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maslar

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  1. I don't know about from a dislike to like but these days I can just about stand listening to Sam Fletcher's I'd Think It Over Twice.
  2. Oops, sorry I didn't phase that very well. I meant in the time after it's UK release - really in response to a previous post that it wasn't a newie after a few months,. For example I can't remember hearing it played at a WC Oldies night the following year. Maybe it was.
  3. Very interesting thread and lots of information. To me (as someone looking in at an era slightly before I went to WC ) it looks simple: Taking Pete S' testimony as a starting point (being in the room and taping it is obviously a good starting point). It would seem to me to go as follows.: SIIS was first played by RS in late 77. It was played as a newie every night, once a week at WC right through 78 and into 79. nothing unusual there. For example "I don't like to lose"Â was played for much longer by RS. So it was a top newie for about 18 months. It never obtained "oldie"Â status because for whatever reason Grapevine finally decided to release it as a single in the late summer of 79 and nobody bothered playing it after that. Sometime in the months after it was also included on the compilation "Sound Of The Grapevine"Â (where I first heard it) — Side 2 track 4. So that's it; 18 months a newie and not played as an oldie. However, just to reaffirm, it took me about five minutes on google to find this: Dave McCadden, The Beat fanzine Feb 1979: "I've always had a built in resistance to tailor mades and records where there are no originals to be had, and I've cursed many of the Wylie productions ( Hanky Panky / Down in the dumps ) for that very reason but I almost throw any doubts out of the window when I hear the brilliant BETTY BOO "SAY IT ISN'T SO" . . story is that Sam's had an acetate for a few years but I ain't heard him play the bleeder, if that's true Sam you want whipping, as this is a great voc/inst that Rich has been hammering for a long time, " For a long time .. in Feb 1979.
  4. My only real surreal moment occured at WC.. This would have been on one of the first times I went. Not the first but the second, third or fourth so would be in June/July 1980. I was sitting on the balcony in front of the record booth when the 3 before 8 came on. Only it wasn't time yet.. or so I thought. When TWPYB came on I just thought it was a little strange. Then when LATIAO came on I started to get a little worried, even moreso when IOMW came on. I just sat there thinkiing "where's the time gone"? I was in this sort of timeless state for about 4 or 5 minjutes. I couldn't understand it. Then everything just carried on as normal. Just as soon as it happened I forgot about it and I never mentioned it to anyone or asked anyone about it. If you'd asked me the next day if anything strange happened I probably wouldn't have remembered it. Then a few years ago I was in Waterstones flicking through one of the WC/NS books (can't remeber which one) and there was a story about how Mike Walker had come into the Casino a little worse for wear and refused to leave until they played the 3 before 8 ( or something along those lines). Straight away I remembered that night- the first time I'd thought about it since it happened almost 30 years earlier. . Even now I can't remember the exact night or even roughly what time it happened.
  5. The first Northern record I thought was over-rated was Eddie Parker's "Love You Baby". I bought it blind when i first seriously got into NS after seeing it at No2 in some poll (Blues and Soul I think). It wasn't that I didn't like it. I just didn't think it was that good. I much prefer I'm Gone, which coincidentlay had to be one of the most played records at the WC Oldies nights 80 -81. I'm sure one night every single DJ played it.
  6. Darrell Banks - Our Love Is In The Pocket (best intro ever imo) Duke Browner - Crying Over You Salvadors Brice Coefield - Aint That Right
  7. I'm not really a big fan of covers unless there's been an attempt to do something really different or interesting with the song, There have been some great soulful covers of Beatles songs. E.g I really like Gene Chandler's version of Eleanor Rigby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Newz73qRPP0
  8. For me Ronnie Milsap is the best version. The vocal is stronger compared to ML's vocal (which is actually pretty weak) and I like the arrangment. I also like the arrangment for Kenny Bernard's version at the start but it goes a little OTT (for me) towards the end. Still good though. Ray Paiges was the first version I heard and I used to really like it but I find the "funky guitar" a little over-powering now. I think the Tammi Lynn version is what's widely referred to as "filler".
  9. What channel was this on? I'd like to see this again. I watched it the first time round when it was widely hailed as a major accomplishment. I used to buy The Story of Pop magazine in the early 70s which was the first attempt I suppose to provide a serious overview of popular music going back to early blues, country, folk, bluegrass, etc. AYNIL seemed to me at the time to be a TV equivelant. Strange that after receiving widespread prasie for AYNIL Tony Palmer's next project "The Wigan Casino" is held in less regard. Maybe he was burnt out after working on AYNIL for three years.
  10. maslar replied to a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    Some that I had that were pretty bad: all 70s pressings: Phil Lowman - Rock Me - Palos Pat Lewis - Warning c/w Debonairs Loving You..... Solid Hit Carstairs - although at the time I didn't realise just how bad it was. Jerry Fuller - Double Life
  11. maslar replied to a post in a topic in All About the SOUL
    Going off topic slightly: Roy Harrison was from the same village I was brought up in: Mayfield. As was another Wheelite Brian Harrison. Brian, coincidentally, was a very keen UK collector and had (amongst other things) an entire set of TMG green and white demos plus all the earlier Stateside stuff on demo as well I think. They were quite a bit older than me - 15 or maybe more years so I didn't know them back in the day. I still see Brian occasionally. Roy H, Brian, and I think Charlie Waring as well started what has to be one of the earliest small town soul clubs: the Rinky Dink Soul Club in Ashbourne. I recently found an old local newspaper advertisement for Brian dated Feb '67 although he claims it probably started a few months before they started advertising it (late 66). Mas
  12. About a dozen that seemed "different" to me when I first heard them: (not when they were first played except for the later stuff). Mike Post Coalition - Afternoon Of The Rhino Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools - I don't think I'll ever get this. Detroit Executives - Cool Off Carstairs - It Really Hurts Me Girl Montclairs- Hung Up On Your Love Tony Middleton - Paris Blues Frankie and Johnny - I'll Hold You Present - Many's The Slip Velvet Hammer - Happy Tommy Navarro - I Cried My Life Away Stuart Ames - Angelina/King For A Day Susan Rewis - They Say You Found A New Baby There's probably a load more but these didn't require much thinking.
