Paul R

You want to get Cilla Sings A Rainbow LP with her versions of Real Thing, Everything I touch Turns To Tears, Lovers Concerto etc. All classics and distinctly nasal in the vocal.

Perhaps he will have the last laugh with:- Rags To Riches-Donald (S)Height

I know Wigan tends to get the blame for a lot that is bad about the scene, but I think you will find that the black glove thing goes back to the Wheel days. Dave Godin refers to it in one of his visit reports.

I got the Detroit Sound Album with Jumpin' At The Go Go on it in Woolworths in Jacksonville in 1978, but I think it would be a long shot to go there!

Surely the obvious one is the Tramps "Penguin At The Big Apple"

Absolutely Brillant

Good one Dayo, but on the version by the Essex didn't they change it to "Transistor Radio", or have I lost more brain cells than I thought?

Following on from the Les Dawson thread, and Tony Smiths cheese fetish?. What in everyones opinion was the cheesiest sound played on the scene. I'll start off with Sammy Davis Junior "You Can Count On Me"

Perhaps in the point number 10 about having no history, BB means that if you win the lottery, buy a load of Shrine, etc rareities it would not make you a DJ. If you don't have a history on the scene, you will soon find out that playing a bunch a rare sounds one after the other will not make a happy bunch of punters and will not turn you into a "Northern/rare" Soul expert.

This opens up a whole new world of exclusive one-offs and instrumentals. Remember the 70s when rumour had it that Soussan had a machine to wipe the vocals off records? when he really had got hold of the backing tracks. Could this be the new big discussion thread? When is someone going to do the Les Dawson Instrumental!? I once played "People That's Why" by Pinky & Perky- great dancer, better than Idle Few. Was actually PJ Proby off the Enigma LP played at 45. That was the limit of my sound manipulation. I couldn't figure out who to cover the Sapphires Gonna Be A big Thing played at 33 up as!

If the scene was originals only, then would everyone be sick to death of Frank Wilson with only 2(?) copies?. Also quite often I have heard that owners of the one offs "cut an acetate" for DJs. Sorry but they used to be called EMIdiscs and they were illegal bootlegs, or is this a selective originals only scene?

Issues also as Soloman King

No, there is a Devon farm connection though, the furniture ad is Katie Manure, Joss Stone used to do backing vocals with the Worzels until she did her first "Western Soul" record, a cover of Hay Sah Lo Neigh, the vocal to "Tractor Your Mind"......er I think!

I think that f I managed Joss Stone, then I wouldn't be able to stop smiling for months... fnarr fnarr!

The difference I remember between the original and the '73 reissue was that on the original at the break went straight into the string section, but the reissue had a longer break before the strings. The original mix appears on the Wigan Casino story vol 1(Why, it was pre Wigan, and reissued before the Casino opened?)

Only got one, and I shouldn't confess to it, but a junkshop find when I would buy anything that had been played on the scene was Tony Hatches finest:-"Love Hustle" Family affair on Pye 12".

Reminds me of the sightseers that invaded the scene in 74/75 because of documentries and "Northern" records in the charts. Most of them didn't stay long, but a lot of those who did are still around to this day. I'm sure that during the mod revival in 79 the same things were being said. Personally I like the KFC adds. I hadn't played stuff like Bob Brady and Bobby Garrett for years and I am now appreciating these sounds again. Also I can't stand the latest one when the family are singing. Paul

I was at a car boot sale in Plymouth about 12 years ago and a bloke had a cardboard box of singles that I was rooting through , all I found in there was a Marsha Brody Right Combination on a white demo(was it booted like this?). As I went to pay my 30p or whatever I saw a box of singles on the counter in a proper 50 record box so I had a look. There was a Mint Uk pink MGM Demo of April Stevens marked up at £20. I put an astonished face on and said " 20 pounds for a single?" he replied that his daughter had seen it in a book for £40, and that he hadn't actually heard it. I said that I heard it once many years ago and liked it. He then said that I could have it for 3 or 4 pounds. I gave him £3 and carried on looking at his records. The thing was I was sure the look on his face was saying, I've been ripped off . The next week at the same sale at a different stall there was a box of just about every UK Oriole release, apart from any of the Motown ones. aparently some bloke had beaten me to it by about 10 minutes and bought a load off him. I had the last laugh though, I he missed Hugo Montnegros "Sherry". Cheers mate!

I didn't go for the Ipod, but I got an MP3 CD player about a year ago, can record 320 tracks per CD at decent quality. Must agree, set it on random and it is brilliant. Thinking about an Ipod though.

Some awsome tracks here and many I don't know, probably because I don't come out to play. Any way, what is the deal? do you decide what you are going to play, and write it down and just do it? When I used to do some nights in the late 70s and 80s, I didn't know what I was going to play,I just used to go through the box before I started, but that would change by dancefloor reaction or just on a whim. I certainly couldn't say what I played after the night ended, except for a couple of tracks I would remember.

Not actually a Wigan cover up but a Mecca one in the same era How about Eddie Foster "I Am A Painter"

When I used to dabble a bit DJing round Plymouth in the late 70s and 80s I used to finish with Betty Lavettes version of "Almost". I preferred it to Jimmy Delphs, but both are awsome. Paul

Am I the only person that preferred Del Capris "Hey Little Girl" to the Batchelors sound-a-likes sometimes known as the Construction which I thought was awful. Each to his or her own eh! Talking about coverups and sheer audacity, what about Footsee by THE SOUNDS OF SOUL?. Not one of Soussans finest moments. Paul

Was also re-issued around '74 with an organ during the intro I seem to remember.

After not attending allnighters for about 5 years I went to Stafford for the only time in 1984 and Gene was on. I expected him to do Duke and Get down and a few motown and 70's cover versions. How wrong could I be, I remember him being superb doing all his "Northern" stuff and getting some people on the stage to dance to There Was A Time. Definately a highlight.