Ady Croasdell

I've got the details and will pass them on. Funnily enough she took the photo of my avatar and there's a brilliant one of her at Wigan dancing with a crowd of admiring onlookers and really looking the business.

I actually meant happy as in smiling with great joy and buzzing all over with positive vibes. I know its personal but I can't see how say Dena Barnes or HB Barnum could elicit that type of emotion but it must be different strokes for different folks.

I'm talkin' 'bout ones that make you laugh, smile, grin with joy whenever they come on no matter how pissed off you are. The Olympics 'The Same Old Thing' Mirwood The Pageants 'Make It Last' Groove Gloria Jones 'Run One Flight Of Stairs' Sensations 'Demanding Man' Jerry-O 'Karate Boogaloo' Actually there are even more pop ones; Slaughter & The Dogs 'You're A Bore', Young Rascals 'A Girl Like You', Housemartins, 'Sheep', Beach Boys 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', They Might Be Giants 'You're Not The Boss Of Me', Smiths 'Panic'. Come on everyone "Hang the Dj, Hang the Dj, Hang the Dj".

Minsh paid £50 for the second copy of The Fuller Brothers at the Torch when i was there, so that must have been about top whack then. Ian "Frank" Dewhirst paid the ubiquitous £180 for "Cigarette Ashes" a week or so before it came out on Jay Boy in 1972 so the top price rose quickly then. I think £180 was loads more (£100ish)than the previous highest . Mick'll remember a load of others.

Could anyone lend me 'Do It' or do a high res scan of the flip. Mail me privately if you can do. Ady

The Blendelles is actually 1972, Cloudnine was getting it mixed up with La La La La La. Ady

There was a stinker of a play about Wigan in the 80s where the main geezer came on all sexy in the Casino and half-raped the heroine. He must have got his Viagara prototype mixed up with his blueys. It was incredibly bad in every respect, and went out on one of the terrestrial channels as satellite wasn't around, so it would have had a lot of viewers. I think it was probably over PC even for that time, in that it's theme was all men are bastards. Ady

Anyone want my mint demo Curly Moore for £350, bring it down on Saturday in used notes. Honest Ady

This has just appeared posted on the Southern Soul forum by Kevin Kiley "Houston Bluesman Oscar Perry passed on August 4, the service was held Wednesday August 11. Perry was singer and guitarist with a feel for the blues (especially ballads) and the sweeter side of Southern soul. He made his first recording in 1957 with "Just Above a Whisper" on Spinner. His most prolific recording period lasted from 1972-1976, during which several of his 45s were picked up for distribution by Mercury. In 1973, Bobby "Blue" Bland recorded Perry's composition "This Time I'm Gone for Good" and took it into the R&B Top Five; Bland cut several more Perry tunes over the next few years, including "When You Come to the End of Your Road" and "If I Weren't a Gambler." I've got a great unissued one by him I'll play on Saturday. Ady

And another Sheffield born soulster here. I left for Rotherham at the tender age of three (some walk) and stayed there until Derby at eight and Market Harborough my spiritual home at twelve. The drift south continued in 1970 to St Pancras and I've been half London and half Harboro in varying degrees ever since. I recently visited a soul guru up in Rotherham, t'other week and it was only 5 mins walk from my old house. Unfortunately the area's still rather nice, which ruins the first two chapters of my autobiography. I'll have to get on the crack sharpish or it'll never sell. Ady

And on Sat there's a funk/jazz/soul night at The Bar on Hanway St which is free to get in up to 12.30 according to the flyer. My colleague Dean Rudland is on there. Ady

I just saw on the Southern Soul site that George Williams, lead singer of the Tymes has died in NJ. He was lead on most of their records including all the wonderful stuff on Parkway, MGM and RCA. He lived in Canterbury Kent for a long time and was in the UK from 1978-2002. In the early 90s he was singing with a jazz/blues outfit down the 100 Club when I was the resident jazz/blues DJ. He was still in great voice and was a polite, modest man who was pleased to hear his old records were still getting people dancing at our Northern Soul nights. Ady

Oddly enough I liked it, but then again I'm easily pleased. There is a load of codswollop in there but you can skip through bits that drone on too much. I thought some of the acts were corking, Bobby Hebb, The Gems, The Monclairs and Philip Mitchell spring to mind. I think you have to be heavily into the scene to enjoy it, but where else will you get to see these great artists performing their most obscure songs. Ady