Billy Ocean red light, Northern soul?

[Sooty]

10 hours ago, Hill868 said:

The lunatics have definitely taken over the asylum.

We did that in the 90s....!x

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[Dogsarse]

40 minutes ago, Sooty said:

We did that in the 90s....!x

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Just now, Dogsarse said:

Some peoples visions of Northern are left to be desired

 

Just now, Dogsarse said:

 

 

[Sooty]

6 hours ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

During one of the Cleethorpes weekender Sunday night finales I was triple decking with Roger Banks & Shifty and Shifty decided to play Billy Ocean, Maxine Nightingale & Footsie, he was trying to wind up the 100 club crowd and it worked because Ady came on the stage and told him to cut it out, so Billy Ocean has been played at Cleethorpes albeit just as a wind up.

Au Contrere Rodders!!x I walked into a cellar in Southend with 15 friends 1993..Stax Soul Club run by Shifty...20 folk there. He spun Danny Woods...Ketty Lester...Kurt Harris...they blew me away as I'd heard a couple of these tracks at the 100 club. He then spun Ray Merrell...and blew my mate Fudge away. Then we woz wiped out as he followed it with a pop tune!!! Innocence personified...and is why I invited him to DJ at his first all nighter!x Like me...he had no idea of context of his tunes to the scene....Oldie...newbie... pop...classic...it didn't matter....people danced!!x He regularly put a pop song in my view in his set!!x Ady Croasdell used to spin a chart Gladys Knight tune at the 100club...he said it is one if his favs...simple pop song which I forget what it was now...but he did it!!x So Shifty spinning Red Light...yup...no shock! Footsie???.....yep...he had that pi** take streak in him too!x Happy Days indeed!x

LUV

SOOTY 

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Me...Fudge and Steve at that very 1st Sax night in Southend!x The flyer is Shiftys first ever Nighter spot....even signed it under his own name.....a 'misprint'?!...worth squillions...one excited Lad when I got these signatures for posterity....like now...32 years later!!x I ran a competition to count the tunes featured in the flyer!! 4 free tickets...I gave them to the 4 nearest as nobody got it right!x I think there is 120+...took me 5 hours to think 1 night putting it together...no internet just Richard Domars list and the then new John Manship valuation book to work from!x Proud of that flyer!!x

 

 

Edited April 25 by Sooty
Spellings!x

[Jessie Pinkman]

16 minutes ago, Sooty said:

Au Contrere Rodders!!x I walked into a cellar in Southend with 15 friends 1993..Stax Soul Club run by Shifty...20 folk there. He spun Danny Woods...Ketty Lester...Kurt Harris...they blew me away as I'd heard a couple of these tracks at the 100 club. He then spun Ray Merrell...and blew my mate Fudge away. Then we woz wiped out as he followed it with a pop tune!!! Innocence personified...and is why I invited him to DJ at his first all nighter!x Like me...he had no idea of context of his tunes to the scene....Oldie...newbie... pop...classic...it didn't matter....people danced!!x He regularly put a pop song in my view in his set!!x Ady Croasdell used to spin a chart Gladys Knight tune at the 100club...he said it is one if his favs...simple pop song which I forget what it was now...but he did it!!x So Shifty spinning Red Light...yup...no shock! Footsie???.....yep...he had that pi** take streak in him too!x Happy Days indeed!x

LUV

SOOTY 

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Me...Fudge and Steve at that very 1st Sax night in Southend!x The flyer is Shiftys first ever Nighter spot....even signed it under his own name.....a 'misprint'?!...worth squillions...one excited Lad when I got these signatures for posterity....like now...32 years later!!x I ran a competition to count the tunes featured in the flyer!! 4 free tickets...I gave them to the 4 nearest as nobody got it right!x I think there is 120+...took me 5 hours to think 1 night putting it together...no internet just Richard Domars list and the then new John Manship valuation book to work from!x Proud of that flyer!!x

 

 

Yes that's a good flyer you've done there mate, it's a bit like the flyers in the days of The Catacombs where they invited the reader to come and listen to the sounds of and then listed about 8 current plays however in typical Sooty fashion you've taken it to the extreme with how many 120 ?

