Reg

Ah the man with the glasses is Bobby Smith!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Smith_(R%26B_singer) The hit years with Philippé WynneWhen The Spinners signed to Atlantic in 1972, they were a respected but commercially unremarkable singing group who had never had a top-ten pop hit—despite having been a recording act for over a decade. However, under the helm of producer and songwriter Thom Bell, The Spinners would chart five top 100 singles (and two top tens) from their first post-Motown album, Spinners (1972), and would go on to become one of the biggest soul groups of the 1970s. The Bobby Smith-led "I'll Be Around", their first top ten hit, was actually the B-side of their first Atlantic single, "How Could I Let You Get Away". Radio airplay for the B-side led Atlantic to flip the single over, with "I'll Be Around" hitting #3 and "How Could I Let You Get Away" reaching #89. "I'll Be Around" was also The Spinners' 1st million- selling hit single.[1] . The 1973 follow-up singles "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" (led by Smith), "One of a Kind (Love Affair)" (led by Wynne), and "Ghetto Child" (led by Wynne) would cement the group's reputation, as well as further that of Bell, a noted Philly soul producer. Following their Atlantic successes, Motown also issued a "Best of the Spinners" LP which featured selections from their Motown/V.I.P. recordings. They also remixed and reissued the 1970 B-side "Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music" as a 1973 A-side. In the midst of their Atlantic hits, it crawled to number #91 US.

I aways thought Phil Wynne was the main singer with the slightly "nasel voice". I am a big fan but I could be wrong. Maybe he took his spes off for this clip? This has been discussed before but I can't remember the outcome!! Somebody like Tony Rounce will know or Steve plumb..or Sean Hampsey...or Steve G...or.... Form an orderly queue

Yep Phillip Wynne

Know it's an oldie but this is a fabulous clip if you're a Spinners fan like meself..keep going til the end, it gets better and better

I may go mad and go for the Saturday night and take my tent. It's been a while since I went to a proper festival. In fact it's been a while since I put my tent up..I attempted it in the garden the other day but failed miserably. I think I may need to get one of those pop up tents

I really fancy it but yes it is a wee bit pricy! Joe Bataan, Ann Sexton......It's a dear do for two of you tho. Camping and car parking is extra too!

Modculture every now and then for a giggle. "Is HP sauce mod?" (not actual title for a real thread but you get the picture"). And if you wanty bitchiness and backstabbing you can't go wrong in the banter forum Although some of the funnier forum members have left now which is a shame...

Bessie banks and Lew Kirton aren't modern tho are they Jim...some call em "modern oldies"..fook another sub genre.....it's a funny old scene:yes:

Like I said...except proper modern...you're not with it are you Phil:lol: Oldie is a very misused term...methinks:thumbsup: One man's underplayed is another's overplayed..depends where you hang out...

Aren't they all oldies..except proper modern:thumbsup:

Please can members try to remember the Soul Source Terms of Use and House Rules. Thanks Reg

I love it.....be nice to be 2003 or whatever again....eh Steve? thumbsup:

Supervalu...they are part of Musgraves Retail Partners? I do IT for them - tills that kind of thing. Why don't you email them and ask them. group@musgrave.ie Maybe they have in-store radio like the Co-op or it could be a set CD like somebody else said. It may not even be anybody famous-bit like those old Top of the Pops lps in the 70s.

Still absolutely love this...one of the first records that got me really hooked. Very Spencer Davis like..... FANTASTIC!!

Oh dear, I haven't seen or heard anything from Gary since the old Stoke thread days. So sad, my condolences to his family.

It's alright..although I get what Sean means re the loveboat/Barry Manilow comparison! Bit like Johnny Vanelli. ....cheese but kind of likeable in a non soulful way:lol: I love the Jackson Sisters though..yeah it's an oldie but it's still mega:yes:

I don't look a bit like Arthur Mullard...well not so much if you dim the lights I get a bit fed up of going out in the UK, it's a nice change to go abroad, not that I've had the chance that often. The Dig Deeper night in NYC sounds great...deffo going to try that soon.Or maybe France or Spain...oh yes I fancy a bit of that a bit more than a civic hall in Rotherham

ah 3 voices...pink and white membership;) Sounds like a good idea to me:thumbsup:

