Ady Croasdell
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Seconded, thirded etc and most importantly, he has impeccable soul morals which have kept this the best site bar none.
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New London All Nighter Jan 28th! Info and flyer View full article
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Following on from the success of the Crossfire events and with the continued popularity of Northern Soul nighters in the Smoke, 6TS and NewUntouchables are delirious to announce a new London all nighter at The Rocket on Holloway Road on Saturday January 28th 2006 10pm-6am. It's not in the cavernous upstairs gaff but the more intimate downstairs suite of rooms. Northern Soul will be in the main room with the biggish dancefloor, bar and sofas, R&B will be in the second room the long bar to the side and the psycho stuff is around the back of the main bar. more from ady c and view new flyer via read more.... I'm running the Northern set up which will kick off with Butch, Mick H, Val Palmer, Ady Lupton, Matt Bolton and me (or should that be I?). It will be held twice a year in the opposite quarter years to the two Crossfires, the next one will be July 22nd while the Crossfires are April 29th and 7th October. DJs will be different each time and with this and the other events there'll be more opportunities for Northern Soul DJs in London. The R&B room will be 90% R&B and Popcorn much more so than at the Crossfire dos where all mod black music gets played. That is reflected in the DJ line up, which is Pete Coulson, Roger Banks, Niamh Lynch, Jodie Daley and Rob Bailey. God knows what they play in the psych room but it looks like fun! Entrance is a tenner on the door, no advance tickets or memberships needed but if you have any soul club membership card bring it along in case the bouncers aren't sure about you. If you're not sure about yourself you may need to refer to it anyway. Any queries post on here or E-mail me at ady.croasdell@btinternet.com site note - the rocket is just one of many venues featured in the new soul source venue guide a static reference which provides , dynamic maps, zoom in sateliite views, directions to and from and more on all major worldwide soul venues!
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Is this Incredibles I've put on E-Bay a bit rare, it's not distributed by Bell so it's prbably the first press. https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=4800062197
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I've got Johnny Howard demo, Joyce Bond, Marie Knight on Okeh, Pete Warner on Polydor and the original pressing of 'The Night' among others ending soonish. I'm horacesrecords I don't know how you do a URL or whatever it is!
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I know I should know this but This was an unreleased Betty Wilson Dayco track that came out on an Eddie Daye CD a few years ago. Did it get any plays at the time? It's fab!
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It would be, the amount you get through!
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A quality label, for sale by the pound.
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100 Club will be the same as normal. To be honest i wouldn't want it any more boozy it's just about right for a niter. Now the Xmas party is another thing entirely!
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Thanks to both of you, that's a good start. I could do with a scan of the Barbees if there are any serious Motown/Detroit collectors out there.
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It's time you went to bed Ken. I've got someone working on your Stompa!
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Anyone got anything on this label. I'd love to know writer, producer credits. There's meant to be a Herman Griffin that came out on Anna in 1960 and a Barbees single that featured Norma from the Velvelettes. I could do with scans of either or any other releases. Ta Ady
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Can anyone loan Ace/Kent records their 'You Make Me Feel So Good' on Enjoy 2014, mintish copy for a dub. Several CDs for payment. Contact off line if you can. Cheers Ady
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I've got a Paul Thompson 'Special Kind Of Woman' chugging along quite nicely on E-Bay # 4789737679. And a rare UK Ska Beat single 'Bugaloo' by the Soul Brothers 4789876048. Along with a few other tasty pieces. PT finishes just before 11am. SB about 7pm. Crap photos but the records are mint.
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I'm pretty sure he's black or at least Jewish, I was just expostulating that Girl Across The Street was a bit of a pop record that has got accepted as a soul classic because the singer is black. Same geezer on Cotillion, I can't help with the rest. Nobody got any other examples or are all sixties black records that we play on the Northern scene soulful?
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If people want to confer reverence on a venue, it's up to them. Wigan never set out to be the oracle of the soul movement, they were trying to run a good dance that people enjoyed and came back to. If they said it was the heart of soul later when they were established, that was a marketing ploy which most people in the know would be wise to. If others are more gullible and believe what they are told by businessmen who are after their buck, that's their naievity. I wasn't particularly a Wigan fan but put it all in context and it was a place where the majority of the music was brilliant and it was up to the audience to reject the crappier ones.
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Great song, but I've never heard Paul Robeson's version.
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I don't think he sounds white I think he sings in a classic style that could be either. Like a top opera singer, I'd guess you can't tell their colour by hearing their voice as they aim for the same general standards. Paul Robeson is one of my favourites (I've got a 78 of him singing "Niggers all work on the Mississippi" that got re-recoded), but he could pass as white on some songs and he was the least white appeasing singer of his generation.
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Well I put Moses in as I know it's hugely popular and would get things going a bit. But as I've said I love pop and it's no disrespect to say a record is pop be it black or white. Let's face it all of these singers would have prefferred a pop #1 to an R&B #1. Some aimed at the R&B chart because they new that's what they did, but loads were aiming for the white teen market that tamla had won over. Wigan didn't con anyone, it just put the beat before the soul content in a lot of cases. Whoever covered Paul Anka up as Johnny Caswell was being honest because it was well known by DJs that Caswell was white. When the Seeds and Helen Shapiro got played they weren't even covered (I think and hope), they were just hot new sounds. I gave Kiki Dee to Clarkie to play at Yate and it was no problem, people took it for what it was, a great pop record you could dance Northern to; and written by top NYC songsmiths.
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It's not dissing the record as the record probably wasn't even trying to be a "soul" record in the way we interpret it now. It's just a way of reversing the debate on Blue Eyed Soul by asking which records that we often accept as soul classics or masterpieces may not have that much soul in them. Moses himself would have treated the song like he saw fit and may have gone with a lighter vocal than say the one he used on 'Come On Let Me Love You'. I've spoken to soul singers who have taken the piss out of some of the songs that we revere, saying that it was just a throwaway session and they just churned out the lyrics from a song sheet. Sometimes I disagree and tell them they made a masterpiece without knowing it and other times you can see what they meant. Mary Love was never too keen on You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet though I love it. I'm not putting songs down for sounding pop, I've probably got the biggest pop collection of any soul fan going. i just thought I'd look at it from another angle.
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Sometimes I find Roy's voice on the white side of big ballad singing and he sounds more like Matt Monro (who I like) than Lou Johnson (who I adore). In fact if you compare Roy and Lou's singing on The Panic Is On (someone tell Tim Brown it's acetate only and not on the Big Top LP) you'll see what I mean. Roy is a technically great singer but he doesn't always put his soul into it.
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Yeah, me and Mick agree to disagree on this. It should be dos you only use an apostrophe if the next word "belongs" to it. So you would say "that last 100 Club do's atmosphere was brilliant". Because it's the atmosphere of the do. No other suggestions for pop as soul. I think some of the big beat ballad singers can drift that way, sometimes Roy Hamilton only just makes it. Of course they were often trying to sound like Vegas singers anyway, so they aren't really conning anyone.
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A bit of a follow on from the Soul Snob section. Moses Smith Girl Across The Street: corny, trite and forced. I don't believe a word he's singing.
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Or do we write the nest chapter like a Dickens novel (I meant in installments, I didn't contribute much for Dickens).
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Hard luck Dave normally artists are happy with any mention and it occasionally develops into a two-way admiration society. There are one or two however who are just so awkward and often miserable (possibly from having been ripped off in the past) that their attitude is very negative. There are some stories I'd love to tell but as they would deflect from an artists singing talent, I don't think it's fair to relate them. Dave Godin carried a few to the grave with him and if he could hold his tongue I should try and follow his example.
