Daved

I quite like it too. Let's face, anything by him is going to be worth listening to.

I wonder why they only focussed on the Casablanca label specifically. I've only got a few records on that label and never considered it be nowehere near as influential as, say, Salsoul.

I saw him live in 1988 at Hammersmith Odeon, supported by Gerald Albright and Peices of a Dream. He was excellent. Much, much better than I expected him to be.

Don Ray - Born a Loser - <2 minutes of magic. Wasn't Nancy Ames white too?

I guess it's tough when you're trying to compete with Boris Karloff

Fair enough. Just curious.

Why did that programme inspire you to listen an old By All Means LP? Great band but nothing to do with disco.

Was it definately the same man?

Tune!

What a criminal! Don't worry about starting the thread Pete. It was a good crack, but some people really did nake themselves look daft

Aside from the thread starter, did anyone else give the slightest shit at this event? I bet he had the floor rammed to a really good set.

Ted Winn. I'll get my coat

The scene takes the p*ss out of itself with ridiculous threads like this

What a load of rubbish. There's much more to being a good DJ than cueing up records proficiently. And some of them can't even manage that

Nice idea Win but totally unenforecable imo in view of the huge number and wide ranging events on here. Would you put pictures up of badly behaving drunks up in a rogues gallery on the site? Perhaps we should add other sections for rogues who don't play ovo, like oldies only, wear baggies and other groups that the mob like to lynch

Hang him!!!!!!

I wouldn't go to a northern soul do these days unless I was pi$$ed

At the risk of being too obvious, it's got to be Rose Batiste "Hit and Run" surely!

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

RIP Whitney. I saw her live in 1988 - fantastic vocals. She really recorded some gems amongst the pop MOR stuff.

He also played The Gospel Classics, didn't he?

Don't most venues that run for a reasonable amount of time with a steady resident DJ line up build their own sound? I remember the London venues I used to go to 10-14 years ago like Capitol Soul Club, These Old Shoes and Scenesville all having their own sound (all be it quite similar to each other but each had their own big tunes too). It's just a reflection of the resident's styles.

I had a listen again last night. You're tight Bob, it's ok but not great. I'm not surprised Benji has defended it. He put it on a CD for me once.

I don't really like the Milton Wright record either, although you'd think it would be my kinda thing. I love all the other tunes mentioned on this thread though.

Did he not say David & Goliath for this one?