Ady Croasdell

I've got an unissued acetate on him that turned up in Vienna! I'll dig it out it's called Stop Sign a nice crossover sound. He also did the Prophets 'I Got The Fever' and was the Georgia Prophets too.

HB's story about meeting him was something like he saw him getting mugged in a park and chased the muggers away. HB was a handy boxer and all round good egg.

Yes. How's the tinman?

All in a big circle moonhopping and clapping hands. It wasn't the music of choice but it fitted the bill when you couldn't get reggae or soul. Wearing DMs meant you pretty much had to moonhop.

There's 30 secs of it on here https://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?pa...mp;release=7860

"NINETEEN SIXTY SIX: THE DAVID AXELROD & HB BARNUM SESSIONS" CDKEND 305 an LP he did for Capitol with those great producers while he was out of the nick on license, he died soon after. The King CD is earlier more R&B stuff, a lot of the Capitols are soul.

Spot on and when they ask for a copy tell 'em to get the CD, there are other great tracks on there too.

Billy Joel Tell Her About It. I was knocked out by it when it came out and even played it at my 60s night at the Camden Palace.

Was that disco/house thing by Papa John Creach I'm The Fiddle Man or summat, I gave it big licks to that and Kid Creole the one about his address book. As skinheads everyone moonhopped to Free All Right Now and Norman Greenbaum Spirit In The Sky.

Still working on it Lenny, my first act just got ill and I'm trying to find out how ill. But rest assured we'll have a great show for y'all.

Ted had an opening night cheese and wine piss up for Rock On, I got a looking for you demo for £2 and a few weeks later a Darrell Banks on London for the same price. One hung over morning at Cheapo fellow barrow boy Dave, who knocked out dresses told me there was a brass plating (I know what he meant but don't know the rhyming slang; plates was for feet and it wasn't anything to do with that part of the body) market lads for free. Being a shy Harboro lad and not feeling at my most romantic at 11 am on a Wednesday morning, I declined.

If it's a carver you're doing for yourself to DJ with go ahead. It'll be just as authentic as the others as the track is now released and available and will help promote the CD we are selling so the labels will be chuffed too. It's a bit good innit!

Hi Mike, If you've got a box of Oldies you'd do well at the Crossfire do on the 12th. If you've got any odd Money, Romark, Renfro Dore etc I'd like to have a gander. Ady

That was an erotic dream you had the other night.

Lot's of that Summitt record I'm Leaving too.

I think he means the record's dead not Paul!

Hi Andy, is he the one who ended up with the second copy of Gerri Granger? Why Can't It Be Tonight and a disgruntled missus smashed them all?

Thanks again Bob and Soulman, I'll be ringing that Stamford lad up then.

Simon Soussain boot I think, though it's conceivable the Biharis pressed it up for him legally, I doubt if we'll ever know!

Thanks everybody, it was the Wax Poetics I got told about I'll give your broadcast a listen Bob. That may not be right Jaco but if I can get hold of the Mizells they will be able to tell me who else was involved. Do you know who has the acetate now Soulman 1964? You possibly? Cheers Ady

Shit, thanks for that Ian. Apparently miserable Phil the owner has been taken very ill and that sounds like the end of it. The shop was two floors of second hand LPs, often brand new review copies at knock down prices or US imports from some sharp dealing. I remember he had lots of copies of Millie Jackson's Caught Up which I loved so much I would buy spares of to give to friends, particularly good looking female ones. I got the job on the market stall outside by virtue of downing a pint in one very quickly; my 2.2 from UCL counted for nothing. On my first day it poured down the whole time and I'd sold sod all with half an hour to go and was worrying that I wasn't up to the job. I was saved by two charming pros who must have just pushed a wealthy punter off and decided to spend some of their money on a load of old singles. I never saw them again or indeed ever knowingly served a brass again. The singles stall was run by two separate charachters John Thorpe a long time blues fan who once ran a shop called The Sky Is Crying. His partner was Graham Stapleton, now a headmaster and brother-in-law to Cat Stevens. He comes down the 100 Club for any live acts or the Xmas party and is involved in Roger Stewart's shop Off Broadway. I met Ian Clark, Jim Eddleston, Denbo, Ian Levine, Frank Jackson, Ian 'Frank' Dewhirst, Nij Flood, Malcolm Baumgart, Mick Patrick, Pete Wid, Roger Stewart and Tony Rounce who eventually took over from me. It really was the social hub of London's small Northern exiles and local afficianados and along with Dave Burton's Harlequin records 100 yards away, we had a great thing going. There weren't many Northern nights at all probably one every two months in very odd places but we loved all sorts of soul and went down Kings Road in army greens and plastic see through sandals dancing to Wicki Wacky and Tom The Peeper. Tony and I could write a book a piece on the place but we're trying to work so I'll try and keep it to this for the time being. If anyone's got any photos, whack 'em up, I've only got a couple of poor ones. Too many records to mention but the one I remember best was a geezer bringing down a bunch of promos and one was Jimmy Thomas The Beautiful Night promo when it was about the biggest sound in the country. he noticed our eyes pop and said "Is that a good one", "Yes we're giving you a pound on that and 10p on the others". Next day he came down with a box of 25. We only sold them at about £4 each and we made lots of Northern friends with those.

That I got out of Bleeker bob's in NYC before we knew who it was and sold to Keb for future stardom. Also someone told me the label was owned by a multi millionaire business family; does anyone remember the details?

Sorry Mike, I'm jetlagged from British Summertime!

I hope that wouldn't have been me Mike, I'm notorious for being a bit dozy so if it was it wouldn't have been intentional; any info from any source is very welcome and in theory i would thank the first poster first. Nice call on Sebastian Ian, he's helped me out of a few tight spots and when I've screwed up he spares my feelings as best as he can. Marc Forrest knows his onions too. (let's hope that phrase confuses a few of them Urpeens!)