When You First Started Going All-Nighters

[Guest]

I'll go for...Goodbye Nothing To Say-Nosmo King And The Javells.......Cochise-Paul Humphrey......The Zoo-The Comodores

AND FOR YOU,PREY TELL

Edited September 16, 2010 by webbydublin

[Guest]

Jackie Lee - Darkest Days

Jerry Butler - Moody Woman

Contours - Misunderstanding

Billy Preston - Billy's Bag

Robert Parker - Barefootin'

Good job my (then) mutton chops hid the plukes of puberty and can't remember many others due to........................u decide

[Guest]

I'll go fo...Goodbye Nothing To Say-Nosmo King And The Javells.......Cochise-Paul Humphrey......The Zoo-The Comodores

AND FOR YOU,PREY TELL

When I first started " going " , we travelled in horse drawn carriages , and the sounds were on wax cylinders

Malc

[Paul R]

Landslide, Can it Be Me, If That's What You Wanted, Laws Of Love.

Awsome IMHO.

Paul

[Simsy]

Tony Galla - In Love

Freddie Chavez - They'll never know why

Moses Smith - Girl across the street

Jerry Williams - If you ask me

Magnificent Men - All your lovin's gone to my head

Freddie Houston - Soft Walking

[Guest in town Mikey]

The ones that stand out were

Beverley Ann - He's Coming Home

Bernie Williams - Ever Again

Adams Apples - Dont Take It Out On This World

[Guest JIM BARRY]

1973.....REX GARVIN.......QUEEN OF THE GOGO

INVITATIONS....SKIING IN THE SNOW

LENIS GUESS....JUSTASK ME

[Sheldonsoul]

lou ragland i travel alone

bernie williams ever again

shane martin i need you

joey heatherton when you call me baby

andre brassuer the kid(shite) good for clapping to though

all on my first visit to wc

[Simsy]

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Edited September 15, 2010 by Simsy

[Guest Bogue]

Just nighters...not soul nights? That becomes a bit of a hard one because my first would have been the casino on a Saturday night about 12/18months before it shut....& to be honest most of the stuff played would have been unknown to me then.

My vague memories were of it being modern dominated....but I know it has been noted since that a few of the later Stafford plays would have surfaced around that time. I can remember enjoying Garry Rushbrooke in particular...so perhaps there might have been some in his stuff?

3 records that stand out to me for the simple reason I remember them being played by more than one dj on the night...though i'm sure people could argue there may have been bigger records are :-

1. Majestics - (I Love Her So Much) It Hurts Me

2. Omni - Keys To The City (remember that getting really hammered & I hated it!)

3. Skip Mahoaney - Janice

[Guest Robbo]

for me....Tears Lee Roye, Lillie Bryant Meet me Halfway, Gone with the Wind Rita & Tiaras...to name only three Sue

[Reg]

Okay, talking circa 1985/6 off the top of my head.... 3 tracks only?

Lee Otis Valentine (The Hytones) I love you just the same

Soul Bros Incorporated - The pyramid

How does it feel - Harvey Mason

[Mick Howard]

Tony Galla - In Love

Freddie Chavez - They'll never know why

Moses Smith - Girl across the street

Jerry Williams - If you ask me

Magnificent Men - All your lovin's gone to my head

Freddie Houston - Soft Walking

Simsy

Surely some mistake here.

Tony Galla and Freddie Houston were played circa mid-80's whilst the others had been around quite some time by then - Jerry Williams was massive when I was a lad (so I'm told) and Freddie Chavez was already big when I started going in 76...

Anyway for me, although its hard to transport myself back....

Interplay - Derek & Ray

Ever Again - Bernie Williams

Pick Me Up & Put Me In Your Pocket - Jeanette Harper

Mick

[Mick Howard]

Think the above three will be.......................................................................er.....77?

Could be Webby - started going Summer 76 (Peterborough & St Ives) & so it probably took me a while to understand what was 'new' big and 'old' big.

Freddie Chavez definitely 'old' big when I started going...

Mick

[Dazdakin]

1980

Skip Mahoney - Janice

Mike Vicars - On The Brink

Sister Sledge - Love Dont Go Through No Changes On Me

[Mick Howard]

1980

Mike Vicars - On The Brink

Daz

Was this played that early & by whom?

Mick

[21 Again]

Later years of Wigan.

Ike Strong. Your love keeps me dancing.

Bobby Thurston. Just ask me.

Mike Jemison. Youll never get my love.

Larry Houston. Lets spend sometime together.

Goin to the casino in its last years these blew me away (some punters didnt like the modern stuff) still loved the sixties

but this was something different. .

