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100 Club, December 1984

Tommy Navarro - I Cried My Life Away

Sam Fletcher - I'd Think It Over

Melba Moore - The Magic Touch

First 'nighter I ever went to, and the first night "Magic Touch" ever got played. Ady had just got back from a US visit and there was a massive buzz about the unissued Scepter/Wand stuff he'd got. Top of the pile was "Magic Touch", but Maxine Brown's "Torture" was in there as well, plus a ton of other great bits. Fantastic night, and I had the bug good and proper after that.

Nick

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my first allniter was held in a farm barn in the village of BLETSOE (bedfordshire) Haydons farm.(1972)

it started at midnite satnite/sunmorn, and finished at 6am.

the top three sounds that l remember were. . .

. . Patti Austin "MUSIC TO MY HEART"

Detroit Road Runners "SWINGING CAMELS"

Dobie Gray "OUT ON THE FLOOR"

As you approached the entrance, there was a sign hung over the barbed wire fence saying "DISCO CLUB"

in white emulsion paint that hadn't dried properly, making it impossible to read.

but despite having a petrol generator, 50 gallon petrol drums and a very leaky roof, it had the best wooden

dancefloor of all time.

Tony Warot

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my first allniter was held in a farm barn in the village of BLETSOE (bedfordshire) Haydons farm.(1972)

it started at midnite satnite/sunmorn, and finished at 6am.

the top three sounds that l remember were. . .

. . Patti Austin "MUSIC TO MY HEART"

Detroit Road Runners "SWINGING CAMELS"

Dobie Gray "OUT ON THE FLOOR"

As you approached the entrance, there was a sign hung over the barbed wire fence saying "DISCO CLUB"

in white emulsion paint that hadn't dried properly, making it impossible to read.

but despite having a petrol generator, 50 gallon petrol drums and a very leaky roof, it had the best wooden

dancefloor of all time.

Tony Warot

:hatsoff2::thumbsup:

how are yow ole buggar

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hi there mr donnelley,

l thought you mite be reading the bletsoe bit as you were there also, l can't remember there being any toilets

there, not that it mattered, cos just as always, a dark corner outside usually did the trick, even the girls did the same

AND IN PAIRS!! some things never change

Tony Warot.

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hiya dave, yeh well you weren't hallucinating, it really is me. whenever people mention YATE

dj's they don't remember that l also used to dj there but not when barry thomas (dinks) ran it

but never mind, l haven't done too badly in 40 years

tone.

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My first nighter would have been Unity Hall,Wakefield........late 76 maybe early 77 (Malc will know)

Sounds that remind me of that time that haven't been meantioned yet.........

Fabulettes-The Bigger They Are

Eddie Regan-Playing Hide & Seek

Jeanette White-Music

Not sure if they'd been played before at other venues but they are tunes that remind me of those early nighters at The Unity.

Cheers

Martyn

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Ones that stick very clearly in my mind from my first few niters were:

Tammy St John - Nobody Knows What's Going On In My Mind But Me

Phil Coulter - Good Thing Going

Kiki Dee - Magic Carpet Ride (c/u as Chris Clark 'Touch The Sky' I think)

Billy Arnell - Tough Girl

Beverly Ann - He's Coming Home

Isley Brothers - Why When Love is Gone

Baja Marimba Band - Along Comes Mary

Not a great deal of actual soul in there, I know............ :unsure: but that's how it was I guess. :yes:

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Soul or not, Phil coulter still sounds great, very loud, in a big room!

Tough Girl was one of my all time favourites from Wigan - even if it always reminds me of the theme to "Marine Boy" for some quite obscure reason! :yes:

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