35 Years Ago! Searling Playlist Wigan 10/11 June 1978

[Billywhizz]

A track I always associate with Hippo and Yate.

Now, to freak y'all out her is Paul Anka utilising the same backing track...enjoy!

EDIT - cant seem to upload the YouTube link...search "Paul Anka -Sei Piu Forte Di Me"

Flynny hope your ok, its an ian clarke discovery billy

[Wicked]

Of course Pete, I think all the better records among those I listed were oldies at that time.

Cant remember who was on on at the time I was recording, it was after searlings spot so Minshull or Evison maybe?

seem to remember Minshull playing some sh*te around that time

[Guest Mart B]

seem to remember Minshull playing some sh*te around that time

Minshull did play some drivel at the time,but its better than some of the drivel thats played at some so called Northern venues today.

[Pete S]

A track I always associate with Hippo and Yate.

Now, to freak y'all out her is Paul Anka utilising the same backing track...enjoy!

EDIT - cant seem to upload the YouTube link...search "Paul Anka -Sei Piu Forte Di Me"

 

OH my goodness - how did you find that???

[Andyj]

Clearing houseand came across some old tapes, put one in a tape deck whilst preparing dinner. Taped from a bog-standard cassette recorder, probably left on a bag on the stage. 

10/11 June, 1978, 35 years this last weekend!!

 

Some I'd just about forgotten

 

Ben Zine - Village of Tears

Carol & Gerri - How Can I Ever Find a Way

Inspirations - Your Wish is My Command

Prince & Princess - Stick Together (lot's of requests according to RS)

Johnny Hendley - My Baby Came Out of Nowhere

Paula Durante - If He Were Mine

Ronnie Love - Let's Make Love

Mike McDonald - God Knows

Cobblestone - Trick Me, Traet Me

Stemmons Express - Woman, Love Thief

Peter Jarett and the Fifth Circle (Velours Cover) - Run Babay Run

Tamala Lewis - You Won't Say Nothing

J C Messina - Time Won't Let Me

Helen Shapiro - Stop and You Will Bexome Aware

Dusk - Point of No Return

Pat william Orch - Police Story

Betty Boo - Say It Isn't So

Peggy March - If You Loved Me

Paul Anka - When We Get There

Teddy Van - Theme from Coloured Man

Happy Cats - These Boots are Made for Walking

Holly St James - That's Not Love

Demures - Raining Teardrops

never hear Carol & Gerri or The Demures played much these days, which is a real shame. Although Agentsmith did play The Demures at last years Tower weekender as a request for me!!

[Guest manusf3a]

Construction Hey Little Wayout Girl was being hammered by RS around this time I think. How I loathed that record.  People even started to dance differently in 1978. The Polyveldt plod I called it. Three steps right, left leg kicked back, three steps left, right leg kicked back. Wtf was all that about?

 

Construction Hey Little Wayout Girl was being hammered by RS around this time I think. How I loathed that record.  People even started to dance differently in 1978. The Polyveldt plod I called it. Three steps right, left leg kicked back, three steps left, right leg kicked back. Wtf was all that about?

The polyveldt plod ha  ha,classic excellent decription.

[Agentsmith]

Here's a few more from the above that I reckon haven't been played that much over the years:

 

Carol & Gerri - How Can I Ever Find a Way

Prince & Princess - Stick Together (lot's of requests according to RS)

Johnny Hendley - My Baby Came Out of Nowhere

Paula Durante - If He Were Mine

Demures - Raining Teardrops

Herb Johnson - I'm So Glad

 

All worthy of plays at an oldies night I reckon

agree they're definitely up for playing steve, the irony being that to the up & coming generations, it's like playing something totally unknown again.

[Grayman45]

 

You're absolutely right, the above track listing is not all from a Searling spot, the first half is, the second half is probably Dave Evison - or Russ doing Dave Evison's spot, the last few records are all Russ spins.  Joey Dee was the biggest record at Wigan on my first ever visit, that was April 76.  It was also dropped that night as it was the night it became available on a pressing.

 

Ah, that makes sense now, though I'm no great authority. Thanks for that.

Edited June 19, 2013 by Grayman45

[Agentsmith]

i love this.......60 posts in and richard is still as popular a talking point as he has been throughout his career, he has left an indelible mark on so many of us, including how diverse our musical tastes have become, without perhaps realizing all along that HE in fact, was the catalyst. i get to see him regularly now, his magnetism is still obvious, his enthusiasm just as flamboyant ( be it for the modern side of things, such has been his progressive nature ) and his knowledge virtually unparalleled with the exception of mssr's brown & levine, though he does confess to amaze himself at some of the things he wasn't aware of but perhaps should have known...a learning curve very much like our own but he's still ahead of the game. listened to jm's clip of eddie regan.........wow, wow, wow...and its richard all over again with his stellar cover-ups!!

[Agentsmith]

 

 

 

Ah, that makes sense now, though I'm no great authority. Thanks for that.

 

pete, wasn't that also the case with paul sindab.....a one week wonder?

[Steve G]

seem to remember Minshull playing some sh*te around that time

 

That's an understatement as far as what Keith was doing in 78. The only Wigan DJ I ever got on the stage and "had a go" at......fine about it now.

[Wiganer1]

found many a gem mixed in with the classics  on wigan tapes - for me it just represents the history of our great scene good and bad....whatever era..

[Agentsmith]

That's an understatement as far as what Keith was doing in 78. The only Wigan DJ I ever got on the stage and "had a go" at......fine about it now.

probably the last occasion that i attended wigan would have been a saturday night....1979....kieth was playing "prance on" by eddie henderson, i recall this being a huge disco record for capitol on a 12" single....and people danced to it!......,diversity personified even if it ain't northern soul

[Agentsmith]

what about court davis?....try to think/she put the hurt and how about chris bartley " out of my mind"....and these are still supremely obscure.. to be honest i thought richard's appraisal of his own classic cover-ups list in the prestatyn mag crystalized all the info everyone knew but in one fell swoop...it is truly amazing to look at....apologies...in fact it's the "WHAT'S GOING ON" MAG handed out at the tower weekender.

Edited June 19, 2013 by AGENTSMITH

[Agentsmith]

here we go.....rose valentine & the sisters 3 when he's not there

maurice mccallister your love is slipping away

jimmy delphs - tony hestor

eddie jefferson - i won't think twice

joey heatherton - cindy scott

billy hambrick - steve mancha

gene mcdaniels - living through ( sleepless nights )

john & the wierdest - spyder turner & the webs

the chessmen - like i never did before

dee dee gartrell - over again

deadbeats - the phantom janitor

mel britt - i want my baby

eddie daye & the 4 bars - frank wilson

john leach - the showmen

herbie williams - the lover who loves you not

al williams - the masqueraders

larry houston - top cat

zz & company - oscar perry

tamala lewis - sharon scott

bobby thurston - al johnson & the hitmen

rueben howell - sandy linzer

ike strong - lee moore & the resourceful ones

plus......the usual internationally known suspects, cecil washington & vicky baines and a whole host of one's he chose not to cover but probably had first and is credited for playing at the casino before anyone else did....look, you've probably seen all this before a million times over and chalky will point that out, cause he's about as anorak as it gets! ...it's called revelling in the nostalgia!!

Edited June 19, 2013 by AGENTSMITH

[Agentsmith]

so do we agree that richard was PROBABLY the architect of the cover-up scene and that guy took the game to an even more intriguing level with his imfamous " cover up the cover-ups" ploy?

[macca]

Top geezer. I had the honour of 'supporting' him one night in Peterborough in 1978. I was just happy to buy him a beer and watch him weave his magic. He even let me hold Yvonne Vernee for a few seconds. Never forget that.  A zeitgeist man in every way. We just rode the wave...

[Agentsmith]

probably would be about right,i think that it was Levine that made the whole cover-up thing more interesting,still think that Black ship to hell just should be the real title!

 

Steve

yeah, that was a great title..johnny adams band if i remember plus of course, jjohnny jackson experience "shingaling at the go-go" and one more: freddie jones "my heart's wide open"...those were the days!...i caught on fast...

[Wicked]

That's an understatement as far as what Keith was doing in 78. The only Wigan DJ I ever got on the stage and "had a go" at......fine about it now.

Keith coming on stage was my cue to get up to Mr Ms

[Guest]

OH my goodness - how did you find that???

Was DJing in Italy many years ago and heard it at the host DJs house...to say I was surprised was an understatement...to later find it on YouTube was pleasing! It came out on a 7" on Italian RCA.

;)

[Guest Byrney]

Construction Hey Little Wayout Girl was being hammered by RS around this time I think. How I loathed that record. People even started to dance differently in 1978. The Polyveldt plod I called it. Three steps right, left leg kicked back, three steps left, right leg kicked back. Wtf was all that about?

