Paul R

Cheers Mike, the scary thing is I was right about the clash of top class entertainment that night. And ABBA won the better one!!!!!

I've just given them a googleing too and yes they were a Dutch group who performed in the Eurovision song contest in 1970. I don't know how I remember this one, but I think that the 1974 eurovision song contest was on the same night as the aforementioned "Leeds Soul Festival". Now isn't that amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Oh yes, I was at the festival rather that glued to the screan with Katie Boyle)

Weller got into Northern and used to get compilation tapes from a mate of mine in the early '80s.(apparently one of his favourites was "Terrible Tom"). This probably led to the northern influence of "Walls Come Tumbling Down" and "Shout To The Top" amonst others. Perhaps Weller is recording tracks such as these as a tribute to them.

Actually I mentioned the Hearts Of Soul because at the time nobody I knew had heard of them(and as far as I know still haven't) , and alongside the other well known icons of the music they were something else to remember the awful night for. As for your other comments ........................................................... KTF Paul

Carrying on with the Rosemarys Baby tack, I remember when Popcorn Wylie "Rosemary What Happened" was just starting to get plays at Wigan, Pete Lawson sold a couple of the soundtrack LPs of Rosemarys Baby for about a fiver each telling the ususpecting punters it was on there.

I think I've got it, Rosemarys Baby-Rosemary Clooney-mother of George Clooney-George Carrow, Angel Baby-Stevie Wonder Record from Detroit-Popcorn Wylie recorded in Detroit.........No, i've lost the link now. Where were we? Signed Confused

I wondered what happened to the old Blackpool Mecca crowd after 1975!!

Talking about song contests, aparently Jimmy Cliff won a brazilian song contest with the wonderful "Waterfall"

Hey Dayo, I get the feeling that you were stalking me in the '70s before it was fashionable Paul

Oh there it is, no wonder I couldn't get home.

Oh my god yes Major Lance, JJ Barnes, The Exciters, Mel and Tim, and THE HEARTS OF SOUL---WHO!!!. The funky Sisters were also billed to appear but that was just Chris Burton trying to make it sound good!!. It was a tram shed with a dusty concrete "dance floor" complete with rails in places. By 5 am it was raining yellow sweat as the glass roof had its fill od evaporated perspiration and nicotine. Apparently there were approximately 7,000 there, but I remember a lot of people leaving to go to Wigan before the end of the night. Oh and the sound system was attrocious . All that and bum gear!!

One strange one was an allnighter at the Centre, Newton Aycliffe, I think it was the week before Wigan First Anniversary. Anyway it was in like a modern youthclub buiding, and as well as the soul room I'm sure you could go to another room to watch "Diamonds are forever". Or was I hallucinating. It was a bad night as I got arrested for jumping the train without paying the fare, something that happened the week later on the way to Wigan.

Can I just say, I saw Millie Jackson at Preston Top Rank in 1973..............Just thought I'd mention it!

What!! AC, a soul DJ?

On the subject of dodgy CDs and classic tracks performed by the original artists, I thought I had a bargain when I purchased "Northern Soul Stompers" although I had most tracks on CD there were several gaps that this CD would fill. Nowhere did it say that they were re recordings. Am I alone in thinking that although it was good getting all the old artists back to perform the old tracks of yesteryear, I actually do not want to buy a CD full of the re recordings when I was expecting the original versions to feed my nostalgia. Cheers. At least other cheap CDs you see have the warning "these tracks have been re recorded by the original artist etc"

There is another on sale in Asda with a similar title, but it is a single CD with most of the KFC tracks and other decent things. I only had a quick glance and the only really duff track was the "Lorraine Chandler" Simon Soussan tailor made version of Love you Baby.

Cheers, thought it sound like them.

Can anyone tell me what the latest KFC backing track is. It's the one with the wishing well advert.(and that's KFC as in the food, and not the definition in Rogers Profanisaurus in this months Viz) Cheers Paul

Some of the animal noises also turned up on the Fugitives "Human Jungle" but it's not surprising as the are all Teddy Vann productions.

The burning emotions is also the animal noise version but with the slow intro like Laura Green and the other version of Frankie & the Classicals. The spoken intro version of Frankie & the Classicals came out on the Kent CD Soul Spectrum. The Marke Johnson version does not have the slow intro. Unfortunately somewhere I have the Frankie and the classicals boot on Diamond credited to Marke Johnson "This Beautiful Place" (voc) backed with the animal noise instrumental. One of selectadisc/Soussans i believe

I think the Police were more interested in a type of watered down white reggae in the late '70's

I Think Kev Roberts talks about it in the Top 500 book. Something about the entrepreneur owner of the track milking it for all it's worth. Still a cracking instrumental. I didn't actually realise until a couple of years ago that it was the instrumental version to Get Out Of My Heart, and I've had both sounds for 30 years.

That reminds me of another car boot sale buy, a sixties original album release with cover versions of "classics" such as "A lovers Concerto", "The Real Thing", "Everything I Touch Turns To Gear" and "One Two Three". Oh Yeah that was "Cilla Sings A Rainbow"

"Soul Over Easy" by Hamond Bros and Maggie on london. Had the long piano intro as did the vocal version "There Must Be A Love Somewhere" by Edie Robin on (Le Cam?). I'm sure there were a couple of other versions around as well.

I remember Pete Lawson going to the Cats one night, I think he turned up later at Wigan and when I asked him what it was like his reply was "Check out The paps". Looks like I missed a good one!. Went down to Wolves a couple of times and went to do's in the Wulfrun Hall on a Friday night. Used to hang around with Steve Henshaw and stay at his house, drink in the Vines on Satuday lunchtime, then coach to Wigan.