[Guest martyn]

Betty Baker - Marching Out Of Your Life

Alpaca Phase III - I Like To Party

Barnaby Bye - Can't Live This Way

Lloyd Mitchels-Life Is A Song Worth Singing

Biyo - EW&F

The Gig - Raw Soul

Rain - Outa My Mind

All played at my first nighter ................Makes you wonder why I stuck aroung really

[Guest Polyvelts]

Just nighters...not soul nights? That becomes a bit of a hard one because my first would have been the casino on a Saturday night about 12/18months before it shut....& to be honest most of the stuff played would have been unknown to me then.

My vague memories were of it being modern dominated....but I know it has been noted since that a few of the later Stafford plays would have surfaced around that time. I can remember enjoying Garry Rushbrooke in particular...so perhaps there might have been some in his stuff?

3 records that stand out to me for the simple reason I remember them being played by more than one dj on the night...though i'm sure people could argue there may have been bigger records are :-

1. Majestics - (I Love Her So Much) It Hurts Me

2. Omni - Keys To The City (remember that getting really hammered & I hated it!)

3. Skip Mahoaney - Janice

I'm a bit freaked out cos I would have omni and janice but maybe George Benson 'On Broadway' we must have got into Northern the same week !!! (first went to Wigan early 1980) Living In Brum, Omni was huge at the Locarno alldayers, and got to admit I did love it and bought the pressing with velvet hammer on the flip !!!

[Guest martyn]

Daz

Was this played that early & by whom?

Mick

Covered up late Wigan 80/81 if I remember right Can't remember who by or the cover name though

[Guest martyn]

Never mind these trendy abbreveations...Sure it was Out Of Mind -Rain (Featuring Charity Brown.....think she was Canadian)

Quite possibly Canadian , almost certainly rolling her own while wearing a flowery frock with open toe sandles & socks

[grantdyche]

Long time ago not sure if I heard these on my first visit to The Casino,But they just come to mind really vividly,

Were they massive tunes or just ones that I liked ??

Frankie Beverly --- If That's What You Wanted

Garnet Mimms --- Looking For You

Dena Barnes --- If You Ever Walk Out Of My Life (also really liked "These Heartaches")

The Salvadors --- Stick By Me Baby

The one sound that get's me thinking about it now is The Superlatives --- "I Still Love You", Far too fast to dance to nowadays(Except in the kitchen),But back in the day !!

Grant

[grantdyche]

if you're year was 76 then they were all a couple of years old but massive at the time and Evision played Superlatives every week

Yes it was 76,The records I chose were what I remember about my first trip to Station Rd,

What would have been the Big / New tunes In August / September 1976 ???

Anyone !!

Grant

[grantdyche]

Kin ell mate you've got me on 'Super-Reminder Mode'.........Defo Vicky Sue Robinson.......O'Jays l think........possibly James Fountain.....24 hrs a day Barbara Penington...although possibly a couple of months later....Domesday -ET? Dancing on the edge of adream-LJ Pennington....Heading Down Fools Road-Carol Woods.....He is So lrreplaceable-Doris Jones.......Could be right or could be wrong but l think all 76,mate!

Was Vicky Sue not 77,(Just googlied it and it was 76)

Doris Jones and Barbara Pennington remember hearing them,Never heard "Doomsday" at Wigan myself tho,

A few Mr Levine tunes in that box of yours Phil,

Was Doris released in the u k on the Nemo label or was it Nero ??,

I really thought a few of these were not as old as they are,

Bugger and bollo* it's the brain that goes first or so they say

Grant

Edited September 16, 2010 by grantdyche

[Guest Bogue]

I'm a bit freaked out cos I would have omni and janice but maybe George Benson 'On Broadway' we must have got into Northern the same week !!! (first went to Wigan early 1980) Living In Brum, Omni was huge at the Locarno alldayers, and got to admit I did love it and bought the pressing with velvet hammer on the flip !!!

George Benson 'On Broadway' was up there too...that even crossed over into the mainstream clubs at the time too if I remember?...certainly did round here anyhow Oh god yes...& of course Velvet Hammer...that was around the same time too wasn't it so that would probably have been up there aswell.

I can also remember venturing into M's & George Benson's 'Supership' was having a bit of a revival in there!....James Brown's 'Night Train' was too!

Yeah...I can remember Omni being really massive...but not seen it mentioned much on here or in many lists ...remember going to Notts Palais a few weeks later & it must have been on 4 or 5 times during the day....packing the floor every time!

