Davenpete

Nice to hear it being played - brilliant record - as with so much god garage (got a stack of this stuff on dvds off Roger Williams a few years ago - top chap!) . Dx

So what exactly do you think they played in New York discos in the early 70s (bearing in mind The Loft opened in 1969). Dx

I'm shocked at how much it's going for now - is anyone playing it? I must've sold my UK issue twenty five years ago for about £60. Dx

As an aside I believe Les Cokell DJed at the Mecca (as a guest spot I presume given it would be long after he ceased to be a resident) as in a Yellow Hard Hat, Tool Belt, Work Boots and a Boystown T-Shirt as a joke the night - LONG before my time, but we have the photo somewhere. Dx

I believe real Maurice Williams have gold lettering (they're matrix stamped too - Bellsound?) Dx

We usually take Mr Sneddon out on the rare occasions we go anywhere nowadays. Dx

No not one I did. Dx

I forget - a long time ago. Dx

Ref-Kingy I did the initial one that he did as a giveaway for his birthday bash (and said he had rights for) - thereafter I had nothing to do with them. Dx

The initial production in small numbers supposedly had the nod from Harry Weingler at Motown to be put out to DJs as they were at least initially (they certainly willingly initially gave him full access to the digitised tape vaults) to pre-promote the planned releases of the CDs of unissued stuff - though of course he did 'run with the ball' somewhat - though ultimately MUCH to our benefit. Dx

As it happens I did the initial artwork for the birthday giveaway label as a favour to him. If i'm assuming right the 'others' you are referring to are the white labels - actually you're wrong - he got the blame for them but someone else did them (apart from the initial ones which he had official permission from Motown to do SOME in order 'to promote to DJs' ahead of the unissued CD comps) - I know exactly who but let's leave it there - don't forget without his running with the ball on the permission thing we would never have seen most of that stuff. Dx

Bootleg

There are the 'claps' and simply clapping along - they are different things. Even in the later days when I was a pup in the early 80s I remember coming home with my hands actually bruised (plus joggers nipple and durophet vertigo of course). Dx

A LOT of close friends I've not seen for 25+ years. Dx

It's always been the big question between 'discovered', 'first played' and 'broke' - as they are very often not the same thing. For a minor example, a few years ago we were watching Eve's Bayoo, in the background of the party scene there was a brief snippet of brilliant unknown track - we go 'ayup what's that???' - it turned out to be an unissued (and totally unknown) Jimmy Radcliffe demo 'I'll Pretend That I'm Loving You' - only available via the obscure full soundtrack album (rather than the normal one) - we 'phoned a friend' played it off the video down the phone, got him the CD and were there when it was first played out (at King George's, Stoke) to excited reaction from DJs who were extremely puzzled to hear it dedicated to us (as we'd kept it zipped for maximum impact). It was briefly very popular, though sadly at 1.50 a bit too short (would benefit from being mixed into something longer). Likewise John Anderson, Soussan etc etc etc turned up hundreds of landmark sounds and recognised they'd 'go' and sold them on - but the DJs are the ones who are famous for breaking them, though I guess a lot of the time a given record needed the authority of a famous DJ to attain their rightful initial acceptance. Equally something like Ann Perry was (like many sounds) first spun at the Cats, but it needed the booming back wall of the Casino to reach its full potential of popularity. Dx

Les Cokell always reckoned he was the first to play it - at the Mecca (given Ian took over from Les that gives you an idea of how early that is likely to be) - it certainly fits his taste. Dx

I think they're the architects of their own demise - part of the establishment dumbing down of music interest into middle of the road mush - coz that's all they seem to stock, whilst also being a key reason the decent independents got crowded out... Good riddance. Dx

Is the old Wheel instrumental 'Walkin the Duck' the same group???

Have to say it's pretty much a carbon copy of Eddie Kendricks. Dx

Hopefully it's being used as a toilet seat by a colony of midgets in Hessle then - just so long as it stays away from a record deck. Dx

You're not talking about 'My Aching Back' by Lowell Fulsom are you? Dx

Yes, but the later half of the footage (Darling Take Me Back and The Drifter) is the 100 Club - look at the background - I was at both, he was much better at the 6Ts evening do (was it the Tuesday before, or the Saturday?) . The last guy is Garland Green I think - he certainly performed at Yarmouth and it looks like him. Funny I don't remember Pat Lewis or Lorraine Chandler, but I must've seen them as I was all these weekenders. Dx

Ray Pollard's at the 100 Club - I was there as it happens. Dx

I understand his career as a pit pony jockey didn't go so well either. Dx