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My thoughts exactly. Surely most Pop music of the sixties was infact copies & rip offs of Black music, just look at Bill Haley, Elvis, Rolling Stones, Beatles & many more. Frank are we really bothered who "Wombat" is/was or why he had a silly name? I just wanted to dance to it cos it was a shit hot dancer & still is but I doubt if I could manage the full record now. Simon, I'm with you on the "Crow", it never really did it for me either, I just think it was a tune of the era, right place,right time,right drugs!!!! By the way mate we're at Skeggy this weekend so won't see you but you have a good one. So in answer to your original question Dave, it came from the Black artists & writers, Yes I know thats NOT what you meant. Take care & be safe & just "Keep on dancing", Spot. ps.LOVE, High Voltage, Babe Ruth & Frankie Valli's "I'm gonna change" is better than Velours, IMO.

For me it has to be; Dave Godin for spreading the word & giving us our own identity. Ian Levine (The early years) for finding & playing to us numerous tunes that put the scene on the map. John Anderson for carrying on, up to this day, the work Levine started with vinyl. Mary Chapman for igniting the East Coast Northern scene. And singers has to be Edwin Starr & J.J.Barnes for me. We all have our favourites & silver coated memories, Spot.

Simon, See the avatar's not changed but like you said to me at Middleton it makes people stop you to ask if it's you, so you meet new people all the time, also it frightens old ladies & keeps kids away from open fires . Sorry gone off at a tangent as usual, get your mate to play you the flip of "Penguin Breakdown" that just as good & the main reason I rang, t'was the "Mood Mosiac's" that I remember being played & seem to remember it played at Cleethorpes a lot, no doubt it will have originated from another venue but thats what I remember from early/mid 70's, which is quite good cos I can't remember much more from that decade .Remember "Sounds Orchestra" version on Pye Int being issued but both other versions we're just copies IMVHO. See you out & about but not Earl till next year, take care & be safe, Spot. ps. Gail (wife) says thanks for the compliment (attractive lady stopped me on stairs & asked was I Imberboy?) in your last Earl of Donny comment.

Wot a tune, as everyone who knows me knows, this 45 IMVHO is the best dance discovery in the last 10 years, better than Joseph Webster, Margaret Little etc & they are superb. This is the only record, since I returned to the scene, that upon my very first hearing it played had me running to the dancefloor to really give it some & made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end & still has this effect now. I had the privelege of Mick H letting me have a good look over his copy & he then offered to play it for me & that was in the beergarden of a pub in Nottingham on a boozy Bank Holiday Sunday afternoon when the decks where perched on a garage base under a bit of poly tunnel, needless to say I declined as should an accident have happened I'd never have forgiven myself & I'm sure Mick wouldn't either. To me it's just the dogs bollox's & more, so whoever gets this 5th (?) copy please ensure you Dj at all the venues I attend, don't think I'll ever get tired of hearing it, must say JM's sound bit doesn't do it justice & I was suprised how good the flip was. Ok I've finished drooling, Spot. ps. Mp3 would be lovely.

Chalky I think you've picked this up from another thread where people are asking, why £15 for saturday, coveniently forgetting that this includes all sessions during the day & night.Well I for one would willingly pay it (And I'm on a set pension income) but have taken the option of buying a weekend ticket for my gang,even though we most likely won't make all fridays sessions or sundays, 'em wonder if I can get a refund of £2 or so for sessions I miss??? We really shouldn't be debating this, if people are unhappy with the door price then don't bother coming but when theres nowhere to go because promotors can't afford to put venues on, or can't be bothered to listen to people bleating on about some crap, then they'll have no one to blame or moan at but themself's. Here endeth the lesson, Spot. ps. See you all at Skeggy.

Frank, I've just read you question at the start of the thread, I know cd's weren't around in the early 70's but I can just imagine your retort should anyone have got behind the decks and said, "Ian, I'm gonna play this tape cos I think I'm damaging my vinyl playing it out". Now picture yourself !!!!! Just a thought, Spot.

I've tried to subscribe on more than one occasion, ringing numerous times & leaving messages as requested but never once received a call back, finally given up & just buy as & when I can at venues, however if anyone has a reliable supplier who I can use let me know with a pm, cheers. Such a good mag but such poor customer service, Spot.

Here's my two'penneth worth then . If you went to Cleethorpes Pier & Wintergardens you found that unknowingly your ears became atuned to a slightly more edgy, funky beat because they were some of the tunes of the moment, like Rimshots, Skullsnaps, Crow & Lou Pride which we're massive & still excellent now. I get a little confused when people say that Joseph Webster, Ellipsis, Mixed Feelings etc are Funk, because that same as saying everything after 31st December 1969 is Modern!! Funk to me (IMHO) is stuff like Bootsy Collins, Funkadelic, Parliaments.As long as the beats nice & danceable & it fills the floor does it really matter. Another observation whilst I'm spouting off, I don't like (most) R&B or Modern two step but will sit it out or chat & have a drink while those who do enjoy it do their stuff but at 95% of supposed "Across the Board" venues (don't exsist, it's a fallacy,alway biase.) the Oldies only crew become very vocal calling for "60's" & when not geting their way leaving in childish strop's with bottom lips dragging on the floor, I experienced this at a Cleethorpes Alldayer & a local venue & even heard from a very reliable source that this type of merry band even managed to stop Soul Sam playing saturday night at Blackpool & I was there when some bright spark last year asked Butch,"When are you gonna play some Northern??" as he spun Little Major Williams!!!!! I knew there was a reason we didn't go. Sorry about that, no real point to it but made me feel a lot better. Take care & be safe, Spot.