Apart from a few tunes like Gloria Jones, Al Wilson, Dobbie Gray & the like around 75/76....My really getting into Northern itself would have been probably more in line with Mick Howard's above list though...78/79ish at the Grandstand in Worcester ...although I would probably substitute Bernie Williams for something like Sue Lynn, Bobby Diamond, Shane Martin or the Poppies...as Bernie would have been too rare.

But I didn't venture to a nighter untill that night, which I reckon you would be right in saying around 1980

Ah the memories

Edited September 16, 2010 by Bogue

[Simsy]

Simsy

Surely some mistake here.

Tony Galla and Freddie Houston were played circa mid-80's whilst the others had been around quite some time by then - Jerry Williams was massive when I was a lad (so I'm told) and Freddie Chavez was already big when I started going in 76...

Mick

Yeah you're right Mick, though no mistake.. They were still playing established stuff as well when I started going in the early 80's..

[Guest jerrio]

Yes it was 76,The records I chose were what I remember about my first trip to Station Rd,

What would have been the Big / New tunes In August / September 1976 ???

Anyone !!

Grant

MILTON WRIGHT. I BELONG TO YOU

FLORENCE DEVORE. KISS ME NOW DONT KISS ME LATER.

LINDA AND THE FUNKY BOYS. CLIMBING THE STEPS OF LOVE

BOBY DIAMOND. STOP.

[Guest martyn]

Yes it was 76,The records I chose were what I remember about my first trip to Station Rd,

What would have been the Big / New tunes In August / September 1976 ???

Anyone !!

Grant

I first heard Bird Walking around that time , covered up as 'Love Fantasy - The Chequer Board Squares , also Joey Dee -How Can I Forget covered as 'Strut In Time' .Plenty of funky stuff too , Willie J & Co springs to mind along with Luv - Crazy Changes

[Mick Howard]

Covered up late Wigan 80/81 if I remember right Can't remember who by or the cover name though

I do remember that Mike Vickers was played by Guy at Stafford as The Boogaloo Investigator but didn't know that it had been around that long.

Mind you, there were records played throughout the years which perhaps didn't take off initially but did following re-activation some years later - maybe On The Brink was one those - almost perfect for the rise of 'new' 60's at Stafford even though it 'aint Soul....

Mick

[grantdyche]

MILTON WRIGHT. I BELONG TO YOU

FLORENCE DEVORE. KISS ME NOW DONT KISS ME LATER.

LINDA AND THE FUNKY BOYS. CLIMBING THE STEPS OF LOVE

BOBY DIAMOND. STOP.

I would have thought hat Milton Wright was a bit earlier than 76,I prefered "The Gallop" to the vocal version tho,

I could not stand "Linda & The Funky Boys" at the time,But I came across it on you tube a few weeks ago and really like it now

Florence Devore I had completely forgot about that,Just youtubed,Stil sounds good,

Remember watching the really good dancers timing their spins to Stop right in the break on the Bobby Diamond track

[The Animal]

Gil Scott Heron - "The Bottle"

Ellusions - "You didn't have to leave"

Mac Simmons - "Turning Point"

Tony Middleton - "Paris Blues"

Pierre Hunt -"I've got to have your love"

Lenny Welch - "Hundred pounds of pain"

Sorry more than three but dementia could keep me thinking things I thought I'd heard from the past going all night.

Now where's the Casino again?

Is it really still there?

[The Animal]

76-77ISH,MATE?

Spot on. St Ives and Wigan.

[Koolkat]

connie clark..........ann perry.........afternoon on the rhino...........nevertheless........ritchie adams....Casino. 73/74 .17yrs old and skinny as fook.

Edited September 19, 2010 by Koolkat

[Souljer6]

OK, my first "proper" allnighter. Its a quiz so who can tell me the venue and the year? Pretty sure the following were played:

Major Lance-- Investigate

Jackie Lee-- Darkest Days & Oh my darlin

Sam Nesbit-- BMG

Sonny Stitt-- Wade in the water

Various Ric Tics

Poets-- Ive got 2 hearts

Parliaments-- Dont be sore at me

Williams& Watson-- Quitter

maybe Joy Lovejoy

Anyone?

[Souljer6]

NO! VaVas was '73 wasnt it? And Mr Proudlove told me you were an expert!

[Souljer6]

Thanks for the pressure,Steve......The Torch?  ' />

Nearly! IT WAS 1971---Boxing Night at Up The Junction. Whether it was played or not Ive been in northern soul orbit ever since.