[Sooty]

56 minutes ago, Dogsarse said:

Some peoples visions of Northern are left to be desired

 

 

I agree!!x I was told Emperor of my baby's heart wasn't Northern...If you dont know what love is by Fats Domino was Rock n Roll...and Coming Home Baby was a crooners easy listening!!x All said by hard core dealers/stalkers who were in the dark corners of the 100 club when I spun them!x Ady gave me a copy of a tune on the Thursday before the Saturday Anniversary as I couldn't make it as I was DJing at Blackburn Tony's A/N same night. I spun it at a Wellingborough S/N on the Friday...and again Saturday night at my monthly Soul Night...and took it to Blackburn...spun it at 7.15am as the new 100 club anniversary single......on all 3 occasions...it cleared the floor. I was devastated. The record I was first to spin publicly?....Carla Thomas I'll never stop loving you.....!x

So yep my friend...I do understand. But folks perception and tastes change over time...I've reckoned!x

LUV

SOOTY

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Edited April 25 by Sooty

[Sooty]

13 minutes ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

Yes that's a good flyer you've done there mate, it's a bit like the flyers in the days of The Catacombs where they invited the reader to come and listen to the sounds of and then listed about 8 current plays however in typical Sooty fashion you've taken it to the extreme with how many 120 ?

...120 at least haha!x Shakespearean sh*t honest!x Reads as plain as day!!x Always spoke to the people through the flyer!x 

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[Geronimo]

I bought his lp on the strength that there may have been something worthy to be played.

Sadly I'd wasted my brass,

it was all manufactured garbage.

[Daved]

I used to hear it a lot at local mod / NS / Scooter events in Medway around 1983-5. It makes me cringe now. 

[Hill868]

10 hours ago, Dobber said:

Good topic geeselad,I’ve often wondered what was played early on,or what may have been played if not a pop release?

billy ocean-love really hurts without you

foundations,now that I’ve found you

freda Payne-band of gold

these 3 off the top of my head,there will be many more!

 

Actually think Band of Gold was played as a new release on the UK Soul Scene, poss Twisted Wheel 1970 ?

[Geeselad]

On 25/04/2025 at 08:59, Ian Parker said:

or jerry naylor ...   paul anka, when we get there ?    horrid horrid horrid.    i'd take red light , any day !

Really? 

[Chalky]

Some rewriting of history going on here but I’d expect nothing less

[Jessie Pinkman]

1 hour ago, Chalky said:

Some rewriting of history going on here but I’d expect nothing less

I can assure you mate that actually happened at Cleethorpes. He was giggling to himself whilst he was cueing them up.

[Chalky]

42 minutes ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

I can assure you mate that actually happened at Cleethorpes. He was giggling to himself whilst he was cueing them up.

I wasn’t referring to anything you said mate.  I was there at Cleethorpes too mate.  If I remember rightly Adam may also have played it one Sunday night.

Edited Sunday at 10:09 by Chalky

[Julianb]

On 25/04/2025 at 19:23, Hill868 said:

Actually think Band of Gold was played as a new release on the UK Soul Scene, poss Twisted Wheel 1970 ?

Yes it was and I played it at Lord Jim's in Huddersfield at the same time.

[Jessie Pinkman]

34 minutes ago, Chalky said:

I wasn’t referring to anything you said mate.  I was there at Cleet Hgorpes too mate.

You could have been hiding behind the curtains with Alan C and missed it.

[Chalky]

42 minutes ago, Jessie Pinkman said:

You could have been hiding behind the curtains with Alan C and missed it.

[Zoomsoulblue]

Without changing the subject to much Car Wash was played at St Ives 1975 

 

If you cut and paste Unbelieveably Played At Wigan it takes you to Soul Source 2009 - let the arguments begin

[Woodbutcher]

2 minutes ago, Zoomsoulblue said:

Without changing the subject to much Car Wash was played at St Ives 1975 

 

If you cut and paste Unbelieveably Played At Wigan it takes you to Soul Source 2009 - let the arguments begin

 A link to the thread , I was actually looking at it earlier ... 

 

[Chalky]

On 25/04/2025 at 16:40, Sooty said:

I agree!!x I was told Emperor of my baby's heart wasn't Northern...If you dont know what love is by Fats Domino was Rock n Roll...and Coming Home Baby was a crooners easy listening!!x All said by hard core dealers/stalkers who were in the dark corners of the 100 club when I spun them!x Ady gave me a copy of a tune on the Thursday before the Saturday Anniversary as I couldn't make it as I was DJing at Blackburn Tony's A/N same night. I spun it at a Wellingborough S/N on the Friday...and again Saturday night at my monthly Soul Night...and took it to Blackburn...spun it at 7.15am as the new 100 club anniversary single......on all 3 occasions...it cleared the floor. I was devastated. The record I was first to spin publicly?....Carla Thomas I'll never stop loving you.....!x

So yep my friend...I do understand. But folks perception and tastes change over time...I've reckoned!x

LUV

SOOTY

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Kurt Harris was played a long time before you were about.  Carla Thomas was first played by Ady, long time before the anniversary 45 came out and if I remember rightly one or two others were given cuts to play long time before it came out on the 45.

