Paul R

I remember the Dunkenhalgh in 75, I had recently been busted & was grounded from Wigan(I was only 16 going on 17). I turned up at The Dunkenhalgh and the local squad started to question me. At this, my smashed sister & her mate, fresh from Wigan, waded in and sterted to give the squad a real hard time for picking on me . Very funny at the time. Weren't the Tymes on live?. All I can remeber were tracks like "I'm Shaft" &"Who Can I Turn Too". I'm sure the second one was cancelled. Paul

Zanthene tablets(like a non trade name pro plus) 30p for 60 at the chemist. Look like dex, taste like dex, pass the lick the hand and rub one on test like dex, and had the benefit of a stimulant content. 5 a quid in 1975. sold like hot cakes or dex. not proud but had regular customers. Paul

He wasn't one of the main DJs for the nighters, but did quite a bit on the other nights wed,s fri & early session Saturday. Nice bloke. Don't remeber him as in those phots, I remember a large curly Kevin Keegan style perm. Paul

Looking at the events diary on here, the next one appears to be the 23rd April. Paul

I accidently bought a version by "Butch Barker":hatsoff2: on a uk lable(Poss Creole?). Obviously one of the cash in attempts mid 70s. I thought someone had release the Milestones version as its c/u name. That'll teach me to read labels properly!. I did have a version, I can't remember the group, but I'm sure the Label was Way Out West. It sounded like the Watts Band version slowed down. Paul

Blue Lagoon is back on on the last friday of every month. Myself & Ray Gillen were there last month. Paul

There are two sounds, melodies even, that take me straight back to the early Casino days. One is the guitar riff from Joe Hicks, but the other is the sound of those horns from the Tomangoes. great memories. Does anyone else remember that Steve Caesar the awsome dancer used to take his dog to Wigan, but left it in his car/van. Half way through the night he used to go out to take it for a walk. The name of the dog was Tomango . Paul

I was there, but can't remember much about the performance. Got on the stage, & Levine was giving out orange Tomorrow label demos of the next releases. I got a Doomsday, that I got autographed by ET(the singer, not the alien). I had to tell dear Ian that I was a local DJ to get a copy Paul

One night I thought was a bit weird, was in 1974. I think it was the week after the Wigan first anniversary, and I went to a nighter at The Centre, Newton Aycliffe. One room was the Northern room, and in the other they were showing Diamonds are Forever. Very strange. Paul

I'm sure the original cover up name was something like "Detroit Dance Sound" or similar. Also wasn't the shirley Mathews "My Sugar Baby", although it really was alternative girly vocal to "My Little Girl"? Paul

My only one was Butch Baker Working At The Go Go B/W Promatics Sugar Pie Honey. Bought in 73. Went to deroy recording Studios, in Carnforth, a couple of times with Pete Lawson in about 74/75. To get his EMIs pressed. At least one of the top jocks at the time(possibly Sam) used the same studio, and the owner used to make a recording of his tracks, to let Pete have them. I think they were about £1.25 to press a 4 track EMI, that Pete would then sell for a fiver. Frank Elson had his knives out for both pete and Keith Bradley, also from Ormskirk, and was always threatening them with legal action in Check Out The North. Paul

And a crackin' B side as well. Paul

On the original thread, a combined fight/bust took place when out side the casino before it opened, a member of the squad put his hand on my mates shoulder(Pete From Southport, ex Wheel, & hard as nails), and said he wanted to search him. Instead he got a good punching, and during the scuffle other people ran across the road to give the squad a kick. AS for a bust, on a friday night early session in 1975, I was having a piss, and a local tosser, Ian Marchbank came running into the bogs shouting "the squad are after me". He was followed byu 2 of Wigan constabularies finest, whe then wanted to search all of us. I got busted for 52 chalkies, just handling stolen goods, because they were script only. £30 fine. Mike walker told me I was banned for life , and then went on stage and told the multitude that a member had just been arrested for having two tone pinks! I wish. Paul

I remember well, as a 15 year old in late 73, I thought I was being clever going to score in the Beachcomber toilets after the nighter. Sammy + another walked in, followed by Daffer(RIP), one of the Ormskirk ex torch boys, who could look after himself. He grabbed my jacket and marched me out of there, and basically bollocked me for being an idiot. As for the Preston lads, I'm sure they were lead by 2 black lads, 2 brothers, the younger only being about 16 at the time. I first met them at Preston Top Rank when Millie Jackson was on in 1973. We got chased through the streets of Preston that night. Got away though. Paul

Beachcomber was a godsend when it was feckin' freezing and t'casino didn't open until 2. Same in the morning before going home or lifts to dayers. Paul

It's funny how many people quote EMIdiscs as their first big buy. I had a few reissues etc, but in 1973, I bought my first big northern sound, which of course was an EMI: Butch Baker Workin' At The Go Go b/w Promatics Sugar Pie Honey. Of course Ormskirk became the EMIdisc capitol of the north, with Pete Lawson & Keith Bradley selling them . Paul

As an aside to this, the TOTPs appearence of the soulies dancing to Footsie nearly cost me a beating from a bullying scouser. I was an apprentice on day release to Clarence street tech in Liverpool at the time & there was a slightly older bloke who was known as a real hard case. My "classmates" told him that I could "do the footsie", he insisted I do in on a table, I told him to fook off. eventually he backed away & I lived. Was a scarey moment though. Paul

I knew Jethro pretty well, and I'm sure it is him in the clip, and the girl on the right with jeans & pigtails is definatey Anne Rogers from Shevington/Standish, looking exactly as she did on TOTP. I'm sure it is either a clip of the prog, or a rehersal. Paul

OK I apologise for the Fatwa**** jibe. It was actually mean't in jest, because yes, you usually have a load of people slagging him off. I knew Russ pretty well from the pre allnighter days when we used to go to hear sounds at his market stall, and later at the allnighters and various alldayers round the country. He was always OK with me. In fact at a Burnley Rose room alldayer he even played a couple of records for me. I had asked if he had any room in his car to give me a lift nearer to my home. He couldn't, but he did ask over the mic if anyone could. he then played me two records. One by Dee Edwards, and the other by Donna King:thumbsup: . . Oh how I laughed. Paul

I'm sure my copy, that I sold a few years ago, had the picture cover from the first post, & the italian issue on black Durium inside. Strange? Sure it was all Italian. Paul

No, you usually see fatwah without the "h" and with "nker" in its place. Paul

Picked up my copy in Woolworths in Jacksonville Florida in 1978, in a 3 albums for 2 Dollars deal. It was about the best "original" album, but I also picked up other bits like Impressions greatest hits reissue Bobby bland greatest etc. got a good few albums. Paul

Weren't Dex 10s, 10mg of dexhedrine?. Discotrons certainly fecked the vinyl If I was going home after then it would be the Green & clears, but if I was going on to a dayer it may be the dominoes. I didn't mind chalkies, and I ate enough of them:D. Was Errol Dixon the wrong title on the label Is Little Willie the same as Big Willie from Wolves(/Ormskirk). If so, he was 9 ft 12 with his afro. Paul

Johnny Mae Mathews "Lonely You'll Be" an The Platters "Going Back To Detroit". Paul

Just looking at the track listing for this one, and I'm confused(not hard, honest). I thought that "The Love We Knew", was the alternate title to "There's A Pain In My Heart". Or Do I remember incorrectly? Paul