  13. I don't know him but his records must be the most easily recognisable around - as long as they're in his original white card sleeves. I don't think I've ever seen more neat, stylistic, uniform, hand written labelling. Always the same: Artist name in one top corner, title in the other, "Hector" bottom right and cat. number bottom left. So uniform you'd think they'd been typed out with a custom font. I used to have a few I bought from RE Cords in the late 70s - from the sale box. I was in one of the record shops on Notting Hill Gate a couple of years ago and there up on the wall were at least half a dozen "Hectors", so looks like at least some of his collection is still circulating in London.
  14. I started going in spring 1980. One thing I noticed was a couple of ex chart Northern sounds that had been re-activated and played to a packed dance floor. E.g Love On A Mountain Top (with some solid clapping) and Everything's Gonna Be Alright. It's the only time I've heard LOMT played at a dayer or nighter.
  15. Using WC (the post pop period) as a reference there are a few white sounds that bring back great memories for different reasons: The Present, Many's The Slip (you could probably hear the clapping in Warrington on a good night with the wind in the right direction) The Seeds - Pushing Too Hard - (garage/punk/freakbeat and maybe a little soul if you don't know they're white) Always reminds me of my first night at WC standing on the balcony in front of the record booth. The already mentioned Chapter 5. Atmospheric. My favourite though has to be one of the first pressings I ever bought: Dean Parrish, Determination. Mas
  16. I remember the 1980 Junior Walker appearance. That was in the summer, around June time and it was a great show. I'm sure he wore a gold lame suit. Maybe I ought to edge my bets and just say it was something shiny. Other things I remember about that concert are the already mention "collapse" and "revival" routine and his little catch phrase he did before every sax solo; something like "I think I'll blow for ya'all" or "I'm gonna blow for ya". Towards the end of the set when it looked as if he was about to do the last number which was Roadrunner a lot of people started shouting out for "I Ain't Going Nowhere" which he seemed a little unprepared for. He did it anyway and it sounded pretty good. The other random thing I remember was that as the band were introduced at the end the bass player got a huge cheer, almost as big as JW's.
  17. If this information is already out there or this topics been done to death I apologize in advance. With regard to the short film I mentioned: I tried searching for this in old local paper TV schedules a couple of years ago since I has always bugged me as to what it was called. All I could remember was that it had a strange title. I didn't get anywhere but since reading here it was on Omnibus I found it and it all came flooding back: "Disco Delights, Or What A Way To End It All" by David Richardson. The main film shown was "The People's Park" a documentary about Central Park ,New York and this would probably be the title for anyone searching for it. A good starting point for anyone trying to track down the Footsee clip would be the "found" TOTP footage of Queen performing Now I'm Here. This was one of the big finds last year of missing TOTP clips previously wiped, along with Bowie's 1973 "Jean Genie" clip. According to the folks on the missing-episodes forum the Queen footage (on youtube) was obtained from the 30-1-75 show. It was on this show that Footsee was first played - at the end, after the Number One and including the end credits (the other time was 20-2-75 where it was also played at the end and included the credits. More importantly it was confirmed at missing-episodes that the Queen footage was obtained from a private home video recording. This raises the slight prospect at least that the whole show may have been taped. Mas
  18. Speaking of the WC Friday Oldies night, I can remember a LP being used ot open proceedings on a least a couple of occasions: "Motown Memories 16 Non-stop Hits" (the one where the tracks run into the next with no break) - Side 2 which starts with Festival Time. I can recall it getting at least as far as Back Street which is the fifth track.
  19. Hi, The sequence with the topless (male) dancers was from a short film shown on the BBC. I didn't realise it was on Omnibus but I saw it when it went out in the summer of '78. The film was about "dance culture" in the north of England and was a pretty flimsy affair. It focused on three genres: Heavy rock/metal, "Roxy" and Northern Soul. The whole thing couldn't have been more than ten minutes long. Each segment was short, just the length of the song they were dancing to. There was no dialogue that I recall. It just went from one segment to the next. The heavy rock section featured a dance hall full of greasers dancing in an elaborate "spread" manner. The "Roxy" section (Bowie/Roxy Music, etc) featured a club in Manchester I think. The Northern guys were dancing to Afternoon of The Rhino. Whether they were actually dancing to this or it was overlaid I don't know but this was definitely the music and they did appear to be in synch. As I recall (I was in the 6th form at the time) there was a brief review in the paper the next day, Guardian or Times probably, where the director/maker was accused of going "astray" on some parts. I think this was on the Roxy segment which may have appeared too avant garde or unrepresentative for the reviewer. I remember that the Northern Soul segment received more favourable comments. I'm pretty sure that the intro music to the film ( as a whole, not just the Northern section) was Interplay. I'm not sure about this but I think that the clip of film which features in some youtube films of the girl dancing in the Casino (spinning /long skirt/white socks/polyveldts) may have been in the Interplay intro. She looks like the same girl dancing to Rhino

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