Ady Croasdell

I got Paul an original recently for £300 to play in his DJ sets and soirees. The old boot I got him years ago must have worn out.

Or Ms Babcock, you could come along and hear my informative talk about how to license US recordings for UK release, the pitfalls, the prat-falls and the way it benefits a lot of the artists, writers and producers who made this wonderful music that you seem to enjoy. It's not all about the past, there's plenty of Northern Soul life being lived.

Hopefully getting an answer today or tomorrow Dave. You don't fancy 4 hours of coffee with Simon then? Ady

Thanks Dani and everyone else who's made comments. Still no news about the club just a lot of speculation, it could go any of four basic ways 1 Jeff could get funding and carry on- result is we stay 2 It could get taken over by sympathetic promoters- result is we stay 3 it could get taken over by new music club management who can't fit us in-result is we go 4 Taken over by a business that ceases musical events- result is boo hoo:( It'll be a very odd night as any of these eventual outcomes could well happen before the Dec 11th nighter. Actually at the last nighter I had a suspicion that that could have been the last one and it would have been an anti-climactic way to leave the old place. I tried to catch the moment and just enjoy it for what it was, another run of the mill, great night under Oxford Street, it worked to an extent but has now been superseded by this Saturday's night. So again I'll enjoy it for what it is, feel some extra sadness at the end, thinking of the people I've known down there, but hope we can get through this with the usual 6TS spirit and good fortune. Ady

I'll do my best Karen, though as a participant I might be a bit biased

We're suitable candidates for social anthropology. I will be contemplating my own navel. If you wanna hear how we at Kent go about licensing and the sometimes hilarious consequences, or if you just wanna throw fruit, come along.

I'm with Russell, you need to know it's an original. I've got a lot of those perforated six strips of the same title. When I find them I'll list up what I've got and maybe we can trade a few. Ever the collector Ady

That's enough, thanks very much Ady

Can anyone post up some sound of the flip please? Ta Ady

I was being exactly that!

Bootlegging juke box strips now Pete! That just devalued my Cooperettes Shing A Ling

Brilliant singer and character, I remember him on Ready Steady Go. Funnily my favourites by him are both covers Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm' and Jim Reeves 'He'll Have To Go'

I think it was unusual, certainly nothing like the Bunky Esquires issues as far as I recall. White with black lettering I think, but my memory's not great from then, I was whooping it up a lot. Someone ask John Vincent, he was around recentish.

To reiterate: I bought a white Bunky demo off Dave Burton in his Harlequin record shop in the early 70s, circa 1973, when Dave had a magnificent box of soul demos from a UK music business source, several went on to become Northern monsters. I sold it to John Vincent at St Ives in the later 70s. I remember asking John Anderson about it in the mid 70s in Val Shively's shop in Philly and he said it didn't exist; I put him right.

Yep, tape only originally, then CD then Kent 45. Play away.

Just back from the hols and trying to catch up. The 100 Club themselves have said nothing to me, so I'll try and arrange a meet next week. I've heard of various plans afoot, one of which I could get involved in. Thanks for the support and if I can find any means by which SS members can help then I'll post it here. Personally I'd want to continue at the 100 Club if possible under the current management or any new one that is acceptable to our nights. Failing that I'd like to relocate but would want to stay in central London which will be a hard ask. I enjoy the nights (particularly since our recent rallying cry) too much to just walk away from them. Ady

Its appearance on the G***mine Northern Soul Of LA may have clouded the issue!

The pedant in me would like to point out that Frank Wilson wasn't involved in Double Cooking, it was a San Francisco recording

Then I listed Carla after Ian! Thanks for putting them up, I'd forgotten what was on the Hector flip

Horaces Records was my own label named after my nick name of Harboro horace that Randy Cozens stuck me with! It was a small label I ran in the late 80s/early 90s when everyone was switching from vinyl to CD and my work with Kent/Ace had slowed down. Ace were fully supportive of me and helped in most of the licensing. In fact I think they didn't want to do 45s at that time, so let me do it. The first release was The Magic Touch by Melba Moore, followed by Rosey Grier's In My Tenement and Hector Rivera I Want A Chance For Romance. I was then introduced to Eddie Singleton the Shrine label owner by Northern Soul DJ and producer Ian Levine and we cut a deal for two LPs and two 45s. Shrine was particularly "hot" at this time so many of the discoveries we made from this were very exciting for the Northern scene. I also cut a deal with Dore records owner Lou Bedell for some of his tracks; an LP and two singles resulted from that. So that's 3 LPs and 6 singles. Then I think my final release was Carla Thomas' unissued Stax dancer 'I'll Never Stop Loving You' on a 45 and though they all did OK, I wasn't cut out for the discipline of running my own label. My accounting and marketing skills were negligible. Luckily Kent then got involved in singles again so there's a much more regular flow of releases nowadays. Thanks for your interest Ady

Any updates anyone? Also is their biggie on any CDs anywhere?

It was the price of the gear that got me; way over the odds.

And he played Market Harborough's Frollickin' Kneecap in 1968!

The mush is so mushy I actually put my hands in front of my eyes at one point! (Like I did with Psycho but for totally different reasons)

Tone, its on at one of the Leicester Square gaffs for a day or so