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tone, you can't afford it!!! t' other one

Sorry to hear he's not well, send him my best wishes for a speedy recovery. Tony E

this show needs a wealth warning the records are so bloody good, its cost me a fortune tracking stuff down after hearing them on Shaun's show 10/10. Tuther tone

Gotta be Jerry Butler.

Hi Sue I think I was in the Yate car park in the back of my cortina with your dog that night, cos I seem to remember being with someone that had a big tongue was a bit drooly. ponged a bit as well! woof woof! Bloke in front row on right is Dick Alban from Reading t' udder tone

I've had it on jayboy for a few years and have to agree its brilliant. If I remember rightly its a Lodestone usa recording and I think Adey C put it out on a Kent cd a while ago l'autre tone

Mind you Mick's afro is so big the wallpaper is hard to make out. Actually that style (wallpaper not the hair) is almost fashionable again!

Just thought I'd share this with you Mr Manifesto, Mike Ritson (or is it one of Hall and Oates) in 1978 at Vals de udder tone

I'm fine Dave, out of work but fine, gives me time to do this..... pic of me adey and mick taken at a do in Newbury before Yate - I just thought that people should see Mick Smith's barnet. Me the dj Yate 2nd anniversary July '79. Me Adey & Roger (he doesn't change much does he?) 1978. All others not dated. l' autre Tone

One of the great talents of black music. . Great influence on all sorts of people - check his version of the Point of No Return on Tangerine then listen to Georgie Fame's cut of it. t' other tone

my average age is 45, my actual age is er um 56 The other tone

Hi last job before bedtime. Thought I'd scan a couple of pics from the archives. Yate was special cos it was our niter, especially when Dinksy ran it. Loved what someone wrote earlier about more going on in the car park sometimes than in the niter itself - how true (sigh) although the gear made some activities difficult. Tony E Pictures show the dance floor and Me (looking chubby) Clarkie, Wid, Roland, I think Dave Wise hidden + another. more to follow - watch this space

my mistake as soon as I typed Paula and submitted message, I remembered it was on Ronn - old age comin' on! Tone

that's always been one of my favourites, I fell off my chair (really!) when I first heard it - soul perfection - a brilliant 45! (imo) tone

there's a great version of this by Ted Taylor on contempo or paula.. Tone (the other one)

Dates are hazy so I won't attempt them Yate one of at least two "last ever nites" place totally rammed all night, what a buzz! Royal Albion Hotel Brighton one of the maddest 60s soul nights of the early 80s, and I've got it on tape. Most of the early 6Ts at West Hampstead DJing doesn't get any better than on those nights, especially if you got a late spot. the other tone (E)

Loved the first clip - I want it!! The sweet kisses bit is too r'nbish for my liking the other tone

I first visited Val's store in 1974 and he was eccentric then, would ask you to name the price you would pay for stuff etc, if it matched the price he'd written on the sleeve it was yours. He was even banging on about English collectors in those days. But when he was in a good mood, he was great company. By the way what is it about having large stocks of vinyl that makes most dealers be a bit wierd/paranoid. Is it the thought that someone may be getting a cheap rare tune that they don't know about, or is it a chemical reaction on the brain cause by slow evaporation of the active ingredient in styrene? Tone ( the other one, not sleeping too well at the moment)

I was one of the djs at the Cornet of Horse, the nights were a blast. We hit a bit of a golden period in London soul do's, our bouncers were turning people away, we had the some of the more adventurous punters nipping up the back stairs to bunk in. We had a small showbiz contingent some Joe Boxers, a Style Councillor and Roger Moore (I made that bit up) to name but three. I remember Terry Davis playing some slow records much to some people's disapproval. But sadly the promoters of Jongleurs comedy club came along and we were out...... The other tone (e)

Years ago in the 70s I dj'd at a pop night at a pub, in Chelsea, when one of the local hardmen came up to me and demanded that I played that fu*k*ing clown record, it took me a while to realise that he wanted Leo Sayer's The show must go on, needless to say, given the size of the bloke, I played it immediately. Wearing my northern dj hat, I have to say that requests are fine, but it does get awkward when a person asks for three or four records that you haven't brought with you, somehow the excuse that "I've left them at home sounds a bit thin" Another scenario is when someone asks for something that for reasons of snobbery/good taste you wouldn't play in a million years, often its something horribly played out, or a tune that you know would clear the floor in minutes....thats when the "I've got it but its at home line comes in handy......." the other tone

not just on the back of my neck........ the other tone

Dutch Elms is a bandwagon jumpin' berk, who has an opinion on everything, note how often he turns up on those crap I remember the 50s, 60s, 70s........shows (although not as often as Stuart Maconie). The other night he was waffling on about Blacks in Britain on the telly, his connection with early immigration issues was that his mum was a bus conductoress (clippie) who thought that they were taking our jobs. He is a lazy researchers dream, give him a call and he'll tell you what it was like in the general strike of 1926, or the mod's riot at Margate, or the first/last of Wigan, the Roxy, the London Palladium etc. I also remember him when he wrote for the free magazine Ms London - he had a pony-tail, need I say more?