Liamgp

Finally found it...how about this for worst ever cover?

I know...I only noticed what you had written after hitting the 'add reply' button. Doh!

Surely you mean 'original East Coast issue'?? Speculation leads me to suspect that Gordy wanted it to get a bigger impact on the East Coast but maybe felt it would do better if he leased it to the more white-pop orientated Laurie Records...mmmm?

This cover is a legend in inept design concepts...

I met a BBC researcher once, who, although a very nice young lady, had no clue about anything beyond what she had read in Heat magazine (who I was doing some freelance work at the time - to my shame...). I started talking about James Brown's TAMI show performance to someone and she immediately came over and said: "He's the guy that edits Loaded magazine isn't he - has he become a singer now?"

They are a great bunch!...

So can we include songs with the word 'Tender' in the title too?

Got one now. Thanks folks!

Anyone got a good copy of Lula Reed 'Walk on by Me' on Tangerine? I can afford to pay up to £50.00 (credit crunch!!)

Suspect it will disappear from the decks...whatever your views of the record, it was always heartening to see it spinnin' around on the occasions I saw Kenny play it - that's what it's made for!

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Pat Brady used to dedicate it to the mods at Wigan whenever he played it...

A travelling event might be more desirable if difficult to do in practice I imagine. Each month in a different venue in a different part of the UK and Ireland. Top DJs and local DJs appearing etc. Maybe like a lot of people I'm limited to going anywhere really due to work commitments on most weekends and all the usual adult responsibilities so once a week? No.

It's because we 'invented' soul music! https://www.willieruff.com/linesinging.html

Can we include Ska/Reggae stuff here or will that be going too far for public taste and decency?

I accept your arguments, but I only mentioned Bernard Cribbins as a tongue-in-cheek example of how playlisting even great and important - yet essentially novelty - tracks like '16 Tons' can lead to accusations of veering towards parody no matter what the quality of the actual record is.

'16 Tons' is a record that people like John Peel and Jeff Dexter have pinpointed as their first experience of 'Rock ands Roll' before the whole Elvis thing took off. Its impact is also discussed in depth in Pete Frame's 'Restless Generation' book about British rock music in the 50s. It is historically important and a bloody good pop/country record - but it's never an R'n'B sound in a million years despite what the dancefloor might think - you might as well play 'Hole in the Ground' by Bernard Cribbins; another searing critique of the harsh life of the working man...

Don Pierce: 'Chicago to LA'/If You Should Need me. AT713

How did John Anderson get to be so influential? How did start off getting hold of so much stock? I used to get some stuff off him in the mid-80s but only knew about 10% of what he listed so half the time it was 'close your eyes, choose a record at random and hope for the best!'

Watch this one go after a hard day shooting dinosaurs and grave-robbing... ">

Does anyone know of a discography for this LA label? Have googled it but all I can find is a modern-day London record company or the occasional mention in other articles.

I see that Mods get a good bashing in both articles, Keb describing them (me included I guess) as 'sheep'. Maybe not the wisest term for a guy from Elgin to use ! Seriously, though what would Northern have been in the 80s without the younger mod kids? We didn't all like Secret Affair you know!

Lorraine Chandler at Stafford...wasn't too sure about her back-up singers though!

You have to mention the great Allan Toussaint (AKA Naomi Neville) along with the others.

And it sold for $1667.00!! About £1055. Talk about 'in demand' that is a ridiculous price..