Have noticed on a few threads recently free CD's getting a bit of discussion.

My question is, what is your favourite free CD from an event, rather than just one from a CD swap?

You can include tapes, before CD's were the norm.

Was is for the tracklisting? Was it because of who compiled it? Or was it because it brings back special memories of the night every time you play it??

My personal faves are the Greatstone give-aways. Always plenty of stuff on there that go on the wants list. I would also include John & Ali Nightingales, but they aren't from a venue!!

Here's our CD from the forthcoming Soulsville 2nd Anniversary All-Dayer on the 29th Oct. You're welcome to give your opinion on it, Good or Bad, yeah and Pete-S too

2. Lilly Fields I’ve Got To Tell You Holton

2. Monorays Love 20th Century

3. Four Shades My World Ronn

4. Two People Stop (Leave My Heart Alone) Revue

5. Nicole Willis If This Aint Love Timmion

6. Summitts I Can’t Get Over Losing you Dontee

7. Willie Wade Come Into My World Nite Life

8. Chryslers with the Monarchs Band I’m Not Gonna Lose You Je Jody

9. Montclairs Hey You, Don’t Fight It Arch

10. Moses Smith Come On And Let Me Love You Cotillion

11. Jimmie Ellis Happy To Be Century City

12. Towana & The Total Destruction Help Me Get That Feelin’ Back Again Romark

13. Joe Bataan So Fine Fania

14. Jon Lucien Search For The Inner Self Ampex

15. Tony Drake Suddenly Brunswick

16. Eddie Kendricks Date With The Rain Tamla

17. JJ Caillier Pusherman Jay Cee

18. Brothers Of Love You Changed Me Blue Rock

19. Ascots Just A Few Feet From The Gutter American Playboy

20. Notations I Can’t Stop Twinight

21. TSU Toronados Please Heart Don’t Break Rampart Street

22. Brothers Of Love Check My Love Blue Rock

23. Sebastian Williams Get Your Point Over Ovide

24. Tony Fox Love, Let Love And Be Loved Blaster LP

25. Masterpiece Love Affair YPSI

26. Odyssey Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love Mowest

27. Buck It’s Going To Be Alright Playboy

Jamie

Edited October 18, 200519 yr by Jamie

good topic!

i still adore the last cd i got from Greatstone Paul....however I still dont have the tracklisting (you got one Jamie?)

The last Ponds Forge cd was very good too

I know this may be an obvious thing to say but ideally my fave cd would have lots of things I aint heard before

Technology makes it very cheap and easy nowadays to offer free cd's.

Promoters please note......Punters like me love 'em!!

Shane

Shane

Me i`m not bothered really,but dont knock em when i get em!!,just give em away to girly`s....

The four volumes given away by These Old Shoes at their Anniversaries, were fabulous compilations of tracks played by guest Djs over the preceeding year plus one or two each from Jo, Martin & PTP. However having made the guestlist in their last year the CD failed to appear. I spent many hours tracking down my favourite tracks from them, but was very disappointed when I found out that Buddy Smith and Robert Tanner were so expensive. Received the last one I've tracked down last week - Breaking point - Deena Johnson on Wild Deuce. Still play them all even now.

  kenneth aitchison said:

Me i`m not bothered really,but dont knock em when i get em!!,just give em away to girly`s....

Stick em on ebay Kenny, i see someone put one of the last Dome freebies on there & it made £19.01!! Would have been cheaper to come to the do, & spend the remaining £14.01 on booze.

  pottsy said:

Stick em on ebay Kenny, i see someone put one of the last Dome freebies on there & it made £19.01!! Would have been cheaper to come to the do, & spend the remaining £14.01 on booze.

Girly`s every time,besides selling them wouldnt do me consiece no good ,though Ben me mechanic & freind as had a few.....

have had an old scenesville tape as background to adventures on non-stop over last few weeks

On saturday 16th June 2001 the Neighbourhood Soul Club All-Dayer & Black Music Record Fair, Presented a CD called "bring it home". of all the free tapes and CD's i'v been given i still think this is the best one!

