN62]

Don't really know, just to giddy getting in into the casino at 16 in 78. STILL BUZZZING !

Edited November 30, 2016 by jim langford

[stokesoulboy]

Another white record, Jay & the Americans - living above your head Keele late 80s, my first nighter, and this was just a killer song, I also looked thru the record sellers for bargains, which there probably was back then but out of reach to a 18 year old ! 

[Ady Croasdell]

Kim WESTON Helpless Kelmarsh Northants nighter 1969 I think. And I played it last week in Dublin

[25miles]

first allnighter Torch..............

remember someone opening the door for us & I SPY FOR THE FBI-LUTHER INGRAM was playing

happy days. no fekkin' politics everyone just 'avin a good time

[Sammy Seaman]

sounds of laine tracks to my mind -

up the junction crewe

alan day playing it ,had a blonde girl on stage with him dancing she had a red beret on will always stay in my mind

still a great fav of mine and still fills the floor

sammy

[Ian Stacey]

  1978 Nottingham palais 'absolutely rammed , hardly room on the main floor.Hesitations & im not built that way .Bought it 6 months later off pete shirley for the princely sum of £ 4 still have in my box with pete's name still on it .  

[jimmy clitheroe]

Not sure why but Joe Tex "You Better Beleive it Baby" Booming out off the speakers at the Casino...Paul

[Ezzie Brown]

just dont know.......chubby checker.................... as i walked into the torch for the first time..............ez

[Philb]

Early 80's Wirrina Peterborough, walked through the doors into a hot hall full of dancers the Formations "Top Of The Stairs" blaring out, clapping, spinning, my first all nighter and from that moment on I thought "this is for me" 

[Ezzie Brown]

Just now, philb said:

Early 80's Wirrina Peterborough, walked through the doors into a hot hall full of dancers the Formations "Top Of The Stairs" blaring out, clapping, spinning, my first all nighter and from that moment on I thought "this is for me" 

i was in a gang of lads calling ourselves "the crombies " after our coats around that time and our anthem song was........... "at the top of the stairs theres crombies " ...we sang it for years after at get togethers ,funerals etc...

[Vadnochka]

Furys - I'm satisfied with you - Keymen & Art Freeman - Slipping around - Red UK Atlantic - Up the junction - Crewe - Early '72 - Both a fiver - seemed like a fortune - little did I know 45yrs later!! -  Alan Day up the ladder to the decks. What a club / bangers and beans for breakfast to get round the licensing laws into Sunday - Gene Latter @ Donnie Elbert live - cartoons in the back room / settees and all, nicking milk off the doorstep Sunday morning before heading back to Loughborough to prepare to unleash the latest acquisitions on the Fantasia crowd.

HAPPY DAYS !!!

[KevH]

Connie Clark - Sugar baby, Ann Perry - that's the way he is, Salvadors, Jeanette Williams, Tempo's ,,on first night at Wigan, take your pick.!

[Stanley]

great thread guys ...love reading those tunes that hit the spot first time out ....well done 

[El Corol]

Casino - Rosemary What Happened - it was the bongo break and horns!

[Steve Foran]

Wigan June/July 74. Waiting outside for 2am start in those days someone played Baby hit and run Contours on a portable. I knew that... inside Ila Van Cant help loving that man. Really stuck in my mind.

[Jaco]

Not a nighter but I remember the first track I heard at the Mecca was "Little Queenie"

Could make it out from the muffled sound as you came up the escalator.

Hairs on the back of the neck moment.

[Steve L]

Unfortunately the record that stands out in my mind from my first trip to Wigan (march 78) is Muriel Day... I reckon it was played about 4 times that night 

Ive had nightmares about it ever since...

[Davetay]

Like Jaco, not a nighter but the Mecca, "The Next In Line" Oct 71.

 

[Herbie0908]

Mr big shot -as I walked into Wigan casino 73 echoed all round the room

[Chris L]

Four Larks - Groovin' at the go go - 1972 Catacombs Wolverhampton.

[Guest Spain pete]

Bottom of the stairs highland room Mecca JJ Barnes sweet sherry  still a tune

[Dayo]

Has to be Duke Browner.  Yes, I know it's a cliche, but it was the first sound I heard at a "proper"northern do (Top Rank Hanley early 73) and yes the seemingly random claps in unison just blew my mind.  I knew I was part of something very special.  Other biggies that day?  Bob Relf, Clara Ward, Rat Race, Jerry Williams, Howard Guyton.... I could go on and on, but Duke was the first I think.

[hullsoul]

First nighter was Unity Hall Wakefield late 76 & the tune that always reminds me of that night is Fabulettes-The Bigger They Are,that would have been Soul Sam playing it I would think?

Cheers

Martyn

[Kenb]

Like Jaco. not a nighter...Magic Night, If You And I Had Never Met

[Professorturnups]

Peterborough Fleet All-Nighter, October '78. Four hours on the 'National' bus for a 75 mile journey, then another couple of hours before it opened.

Hammy in the Long Room playing Susan Coleman "The Age of the Wolf"

Mark C      

Edited November 30, 2016 by professorturnups

[Wiganer1]

7 hours ago, vadnochka said:

Furys - I'm satisfied with you - Keymen & Art Freeman - Slipping around - Red UK Atlantic - Up the junction - Crewe - Early '72 - Both a fiver - seemed like a fortune - little did I know 45yrs later!! -  Alan Day up the ladder to the decks. What a club / bangers and beans for breakfast to get round the licensing laws into Sunday - Gene Latter @ Donnie Elbert live - cartoons in the back room / settees and all, nicking milk off the doorstep Sunday morning before heading back to Loughborough to prepare to unleash the latest acquisitions on the Fantasia crowd.

HAPPY DAYS !!!

what was gene latter like live?

[Peter99]

7 hours ago, vadnochka said:

Furys - I'm satisfied with you - Keymen & Art Freeman - Slipping around - Red UK Atlantic - Up the junction - Crewe - Early '72 - Both a fiver - seemed like a fortune - little did I know 45yrs later!! -  Alan Day up the ladder to the decks. What a club / bangers and beans for breakfast to get round the licensing laws into Sunday - Gene Latter @ Donnie Elbert live - cartoons in the back room / settees and all, nicking milk off the doorstep Sunday morning before heading back to Loughborough to prepare to unleash the latest acquisitions on the Fantasia crowd.

HAPPY DAYS !!!

Do you still live in Loughborough?

They wouldn't have sold much breakfast in my hey day! 

[Chalky]

Haven't the foggiest

[Peter99]

14 minutes ago, chalky said:

Haven't the foggiest

What about?

[Chalky]

19 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

What about?

I forgot