Ady Croasdell

Final funeral details posted at the start of the thread on behalf of both of Sylvia's families.

First details of the funeral and memorial service posted at the top of the thread.

It is with deep regret that we have to report that Sylvia died at Kettering hospital on Friday April 13th after five days on life support due to a heart attack. Her sister Sue Henderson, with her partner Mark Johnson and Sylvia's partner Aby Marlow, were with her throughout; her children Charlotte and William visited her during this period. Sylvia's funeral will be held at Tynemouth Crematorium, Walton Ave, North Shields, Tyne and Wear at 2.30 pm on Friday 27th April. The families would love to see anyone who wishes to attend. As per her expressed wishes, her ashes will be scattered at a later date from St. Mary's Lighthouse, a place she loved to visit throughout her life, which is situated a couple of miles further up the coast. Newcastle flowers to 48 Churchill St, Wallsend, NE28 7TD or donations to the British Heart Foundation 0207 487 7137 There will be a memorial function held after the service at the Rex Hotel, The Promenade, Whitley Bay NE26 2RL, where we will reminisce and celebrate Sylvia's life through soul music. We will be there from 3.30 pm onwards and anyone who cannot make the service is more than welcome at the function. The hotel overlooks the sea and has plenty of rooms available at a reasonable rate for overnight travellers: telephone 0191 252 3201, www.rex-hotel.com There will also be a memorial service at Market Harborough Parish Church, in the centre of the town, at 2.30pm on Tuesday 24th April, followed by a buffet in the Three Swans hotel on the High Street virtually opposite. Flowers or donations to MIND through the local undertaker, J Stamp and Sons, 01858 462524. The Henderson and Croasdell families will attend both events. A brief history of Sylvia's life on the soul scene has been posted and a book of condolence has been opened at www.6ts.info The funeral information on there at the moment is inaccurate and will be corrected shortly. Thank you for your very kind and thoughtful messages posted there and on here, it has been a source of great support for the families. If anyone would like further details you can email Sue Henderson at sparkymarkjohnson@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for that Mark, you've saved me a job and done it much better than I would have. I'm sure a lot of the dealers will have them soon, they are available wholesale from phil.stoker@acerecords.com and RRP is £5 for the red TOWN releases and £10 for the blue CITY limited press specials, only 400 each of these will be sold. There are still some of the old TOWNs available, I recommend OC Tolbert You Got Me Turned Around as a future biggie. I'm afraid I ain't personally got any for sale so look out for a friendly dealer.

Can't remember, shit-rare psych I think is why it fetches the dosh, but it might have been a Bolan nutter, an ex of mine used to nick twigs from his garden! You couldn't have covered it up.

Shit I had that John's Children and I bottled out on an A&M for £140!

It's actually the backing track to a Val Simpson Flomar (Sceptres publishing arm) demo, it must have been a B side filler, I can't see why it would have come out. I'd like to see one too.

Could you chaps send me your postal addresses again to ady.croasdell@btinternet.com and then I can send the Monsters CD to y'all. Cheers Ady

I'm sure it will be the same Bob & Earl Jock but I don't remember that flip title, I'll look around.

Any chance of a scan of the cover to see which photo it was?

Yes but Simon was very slippery and you shouldn't believe half of what he claimed. The musical backing track was of course Mirwoods but not the added vocal. Neil Rushton who put it out posts on here so he could tell us a bit more. I'm not sure who it was Mel, probably one of the Sharonettes (that name doesn't look right unless they were from Essex) who he was working with at the time. I will ask Sherlie again though.

She was but Simon Soussain who added the vocals was an unscrupulous man and tried to pass it off as an original but it wasn't and Sherlie says she knew nothing about it and it wasn't her singing.

I've not got round to that one yet, it's probably the re-recorded LP version of the Marc recording done in a Mirwood/Duck style to cash in on either the Duck's hit status or the belated success of Harlem Shuffle in the UK in 1969. If it was the latter it would have come out on the Crestview subsid in the States

He's got it, by George he's got it!

I did a mini tour on one trip and DJed to Nancy Yahiro and a barman in LA which was fun, 150 people in San Francisco on a mid week night with Alec Palao and it was brilliant, the first crowd that's appreciated my dulcet tones, the the legendary and much missed Empie State Soul club in NYC rammed and rocking and Maxine Brown came along and whupped the locals at pool! Take some club classics, bits of Motown and Stax and a few 70s classics as well as Northern, once you've got everyone going they'll dance to owt.

And the DJ was none other than 6TS member and East End hooligan Bob Morris who's a chum of Irvine. They were going to play If Thats What You Wanted but it didn't happen. I thought the casting was great, really good actors for the parts and enjoyed it all apart from the dancing sequence, he was the only bloke who ddn't fit and couldn't dance; it was like a scene from Sat Night Fever.

That's the chap, a ditty he wrote with Little Ann and Ronnie Darryl, they hadn't envisaged the lino scenario at the time though. Interestingly Ian Levine thought this was the great Motown hit that never was and re-arranged with extra girlies and added backing for SWONS, I personally preferred the much tougher and deeper original.

Great idea but I'm a bit too busy at the moment. Let's not forget it was Gilly from Burton/Willington who set the whole thing up and made it all possible. We've got one big trawl through the tapes to do then we should finish on Vol 4.

They gave us some turnips and a pig.

That's the chap, played lead guitar on JLH's Boom Boom an original Funk Brother and big mate's with Marvin.

There's a full CD of his 60s/70s jazz and funk instrumentals on our BGP label. Blue Funk got used in a Kentucky Fried Bird ad, handy dosh for Dave's lovely widow Alice.

Yes it did and of course Buddy from Chico and Buddy was Buddy Smith. Chico's real name was Thelmer Jones nowt to do with Ms Thelma. Check out the OC Tolberts too. I think his original version of I'm Shooting High is fantabulous.

I don't write those notes for fun you know! Two of the Tokays who had a great Northern record on Tokay-Baby Baby baby, were Chico and Buddy whose 'You Don't Miss Your Water' on Vol 1 is an unissued vocal to Sue Ann Jones I'll Give You My Love'. Most of their other stuff was quite funky. Expect a related question for the Cleethorpes Soul Mastermind quiz, it might be the first one your team gets right! Ady X

Just do it!

Curiouser and curioser!