Ady Croasdell

Ignore that, I found Solomon Burke's version.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a sound file or send me summat I can get my lugs round please? ta Ady

He was a super bloke who came to the 100 Club and Cleethorpes regularly for a long time and developed great friendships with so many like-minded people down here. I'd not seen him for a while but will miss him greatly. Ady

Yes the doubter yesterday thought it was about his son. Sadly he has died

Actually some are saying untrue but some news channels reckon it's true. Probably confirmed by morning if someone could verify: off to bed for me

Mary Love's daughter Robbie just reported that Main Ingredient lead singer Cuba Gooding Sr died 5 hours ago. Beautiful vocalist

Good lad, it'll have improved your biceps!

The Kent single was the first 45: nobody would expect you to lug around an LP because it was 6 months before

Nasty bootleg, we're trying to get it out on a 45. Could you send me a scan please and whatever's on the flip too? Ady

As you will probably have heard, through that grapevine Marvin sang about, it is possible that this Cleethorpes weekender will be the last one. I’ve found it increasingly hard to handle the organising of the event (never a strong point!) and it’s tougher every year to find acts worthy of our stage; also the competition from other weekenders is off the scale. Luckily you lot are a terrifically loyal bunch and loads of you have rebooked not knowing who the hell will be singing, but knowing you’re going to have a great time anyway – witness the triumph of the “No Nighters” weekender of 2014. But 25 events and being 65 years of age for me this summer means I will see if I can sell the business on to a sympathetic soul, who can handle the running better than me. There would be no point it going to a top 500 set-up as there are enough of those and you folk wouldn’t be arsed to attend such a do at a place with so many great rare soul memories. I’ve had a few enquiries but been too rushed to attend to it properly; I’ll do that now so you can get the full story by June. I would be prepared to DJ and prop up the bar for any possible new promoter should they want me for a couple of years at least; hopefully that would make any handover more palatable to the regulars. Like last year, this year we have gone back to an old favourite and friend, Sidney Barnes, who entertained us so fabulously way back in 2001. This time he is going to sing not only his own favourites like ‘I Hurt On The Other Side’, ‘Standing On Solid Ground’ and ‘Old Times’ but also a selection from his extensive songbook that he enriched our musical lives with. Songs like ‘Our Love Is In The Pocket’, ‘What Can I Do’-Billy Prophet, ‘Heart Trouble’ and ‘I’ll Bet You’ to name just a few. I’ve been let down by a few acts this year and it looks like we won’t have a support act but with that mouth-watering selection, we don’t really need one. I’ll do a flyer next week and start plugging it late as ever, but we know it’ll be memorable; this year above all. Let your friends know and these are the booking details. Same again. Weekend Passes available £59 each or £20 deposit from Ady Croasdell Cheques payable to 6TS Weekenders 10 Hatfield House 108 Great Titchfield St London W1W 6SN To pay by PayPal it’s £61 total or £20.75 deposit to ady.croasdell@btinternet.com The on site accommodation is full, arrange your own at Thorpe Park next door www.haven.com/parks/lincolnshire/thorpe-park/ or B&Bs. 02076362622 or 07773019559 for enquiries www.6ts.info for more info

Thanks for that but SoulfulMick has it covered Ady

Yes please Mick, I'll pm you Ady

Anyone lend an Ex copy for a dub please. CDs provided as a thank you. Ady

Play once, dub

Can anyone lend me an Ex copy please?

New to me. I can't see it being booted though and if they did, they would use the same colour

Not that I know of, certainly a stomper but the voice would put most off in recent decades.

I think Dave Thorley is chums with him

I doubt it, Dave died before he had been extensively interviewed

Hi Robb, Dave Hamilton managed Louis in 1967 and a contract dated March of that year syas Louis was his real name and Lonnie was a stage name that he presumably used for a short time that he was with Dave and Darryl. Dave had songwriting tapes from Harry Gates and Cee Wills separately so I doubt very much that they were the same guy. I'll check with Darryl Goolsby who was Dave's partner and also on the contract. ady

Thanks John, I only need an Ex one now. I got a VG one but Ex would be better. Ady

Thanks Kev

Seven actually!

Yes thanks Kev, Sebastian had a good trawl

Because we found the master tapes after having used acetate dubs on the Nancy Wilcoxes first time around and we wanted such a great recording to be heard in best possible quality