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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!

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

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?

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.

Think I'd rather forget! One of my pet hates of 78, along with James Coit.

+ Gerry & Paul, Innocent Bystanders, Davis & Tyler, Luther Ingram, The Matta Baby and a host of others too. Love them still and not quite sure why they fell out of favour... A p.s. There are some pretty crappy ones though, have to say...

The absolute master of droll humour, I can't believe it. Though I hadn't seen him since Keele in the mid 90s, we spoke regularly on Facebook right up to last Wednesday or Thursday. The UK scene is a sadder place today without our Tone. Bon voyage, you old Huguenot, you.

Love the name plattenspieler, Benji. There's quite a few on here who qualify for the spieling part without the feckin' platten.

Don't think we've ever discussed this topic before, have we?

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Like the Dalton Boys, Gordon?

Might it have been New Jersey Turnpike, Jerry? Do the residents of NJ refer to their famous freeway as 'the pike' by any chance? This is probably stretching chin-stroking to unbearable limits, I know.

Yes and no.

There's another Billy Arnell who died in 2012 and was known on Youtube as BM_MIDI. He was based in NYC and well respected musician and contributor the Cakewalk forum. Not sure if it's "our" Billy boy though.

I'd seen that photo but wasn't sure that it was the same Billy Arnell, unlike the one with his partner at Fire Sign, Steve Loeb. The Billy Arnell featured in the group shot are of a west coast band called the Stumpbreakers. Could be him though. Apart from them recording hard rock acts like Riot he and Loeb recorded many of the nascent NYC Hip Hop acts of the early 80s.

Billy appears on the far right of this photo with Riot, a heavy metal outfit he and Steve Loeb signed in 1975. It's the only pic of him I can find. https://books.google.es/books?id=ZyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT13&lpg=PT13&dq=billy+arnell+fire+sign&source=bl&ots=E_KBBecY8p&sig=ZfeMwy61mcRMELnSAH7C8x1NcNc&hl=es&sa=X&ei=qh1VVOnvEJDjasSmgZAD&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Why would George Kerr have been draughted in on this? Did he do Pop stuff as well the more obvious sounds he's associated with?

Martyn Smith from Bedford, who has an extraordinary memory regarding all things St. Ives, claims that this, along with many other sounds, were St.Ives firsts. I only did a Wigan twice that year (77) and fore end and back end of the year and remember St. Ives really giving Wigan a run for its money, both in terms of the crowds and quality of sounds. It was a long time ago, so my memory may be "spiked". :-)

Some examples of this "doowop"? I wasn't there in the 90s...