I saw Malcolm talcum last year on one of my trips to the dole when I was between jobs. He didn't recognise me without his vest on :-) Chris, as I've probably said before on another thread, has gone awol. He was in a bad way last time I saw him. He was out and about on the scene for a year or so round about 2004/5 and come to a few Manchester nights and Sheridans a few times. Keep thinking he will turn up somewhere but he doesn't. Every now and then I mither people on here to see if anybody has seen him but they haven't. I do hope he's okay! Nick and Mike I see sporadically every few years or so. Keep meaning to meet them both one day at the footy but I never arrange it as they're both technophobes...well Mike is definitely, Nick does venture on here from time to time. And I am rubbish at remembering phone numbers :-) Do you remember the other lads from Manchester, Chris Morgan and Nige from Urmston way and a mod called Steve. Then there were the Stockport lot - Ian and Woody and his girlfriend Jackie who later went out with Roger Banks. Nick and I also used to work with Dave Corley-remember him? I haven't seen him for years..

I remember you Stu :-) I used to come to see Tony with Nick Stevenson at lunchtime when we worked at the Co-op.

I went a few of times in the 80s, it was renamed "Sloskys" then later to be known as the International 2. I think this subject may have been done before so forgive me anybody reading this for the second time. But I think I spent one of the coldest nights ever there (and I've been to Prestatyn in February!!) on the balcony at the side of the dancefloor huddled under my suedette coat. The first time I went was my first ever niter and I didn't know one record for hours until somebody played Landslide. I remember being very scared of some of the strange people there, it all seemed so much darker somehow than the mod scene I was used to and everybody kept going on about gear - we thought they meant clothes, we were very naive,still at school. What made me feel better though was that Richard Searling used to do those nights and he was always very friendly and I felt like I knew him off the wireless I would sometimes wander up and ask for records I'd heard him play on his show. I remember he was well surprised that a little 16 year old mod girl was asking him for Thelma Jones and General Johnson but I used to tape his radio show and then listen to it all week. 　

Little Rich and I keep meaning to come down and then we end up not being able to as we can't get a sitter or can't afford it. Although I would quite happily board the Mega bus for a tenner return, him indoors won't entertain it. So a couple of return train tickets , door tax and drinks etc you don't get much change out of £200. I know there's been a Manc mini bus in the past that my other half travelled on with Steve C, Mr Bicknell and a few others? Although stories of these trips do sound a mite scary for a mere female I would definitely book a seat if sombody were to run it again and I'm sure a lot more would too!

Great to see KingBee get a mention in the Weekend guardian on Sat. May cheer Les up after that result :-) Here's Jon Savage's article follwed by the link to the whole thing: 　 Jon Savage Author of England's Dreaming I have several favourite record shops: Piccadilly in Manchester, Cob in Bangor, and the cluster around Portobello Road, west London - Rough Trade, Intoxica, and the soon-to-disappear Minus Zero/Stand Out. Whether selling new or secondhand records, all are mandatory visits, with large selections and knowledgeable staff. But for Record Store Day I'd like to celebrate Kingbee Records in Chorlton, Manchester. Presided over by the long-suffering yet perennially enthusiastic Les Hart, the Kingbee offers a veritable treasure trove of CDs and vinyl, racked thematically but with enough overspill that there's always the chance of a major discovery. The prices are reasonable - £1 or £2 for mainstream 60s hit singles - and the stock changes constantly. I've discovered long-sought gems there such as Chris Clark's Love Gone Bad and the Tornados' Do You Come Here Often? I'd been hunting the latter for 20 years. Once you enter Kingbee, you won't want to leave. The ideal record shop should be a world unto itself. It should also contain CDs, records and magazines that you can't find in the mainstream, that you wouldn't necessarily have thought about before you went in. It should offer - that misused but still important word - an alternative. There had been a vital secondhand sector in the 70s, but independent shops as we now know them received a massive boost from the banning of the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen in June 1977: they were the only places where you could buy it. Many started labels, and a whole generation was schooled in the idea that there was another way of doing things. It just depends on what you want from music. The best record shops - like all those mentioned above - offer an education and an arena. They bring people together rather than leave them atomised on the computer: you can meet like-minded souls, start a conversation, hear something that you've never heard before. They are the lifeblood of popular culture. 　 　 https://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/16/independent-music-stores-musicians-favourites

What an exciting subject...ooh sometimes the sound is bad:ph34r: I was just going to have some horlicks, I'll stick around and read this instead:lol:

Nah I'll stay at home and listen to my new Ray Baretto lp:thumbsup: