Ady Croasdell

Great detective work folks, I think you're along the right lines there. When Steve and Molly abducted me to their car at 6.30 am during the 100 Club nighter, all I could hear was "It's A Reptile" but I think it was such a bizarre idea, I couldn't think of anything else. I'll try and get the writers on it. It should have come out on NF Porter's Lizard label!

Latest bunch at horacesrecords (one word) include Johnny DeVigne 'I Smell Trouble' on De-Lite, several oldies and Kents (Darrow Fletcher 'My Young Misery' seems to be going crazy in anticipation of his visit - 20+ watchers) and a very rare Roy Castle that you all need!

A big record at the end of West Hampstead 6TS was Fats Waller's 'Your Feet's Too Big' which must have been from the thirties!

It doesn't sound at all like OC from any of the others I've heard. He was often gospel associated but from detroit not Chicago and there were a lot of Tolbert singers so it might be a relation. Any chance of a scan? Nice record though.

Very interesting, I'll ask James Carmichael when I interview him for Mirwood Vol 2. We didn't notice anything unusual about the master tapes, so it could have been their studio technique. Ady

Another one just went for £80, listed as funk. I'm sure it's common, though (I need one) but the £1000 listing has probably made dealers buy it too.

Presumably no address. Unfortunately that doesn't throw any light for me. The jury is out.

Interesting. Any clues as to West Coast, San Francisco ideally? There could have been other groups with the same name. Who were the writers producers etc?

Got it thanks chaps. There'll be a mint on your pillow at Cleethorpes Nick.

Cheers Shane, Thanks for doing it. It's not too important and I don't mean to keep bumping JTs exciting lunch thread. (I'm waiting on mine, no sign of it yet, I'm famished)

Anyone got any contacts for this Leicester ragamuffin? E-mail or dog & bone. I don't know if this is the area to put this topic in?!

Ask him about braining the greebo with an electric light with hilarious consequences!

Jim Demetriou from West London, long haired manic dancer and one of the nicest blokes ever. Fights ill health regularly but successfully. Jim eddlestone from Lincoln, original Lincoln soul boy from early 70s sometime bouncer and absolute charachter. Has a wealth of unbelievable true stories and hopefully will turn up at Cleethorpes for our annual pint. Both are stars but only Jim D can dance.

[ any chance of a listen to the female version

Yes it was originally recorded as a vocal by the Magicians and a different vocal by a girl group called the Waves. For some reason the chaps at Villa just used the backing track as a 45 and called it by the Checkerboard Squares and didn't mix any of the vocals on the multi track tape. Full story on Kent CD Northern Soul's Classiest rareties Vol 2

I'm not sure what Sidecar Sid's on about but for the record Dean and I and the Diplomats and I are good friends and there's never been any problem with a few seconds of footage that may have appeared or been linked to the 6TS web site. www.6ts.info

and as for 24 years and not gone down thier, !!!!! Ian Dj thier For you, perhaps your mind is not as good as it used to be , you must remeber the night, when he took the piss and played pressings and packed the dance floor LOL

Well you just did the maths to show where I get the thousands from. Thanks for that. We run other venues, Cleethorpes Weekender, Xfire at the ISH and even Downstairs at the Rocket and they are all very well attended too. I don't remember anyone saying we were trying to get more people in than the Mecca or Wigan, with a 300 capacity that would be tough. Still we should be flying past the Mecca in a few years then. Like I said we do it for people who enjoy rare, primarily 60s soul music and thousands of those people love the place and visit regularly. However that wouldn't include your namesake who claims to love rare soul music but lived three miles away for twenty years and never got his ample arse down there.

Just to reply to a couple of the sillier comments made on this thread. The 100 Club has never had less than a hundred people. Perhaps the odd night in the eighties when Northern was not the done thing had about 120 but generally the numbers are 200-300. Tim Brown who claimed it was has never been to an all nighter there just a Xmas party with 300 in so I'm not sure where he got that from. He made several other mistakes in that article, one about Lou Johnson in particular springs to mind. None of us are 100% right. Kent didn't press up the Magicians on commercially available single yet because we like to reward our regular supporters at the Anniversary dance with a genuine rarity. Carla Thomas and The Magic Touch are two that we eventually made available. The 100 Club is mine and thousands of others' idea of the perfect club for old soul music, if it's not to your taste please go elsewhere and leave us to enjoy ourselves. Have a nice day.

As far as I remember it was unreleased when we put it on the Kent LP, though I've a feeling there's a released version by Billy Duke (?) on Capitol. There's also another previously unreleased version possibly by Tommy Hunt that we put out. Billy had a great Scepter 45 out, bth sides big city ballads.

Sorry Phil Spector was one lateral thinking step too many for my brain. Well we'll agree to differ but I don't think John Anderson's a very good example. He's a smashing bloke but he doesn't think that much of Northern musically and is famous for being great at finding records rather than being a soul music critic or even connoisseur. I think Deep and UK covers are more his collecting bag. When Northern was establishing itself, Dave's columns were a huge inspiration and encouragement to thousands of young soul fans and its debatable if the scene would have grown so rapidly and healthily without his involvement. Obviously he didn't inspire you, but I would have thought you'd have noticed his influence. Don't forget DJs weren't icons then (thank God) and it was good to have someone with knowledge\and experience (and possibly most importantly, some ideals) to look up to.

Mel, I don't think it was "rare" soul then, that seems to have come in in the past twenty years. In the late 60s it was known as "old soul" which I think was the name of Jeff King's first bootleg label.

I'm surprised someone said Lov Lov Love wasn't played at the Wheel. It was played in Northants when the Wheel was going so was possibly played there first. It was incredibly common in 1969 as it was the flip of the follow up to a number one hit so there were oads of copies. In those days most people played both sides of a record so hundreds of people would have known it, i don't think anyone would claim to be the first. It's Bobby Hebb for me, though I love most of Len's stuff. i don't really go for either version of I'll Always Need You, too poppy like Moses Smith!

Don't rush back too soon, we'll keep the scene warm for you.