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Sure I read somewhere that it wasn't actually an allniter, that people went there and then moved on to the Torch afterwards, something clearly disproved by the recollections of those on here and memorabilia posted. So what did you do in 1972 then? Could you do 8 to 2 in Temple Street and 2-8 in Hose Street? Lucky buggers!

Those dodgy arches that connect one room to another. You'd have to have had your gonads well placed to have ventured into one of them, I'll bet.

I remember those Sassy copies becoming available around 1978 'cos I had one. They were cheap (like the Herbert Hunters). If they were turned up by the hundreds by Mr. Rushton, why are they commanding such a high price today? Daft question I suppose... :-)

That's amazing. He must have had tons of stuff. Records, correspondence, Christmas cards from Bessie Banks... How was it that all this stuff was 'spirited away' before being hand over to the library in question, if those were his wishes? I imagine most of this stuff is now in "permanent loan collections". How sad.

I'd add Lee Andrew's & The Hearts I've Had It on Crimson to that list. Great record. It mustn't have been all that rare in my early days (1974) 'cos I'm sure I used to hear it at our Youth Club. Don't quite get its 200+ price tag these days. Did it get reactivated and the price is propelled by demand?

Barbara Lynn Take Your Love & Run on Jetstar. One of my earliest faves.

Fidels Try a little harder, though I guess it gets hammered at oldies nights (?). Wonderful record though. Always makes my eyes brim, which can be a bit embarrassing in the gymn.

Casanova Two is one of greatest sounds ever in my opinion...

Probably a sacrilege, but This Thing off the Dab of Soul LP is gruesome. Hope it improves...

One of those mega rarities too, I think Billy. Did you find it in the same place as Donna King? :-)

Do people over there limit themselves to listening rather than taking to the floor then? I think a lot of the Torch era stuff is very fast, so while I'm not excessively portly, I do get knackered when taking on something like the Van Dykes Save My Love For A Rainy Day, and that's just in my living room. What a great record though!

Let's be honest, if you change Bobby Angelle for Gene Vincent (?) and film a bunch of middle aged extras dressed in James Dean movie garb doing their moves, it's going to attract both praise and flak, isn't it? If you lend yourself to the process, then expect to be commented on, both favourably and negatively. No need to be so bloody precious about it, is there?

Heart arresters! The Orlons - Spinning Top Jackie Wilson - Soul Galore Ann D'Andrea - Don't Stop Looking (inst) Miss Dee Dee Phillips - Hey Little Girl

The problem is when they're in retro clobber and on gear as well. That really is an absurd combination.

Bogey's reputation spread down to Peterborough. They did patchwork jeans too.

At a family event recently I caught up with one of the neighbours, a lad two years older than me who was in a pub band in the mid 70s, doing Santana and Eagles covers. Back then he always took the piss out of me for being part of scene that "worshipped naff B sides" and "wore absurd clothes", often dismissing my Soul folk buddies as uneducated retards. Well at this family do, Northern Soul came up in conversation and he felt forced to concede that he had been wrong about the music and now recognised the cultural impact of said music. I was grinning away till he said he'd seen the Paul Mason doc and thought it well made but had portrayed latter day NS enthusiasts as "naffly clad time warp freaks wearing those f*cking awful threads still". I was quick to tell him that at more progressive events, especially on the Continent, things were very different, cool even. He'll have seen this commercial by now and will probably be drawing a similar damning conclusion. Shredded wheat for me was largley inedible unless you put tons of sugar on it. We were strictly a sugar puffs family, with porridge in winter.

Elvis never wrote a song in his life. Or did he? Frank Sinatra wasn't exactly prolific with the plume either, was he?

PR was a top ten US R&B chart hit, wasn't it? The Casino was moving away from the rare soul ethos with stuff like this, I guess.

Was it implied that AG had a part in the Motown sound? He was based in Grand Rapids/Detroit Michigan in the mid 60s. Al Greene & The Soul Mates Back Up Train/Don't Leave Me on Hotline released in 1967 has Motown written all over it. What a record that is too. Yet another one looked down on for only costing a fiver.

So Phyllis Hyman was played at the Casino at least a year after its US release then?

7 posts and snotty with it.

Looks wonderful, and very good value for money, by the look of it. Regards those taking perennial potshots at Ian Levine. Don't you find it tiring? Who gives a toss about Disco and Jazzfunk (or Joe 90) at this stage of the game? It happened, let's move on.

Ain't Love Wonderful is an underrated tune too. Purely because it's worth naff all, I suppose.

Superb piece! That voices only version of Just Ask The Lonely never fails to bring tears to my eyes every time I hear. Talk about a heavenly throng!

Any videos on Youtube of this much talked about teapot dance? Sorry if this off topic.