[Roburt]

23 hours ago, Julianb said:

Actually think Band of Gold was played as a new release on the UK Soul Scene, Twisted Wheel 1970 ?

Yes it was and I played it at Lord Jim's in Huddersfield at the same time.

Honey Cone's "While You're Out Looking For Sugar" was a big sound @ the Wheel for some weeks after it gained US release.

[Sooty]

On 28/04/2025 at 10:22, Chalky said:

Kurt Harris was played a long time before you were about.  Carla Thomas was first played by Ady, long time before the anniversary 45 came out and if I remember rightly one or two others were given cuts to play long time before it came out on the 45.

...thought I'd get the chance to say hi at some point Chalky!!x Emperor...correct but folk did look for anything to get at me back then mate...never took them seriously!!...still don't.  Carla? was there in London all during the week leading up to the Anniversary...the boxes arrived ready to go...he gave me the 1st out of the box and said i'm the first to get one!!x As for hearing it out there prior....I was with all the nighter DJs UK wide....usually first to arrive last to leave.....never heard it anywhere...and I would have known!x Can you recall who...? I've repeated the story over the years in all the FB forums yet nobody has ever come back with your understanding!x  You're usually good at such things!x I frequented the 100 club regularly for 7 years...that's 7 anniversaries...I never knew what tune Ady was gonna put out that night until we got the tune in our hands on the night!x Still stands the record bombed...and to save you adding it...probably cos im a sh*t DJ....I know!x

LUV.....YOU....and I mean it...ure 1 in a million....possibly 1.5 million tbf....I like that!x

SOOTY 

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P.S...Ady presented me with this at my St Ives Anniversary All nighter...... proud of it but only he and a few others knew what I'd done to earn it!! X Sorry I didn't go to Wigan as well...I was in kids homes and borstal....!!x Must go...got 937 dying kids in my Sooty Club in hospices UK wide waiting for me to play musical chairs and stuff spinning me Northern!x They luv it...it does me x I'll pop back Saturday before I go to the USA in case you've come up with who re Carla....always willing to be educated....but am no fool mate x They told me that was Rock n Roll too.......folk brewing storms......sad init x

Edited Tuesday at 17:48 by Sooty

[Chalky]

40 minutes ago, Sooty said:

...thought I'd get the chance to say hi at some point Chalky!!x Emperor...correct but folk did look for anything to get at me back then mate...never took them seriously!!...still don't.  Carla? was there in London all during the week leading up to the Anniversary...the boxes arrived ready to go...he gave me the 1st out of the box and said i'm the first to get one!!x As for hearing it out there prior....I was with all the nighter DJs UK wide....usually first to arrive last to leave.....never heard it anywhere...and I would have known!x Can you recall who...? I've repeated the story over the years in all the FB forums yet nobody has ever come back with your understanding!x  You're usually good at such things!x I frequented the 100 club regularly for 7 years...that's 7 anniversaries...I never knew what tune Ady was gonna put out that night until we got the tune in our hands on the night!x Still stands the record bombed...and to save you adding it...probably cos im a sh*t DJ....I know!x

LUV.....YOU....and I mean it...ure 1 in a million....possibly 1.5 million tbf....I like that!x

SOOTY 

 

 

Ady was playing Carla out long before the anniversary 45 came out.  He was doing other nighters as well as 100 Club back then.  It would be one of the other 100 Club residents who had it as well if they did.  But if not, Ady was definitely playing it out a couple of years at least.  Was playing it at Yarmouth weekenders as well if memory serves.  Ady always gets some mileage out off records before they are anniversary releases, especially the quality of Carla.  Kurt Harris, I had one of the first few to turn up after Ady had been spinning it.

