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A good 50% of those are dire to my ears...
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Someone mentioned The Jive Five "You're A Puzzle" earlier on. Played that out last Saturday. Superb tune. Love those horns.
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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?
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Is it? Could have sworn that was early 70s.. You live and learn..
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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.
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Think I'd rather forget! One of my pet hates of 78, along with James Coit.
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+ 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...
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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.
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Love the name plattenspieler, Benji. There's quite a few on here who qualify for the spieling part without the feckin' platten.
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Don't think we've ever discussed this topic before, have we?
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Articles: HOF: Popcorn Wylie - Post Production Inductee
macca replied to Dave Moore's topic in Front Page News & Articles
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Like the Dalton Boys, Gordon?
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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.
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Yes and no.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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". :-)
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Some examples of this "doowop"? I wasn't there in the 90s...
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Interesting to see these flyers. Though I'd left the UK by then, I heard from mates that the Whittlesey nights ended after a dramatic DS raid on the place. I bet those thirty somethings, some of them already family men, didn't have the slightest inkling that plod would come sniffing around. The Peterborough dynamic DS duo of S & B were extremely diligent in their persecution of Soul fans in Peterborough, even long after the Northern Soul 'scare'.
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This has got it all for me, especially the desperate, angst ridden vocal, the lyrics, the manic percussion, an awesome bassline, the horns... It's not a "pure soul production" for nowt. Glad we all don't like the same thing...
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Yes Kegsy, no doubt. I guess other beat ballads like Wade Flemons That Other Place may have been played much earlier, even as new releases at the Wheel and at the Scene in London, but to most people my age in the early 80s they were part of a new "tempo change trend" instigated by the 100 Club & Stafford innovators. It's mighty nice to know they didn't just come from out of nowhere. :-)
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The onset of the beat ballad is worth going into. my mind neatly puts them all in the early 80s but I read on here that stuff like gene mcdaniels walk with a winner was played as early as 78. That must have sounded odd alongside horrors like peggy march and phil coulter....
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Soul Artists Who Stumbled Over Diana Ross (Or Berry Gordy)
macca replied to Aggrolite's topic in All About the SOUL
Does that mean he's beyond reproach? Piles of dirt have been piled on the Chess brothers and Ahmed Ertegun and no-one died.
