Ady Croasdell
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Something like '20 Great Unknown Soul Records' on the Ace budget label Cascade.
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Not that I know of, i did pick up a 10" acetate of it years later but it's the same version. PS I'd love to find Sharon Scott, if anyone has any clues.
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I think what's best about the show is that Ian put some very good and very interesting tracks on there whereas a lot of the soul shows that get onto the BBC nationally seem to only feature the top 500 and a couple of oddities. He's featured a lot of tracks that he loves but weren't his discoveries, so fair play to him for that. The Sharon Scott one in particular is a personal fave that doesn't get the acclaim I think it deserves; apart from from the Peterboro perv.
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Whoops it has just been pointed out to me that I don't pay the DJs in the little upstairs room at Cleethorpes. This is absolutely true, partly because it's a sort of chill out room for people who are keen to DJ for fun and partly because I was born in Yorkshire. As it happens I remember lovely Lynn giving me a hard time over that, she was little but not to be messed with and I even paid her. Mind you I think she even asked for wages at BB's Sunday snug which was free admission.
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I always pay the 100 Club DJs unless they nip off early when I'm not about and then I square up later, same goes for Cleethorpes. I think I've only ever had one complaint over the amount to my face and that was sorted out. The Cleethorpes DJs were great when I did the first couple at quite a big a loss and they all accepted lower than agreed fees. As a DJ i just leave it to the promoter to be reasonable and some are better than others so I'll probably DJ again for the some rather than the others. The highlight of my DJing payments was being given an envelope with my pay in it and when I opened it in the taxi ten minutes later found a fiver in there! European promoters are usually very good, but then again they like me more out there. They've probably not seen my atrocious behaviour at dos over the years.
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Thanks you kind peoples, I'll try and avoid wherever I can. Ady
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Has anyone got dates for next year yet? The 100 Club are booking up earlier than normal so I'm gonna do mine but I want to avoid a few venues. Ta Ady
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I think it was May 1969 but it could have been 1968, I can't remember if I was in the lower or upper 6th. It's been hilarious! PS I did have some leave of absence in 76/77 for punk but kept going to nighters dressed oddly.
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Rats, I've got that Demands in a to be played pile but it might take me three years to find it. By then Simon will have booted it!
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Sweet. Tony Rounce, Jo Wallace, me and the Cozenzas should all be blushing!
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That's the copy spirited away by me for Tony Ellis as a bet!
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Unissued DiVenus on a Kent New breed R&B CD, one original acetate known.
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And Nev got lots of his UK off me and Pete Wid when we bought the soul from DJ David Gell's BBC Radio collection.
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i GOTTA nice unreleased version by Mel Williams I'll have to give a spin if you'll all promise to dance!
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Cleethorpes 6Ts June Weekender 2009 - Jesse Davis and Melvin Davis View full article
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THE LIVE ACTS FOR CLEETHORPES 2009 JESSE DAVIS & MELVIN DAVIS At long last, we are proud to announce we have two wonderful singers who aren’t double booked, have current US passports, don’t have over-ambitious managers and are in fine health and raring to go. This year really has been like no other for acts dropping out, but we were determined to present a memorable live show for you and I know we will be doing just that at midnight on June 13th. Having seen Melvin Davis at the Prestatyn weekender in 2004, I was knocked out by his talent, but frustrated that we got to hear so little of his considerable repertoire. I got to meet the man in London shortly afterwards and his love of the scene, his enthusiasm and the ever expanding revelations as to the great songs he had written but never recorded, made me think he really deserved to be presented to the Northern Soul public again. Apart from his own ‘Find A Quiet Place’, ‘I Must Love You’ and ‘You Made Me Over’, Melvin has written such Northern Soul classics as Jackey Beavers’ ‘I Need My Baby’, Edward Hamilton’s ‘I’m Gonna Love You’, Darrell Banks’ ‘I’m The One Who Loves You’, J J Barnes’ ‘Chains Of Love’, Johnnie Mae Matthews ‘Lonely You’ll Be’ and Ann Perry’s ‘That’s The Way He Is’. Inevitably we’ve asked Melvin if he’d like to sing some of these fine compositions for the first time, with a full band, to his UK fans and he’s graciously agreed. Which ones they will be is a matter of conjecture at present, but he is such a huge fan of our scene, that he’s going to deliver a truly memorable soul show. Jesse Davis (no blood relation!) is an equally charming and erudite gentleman who has managed to record not one but three incredibly rare and collectable Northern Soul 45s, despite being primarily a jazz singer. We’ve already heard his ‘Gonna Hang On In There’ at Cleethorpes when songwriter Sherlie Matthews persuaded Jim Gilstrap to cover it. This time we’ve got the real McCoy singing it just as he did on that Era recording session 43 years ago. Jesse also managed to get his big city soul beat ballad ‘There’s Room For Me’ issued on three labels while still remaining horrendously rare and sought after. The excellent mid tempo rarety ‘So Full Of Love’ is possibly even harder to locate but will be very well received when sung live to a thousand soul connoisseurs. Not so scarce, but tricky to find and on album only, is Jesse’s version of the jazz dance standard ‘Stormy’ that has been picking up plays in recent years and will please his many fans. His youngest fan and a close relation of mine will be tickled pink to hear another of Jesse’s album tracks: you’ll have to work out which one yourselves. Jesse has many more great songs in his repertoire and we’re working on making his UK debut a major success. So the band have been primed, the tickets and work permits sorted and we’re all set for one more magical weekend at the Beachcomber. Weekend dance passes are still available; there’s no accommodation left but there should be hireable caravans on Thorpe Park next door 01472 813395 For passes send £59 cheques to 6TS Weekenders, 1 Elm Dr, Market Harborough, Leics LE16 9DS or £61.25 PayPal to ady.croasdell@btinternet.com http://www.6ts.info for more details
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OK Den, our copy refers to the 4 people whose hands it went through. Malcolm Baumgart found it, I bought it off him, I sold it to Paddy from Market Harborough/Leicester who sold it to another collector who he's not seen for thirty years! Yes I sent the CD
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That sounds right. Why would you want the instrumental, no vocal and it's a lot shorter!
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Very interesting, ours was picked up on Portobello Road market, so it sounds like there were at least two copies or could yours have been an acetate?
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I think it was Tony's. Steve don't forget the 777 or was it 444, Dave Godin's next label that never happened did a white label test pressing of Sam Nesbitt Black Mother Goose, real vinyl with a spindle centre, not an acetate like Chris Jackson. One known copy but we don't know who's got it!
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Yeah, that would be great, I'll pm you. Ta Ady
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Thanks anyway: the search goes on for now!
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Fantastic Andy, thanks very much. Ady
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Bumping this, there's gotta be kind soul with it. it sounds pretty good too from the bit i heard off John's site.
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Can anyone with this rare record contact me by PM please. ta Ady