Dave, Yeh Tolbert is cheap, my m8 picked one up @ auction for $55!!!! Spot.

I remember the one on the right but the left one, eh,eh, no, sorry. Spot.

Apparently at the last Corner Pocket Soul night there was a bit of a "To do" just before it ended, which I've been reliably informed (eye witness) included; bleeding noses, persons flat out on floor, ladies engaged in right hook throwing & large amounts of loud verbals etc, followed by apologies all round for spoiling peoples evening, now you wouldn't get that bit in a night club or a boozer, would you. But to be fair it's very very rare & usually nipped in the bud as soon as it happens. So remember Sir Elton was wrong cos "Saturday nights allright for dancing" not fighting. Take care & be safe but remember bob & weave my son, Spot.

Seen a look a like boot for £40, think it was on Pat Brady's but could be wrong, also remember seeing it go for £70 some where recently but my memory fails me. Spot.

What a great dancer, have heard it played out odd times & when my neice, who's 10, is in the car I must play the first minute of it a dozen times, as she loves it, specially the "Dudu,dudu,du dudu" & "Chi,chim----panzees" bits, thinks it hilarious. Spot.

Tony can't argue with you on that one but can think of a few extras I'd have liked to leave inside whilst they were demolishing it. Nikki Nakki Nukki, Spot. p.s. Whats the backing track from on "Such Misery", I know it & it's driving me made.

Kev, First you upset J.T. after your kid did, now you've upset a further 80% of the scene!!! I knew there was a reason me & Gail liked you so much!! Be careful,it's a jungle out there, Spot. p.s. Rob & Karen have our support & we don't need to know what happened, they're just good people.

Sorry folks but IMVHO the best thing P.J. ever did was split his trousers whilst performing & what a bag of Sh**e "People that's why" is compared to the Idle Few's version, sounds like Vic Reeve's pub singer & "Nikki Hoekky", well words fail me, 1500 at Torch can't be wrong, soz they can & all must have been totally off their heads. Just my opinion & remember, theres a place for dross,somewhere a place for dross, Spot.

Bazza my old friend are you sure it the tune or the fact the bloody things about 7 minutes long & you could do yourself permanent damage dancing to the whole tune?? Tunes that do my head in are: Gloria Jones-Tainted Love, adored it when I first heard it but now everytime I hear the intro all I can envisage is that to**er Marc Almond of Soft Cell singing. Don Thomas-Come on train, absolute anthem at every venue in the 70's but you can get to much of a good thing & I'm afraid with this I have. Brothers-Are you ready for this, played out as much as Checkerboard Sq's-Double cookin but not as good a dancer, makes me head for the smoking zone & I don't smoke. Loads more I'm sure, just can't remember at present but I'm sure we'll be revisiting this subject numerous times. Take care & be safe, Spot. p.s. Bazza you at Empress saturday?? How was the cd's??

Time for a comment me thinks, no I haven't already that was my wife Gail using my name in vein, although I did agree. Firstly on other folks comments, I agree fully with Chalky & J.T. the young up & coming need our support & encouragement. It's not a harsher world (more child murders in 50's & 60's than now) it's just that we are better informed & much more media aware. I agree with most of what Deb says, I don't agree with kids at nighters really (bit hypocritical really as we did it!) but I love to see them at alldayers enjoying themself's & take my niece (11) to Drax Alldayer on New Years day every year & she leaves at 9pm & at Johnny Redpants Charity dayer there were kids there having a ball & behaving, having said that we must remember that there are predators out there & be careful. Sorry but I don't agree with Barry, the scene to my mind is basically the same, the punters are just a lot more weathered & Why can't the passion be in the hearts of the younger generation, I fell in love with the genre at 14 & had the passion, remember it's not & never was our generations God given right to keep this music for ourself's only. Someone mentioned Laws & Rules, well they have been bent & broken since time immemorial & I'm sure this will carry on long after we are gone. I remember my wife Gail & her best friend sneaking into the Highland Rooms at Blackpool Mecca after thumbing it from Goole & they were the grand age of 14 at the time. It makes me wonder are we falling into our parents generation trap of, "Do what I say & not what I do". Are we more concerned because we remember what we were doing or not doing & how responsible little adults we were at that age, people worry about drugs but the scene was awash with them in the 70's & no doubt we all lost friends to them but these are our fears not the youths. So Pete, Alex, Rosie, Kelly & any other young enthusiasts keep on doing what your doing & don't listen to us Grumpy old farts, we're just jealous of your youth really cos ours has gone, long ago, by the way I'm sick of hearing about teens & youths (3 pages here) it's starting to make me feel even more ancient than I am already, so please desist, thank you. Take care & be safe, Spot.