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Hello all , If anyone knows Steve could you please ask him to p.m. me on here , Thanks , Mike.

Miracles, Whole lot of shakin goin on . M arvelettes I,ll keep on holdin on . Martha & Vandellas Youve been in love too long . Liz Lands , Midnight Johnny . Originals , Suspicion . Supremes , My world is empty without you . Four tops , I,ll turn to stone . Junior Walker , Roadrunner . Velvelettes , Bird in the hand . Temptations , I know i,m losing you .

Yes, let me clarify , it was only Collin Curtis who did the guest spots ,The other two were of course regulars

Kev Roberts , Ian Dewhurst . Colin Curtis, 1975 guest spot(s) Mr Ms, Scat cat, Brian Rigby , Alan Cain , Steve Whittle , Didnt Andy Peebles do a guest spot at the second or third anniversary ?

Great article , visited my Daughter who was teaching in Osaka some years back , All aspects of retro American culture seemed to be worshipped , even a sizeable shopping section called Americamura, with outlets selling vinyl , toys , comics ,clothes etc , mainly from that golden 50s to 70s American period . They seem to be loving it , wish i could go to that place .

I prefer the shorter version , think the long version puts a different complexion on it that dosent sit well with me , maybe it s because i had heard the released version for over 40 years before i heard it . Saw the Supremes perform this live at Manchester Odeon in 1971 and those opening words" Stoned love" stick with me to this day , cant for the life of me recall a spoken intro on that performance , but there may well have been .

Jerry Cook for me , this is however one of the very few occasions where, when a song has been recorded by two artists , i like both versions . usually one runs a far off second , but here they are both great , Jerry Cook has a raw soul/blues feel, but the production on the Sidney Barnes track makes it a winner as well.

" The Tomangoes were basically the Faux Tops " !? ! Love a lot of the Four tops early Motown stuff , but give The Tomangoes more respect than that. they made that record , it sunk without trace , but itsone of the greatest records ever made . The fact that even this guy has latched onto it is testament to its brilliance . it made his top ten and i would estimate he has probably heard around seventy or eighty northern records in his time to be considered a Guardian expert . out of those eighty , it made number three . Faux tops ? Faux journo.

Yes , i can see it now , obvious once pointed out , must be quite rare that .

Never seen one with the Gordy badge logo on the side as posted a few posts up . Thanks for posting .

No on both of those , wasnt it quite a short show ? dont remember the sound being noticably any better or worse . What i do recall of that evening is the small record outlet on the balcony had a page long list of Brunswick Jackie Wilson 45s For sale ,unusual as it was mainly an outlet for pressings .

I was at the Jackie Wilson performance at the Casino, and to be honest , it was not a patch on the Betty Wright performance a few weeks earlier . No one realised at the time that Jackie Wilson was ill , ( no one i knew any way ) , and the consensus at the time seemed to be that it was a bit of a let down . In hindsight , i realise what a privelidge it was to be at the final show of such a ledgendary figure .

Sorry to hear that you are calling it a day Rod , Thanks for help when needed in the past , hope you are still going to be contributing on here , The site will find it very difficult to replace a man of your calibre . Look after yourself man .

Pmed you.

The Jewels "We got Togetherness " ,The six clap break!. ( or was it seven?)

I always believed that American comics were sent over here as ships ballast , every other newsagent had racks of them in the sixties , all a couple of years old . if comics , why not records ?no doubt seen as equally disposable at the time .( vaguley recall a similar thread some time back )

I,m never quite sure about this" passing it on to the next generation " stuff . Back in the early seventies , the scene was the most exciting thing there was , there was nothing that could compare with it and we were drawn like moths to a flame ( more than a few getting badly burnt ) . can we honestly say this today ? If i was a teenager today , would i have the same attraction to todays set up ? Not a chance , From what i gather there are plenty of things going on up and down that have a similar raw underground vibe about them , One thing that does not have this however is todays northern soul scene , its the equivalent of the working mens clubs in the seventies , , the very type of thing that we were not prepared to settle for ,that made the difference of the Northern scene so attractive . I am sixty next year and am certainly not interested in the lawless drug fueled weekend extravaganzas of yesteryear , but i find the occasional forays onto todays scene quite sanitised affairs . in my own way , i have deepened my appreciation of and passion for the music , but the scene? come on.

Think it was the Jades that got left on the chip shop counter ( by Dave Mccadden )

Budgie .

Enjoyed that ,Trying to think of the guys name who was sat on the stage( can be seen on the front of the live album cover )he was from Bolton, any ideas anybody?

Regarding the Dog And Partridge , ( this is the one, just up from the station where you go down the side to the back of a church right ? ) The Landlords name was Nobby , and back in the days of 11 o clock last orders , we would regularly arrive between ten past and half past eleven, the routine was always the same , as we entered,Nobby would look at the clock for what seemed like ages , the place would go quiet as the regulars looked on , then he would announce " Just in time lads what can i get you?"followed by a cheer and laughter from the locals , at around ten to twelve he would always say "Sup up, Yer not in New York now lads " ( letting us know it was time to head off round the corner ) Wonderful times .

Pmed you .

"I, m the one to do it " on the flip has never stopped doing it for me .not a big fan of Higher and Higher though either to be honest.

Funeral this coming Monday , 2pm, St Margarets Church, Prestwich.

Heard yesterday the sad news that Salty (Prestwich, Manchester. ) died last week. No funeral details as yet . Salty was a Top , Top , man , well known all over Manchester and further afield , with a deep lifelong passion for soul music ( and Man United ). Pretty much lived and breathed the scene back in the day . In recent years I spent several evenings in his company at T.S.O .P . at The Longfield suite and last time I met him he told me he was running a soul night at the Turf Tavern . Was a Wigan Regular , a Proper lad , and no one that knew him could have anything but good to say about him . I'm choked up writing this. Will post further details as they come in . Carts.