Ady Croasdell

Some were, some weren't Batman knew his stuff as did most of the DJs of course.

It's actually the master tape to 'This Heart Is Lonely' by Rose Batiste that was unreleased until the first Pied Piper CD on Kent. It was then recorded by Rose for Revilot, slightly adjusted to 'I Miss My Baby'-one of the lines from 'This Heart Is Lonely'. Somehow Doni Burdick got hold of it and it was put out on one of Ed Wingate's labels. The producers and writers were totally re-written and somehow it got a Jobete publishing credit. It's as murky as can be but the original version and the sequence of releases is correct.

Possibly, we'd have to ask Batman who is in the Antipodes I think. He was a hard-core nighter goer and knew his sounds from there probably more than B&S

Wonderful soul singer and he could write a good song too.

I don't know about new careers but Maxine Brown and Dean Parrish have worked more since their Cleethorpes appearances. Mary Love since Southport or wherever it was for the Modern scene. Melvin Davis since Prestatyn and Edwin Starr, the Flirtations and Tommy Hunt have earned a few quid. We kept Bettye Lavette simmering and eventually she sang at the inauguration of a President. Doris Troy had a good couple of years work in London after Cleggy too. Sidney Barnes has had a ball since appearing at the Dome. Marva Holiday has got involved in music again, as have the Diplomats. Darrow Fletcher has been able to accept the plaudits of fans and earned some much needed cash. Little Ann had a glimpse of the career she never had.

Elton John did the same with Chess in Watford

Go the Vows thanks to Robb but the Darlings has gone AWOL so anyone with that would be good if Robb's doesn't turn up.

Thanks Robb, that's put that one to bed. We're OK for JWL at the moment.

They did Pete. Did they do Milton James and is LJH Keep On Moving still around?

They'd better not, we own it. Who was that company that pressed Little Johnny Hamilton Keep On Moving on a UK 45? Did they do it?

Probably best! ta

Thanks Tony, I'm OK for that. Ady

I was crossing my fingers that you had the Vows on markay rob

That's great Rob, no big rush. Interestingly the first version by the Numbers, which also came out on Bonneville was credited to RAP-Kellie and the Darlings was produced by Bobby Sanders on the label. RAP was probably Robert Plaisted who wrote it, not sure about Kellie. It was recorded by the Temptations and unissued until a recent CD

That'd be good too, have you sent it me already?

Reg Dwight had a few and my old bouncer Winston snapped up Better Use Your head on UA

Great Tony, thanks

Scans wanted; prizes for the first helper!

I could do with a scan if anyone can help. CDs in return. Ady

Funnily enough I got my Rita out of Danny Flash's shop in LA where I came across Soussain scouring the racks too

Nothing to do with Soussain, it was Jeff King's and he got the titles from his associate (not involved directly in the boots) Batman. I don't think Dave Godin's column had anything to do with those boots.

Doni Burdick was a backing track from a 1965 recording so he had ball all to do with it and didn't deserve a cent. Love And Desire's Billy Page, nothing to do with Sidney if you're talking Patrice Holloway. Writers and artists don't get paid for the original releases unless they sell in reasonable quantities

Following on from the Soussain thread, it got me thinking that the records he and others are credited as having discovered would have been discovered by someone else down the line anyway. Yvonne Baker, Checkerboard Squares, Dean Courtney are rareish but not rare enough that some other collector/DJ/dealer wouldn't have come across them at some stage in the ensuing decades. I'm sure there are examples of ones that would either have not been found (thrown in a dumpster like several acetates I know of) or maybe would not have been played without the dedication of a DJ that got behind them for some time before they "broke". But I bet there aren't that many when you look at the scene over the past 45 years. Discuss.

I think it's very interesting he's around and I'd be glad to hear some genuine true stories but it's going to be incredibly hard to know if anything he says will be true. Unless he's had a major character transplant, it'll be smoke and mirrors and the gospel according to how he wants to portray it that week.

Poor lad, how horrible. My condolences to his many friends and his family. Ady