HOT SAUCE -BRING IT HOME

WYNDER K. FROG - I WONDER

LEONARD LEE - WOMAN RULES THE WORLD

GWEN McRAE - IT KEEPS RAINING

FIESTAS - TRY IT ONE MORE TIME

CARTER BROTHERS - I DON'T CARE

WALTER JENKINS - BACK IN YOUR LIFE

LENIS GUESS - YOU CAN'T DESTROY A PURE MAN

JEWEL & THE RUBIES - KIDNAPPER

CADILLACS - JAY WALKER

MAD LADS - DID MY BABY CALL

EDDIE & ERNIE - TURN HERE

FRED WESLEY - BACKSTABBERS

BOBBY BROW - SEVEN LONELY DAYS

TONY ADAMS - THE BLUES DON'T LIKE NOBODY

MARK McIVER - THE TIC OF THE CLOCK

Eddie & Ernie just blows me away every time i here it :-)

Edited October 18, 200519 yr by Phoenix Rising

Paul, you're right. The These Old shoes CDs were excellent. I've also got a Wigan Orwell CD from about 4 years back from Steve Plumb. Most of the tunes were new to me at the time but have since become classics like Nathan Williams, Masterpeice, David Ruffin, Rosie Grier, Lou Ragand, Gems for Gem, Gloria Jay and loads more.

half time orange 1st anniv was a good one

but er i can't find it so can't say what was on it

so a useless post, really

but good topic jamie

  sitc01 said:

Breaking point - Deena Johnson on Wild Deuce.

Probably my fave on the first 2 CDs. I keep meaning to give Paul my address as he said he would send me the 3rd and 4th anni CDs, but I keep forgetting.

My faves are the tapes given away by the Capitol lads, when they were in Shoreditch. Got some great tunes on them. Fave being Shamettes - Dont waste your time.

  in town Mikey said:

Probably my fave on the first 2 CDs. I keep meaning to give Paul my address as he said he would send me the 3rd and 4th anni CDs, but I keep forgetting.

My faves are the tapes given away by the Capitol lads, when they were in Shoreditch. Got some great tunes on them. Fave being Shamettes - Dont waste your time.

tell you what mikey, the abergavenny soul commandos anniv cd is a blinder

  Dan said:

tell you what mikey, the abergavenny soul commandos anniv cd is a blinder

and of course the outstanding hitchin 1st brithday cd (not bad for a bunch of guys with no records)

  andyk123 said:

and of course the outstanding hitchin 1st brithday cd (not bad for a bunch of guys with no records)

can we have a set list?

Shane

Got all the scenesville tapes and Dome tapes & CD's, also all the TOS one's all full of brilliant tunes, esp the scenesville one's, it's a shame that a lot of the sounds from there just arent heard out anymore

  Dan said:

tell you what mikey, the abergavenny soul commandos anniv cd is a blinder

Funny that, cos I have an empty case sitting pretty in my CD rack.

Any possibility you might be at the allnighter in Brum on the 29th? Maybe it can be repatriated?

oh and the half time orange anniversary CD's were brill too

  ShaneH said:

can we have a set list?

