Ady Croasdell

Nice one Bob.

You never know where you're gonna end up when you ask a question on here. That's fascinating info from you and Bob. I believe you ended up with Matt's Money 45, did you make a dub of Part 2 at all or could you? As for You Could Be Ugly Too, it's also on a Utopia 45 (listed at least), now is that the same as the LP version? We've got a master tape on that one. I concur that Ben and Arthur are both wonderful guys Arthur told me a lot of fascinating stories.

Thanks John, we can't blow it now surely?

Do you mean Searling followed Ian's lead?

I always thought it was Clarkie but i might be wrong, I used to get vair vair drunk in those days. It wouldn't have been yours Ken that Mick threw in the bin. It was one he'd picked up for 5 or 10p from a junk shop as a gamble and when he heard the first couple of bars decided it was pop crap. The bin was my wicker basket and I have a photo of a drunken girl asleep with her head in it somewhere; this was after the record had been taken out and in fact a totally separate incident.

No he was one of the sweetest guys on the planet. he knew them all though and told me a funny story about when he was out with Nate McCalla of Calla records (he was a black gangster very tight with Maurice Levy), but i can't remember what it was! Hy Weiss of Old Town was meant to be mobbed up but he reckoned it was a case of mistaken identity which he never corrected as he always had his invoices settled on time because of it.

That's what I'm checking out. I'll A/B it on Friday and let y'all know. Presumably t'other side is a different song? Thanks very much Ady

Anybody?

Same geezers

Unfortunately it's probably the Part 2 I'm gonna use and unless you included it as a bonus, it's not on it. Try and remember who bought the record if you can! Thanks ady

Thanks, i didn't know that. One of Arthur Wright's good friends Ben Taylor who i met with Arthur was in the group, i should have written something about it on one of the Kent Modern CDs. Do I still owe you those CDs? If so PM me a list of releases you'd like and I'll add the one I'm on about. T Toney did a lot of good West coast productions.

Great stuff, yes the Tokays were part of dave's management and Chico & Buddy from the group went on to record for his labels. i don't know those other groups but there's all sorts of intersting contracts like a song written for a Topper release that ended up allocated to someone totally different. Could you do a good scan of it face on and I'll use it in Vol 4, it'll give me a chance to list all the "what if" connections. Cheers ady

Yes, he was involved with Theodore Toney and Arthur Wright and apparently it came out as by him on Cherry Red, but I'm not sure if it's the same version as it's only one side of the disc and the FSSR was part 1 & 2. There was also a great unreleased track by Johnny Adams of the same name, but totally different, which we put on the first "The Soul Of Money" CD. It must have been a local catch phrase or street talk.

Pleeeeeeeeeeease? Ady

Can anyone lend me a half decent copy, mine's rough. Ta Ady

Good idea, but the CD was inadvertently a bootleg Mike who has said all the ridiculous things you've quoted? I didn't see them on here; it could be a case of the apocryphal EEC straight bananas. I think if people don't like DJs playing bootlegs they can express an opinion and the same goes for selling bootlegs. This case just happens to be hilarious because the mistakes were honest; a similar case was the Donnie Elbert 'So Soon' now not generally thought to be by Chris Bartley.

Most clubs have their regular punters who don't always get around the country. To the ones at the 100 Club, myself included, Papa Bear would have been relatively new once Keith started playing it, whereas when James plays Nancy Wilcox up North it'll be new to a lot of them, but an "oldie" at the 100 Club. I reckon it takes at least 18 months to break the most obvious of sounds, so 3 years these days isn't really that long.

Funnily enough that's t'other Goldwax/Fame we're going for on the proposed CD. Great version but I'm not mentioning the club with the lowest ceiling; very limiting on my pogoing at the time.

No theirs is It's Been A Long Time.

No Andy it'll be a standard kent Dance CD as it's gonna be the Northern side of Goldwax.

All in good time: now get back to those Joe Simon CDs!

There's actually an interesting twist to this tale that should get sorted in the next couple of months when it will finally get its first ever 100% legal release!

Hi Darryl, I just sent you a pm about NIACI being on an old Kent CD which is still available. Ray and Billy are great guys who wrote some top songs for Debbie Taylor and The Persians for GWP. I'm sorting out the publishing for them on this and a few other songs but artist royalties are harder to pick up. I'll send you the US licensee's details too. Cheers and thanks for a wonderful record, Ady

No need for that Des, I'm always happy to see you, I was just a bit mystified and wondered if it was the type of person who would reckon Papa Bear, Ernestine Eady or the Hytones was an oldie. I think there may be die hard newies fans who move onto and past a recent discovery a lot faster than most people, myself included. Not disagreeing i just think it's a bad use of the term, overplayed rareties would be a term i could understand.

That's good, smashing lass.