Oh! and another..........Im Standing........That was a relatively late Stateside discovery, I seem to recall

[Souljer6]

Up The Junction at Crewe was my next guess.......honest ' />

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[Guest roggert]

top tunes when i started were all the tracks on That driving beat L.P willie mitchell

slow dance record James an bobby purify - i'm your puppet

beach bash by the bar-kays 65-66era

[soulsalmon]

Covered up late Wigan 80/81 if I remember right Can't remember who by or the cover name though

Guy ,after Wigan,mat parsons-boogaloo investigator c/u ,used on tv as the theme to the thursday night play on bbc 1

Edited September 23, 2010 by soulsalmon

[Guest martyn]

Guy ,after Wigan,mat parsons-boogaloo investigator c/u ,used on tv as the theme to the thursday night play on bbc 1

Sure it was played at Wigan , I only went to Stafford a couple of times so I wouldnt have known it otherwise

[caseoftyme]

Great thread - why have I only just read it this morning ??

Three that got me up on the floor and had quite a few spins were

Sam & Kitty - I Got Something Good

Soul Twins - Quick Change Artist

Ann Perry - That's The Way He Is

but the reality is that there are soooooooo many to choose from from that era that I could also name another 10 20 30 ............ oh just loads

[Guest PaulBrown]

Whatever they used to play @ St. Ives around 1974 (was it open then?? I simply have no reliable memory left!!) Someone help me out....

Brain-Dead

[Guest martyn]

Whatever they used to play @ St. Ives around 1974 (was it open then?? I simply have no reliable memory left!!) Someone help me out....

Brain-Dead

St Ives 75-77 but without any reliable memory you will probably have forgotten you posted this anyway .

[Guest aintgotit]

An Ass and a lute l would have guessed at,mate......Malc the minstrel sitting side- saddle

Playing away at Yvonne Baker......l can just imagine you on the way to the castle....

With the jester and Ladies in Waiting glancing through the turrets for your expected arrival , you're dressed in tights and a Harlequin outfit....................By the way 'What the f**k goes on in my head?'

youve been watchin futurama again.

[Chris L]

The Mecca early 1972, top three were.............................

Free for all - Philip Mitchell

Can't get enough - Johnny Sayles

You don't want me no more - Major Lance

But of course so were these.........................................

You gonna make me love you - Sandi Sheldon

Purple haze - Johnny Jones

I'm standing - Rufus Lumley

He who icks a rose - Carstairs

etc etc etc

[macca]

Johnny Bragg- There Talkin' About Me

Barnaby Bye - Can't Live This Way

Rodger Collins - You Sexy Sugarplum

Esther Phillips - What A Difference A Day Makes

Betty Wright - Where's The Love?

Paul Humphrey - Cochise

Wombat - Gettin' On Life

Don Thomas - Come On Train

Towanda Barnes - You Don't Mean It

Keanya & Barnabus Collins - Love Bandit.

Not saying I liked them all, but they certainly seemed to be the ones getting the most floor response at those first few all-nighters I attended aged 14.8 years.

Edited November 4, 2010 by macca

[macca]

Yes sir! Peterborough, St.Ives, Cleggy and Wigan, with all dayers at places like the Central Hall Kettering thrown in for good measure.

[Upthejunction]

Johnny Bragg- There Talkin' About Me

Barnaby Bye - Can't Live This Way

Rodger Collins - You Sexy Sugarplum

Esther Phillips - What A Difference A Day Makes

Betty Wright - Where's The Love?

Paul Humphrey - Cochise

Wombat - Gettin' On Life

Don Thomas - Come On Train

Towanda Barnes - You Don't Mean It

Keanya & Barnabus Collins - Love Bandit.

Not saying I liked them all, but they certainly seemed to be the ones getting the most floor response at those first few all-nighters I attended aged 14.8 years.

Just outside Bedford at Bletsoe (which also doubled as a farmers pig shed !!) (circa 70/71)

We were listening to the likes of :

Johnny Wyatt - This Thing Called Love

Alexander Patten - A Lil lovin' Sometime

Little Richard - I Don't Want to Discuss It

Manic Northern Dancers and I still love em 40 years later

ATB Steve

[Guest]

Pre allnighters and were talking 1967

Soul Time and She blew a good thing,...... played by Dingle at the Riverside(?) in Bedford,

Major allnighter sounds as played by Gibby at The George, Wilby, and then the Earls Barton Allnighter were

You've been cheating - Impressions

Monkey Time - Major Lance

Let the good times roll - Bunny Sigler

Edited November 8, 2010 by DanDare

[Guest ang b]

one of my first fav tunes i ever listen to was

Didi noel- let the music play

Judy street-what

Esther phillips-what a difference a day makes

Dana valery-you dont know where youre intrest lies

Garnet mimms-looking for you