Edited Tuesday at 18:24 by Chalky

[Jessie Pinkman]

18 hours ago, Sooty said:

...thought I'd get the chance to say hi at some point Chalky!!x Emperor...correct but folk did look for anything to get at me back then mate...never took them seriously!!...still don't.  Carla? was there in London all during the week leading up to the Anniversary...the boxes arrived ready to go...he gave me the 1st out of the box and said i'm the first to get one!!x As for hearing it out there prior....I was with all the nighter DJs UK wide....usually first to arrive last to leave.....never heard it anywhere...and I would have known!x Can you recall who...? I've repeated the story over the years in all the FB forums yet nobody has ever come back with your understanding!x  You're usually good at such things!x I frequented the 100 club regularly for 7 years...that's 7 anniversaries...I never knew what tune Ady was gonna put out that night until we got the tune in our hands on the night!x Still stands the record bombed...and to save you adding it...probably cos im a sh*t DJ....I know!x

LUV.....YOU....and I mean it...ure 1 in a million....possibly 1.5 million tbf....I like that!x

SOOTY 

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P.S...Ady presented me with this at my St Ives Anniversary All nighter...... proud of it but only he and a few others knew what I'd done to earn it!! X Sorry I didn't go to Wigan as well...I was in kids homes and borstal....!!x Must go...got 937 dying kids in my Sooty Club in hospices UK wide waiting for me to play musical chairs and stuff spinning me Northern!x They luv it...it does me x I'll pop back Saturday before I go to the USA in case you've come up with who re Carla....always willing to be educated....but am no fool mate x They told me that was Rock n Roll too.......folk brewing storms......sad init x

You deserved some sort of a medal mate for ferrying the Cambridge lot around, I thought you might have been eligible for a carers allowance for looking after Jack & Fudge at weekends.

Edited Wednesday at 12:00 by Jessie Pinkman

[Mike]

mp3s and follow on late night posts removed

member @Simon T given warning for repeated low quality posts

 

 

 

 

[Woodbutcher]

50 minutes ago, Mike said:

mp3s and follow on late night posts removed

member @Simon T given warning for repeated low quality posts

Rather harsh I must say ... !

Simon had merely isolated the vocal track from the bare bones demo version of INSLY to help possibly identify the as yet unknown singer , but now the post's been deleted we no longer have that opportunity ... 

Calling it a low quality post considering some of the other 'content' in the thread is 'interesting' to say the least.

[Mike]

7 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

Rather harsh I must say ... !

Simon had merely isolated the vocal track from the bare bones demo version of INSLY to help possibly identify the as yet unknown singer , but now the post's been deleted we no longer have that opportunity ... 

Calling it a low quality post considering some of the other 'content' in the thread is 'interesting' to say the least.

the same identical mp3 clip posted 3 times in one post,  no description, no origin

takes 5 seconds to post a cursory description on what it is or indeed why it has been posted

when asked for this,  we then got some nonsense late night posts in reply along with another untitled mp3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mal C]

On 11/06/2021 at 21:29, Ageing Face said:

I have to admit; it’s in my box (although for some credibility it’s a US demo) & the next scooter rally I play, I can guarantee a sea of boots, bellies & braces bouncing along in a Northern Soul stylie. 
 

Me too, I’ve got it on Aussie Epic I think. I do occasionally play it. Reminds me of scooter dos in the 8ts… 

who said it was better that bill bush? Good on ya… I hate that bill bush record, the one on Ronn right? 

Give me Tony Galla any day, oh and I’ll take a rain check on ‘Red Light’ unless I’m feeling nostalgic:/) 

 

[Chalky]

No matter how good pop it is, leave it for the chicken in a basket crowd, you knows that lot and the music  we went to niters to get away from. 

[Geeselad]

22 minutes ago, Chalky said:

No matter how good pop it is, leave it for the chicken in a basket crowd, you knows that lot and the music  we went to niters to get away from. 

Id say generally yes but there a few times records that were pop hits just fitted the bill as pre releases, teardrops, I love music, ain't nothing but a house party. All great records with soulful qualities 

[Chalky]

47 minutes ago, Geeselad said:

Id say generally yes but there a few times records that were pop hits just fitted the bill as pre releases, teardrops, I love music, ain't nothing but a house party. All great records with soulful qualities 

I agree but mostly they were dropped as soon as chart success followed although there are exceptions

[Happy Feet]

58 minutes ago, Chalky said:

I agree but mostly they were dropped as soon as chart success followed although there are exceptions

Irony of the scene , records no one has yet heard played until they became mainstream, & records that slipped through the mainstream played for ever & a day , regardless of quality but rarity.