Davenpete

Ironically this came on the radio last night just as I pulled out of the drive to go to my first nighter in 2 years (Pete Hollander's 60th birthday nighter - which was brilliant).

Any local uniform embroiderers should be able to do them. Enamel badges turnaround is normally much longer than 2 weeks. Dx

Used to have this by someone else - Harold Burrage? Dx

Even if you do need to go £40 (which I'd be surprised at) it's a 100% must have tune by pretty much everyone's estimation. Dx

Showstoppers - Ain't Nothing But A Houseparty and What Can A Man Do on the other side (one of the best ever Northern records IMO) - about £5 Wilson Picket - Mustang Sally (for the other side Three Time Loser) about £3 Poets - She Blew A Good Thing - about £10 Isley Brothers - Tell Me It's Just A Rumour - £10ish Contours - Baby Hit And Run - £15ish Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding - £15ish Richard Temple - That Beatin Rhythm - about £20 (one of the ultimate anthems) JJ Barnes - Please Let Me In - £8ish Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now - £10ish Willie Tee- Walking Up A One Way Street - £10ish on UK Atlantic Dusty Springfield - What's It Gonna Be - £10ish on UK Philips Bunny Sigler - Follow Your Heart - £10ish Chubby Checker - At The Discotheque - £15ish Precisions - If this is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely) - £10ish There are 100s like this that you should be buying before you ever start hammering the bank balance. Most of the above are old Twisted Wheel/Torch sounds - very much old style Northern - there are huge numbers of 70s tracks you can get cheap too - really depends on what tracks you know and like as to what people on here would suggest. Speak to Pete Smith - sure he'll sort you out at a sensible price. Look em up on youtube these are ALL absolute copper bottomed classics. Dx

Petrol lighter fluid - does a MUCH better job at degreasing. Dx

Er - A Little Togetherness, Countdown and a gazillion Motown sounds don't seem to have been mentioned. Dx

Elaine Constantine's film is pretty good (though with a few minor-ish flaws that have been widely discussed). Otherwise I 1000% agree with you - frankly I don't WANT acceptance, it's 'MY' scene and the music says something private to me and those who by equal love of its deeper meaning share an unspoken bond of understanding - we're social refugees who built our own BETTER family. It's NOT something romantic and quaint to be hijacked and commercialised into some homogenous mush of plastic BEER swilling pseudo scooterboys, Modfather suits and clown wear - that's exactly the OPPOSITE of what it's about to me. Dave (still militant even though rarely out and about - except this weekend anyway)

'Tip On In' by Slim Harpo for Durex - or indeed Midnight Johnny and Johnny Vanelli for Viagra

Like the instrumental of it 'Theme from the other side' - though I believe there are two insts with this title on Hoagy Lands - being surprise surprise instrumentals of two different vocal sides. Dx

Chalfont St Giles...

There must be 'piles' of copies around. Dx

She's Fire Mary Saxton Dave Mitchell Mayfield Singers (both sides - My Baby is one of my all time favs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUp3DaNa4Ls Terrible Tom Lorenzo Manley Little John Larry Wright Proper head banger stuff. Dx

David Ruffin nicked his glasses. Dx

How about Cool Off or Cool Aid for a soft drink ad? Dx

I'm only going to Original Porridge Only events. Dx

Is there going to be a backlash from the Soul fans who are only into Porridge? Dx

CDs are the way to go until you find your musical niche within the vast range of Northern - Kent are the boys on that front. Once you start collecting proper if you get the vinyl bug check out the various posting on recommended sounds at reasonable prices (you can STILL get some really superb original Northern releases for well under £20 - stick with dealers like Pete Smith coz they won't rip you off and it's more than their reputation is worth to pass off boots as the real thing). If you're looking to go out then you'll find the crowd at 'proper' Northern Dos (as opposed to local handbag pop-northern events) are very friendly indeed and very welcoming to newcomers - Radcliffe Allnighter or somewhere like that will give you really good music and a positive outlook as well as a range of music within the one venue. Dx

You need to list them as single lines - it's almost impossible to spot things in there.

Going back to my roots.

I think he was probably quite ambitious pricing them that low even then (my memory places the high end stuff at £200-300 with something like Gene Toones at £120 - remember there being a shocked rumour of someone paying £400 for something round then - can't remember what - possibly George Sharp for the Airplane song) - though I remember Domar had Country Girl on his list for about a year at £100 at the time. The positive result of these more sensible prices was that there were A LOT of us spending about £100 a week on records - I think the sky high costs nowadays have killed collecting for a large number of people. Dx

Chris Clark is just brilliant - blew me away when we got the CD compilation (never got hold of the Weed LP despite years of trying), I like that SouLutions though. Dx

There's certainly no shortage of people doing the Hokey Cokey at nighters nowadays. Dx

Thought the first two were very good - the Casino one really let it down. Dx

We came up a few times from Oxford/Swindon - got the Victors and Joann Courcy off Ivor Allen for a pittance and found Roger Banks a Duke Browner issue too. Great dos. Dx