Shane

not in the correct order but here goes

1. THE OHIO PLAYERS - LOVE SLIPS THRU MY FINGERS (TRIP)
   
2. CURTIS BLANDON - IN THE LONG RUN (WAND)
   
3. LOUIS CURRY - YOU'RE JUST PLAIN NICE (REEL)
   
4. THE ENTERTAINERS - LOVE IN MY HEART (SYMBOL)
   
5. GODOYE COLBERT - BABY I LIKE IT (COLBERT (REVUE)
   
6. PORGY & THE MONARCHS - THAT'S MY GIRL (SYLVES)
   
7. THE SPIEDELS - DREAM GIRL (PROVIDENCE)
   
8. ROTATIONS - I CAN'T FIND HER (DEBROSSARD)
   
9. KRIS PETERSON - JUST AS MUCH (TOP DOG)
   
10. THE INVERST - LOOK OUT LOVE (TOWER)
    
11. BOB RELF - GIRL, YOU'RE MY KIND OF WONDERFUL (TRANSAMERICAN)
    
12. COOKIE JACKSON - DO YOU STILL LOVE ME (PROGRESS)
    
13. THE PRECISIONA - SUCH MISERY (DREW)
    
14. DAYBREAK - I NEED LOVE (PAP)
    
15. RALPH 'SOUL' JACKSON - SET ME FREE (BLACK KAT)
    
16. BETTY EVERITT - LOVE COMES TUMBLING DOWN (ABC)
    
17. WILLIE HUTCH - CAN'T FIGHT THE POWER (SOUL CITY)
    
18. T.J.WILLIAMS - BABY, I NEED YOU (JOSIE)
    
19. THE STRATOLINERS - WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH MY LOVE (FEDERAL)
    
20. THE CONSTELLATIONS - I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO (GEMINI STAR)
    
21. EMANUEL LASKEY - SWEET LIES (THELMA)
    
22. NORMAN RICKET - PLAYER, PLAY ON (IT)
    
23. JOE SIMON - THE GIRL'S ALRIGHT WITH ME (SOUND STAGE 7)
    
24. LELA MARTIN - YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE (MELATONE)
    
25. JACK MONTGOMERY - BABY BABY TAKE A CHANCE ON ME (REVUE)
    
26. RHONDA DAVIES - CAN YOU REMEMBER (DUKE)
    
27. BARBARA MASON - AIN'T GOT NOBODY (ARCTIC)
    
28. LEE WILLIAMS & THE CYMBALS - GIRL FROM A COUNTRY TOWN (RAPDA)
    
29. LEROY TAYLOR - OH LINDA (BRUNSWICK)
    
30. JIVE (FIVE) FYVE - IF I HAD A CHANCE ON YOU (DECCA)
    
31. PAUL SMITH - AIN'T THAT SOMETHING (JACKLYN)
    

some nice stuff there andy. love the stratoliners

Shane

Indirectly the "Shades of Soul" tapes over the years were free (all monies received going to charity) these were/are brilliant and certainly opened my ears to some brilliant unheard of tracks over the years.

Nick

  ShaneH said:

some nice stuff there andy. love the stratoliners

Shane

same here shane, took me over a year to track the b*stard down and then i paid over the odds for it, but so what, i've got it now!

  Dan said:

half time orange 1st anniv was a good one

but er i can't find it so can't say what was on it

so a useless post, really

but good topic jamie

Thats just the one I would have said !!! Mine is in my car where its been since I got it, I like it so much I only change the other 5 discs, but I can't be bothered to go in car and hunt for the cover to post the track listing

Here's a track list for the Dome alldayer freebie.

THE DOME..SATURDAY,22nd OCTOBER 2005

1.RONNIE McNEIR - ISN'T SHE A PRETTY GIRL - DE.TO

2.THE CONQUISTADORES - SADNESS AND MADNESS - SIGNET

3.THE BUTLERS WITH FRANKIE BEVERLY - BECAUSE OF MY HEART - ROUSER VERSION

4.DON THOMAS - COME ON TRAIN - NUVJ

5.FIA KARIN - YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES - SPIN

6.GENE WOODBURY - THAT'S NOT HALF BAD - DEL VAL

7.THE ADMIRATIONS - I WANT TO BE FREE - PEACHES

8.CARL DOUGLAS - SERVING A SENTENCE OF LIFE - UNITED ARTISTS

9.LYNN VERNADO - SECOND HAND LOVE - YUMIE

10.FRED AND THE TURBINS - BERNADINE - CENCO

11.THE INVERTS - LOOK OUT LOVE - TOWER

12.ERNIE JOHNSON - BIG MAN CRY - STEPH AND LEE

13.THE REGENTS - WHAT'CHA GONNA DO - MAD

14.THE TROPICS - HEY YOU LITTLE GIRL - TOPIC

15.BOBBY "GUITAR" BENNET - YOU DID IT AGAIN - JUNIOR

16.CLIFFORD BINNS - YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME - CARRIE

