Simsy

Still dunno about all night but have a little look at this clip. That's why they were the best.

Hi Jon, Was he a dealer? What did he look like? How old? If he's not on here, someone would have heard of him I'm sure.

No more or less so than Major Lance - You don't want me no more I think. I never liked 'our love is in the pocket'. But there you go.

Yep.

Believe he was the lead singer of the Philadelphians. Was also a producer. Not to mention he was the John in John & the Weirdest.

Indeed, shown on Whistle Test. Featured that great line from the 'Mrs Bicknell' to be - "can't put it into words, nothing else grips yer heart like soul music does".

Seven Souls needs to be in the top ten imo

y i I don't know that they would have played anything decent if there had of been a youth club in my locale. On my Hi Fidelity record player of that time I remember was stuff like The Beatles, Searchers, Amazing Darts ( ) Blondie etc ...

Not round our way Beeb. Just feel if I had been exposed to the Tams, Johnny Johnson, Temps etc in my formative teens I could have got into this wonderful music earlier. Thank God for the Mod movement, or who know's where I would have ended up? Simsy the Rock fan!

Ah well that's good to know. Bedfordshire youth clubs playing northern eh. Wonder if there were any others in the south?

Once again it would seem the north had the best to offer the youth of the day. Spoke to a couple of people here (southerners obviously) in their late forties. Both went to youth clubs, neither had music, just table tennis, stuff like that.

So were they full on decks + speakers etc sound system - or record player type deal?

Thanks Mark Yeah in the South, (or at least round our way) all they had was sort of youth club during summer holidays. No northern at all - talking 1977 - 1982 school years. Know what you mean about parents LP's though, first time I heard Pyramid, when I got home was digging through me dad's Brook Benton LP's ...

Hear a lot of stories about them. There wasn't anything like that round my way. Is this a northern thing? Did they play all northern? How many of you went to them? What were the hours? What was the age group? Are they still going?

Tough shout between a Motown room and Trifle's idea of a Northern karaoke room.

Hayes C

Come again?

I think he plays on that to get women. See his Mrs?! This is on topic innit?

It's official, Nelson DeLaRosa >The Smallest Man Alive<

Presumably he was called Matchie because of he Swan Vesta-esq build?

He was an actor Mikey. I only know this because of that brilliant Ronnie Barker sketch, The Cinema Commissionaire. " I stand ere all Doris Day, Elke Sommers or Shirley Winters, Claude Raines or Ronald Shiners" ...