Roburt

Same show; different perspective ..........

Down from Chicago ........

If you think "My Generation" is a bit off the 'soul track' .......... .. you'll be appalled to learn that "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" was played on US black radio stations back in 63 & made it onto the national R&B charts for a 5 week period ................. Rolf Harris; southern soul guru ?? Other 'BIG' entries on the same chart were from Trini Lopez, the Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Kraftwerk & the Steve Miller Band.

RE: Someone once told me that me that Al Johnson & Jean Carn's "I'm Back For More" made No.1 on the R&B charts purely through sales in the South alone..... Hastings, Bexhill, Brighton & Bognor ????

Really enjoyed it; very good TV.

The i newspaper did a short promo piece on Sunday's TV page in yesterday's edition. Nothing startling there; a bit pf praise for the script BUT they finished off with the comment that this episode features a great musical soundtrack !!! So, that can't be bad.

Gino Washington enjoyed a few regional breakouts back in the 60's ......... (Though Billboard got their Gino's & Geno's mixed up in their Milan report)

This show wasn't held in 'The Ghetto' .........

Ain't Gonna Dance No More with ......

This ad ties in well with Post #38 ...................

Lou & the others performing in Cleveland last night ..........

RE: we are talking about history here...........get the damn facts right!!! I's not history; it's a fictitious club on a TV cop show .... ..... next you'll be trying to tell us that East Enders should be based on real people & how they actually live their lives.

Listened through it all now. For a national BBC Radio 5 prog it was OK. Richard & Pete came over really well. Can't say the same for a lot of folk who rang in & got on air.

Got to agree with Russell. Whatever your special interest is, you can find fault with every film / TV prog made because its the characters & plot that matters most to the makers. They don't really care if they have someone in their show that wears a 'wrong' dress, drives a 'wrong' car, listens to a 'wrong' song, etc. Lots of times continuity make an effort to get it right ..... in most TV shows they make an effort to ensure if I guy leaves his house in (say) a Capri, that he's still in a Capri en-route and the same when he gets to his destination. The same care is not taken for instance when trains are shown on TV ..... a guy can board a train that is pulled by a steam loco, next time the train is shown, it's become a EMU (electric multiple unit) and when he gets off its fronted by a diesel loco. The railway buffs go mad, but does anyone else watching the show care ..... NO. ............... So you NS anoraks, give them a break.

Good mention by Ronnie McNeir for the current Sunday night music session in Detroit. Ronnie had to shoot off & curtail his contribution on the radio show as he was expected at the club to perform with his peers.

RE: not sure who did the research, but it is set in 1968 .... .... It's a TV entertainment show .... it's not a documentary about the evolution of the UK NS scene !!! give em a break !!!

It's no wonder John Bacchus got all his records from Kegsy, his story (when he goes undercover at the NS club) is that he has just moved up from Leeds. Bet he tells them that he used to go to the Bee Gee club. ...... Do I Love You ............ Indeed I do ..........

Don't know enough about ska tracks to help you (I do like many ska things including this tune though). It's obviously by a similar outfit to the Ska-talites, but just who they are I can't tell you. Lots of big ska fans on here though, so guess one of them will be able to tell you who it is & what the title is.

................ BACK ON TOPIC ................ BBC Breakfast Time is doing a promo piece on the TV show this morning at 8.45 and during this they are showing clips from this episode of the show. In this episode, you get to see Gently's sidekick Detective Sergeant John Bacchus showing off his record collection. By all accounts, he says that he bought all his best 45's (Including Dean Parrish) from Kegsy. You would have thought they could have given Kegsy a cameo role in this episode; he could have played a time ravaged 'down & out' living rough on the street outside the NS club featured in the show.

I sent in a 45 recommendation & got name checked. I can't remember which issue of B&S it was though (it's up in the loft with all the others I still have).

I think the Dion (UK 45) version was definitely just a 'Sheffield thing'. Certainly Alan Bown always performed "My Girl The Month of May" when they played the Mojo, so I would think they also performed the track live at other clubs / shows.