17.JOHNNIE HOYLE - WHAT ABOUT ME - RAYBO

18.MEL WILLIAMS - BURN, BABY, BURN - STAR

19.BILLY HINES - LING TING TONG - WA-TUSI

20.J.J.JACKSON - TOO MUCH LOVE - C/UP

21.TOBBI BOWE - I CAN FEEL HIM SLIPPING AWAY - PATHEWAY

22.TED WILSON - I CAN'T TAKE NO MORE - SIERRA

23.HONEY AND THE BEES - BE YOURSELF - ACADEMY

24.THE DISTRICTS - ONE LOVER - NILE

25.THE DEVOTIONSV - DO DO DE DOP - NATION

26.PERFECTIONS - I LOVE YOU, MY LOVE - SVR

27.HOLLYWOOD SAXONS - LOVING YOU - ACTION PAC

28.FIR-YA - KEEP ON TRYIN' - STAR-GLOW

Edited October 18, 200519 yr by pottsy

  pottsy said:

Here's a track list for the Dome alldayer freebie.

THE DOME..SATURDAY,22nd OCTOBER 2002

1.RONNIE McNEIR - ISN'T SHE A PRETTY GIRL - DE.TO

2.THE CONQUISTADORES - SADNESS AND MADNESS - SIGNET

3.THE BUTLERS WITH FRANKIE BEVERLY - BECAUSE OF MY HEART - ROUSER VERSION

4.DON THOMAS - COME ON TRAIN - NUVJ

5.FIA KARIN - YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR INTEREST LIES - SPIN

6.GENE WOODBURY - THAT'S NOT HALF BAD - DEL VAL

7.THE ADMIRATIONS - I WANT TO BE FREE - PEACHES

8.CARL DOUGLAS - SERVING A SENTENCE OF LIFE - UNITED ARTISTS

9.LYNN VERNADO - SECOND HAND LOVE - YUMIE

10.FRED AND THE TURBINS - BERNADINE - CENCO

11.THE INVERTS - LOOK OUT LOVE - TOWER

12.ERNIE JOHNSON - BIG MAN CRY - STEPH AND LEE

13.THE REGENTS - WHAT'CHA GONNA DO - MAD

14.THE TROPICS - HEY YOU LITTLE GIRL - TOPIC

15.BOBBY "GUITAR" BENNET - YOU DID IT AGAIN - JUNIOR

16.CLIFFORD BINNS - YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME - CARRIE

17.JOHNNIE HOYLE - WHAT ABOUT ME - RAYBO

18.MEL WILLIAMS - BURN, BABY, BURN - STAR

19.BILLY HINES - LING TING TONG - WA-TUSI

20.J.J.JACKSON - TOO MUCH LOVE - C/UP

21.TOBBI BOWE - I CAN FEEL HIM SLIPPING AWAY - PATHEWAY

22.TED WILSON - I CAN'T TAKE NO MORE - SIERRA

23.HONEY AND THE BEES - BE YOURSELF - ACADEMY

24.THE DISTRICTS - ONE LOVER - NILE

25.THE DEVOTIONSV - DO DO DE DOP - NATION

26.PERFECTIONS - I LOVE YOU, MY LOVE - SVR

27.HOLLYWOOD SAXONS - LOVING YOU - ACTION PAC

28.FIR-YA - KEEP ON TRYIN' - STAR-GLOW

helps if i put a reply in i suppose before i send it

surely you can fit a few more on there ady?

  andyk123 said:

helps if i put a reply in i suppose before i send it

surely you can fit a few more on there ady?

Andy my dear boy, i've always said, it's not the quantity but the quality that's important. Now please close the door of my office on the way out. Thank you.

  pottsy said:

Andy my dear boy, i've always said, it's not the quantity but the quality that's important. Now please close the door of my office on the way out. Thank you.

please forgive me, i know not what id o :fool: