Kegsy

Bollocks, how can you work that out, we didn't get decimalisation til 1972.

I'm surprised he paid THAT much.

On similar lines https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wally-Cox-45-WAND-11233-This-Man-PROMO-1970-Northern-Soul-G-WORN-ORIGINAL-/311815131611?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

If your lass sees that, your biggest regret will be that post, she punches pretty hard .

Here are a couple of clues to the record's origins. A Pampered Sound Production https://www.45cat.com/record/tf768 Something by the same writer. https://www.45cat.com/record/pxm9

Known long before Stafford, I remember a mate (British Collector) buying it when the Torch was open, maybe off Steve Glover, it was a tough one to get hold of. It never got any dance floor reaction back then, so wasn't played out much. if at all after, after an initial attempt.

His first album, We Got By, was brilliant.

Unless my mind is playing tricks, which is always possible, I'm pretty sure they had a single out on Beacon. I too remember them from the Cont and other venues in the area.

I never went, but I would reckon the music policy was the same as the Wheel/Metro/Lord Jims, in 1970 there were not any sub-genres like there are now. Imports had only just started to drip onto the scene, so DJ's were limited to mostly British releases. However within about 12-18 months new discoveries on the scene became almost 100% imports and playlists were probably 90% imports.

But it wasn't compulsory in those days, you could just refuse and piss on the cell floor.

They were stocked in every chemist.

Nice to see fake news alive and kicking in the 70's.

The thing is, are they originals or pressings/re-issues ?

I wonder why it states an "Epic" recording I'm pretty sure all his other Columbia releases say an "Okeh" recording.

Could be, he was a regular in there, I thought of Graham as he used to DJ in there.

It's probably easier to decide what not to play I wouldn't play Yvonne Fair Walk Out The Door If You Wanna if I were you . Save Ollie Nightingale I Don't Know Why I Love You for the last record, there won't be a dry eye in the house.

Ooops, if wouldn't be as bad if I hadn't been there

I bet they cost a fortune in those cafes around St Marks Square in Rome.

I hadn't been to as many nighters then !!!!

I was always a bit partial to Dells Wear It On Out face O'Jays Looky Looky

You beat me to it, Selection A3 was Homer Banks 60 Minutes of Your Love, A4 Was A Lot of Love, why I can remember this I've no idea. As you say packed with some top records, two bottles of coke lasted all day, as long as the the truant officer didn't stick his oar in !. The Vic Lounge in Halifax had a very tasty juke box too, I think Graham Slater used to fill it for them.

Me too, the thing was he just calmly carried on as if nobody had noticed.It wasn't like he missed the edge of the edge of the record he hadn't even put a record on the deck.

It reinvented itself as the Champage a go go later, which I think did a few soul nights but not nighters.

It didn't really have any soul history, until the nighters started, it was a (double) celler club in a house near the university and was mainly a student haunt. It was my first Nighter. One side was a seating area, the other the dance floor, DJ booth in the middle. The bar was upstairs. Many more than 100/120 in there and it was rammed. It was owned by an Asian guy called Haig. Nighters started after the wheel shut probably late '71, I think it was Steve Grimshaw who talked Haig into doing nighters, Steve was also the resident DJ. Some of the other DJ's I can remember were Swish, Julian Bentley, Ian Levine came over one time, there will have been others but there was a lot of gear about back then so my memory isn't too good. I reckon it lasted about 6 months. The squad busted it, took everybody down the nick and locked us in the big day cell including Haig the owner. Swish had his record box and a discotron so we continued the nighter in the day cell, much to the annoyance of the old bill. They were even more annoyed when people started pissing in the day cell, rather than asking to go to the bog and risk having to give a sample. The crowd was mostly old wheel lads/lasses from around West Yorkshire, Bradford,Halifax, Keighley, Leeds etc. with a few from Lancs, Legs and Woody from Accrington, Les Carr and Dave Brockway from Manchester, Booper, plus a few others. The sounds were mostly stuff known from the Wheel, I don't think much , if any, new stuff was broken

That is the first time I have seen the l'ambassador nighter in bradford mentioned in an "official" context.