More of a 'girl group' sound & not very soulful at all (IMHO). They did cut soulful tracks for Swan written by the likes of Norman Johnson, Gene Dozier & Leon Ware back then; did this writing team actually come up with some more soulful songs ?

Spike, I certainly hope that nothing goes wrong with the plans to save the fabric of the Wheel, but there are still chances that things will 'go pear-shaped'. You only have to check out past reclamation projects to see that some fail because of stupid acts by someone around at the time who didn't give a toss. The Greek styled columns that stood outside the old Euston Stn were 'saved' for posterity. They went off for 'safe storage' and were never seen again. A number of significant old steam locos were 'laid aside' for preservation, only for a shed foreman who didn't care a jot to include some of those 'reserved' for museums to be coupled up to engines being sent to scrap yards. Old stately homes destined for restoration have mysteriously 'fallen down' at the last minute & a whole housing estate has eventually replaced them on the grounds. So, until the Wheel bits are actually reassembled somewhere (hopefully close to central Manc), there is still a chance that some 'jobs-worth' will say .... clear all that old rubble from that area over there & take it to the tip; we've got some stuff coming tomorrow that will have to be stored there..

Still off topic, but a few tracks were cut at the Mojo Club (Sheffield). The Sheffield Students Rag Committee had the idea of raising extra funds by putting out records (45's, EP's) that could be sold by the teams around the city asking for 'donations'. I know of at least 3 Sheff Rag records (64;65 & 67) and two of these had Mojo connections. The 64 Sheff Rag EP included a track by a local West Indian outfit; Los Caribos. The 65 Sheff Rag 45 was I think recorded at the Mojo Club -- the cover certainly featured the club's detals; the group's involved were the Lizards & the Foresters (no idea who they were). The tracks included on the 1967 EP were definitely cut at the Mojo and 2 of the groups involved were the Pitiful Souls (named on the 7" as being the Pityful Souls) who cut a version of "Never Like This Before" and Joe Cocker's Blues Band who cut "I've Been Trying" & "Saved". Any idea if any live sessions (or demos / student rag tracks) were cut at Newcastle's Club AGogo ??? Quite a few live shows were cut in those times at London Clubs (featuring the likes of Alan Bown Set, Jimmy James & Vags, Geno Washington & R.J.Band). Wasn't one of the UK live shows that were recorded on Garnett Mimms from up north (the other being at Sussex Uni I seem to recall).

db121 / Dave, you were right in a small way when you said that the Mojo club (Sheffield) moved away from soul acts in 1967, but only in a small way . I had 'blocked out' memories of an alldayer (7th May 67) when Pink Floyd were the live act -- I was down in London that weekend; buying records & watching Garnett Mimms at the Saville Theatre (+ Jimi Hendrix -- but we didn't go for him). Loads of other British groups played the Mojo club during it's existence; Small Faces (their 1st visit they played for free), the Who, the Move -- their big live act song back then was "Open The Door To Your Heart" if my memory ain't playing tricks on me --, Amen Corner -- they also did "Open The Door To Your Heart" and recorded songs such as Our Love (Is In The Pocket), Something You Got, Expressway (To Your Heart), Let The Good Times Roll / Feel So Good & I Don't Wanna Discuss It / Amen -- AND the Nice (though they had been P.P. Arnold's backing band up to that time). Sheffield's version of a Motown group; the Pitiful Souls (5 local guys of West Indian descent) used to practise at the Mojo in 1966 and they played an allniter session at the club before going off to play gigs all over the world. BUT to be fair, most clubs were booking UK beat groups back then -- Family were on at the Nite Owl on 24th June 67 (didn't go) and the night before Jimi Hendrix played the Mojo (7th Jan 67), Jimi & his group were busted at the Wheel allnighter for having drugs on them. On that night that Jimi Hendrix was at the Wheel, the Mojo allnighter featured Alvin Cash & the Crawlers. With Stringfellows work on RSG, he was well known to all the London based 'bookers'. Coz of this, he was always being offered 'the next big thing' for a gig at the Mojo.