Ady Croasdell

Anybody seen or got her Tennessee Waltz/Family Tree on GWP or anything? Not the GWP LP, I've got that.

Top geezers. Fame and fortune coming your way, even though Rachel was beaten to it.

You been away BB. Or is that Cleethorpes lag you're suffering?

Thanks chaps that's terrific. I forgot about the Roulette LRL, any idea of the credits on either side of that one? No luck with Betty Barney yet, perhaps James Trouble's funk chums can help?

I need the writer credits on that. Producer, arranger credits on Little Rose Little on Blue Rock (was she on any other labels?) Producer, arranger credits on Alice Clark 'Heaven's Will', the flip of You Hit Me. All the credits on Betty Barney on GWP. Not asking much am I? Ady

Karen, I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else. You're right I've got plenty of great memories of Randy. My comments were meant to be affectionate but obviously didn't come across that way to you. Ady

imagine a 'one that got away' situation: you meet, say, george clinton in about 1967. you patiently explain that you've come from the future to eliminate him before he goes bongo-mad. he looks at you quizzically and you explain that he's about to get heavily into funk. what's funk? he asks. foolishly, you tell him. then, as you are about to deliver the coup de grace, your gun jams. george takes a header out of the window, survives and legs it to a nearby studio where he puts into practice everything you've just told him. now that would be a self-defeating bummer, wouldn't it. link

No you're arse over tit. There were two totally separate incidents with different people. The smashed geezer went into Cleethorpes, told the cops everyone was trying to beat him up. When they got there they realised he was nuts and left him there. The punch happened two hours later by a completely different person

I was just thinking how pleased he would have been to see his youngest, Terry, enjoying himself so much at the weekender with a lot of his old Letchworth and Southgate mates. He behaved a damn sight better than Randy did on his last visit too! The other son Paul just rang me up about the Left Banke a 60s pop harmony group; there's always a black sheep. Mick dedicated a few records to him.

That was the aforesaid person who's head had gone. He actually brought the coppers down but they weren't interested when they found out he ws bonkers.

I have in my possession a black ladies jacket with white piping. It's a smallish size as it didn't fit me when a charming French girl persuaded me to wear it at 3 a m Sunday morning. Does anyone know whose it is?

as for Dynamics i was carying the sod!,round all weekend,put it down for a dance,could be anywere now,Ady did say something about records but all a bit fuzzy at mo!....

I've passed the message on.

Kenny's on about what a great job Jim Gilstrap & the New Belles did on Jesse Davis 'Hang On In There' as written by Sherlie. The other geezer who thought he was threatened could have been the knobhead from Hinckley who'd seriously overdone it and thought there were thirty people in the modern room with bottles after him, then forty in the main room. So he stood at the entrance inbetween. Then he brought the cops down who luckily realised he was mental. He won't be coming again!

And let me know, he won't ever be at one of my promotions again. It was a particularly cowardly attack too. I think it's the first one in 13 events, excluding the domestic when a small girl layed into her bigger geezer, so we'll leave it at that.

Regular soul nights, 6TS used to do the Phoenix in Cavendish Square back of Oxford circus. Masses of one or two off pub venues. Tony Smith's Carved Red Lion on Essex Rd ran for a while and there wre a million mod revival soul nights we used to go along to occassionally

Jim eddlestone ran one in the middle of the wilds of Lincolnshire some sort of country club. If anyone seems him tell him he's more than welcome at Cleethorpes, he's threatening to come.

When were Cleggy's Cotton's all nihters in Stockport. Market Harborough Leisure centre run by Ally & TC then Me & TC also Loughborough Town Hall. Sorry if they've been covered too many to read. The TAC Weekenders were brilliant and the inspiration for Cleethorpes.

Too hectic to reply, it sounds like a Saturday afto discussion at the Cleethorpes bar to me.

Simon, I think you're bending a few facts to justify your theory. There are a few sentences I'd take issue with. Of course rhythm is a huge part of black music but to say pre-68 the influence was from white music is wrong. Black Americans started jazz and Rock and Roll and that's where all the best pop music came from. And no Nat King Cole and Sam Cooke weren't mainly admired because they made it, lots of blacks made it through sport or music mainly; it was their incredible voices which literally hit a chord with the audience. Most black people could afford record players, they were poor but not that poor, I would guess many had them in the 40s and virtually all by the 50s. Blues records sold in their millions. Bobby Bland's records sold more for his singing style than the beat which is far from funk in most cases. I agree that post MLK it was a different black attitude and face but that doesn't mean any of the previous black music was pandering to the whites. Some was but most crossed over because it was such great music and a lot of white kids got access to it and finally were in an enlightened enough time to go out , buy it and enjoy it. For example The Spinners 'Could It Be I'm Falling In Love' was made in the funk era and sold to as many black people as JB's hits, because it was so great that it crossed over to pop whereas some of James' didn't doesn't make it any less black. As for musicians of course the "blacker" sound seemed to come out of the southern studios like Stax and Fame and those guys had more white musicians than Tamla and Philly ever had. I'd better go and sort some caravans out now quick!

I'm not knocking 60's soul music at all because I truly love it - but my heart is with the rawer sound because it what I believe is the true soul of Black America however negative, sexist or primitive it sounds. Northern Soul's altered the perception of Soul music forever - but it is a white European perspective on it. link

Luther Dixon, Van McCoy (I've just discovered the flip of Toni Lamarr's 'Just In The Nick Of Time') and Thom Bell. I'll give you three more when the IPA wears off.