I heard it described as the Wigan walk

To be honest when I started out in late 78 this is similar to the dance I did for a year or so, basically as it was a piece of pi€€ to do. Soon changed this though as it looked dire. Seems to have been a big resurgence in the East Mids on the nostalgia scene with this dance though with a few 'I'm a little tea pot' hand jives thrown in.

[TOAD]

I have a white demo ? Tamala Lewis still not sure its real looks okay

[Back Street Blue]

I heard it described as the Wigan walk

To be honest when I started out in late 78 this is similar to the dance I did for a year or so, basically as it was a piece of pi€€ to do. Soon changed this though as it looked dire. Seems to have been a big resurgence in the East Mids on the nostalgia scene with this dance though with a few 'I'm a little tea pot' hand jives thrown in.

 

.....that's the difference between the 2nd and 3rd generation dancers.....I sat in awe of what I saw happening on the dancefloor on my first outing to "the best dex-score in the world"......and it took me ages to get up the bottle to get on there.

 

Not all the EM's lads out and about at their preferred venues perform as you describe....in fact some of the best dancers still at it hale from those parts.

[Guest Byrney]

.....that's the difference between the 2nd and 3rd generation dancers.....I sat in awe of what I saw happening on the dancefloor on my first outing to "the best dex-score in the world"......and it took me ages to get up the bottle to get on there.

Not all the EM's lads out and about at their preferred venues perform as you describe....in fact some of the best dancers still at it hale from those parts.

I didn't say all EM lads (or women) danced like that..I wouldn't lump my old mate Thommo in for example. Just that there's been a resurgence and used my area as an example. Perhaps it's a generation who touched on the scene for a year or so, left and brought back with them the formulaic walk having not had the chance to develop beyond the very basics after decades absence.

Don't know about the difference in 2nd 3rd gen as stated wasn't there till late 78 ( not sure what gen that makes me) but back then and onwards there were some blinding dancers. But theres also the difference between the 4th, 5th, 6th and onwards (and those that might span all of these) Generations to the Wigan walk crew - these generations have seen many styles that have built on previous moves, so of these dancers that have taken styles, adapted and progressed them look great and long may the progress continue.

I'll leave it at that as I feel an off topic bat flying in to slap me

Edited June 21, 2013 by Byrney

[doublecookin]

Well bugger me I've got a tape from the very same night - taped on your recorder!!

Would have been later in night after you'd finished, one or two repeats

 

Paul Anka - when we get there

Del Capris - Hey Little way out girl

Teddy Vann - Coloured Man

Herb Johnson - I'm So Glad

Shawn Robinson - My Dear Heart

Jason Knight - Our Love Is Getting Stronger 

Al Kent - You've Got To Pay The Price

Spinners - I'll always Love You

Bob Kuban - The Cheater

? - A Touch Of Velvet

Earl Van Dyke - 6x6

Fi-Dels - Try A Little Harder

Mamie Galore - It Aint Necessary

Hesitations - I'm Not Built

Johnny wyatt - This Thing Called Love

Edward hamilton - Baby Dont You Weep

Helen Shapiro - Stop & You'll Become Aware

Joey Dee - How Can I Forget

Sue Lynn - Dont Pity Me

Walter Jackson - Where Have All The Flowers Gone

Jerry Butler - Moody Woman

Ambassadors - Too Much oF A Good Thing

Showstoppers _ Houseparty

Lou Roberts - Ten to One

Tommy Bush - I Dont Like It

Muriel Day - 9 times out of 10

Jewels - we Got Togetherness

Dusk - Point Of No Return

Bobby Goldsboro - Too Many People

   "            "           - Longer Than Forever

Sergio Mendes - Love Music

Dean Parrish - I'm On my Way

 

Not vintage stuff by todays standards, but this was fabulous stuff for me at the time. I'd been going about 3 months at this time, aged 17

Things got better musically later that year and into 79.

One unfortunate thing about this though is that even to this day the one record that reminds me of Wigan more than any other is Muriel Day      

 

I`ve got the exact same tape recording, I`d been in Mr M`s and came into the main room about sevenish for the last hour, mine starts at walter Jackson and finishes with the three before eight. A few years ago I copied it to cd, will have to dig it out and give it a blast. 

Edited June 21, 2013 by doublecookin