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Oops - it quoted wrong for some reason - it was Rubberneckin he played. Dx

Les Cokell was very proud that he discovered this - though I think that was early 70s. VERY much his kind of record. Dx

Les C always said he was ashamed he played that, and André Brasseur against his better judgment because they were popular. We still have his old Dark Red vinyl 50 box that he used to DJ from at the Wheel. Dx

Yes - Tell Mama by Etta James is also similar. Dx

This reggae version of Sheila Anthony used to be a source of amusement round Swindon:

Never got on with straight reggae (though some of the west indian soul stuff I've heard is blinding) but this well known old club sound is right up my street...

I remember playing 'Have Some Everybody' at a one of Pip's New Years Eve Allnighter's in Carlisle and George Hunt coming over, blown away but having no idea what it was (I like George and all credit to him admitting it)... Conversely I also remember talking to Terry Davies and enthusing about 'Give The Man A Chance' (Soul Twins) which he'd just played and which I'd always loved far more than QCA and him being SERIOUSLY impressed I knew it, saying he found it on a tape and it took months of playing it to 'loads of heavyweight collectors' before he found someone who knew it - I kept my thoughts to myself : ) Dx

ALWAYS detested Doug Banks, same goes for Romance Watson. Dx

I pronounce it 'Sh-ite'. Dx

Not that young - he was 25 in 77. Dx

I remember doing a fair bit of nighter centred stuff when I was at art college (did a lot of drawing at Morecambe Pier and The Unicorn in Leighton Buzzard - not sure if it was me or everyone else who got most paranoid - art on durophet is fun though, but not as much fun as graphic design on MDMA). Not quite sure what the crack is with this Morgan Howell guy - I can get you a high res print of a label and an exhibition print on plain paper for the sleeve about 3 feet across done for about £40 total (from what I can see he's done much the same - except that he's airbrushed on the tone on the columbia label - probably simply to avoid moire pattern of a straight print; moire is the 'tartan' effect you get from scanning half tone dots) - then it's just a case of putting them together and mounting them. Dx PS With the 'vinyl' being routed out of black acrylic with a standard signmakers' CAD cutter

The Philly Groove one is legit - but it's the other take. Dx

Given a good original label scan it would take me about 5 minutes to do a photoshop job on something like this that simply could not be distinguished at PC screen resolution. Dx

Long before my time of course, but Pete still wears Mecca sandals all the time - the Jesus type with buckles (not the jellies that some wore) - he's got a pic of everyone (Judith, Len, Ian, Les etc) arseing around with Bernie Golding in grey bondage trousers, he tells me the wonderful Judy Moss used to go in a ra-ra skirt with full petticoats, he also remembers clear plastic anoraks (and someone even turning up with the pockets full of water with goldfish in - though this may have been at the Warehouse (Leeds and full disco mode) and somewhere we have a shot of Les in his notorious hard hat and tool belt a la the Village People. Wedges (with or without tramlines - sometimes dyed rainbow strips) are surely later - I remember them in the early 80s along with whistles and cow bells amongst the Oxford/Swindon/Gloucester crew. Dx

There was defo a boot - the red print one - remember Richard Domar complaining about being ripped off with them. Dx

Trouble is we now know WHY Rolf wanted the kangaroo tied down. Dx PS Would STILL love a tape of The Supremes' unissued recording of it - at last a record that Diane's voice would measure up to.

What it's all about...

God the Vondells is still brilliant. Dx

If they were covering those records the article was absolutely not from 64/65. Dx

Regardless of some soulies also being into football etc, the original question is based on a fundamental confusion - conflating 'soul boys' with 'northern soul boys' is incorrect - soul boys are what casuals called themselves initally (at least round my way). Dx

PS Love A Go Go always puts a smile on my face too (in fact with Contract On Love, Ain't That Asking For Trouble, I Want My Baby Back and of course Nothing's Too Good For My Baby you can't really go wrong with the whole album)

Angie Girl, All I Do, Hey Love and Do I Do all nail it for me. Dx

Sam & Bill was pretty big for a while in the 80s. Dx

Eskew Reeder/Esquerita - one time boyfriend (supposedly) of Little Richard and sometime female impersonator.

I was told Bread on the B side of Sunny was played. Dx