Davenpete

Here is a brain teaser for you.... in which song LYRIC does smokey the bear appear ?

Smokey the Bear would pull out all his hair if he could see this heart of mine.

Something's Burning - Mighty Marvellows

Break away from the hot steaming jungle. Valentines.

I remember a certain guy from over Wantage way taking a large case of records to the 100 Club and putting them out alongside the sellers - when people pulled out something they fancied and asked him how much - he said "oh no they're not for sale - I just bought them along so people could look at them".

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rod stewart was supposed to have played harmonica on millies my boy lollipop

This is a notorious porky.

Patrice Holloway was the lead singer of Josie and the Pussycats and Brenda went out with Willie Hutch when she was 14.

Grandma from the Beverly Hillbillies recorded as Granny Ryan on Motown.

Diana Ross and the Supremes recorded Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (for an ill fated album called something like 'Motown Sings Songs From Around The World')... Bet THAT never sees the light of day.

Joannie Mae Matthews gave up recording to concentrate on promoting the careers of her son and daughter and their group - Black Nasty.

Sky Saxon, legendary loony front man of the Seeds, toured the southern states in the early-mid 60's as an RnB performer calling himself Little Richie - it's long been said that he was white - but is he the same one????????

My favourite BS story was that Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels were then group inside the Banana Splits suits - don't you just wish it was true!

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Hinckley '82

My first allnighter.

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Russell Acotts in Oxford were importing jazz and blues in the 30s (for the Dons - black music being a very intellectual pursuit early on) - I've heard it said that later they used to get RnB amongst the full-on blues (probably an 'oh bugger' accident on their part), certainly in my shortish time they had suprising things like the Luther album... It would even potentially fit with Roger Eagle (being from Oxford) getting his hands on stuff others couldn't get.

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As noted some a right but the number positions are confusing.

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It all displays OK here Dave. Anyone else struggling?

Regards,

Dave

1. Inferno

5. Looks like Seafare Bo-Ro (Leaving Here - Jimmy Hanna)

6. Money

The numbers seem mixed up - I'm sure you'll know the ones I mean.

Trust Gene to get the Rampart - still own David and Rubin?

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You're ONLY allowed three guesses so I took your first three.

#1 - Correct.

Very sad news indeed (sorry about previous post - down to being called with the wrong info) - anyway someone I met when I first started going and have loved and respected ever since - will miss him greatly, though I rarely got to see him in recent times. Condolences Annie, RIP Mickey.

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The Block, The Bang, The Blues and The Fox if we're talking Mods.

Hope you are doing fine John. I believe it was all Jackie Day and certainly had a pic on the cover (like the french one - can't even seem top track down my copy of the French book to check what THAT one looked like) - but it was a long while back we were discussing it and an awful lot of brain cells have been fried to a crisp since then.

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According to Brian Rae there's 100% DEFO a UK Sue EP (believe it's even in the shot on that window display pic from a record shop in London in the 60s) of Jackie Day with a PICTURE SLEEVE (yes I know it's easy-ish without the sleeve) - but no-one's seen it.

Gerri Hall 'Who Can I Run To' came out too I believe - don't know how rare that is, but it's the DB's.

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No! Use petrol lighter fluid - won't damage your record and is also the best degreaser going.

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Lord if you're a woman, Slowly Moulding and Hard roe to Hoe were the best biggies in the main room to me.

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'Soon be gone' by the Precisions.... Oh and 'Down is Up, Up is down' - the Delfonics is pretty trippy.

CM was my first nighter. Best live for me was Ray Pollard live at the 100 Club (before he did Yarmouth that weekend) - was always ambivalent towards much of his output him until that performance.

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Flogged my orange one to a Jap chap for £250 - paid 50p for it so couldn't resist - but wish I still had one.

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You gotta have Cheer Me Up by the Harlem Globetrotters - and sort of - Larry Wedgeworth - No More Games which was the promo song for the Boston Celtics.

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Is it me or have at least 2 bootlegs gone for well over £100 on there?

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Period, style, pace?

Blue Cricle club in Dunstable - one of Mr Buck's and a last minute replacement for Queen's Hall (or whatever it was called) - absolutely tiny and it had been raining a lot outside, so the ample scattering of pre-existing 'talc' (which turned out to actually be Blue Circle product) on the very loose old pre-fab dancefloor rapidly turned into cement when the dripping soulies tried to dance on it... My how we laughed etc. Everyone, including Jon gave the venue up for lost about 4.00am as I remember.

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Nowadays I reckon Romance Watson is too fast for most of us.

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When you look at the old pics of the Wheel from the late 60s whether they are mods, skinheads or suedeheads is very much in the eye of the beholder - I think there's not much distinction between suedes and mods anyway (after all what's the difference between a mod with a crop and a skinhead or a mod with a mod haircut of the turn of the 70s and a suede), especially when you remember there was reggae being played as well (though not obviously in the same amounts as r'n'b and soul) at these venues.

I know Pete considered himself a mod at the time though.

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Pete's all time favourite:

And one of mine: