Ady Croasdell
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and as for 24 years and not gone down thier, !!!!! Ian Dj thier For you, perhaps your mind is not as good as it used to be , you must remeber the night, when he took the piss and played pressings and packed the dance floor LOL
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Well you just did the maths to show where I get the thousands from. Thanks for that. We run other venues, Cleethorpes Weekender, Xfire at the ISH and even Downstairs at the Rocket and they are all very well attended too. I don't remember anyone saying we were trying to get more people in than the Mecca or Wigan, with a 300 capacity that would be tough. Still we should be flying past the Mecca in a few years then. Like I said we do it for people who enjoy rare, primarily 60s soul music and thousands of those people love the place and visit regularly. However that wouldn't include your namesake who claims to love rare soul music but lived three miles away for twenty years and never got his ample arse down there.
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Just to reply to a couple of the sillier comments made on this thread. The 100 Club has never had less than a hundred people. Perhaps the odd night in the eighties when Northern was not the done thing had about 120 but generally the numbers are 200-300. Tim Brown who claimed it was has never been to an all nighter there just a Xmas party with 300 in so I'm not sure where he got that from. He made several other mistakes in that article, one about Lou Johnson in particular springs to mind. None of us are 100% right. Kent didn't press up the Magicians on commercially available single yet because we like to reward our regular supporters at the Anniversary dance with a genuine rarity. Carla Thomas and The Magic Touch are two that we eventually made available. The 100 Club is mine and thousands of others' idea of the perfect club for old soul music, if it's not to your taste please go elsewhere and leave us to enjoy ourselves. Have a nice day.
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As far as I remember it was unreleased when we put it on the Kent LP, though I've a feeling there's a released version by Billy Duke (?) on Capitol. There's also another previously unreleased version possibly by Tommy Hunt that we put out. Billy had a great Scepter 45 out, bth sides big city ballads.
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Sorry Phil Spector was one lateral thinking step too many for my brain. Well we'll agree to differ but I don't think John Anderson's a very good example. He's a smashing bloke but he doesn't think that much of Northern musically and is famous for being great at finding records rather than being a soul music critic or even connoisseur. I think Deep and UK covers are more his collecting bag. When Northern was establishing itself, Dave's columns were a huge inspiration and encouragement to thousands of young soul fans and its debatable if the scene would have grown so rapidly and healthily without his involvement. Obviously he didn't inspire you, but I would have thought you'd have noticed his influence. Don't forget DJs weren't icons then (thank God) and it was good to have someone with knowledge\and experience (and possibly most importantly, some ideals) to look up to.
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Mel, I don't think it was "rare" soul then, that seems to have come in in the past twenty years. In the late 60s it was known as "old soul" which I think was the name of Jeff King's first bootleg label.
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I'm surprised someone said Lov Lov Love wasn't played at the Wheel. It was played in Northants when the Wheel was going so was possibly played there first. It was incredibly common in 1969 as it was the flip of the follow up to a number one hit so there were oads of copies. In those days most people played both sides of a record so hundreds of people would have known it, i don't think anyone would claim to be the first. It's Bobby Hebb for me, though I love most of Len's stuff. i don't really go for either version of I'll Always Need You, too poppy like Moses Smith!
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Don't rush back too soon, we'll keep the scene warm for you.
No i don't see any rose coloured specs here. Your criticism of him seems to be that he was too wordy and off topic and that he didn't go to some London soul dances. You can quote a Nietzsche book title now, so perhaps some of his erudition rubbed off on you and Mick, Terry and the rest of the crowd never had any problems with Dave not attending certain venues. He was never a part of the scene more a welcome observer and contributor. You don't have to attend continually to be a Northern fan, there's other stuff going on in the world too.
Soulful Saint was spot on. Also dave's contributions to Northern Soul were really from roughly 1968-1972 when the scene was forming. This was actually a surprisingly long period as no one expected the phenomenon to go on for more than a couple of years. we had no idea how much stuff was out there. He was eventually dispirited by the commerciality and some personal feuds he ended up in and though he looked on it fondly in later years was never a part of it again.
Detroit soul legend "Little" Carl Carlton has been added to the bill for the 6TS Northern & Modern Soul Weekender on the 9th, 10th & 11th June. Like his Cleethorpes co-star Darrow Fletcher, Carl was a teenage soul sensation in the 60s and also went on to have a long and successful career well into the eighties. His biggest hit "Bad Mama Jama" has featured in three major films recently but it's his more soulful dance numbers like "I Can Feel It", "Nothing No Sweeter Than Love", "So What", "Drop By My Place", "You Can't Stop A Man In Love" and of course the monumental "Competition Ain't Nothin'", that he will perform live for his Cleethorpes crowd. Like Darrow, his early start to his career means he is younger than some of the more weathered DJs appearing at the weekender. These include Butch, Mick Smith, Keith Money, Ginger, Pat Brady, Bob Hinsley, Soul Sam, Roger Banks, Terry Jones, Andy Davies, Ivor Jones, Cliff Steele, Arthur Fenn, Mark Randall, Dave Rimmer and the fresh faced Harboro Horace; to name but a phew. There are weekend dance passes available. Go to www.6ts.info for booking details.
Carl Carlton to sing at the 14th Cleethorpes Weekender View full article
Thanks folks Ady
I got an E-mail from a Stephen Dennis at Customer Details E-Bay, the subject was "Please update your account" it came through in my bulk mail. Does anyone know if it is legit or not?
Bennett with two Ts. I'm glad you like it. The insts on the GWP CD which is a cracker and the vocal will be on Vol 2 along with some other corkers like the Hesitations. But you'll have to wait! It was co written with Larry Banks, the team that brought you Go Now.
Being a lover of show tunes and co-incidently staying in Boy's Town LA at the moment (I'm here for the Oscars; not!), I think this is fantastic. Jim Carrey once did a "live" version of it on the Larry Sanders show, it was an absolutely incredible moment of television in loads of ways. On the same tack 'Seasons Of Love' from "Rent" brings out the hankies, the cast version not the Stevie Wonder version which is OK too.
No the nearest thing to it was KentStax which I think is long deleted now, it had quite a few of the same tracks on it.
Mike's around and would be chuffed someone's interested in his label. ask Paul at Echoes for his addy.
A short lived small run UK label run by Echoes scribe Mike Atherton. He also issued Ike Turner's instrumental Sue single 'The New Breed'. I think it was late 80s.
The Charmaines was unissued as far as I know, but I've been wrong before. The First Choice and Chris Jackson's were acetates as far as I remember (Mick Smith would know) but the Sam Nesbit was a vinyl test pressing Dave Godin didn't even know about.
For sale on E-Bay under horacesrecords (one word) And a 96 Tears original!!!
Darrow Fletcher for Cleethorpes View full article
Chicago soul legend Darrow Fletcher will be appearing at the world's longest running Northern Soul Weekender in Cleethorpes on June 9-11th. The sprightly 54 year old will be prforming his classic 60s &70s soul songs The Pain Gets A Little Deeper, Infatuation, What Good Am I , My Young Misery, The Rising Cost Of Love, Changing By The Minute, It's No Mistake and What Have I Got Now. Run by the 26 year old 6TS organisation, dance passes for this exceptional event are still avalable. Go to www.6ts.info for details. We now accept Pay Pal
Quite possibly, some of dave's tape machines were a bit knackered by the 90s. We copied it on a good machine so that's how they recorded it. All we try and do is reproduce the way the recording was made as clearly and as well balanced as possible. It's slightly subjective of course but our engineers try to get as much musical information off the original recording as possible and filter out hiss, crackle feedback etc.
