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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

Free lave the lad alone Dave and his familly and freinds travell all over the country to nighters etc,they are living the dream ,and keeping the faith. The soul police want to take a look at themselves?..do they own the scene?, people are moaning about the dress sense ,yet it's ok to talk and promote drugs on the scene. I'd rather see someone in retro gear than taking gear. Just my opinion ktf

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. 

just listened to the "detroit" show on the tv and it has on the screen philadelphia home of the famous motown sound WTF,the shows been crap ,wilson pickett ,al green nothing to do with the motown sound rant over 

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. 

Again, one I'd sooner forget. Soul Sam used to hammer it, didn't he? 

The Soulful Two Fi Yi Dance? Pretty much forgotten now, I'll bet. Another big John Vincent instrumental was Audrey Slo Gonna Find The Right Boy on Swan, covered by him as Milton Wright Band Downtown. I know 'cos I bought the bugger off him for a fiver at St. Ives in 1979 still covered up. A proper instrumental, though the vocal is ear piercingly gross...

How about The Marvellows Yes I Do... Premiered by Richard Searling early 1975. A Soul record, at least. ;-)

No clown wear but one die-hard is wearing a bowling shirt!  He must have stood out! 

Jeanette Harper. Pick me up and put me in your pocket. Was a big tune round about 77/78

Steve

Earlier I'd say. At least 1975...

 

Here's RS's spot from the corresponding allnighter a year earlier: the week after the fifth anniversary 1978.

 

Betty Boo ‘Say It Isn’t So’ 

Lou Roberts ‘You Fooled Me’ 

Vicki Baines ‘Country Girl’ 

Cobblestone ‘Trick Me Treat Me’

Paula Durante ‘If He Were Mine’

Benny Sigler ‘Who You Gonna Turn To’

Yvonne Vernee ‘Just Like You Did Me’

The Construction ‘Hey Little Way Out Girl’

Rita & The Tiaras ‘Gone With The Wind’ (first time out?)

Jimmy Burns ‘I Really Love You’

Gerri Thomas ‘Look What I’ve Got’

J.C.Messina ‘Time Wont Let Me’

Paul Anka ‘When We Get There’

The Twans ‘I Can’t See Him Again’

Wakefield Sun ‘Trypt On Love’

The Dogs ‘Soul Step’

Reperata & The Delrons ‘It’s Waiting There For You’

The Newbeats ‘Don’t Turn Me Loose’

Toni Basil ‘Breakaway’

Holly St James ‘Thats Not Love’

Frankie Beverly & The Butlers ‘Because Of My Heart’

Bobby Paris ‘I Walked Away’

Lou Roberts ‘You Fooled Me’ (again)

Tamala Lewis ‘You Won’t Say Nothing’ 

The Generation ‘Hold On’

Ben Zine ‘Village Of Tears’

Family Affair ‘Love Hustle’ 

The Millionaires ‘You’ve Got To Love Your Baby’ 

The Wall Of Sound ‘Hang On’

Peggy March ‘If You Love Me’

The Construction ‘Hey Little Way Out Girl’ (again) 

Paula Durante ‘If He Were Mine’ (again)

 

A good 50% of those are dire to my ears...

Someone mentioned The Jive Five "You're A Puzzle" earlier on. Played that out last Saturday. Superb tune. Love those horns. 

Says 1969 on the UK release, so only 5 years old or so when first played by Russ (?).  Charles Calello arranged it. His name appears on quite a few NS signature tunes, doesn't it? 

Love Trap is dire 60's.

Is it? Could have sworn that was early 70s.. You live and learn.. 

Forgotten sounds from the Casino? Ann Perry was played here in Spain by Mark Sargeant last Saturday night. Admittedly, Spain isn't the UK. I note that most of the records people are posting are 60s tunes. What about some long forgotten 70s biggies? When I first started going there "Love Trap" was being played to death, it was huge, absolutely huge. Ain't it weird how some would want to resurrect dire 60s stuff but ignore stuff like T.D. Valentine? At the risk of being booed, I still quite like "Love Trap". I also love the French Fries.