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Just heard on Radio 4 Godz

Hi Pete, well done for getting back on the site. In your apology email you said: The problem really came when I was asked to apologise for it; I would have, if I knew who I was supposed to apologise to. Faceless people who complained to the moderators? I would have apologised to those people individually if I knew who they were. I actually confronted your views openly. You took it extremely personally and our posts were deleted. Looking forward to receiving an apology. By PM if you don't want to be seen losing face Godz

I remember a Tony Drake rumour from earlier Wigan days. Godz

- Is that the Floorshakers or something like that? Simon Sousan jobby?? Godz

Cheers Sebastian, I'll check them out. Godz

Just been sent a preview of the new KFC ad. Can't post video so this will have to do for now. Godz

We only want to do a run of 500. Anyone else? Cheers, Godz

The record shop I worked in as a nipper (Golden Disc, Oldham) ended up with a dozen or so unsold boxes. They did a really good trade in Motown back catalogue so they ended up breaking them up and flogging them individually. Can't heve been the only place to do that. Godz

Gonna need something like this soon. Can anyone beat this price? Cheers, Godz

The boots don't mate. If it's vinyl and looks like this it's a pretty good bet it's a boot. On the plus side they sound ace and will do till you get a real 'un. Godz

Bit cheesey sounding for me. Sorry Godz

and then there was the "Capitol Discotheque '66 Series" beloved of UK collectors. Here's another take on the name: The very origin of disco was during the French resistance during World War Two. Basically an illicit form, it was a music - jazz - that the Nazis in wartime Paris had banned because it related to several things that they didn't want to deal with like Americans, Jewishness, blacks, so they banned it. So it became the official resistance music in clubs. Discotheques started out in this completely illicit environment, they weren't tolerated by the state, and they never lost that underground appeal. MW: After the war, Paris clubs like the Whiskey A Go Go continued the festivity of the private record library, literally the translation of the French word, "discotheque". The spirit of the underground disco was marked by the size of the clubs (they were tiny with even smaller dance floors); the subversion (parties were announced via word of mouth); and even the privacy of the clubs was conveyed through the manner in which drinks were consumed, says Peter Braunstein. PB: People didn't order drinks the way we do, like OK, I'll have a whiskey, OK, I'll have another whiskey. They'd buy an actual bottle of whiskey, it would have their name emblazoned on it, and then they would keep the whiskey in a locker at the bottom room with the midget dance floor. So you would then go back week after week and you'd still be working off this one whiskey bottle. MW: By the early sixties, New York City had created its own versions of the Paris discotheques. They slowly grew bigger in size and by the end of the decade, the novelty had worn off, but the hedonism hadn't. As Peter Braunstein explains, the inherent hedonism of sixties disco culture was co-opted by a more creative group of revelers. PB: This was the era of gay disco culture, underground discos. The most notorious one was right behind the Port Authority Bus Terminal, it was called the Sanctuary. Basically it was scandalous because it was a former church, a Lutheran church that was converted into a gay nightclub. As if that wasn't crazy enough for most people, you had the deejay who actually started to mix. And this club was notorious. You would have people outside at 4 am, piling out into the street. MW: The glamour of late nights that the gay scene started then got mainstreamed by New York clubs like Studio 54. But some Americans hated it, and a few even went so far as to riot against disco. PB: "Good Times" came out within a year of the infamous Kaminsky Park riots, the "disco sucks" demolition in which Chicago White Sox fans during an impromptu disco demolition rally between games went nuts and began tearing up the stadium, and they had to cancel the game and it caused a lot of damage. There was sort of a backlash against a lot of the demographics that disco represented, its core audience being gay men, a lot of blacks listened to disco, in fact it represented every other demographic except the traditional white male rock fans, and they were so afraid every time that disco would take up a couple more notches on the charts, they would see it as a personal attack as if their identity was being violated. MW: Compare the sounds on the dance floor of 1979 with those at disco's roots during the French resistance, and there appears to be little in common. What they did share was a rhythm that moved the counterculture and would-be revolutionaries to while the hours away until they could emerge into the daylight, and act like everybody else. - Marco Werman original article offline, copyright Marco Werman More at https://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1392/P...Braunstein.html Godz

Try looking on Soul Source /index.php?showtopic=780 Godz

https://www.thespecials.com/lyricview.php?sid=25 The Specials added some more words it seems Godz

Maybe opinions differ... https://www.johnnyspencer.info/imagetexts06...kittoemjbRG.htm Godz

Course there is - otherwise I wouldn't have been able to say it. G

well, and You normally turn your hog right out when people reply to you like that Love, Godz

I can remember a fair bit of Salsoul getting spun at the Ritz Alldayers in the late 70s. As well as the above I'm sure most of these were played: Loleatta Holloway - "Hit and Run" and "Runaway" Claudja Barry - "Sweet Dynamite" Moment Of Truth - "Helplessly" Double Exposure - "My Love Is Free" Another old fave of mine was the Salsoul Orchestra's "Magic Bird of Fire" - Not really soul but a fantastic disco arrangement of Stavinsky's "Firebird" Great stuff Godz

Lighten up a bit for fcuk's sake Pete

OOPs - great minds, