Ady Croasdell

Melvin Davis just rang to tell me that Steve Mancha, given name Clyde Wilson, died at 4.08 pm yesterday 8th Jan. He had been in poor health for a long time and though Melvin mourns his passing, he described it as a blessed release. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends

You tosser; I've just worked it out. False alarm people: move on, there's nothing to see here!

Any idea about the nighters, it would be handy to know Pm me if anything's confidential Ady

Isn't the Willie Bollinger very similar to www's I Don't Want To Take A Chance, or am I losing it?

Shhh, it's a secret!

If DJs hear a track like Candi that isn't available they can always approach us, saying where they would play it out. It's a slightly tricky area, more so in the 60s than 70s side of it, in that sometimes you give a track to a top DJ to plug as they have a following and they will only play it if it's reasonably exclusive (I know, a 10000 arguments on that one). Sometimes the ownership of the sound won't allow it, it's even possible that we haven't secured exclusive rights yet and need to wait on the paperwork being done. And sometimes we're (me) just selfish and want to break a track first to make our club the place to hear it. Then it'll go out when once established; Good News by the Hytones and the Paramount Four were good examples of the latter. So don't be shy but then don't go mardy if we have to say No for one of various reasons. Ady

True but Jeff's always been helpful to the nighters when he can and from what I gather we've got all next years dates so it's looking good at the mo.

Well it's good to get the news from Soul Source, though it would have been nice to have the exclusive on this one It can now be revealed that Chris Harvey has come into some money (eurgh!) and it's gonna be Trickster's 100 Club

General release end of Jan So you can be a select few! Ady

Thanks, can anyone else throw any light on where this info came from? Ady

And taught Keb (the hard way) how to avoid a round trip to the bogs when the ale's flowing! Not sure about Iplayer's Rob, apparently there was a big bit on Central TV about it and it's not even in that region. They're going to make an official announcement in the New Year with hopefully good news for all. Ady

The main people involved with Marquee Records were originally Tom Shannon, Nick Ameno and Carl Cisco. That was when the original orange label was in use. A second later series with a purple label saw record distributor, label owner, publisher and eventual owner of Westbound Records, Armen Boladian, involved. It was he who owned the master tapes. Sadly, his memory isn't the best for the minutiae of the 60s recording world and the Tommy Smiley track seems to be a one-off record that they cut. Not surprisingly, it's very heavily influenced by the late 60s Motown groups the Four Tops and the Temptations. Co-written and arranged by Detroit musical virtuoso Dale Warren, it's a tough record to find - and collectors aren't selling. Amazingly, since writing that last paragraph, a plea on Soulful Detroit Forum was responded to and it turns out that Tommy is living and recording in Estonia, of all places. A biography of him tells us that he's originally from Mississippi but moved up to Detroit to study singing, which is where he cut this disc. He then worked on club dates and recordings in Memphis with Hayes and Porter, and in 1977 RCA produced an album called "We've Got Love" on him, recorded in that city at Ardent studios with top Memphis session men. His next career move was as a Platter in the World Platters, one of the group's many incarnations. No doubt, it was while touring with them that he ended up in Europe, first in Germany and now Estonia. Tommy Smiley & Estonian Friends "You're The One For Me" is his latest CD. Way more info than you'll ever need. I didn't know about the Al Kent one though, where did that info come from? I can use it when we put out the flip! On the CD the sound is from a very good master tape so snap that up too! Ady

There's a half hour BBC London show on the club on Monday at 7.30 apparently

Yeah, it was a Loadstone release that never made it, just came out on a license from Loadstone in the UK. The Columbia version is more laid back and crossoverish on one of the Classiest rareties CD, it's a lovely version and probably the original.

Pretty please?

We don't wanna buy it, we just want to hear it!

Massive 100 Club tune, would love to compare to the 45. ady

I've never heard of that one, any chance of a scan of those too please? Ady

I also acted as agent for flogging the first Stones acetate for £5000 about 25 years ago, there were meant to have been 3-5 cut.

In my pop dealing days I had #s 13 and 15 and nearly bought a Pistols for £100. A rarer one was my vinyl test press of Plastic Ono Band What's The New Mary Jane on Apple.

Yeah Flodavieur was Dave Polk's label out of LA, he seems to have put his earlier productions on Vistone then formed his own label named after his daughter. Thanks very much, it's a cool looking 45.

Tell her to contact Bug Music in LA and say that she (or whoever it may be) is Dena Barnes heir and they should have her writer's share of publishing and PPL, though some of those releases were on Goldmine, so they would have been lucky to get those!

Thanks Rudy, that's the one that also came out on Flodavieur. It would be good to see the labels if you could post them up or PM me. Cheers Ady

https://vimeo.com/16725494 I've just been told the previous link to my Gettysburg address didn't work, see if this is any good, I think you have to register with vimeo. ady

Has anyone got one and could they do us a hi-res scan if possible please? Ta Ady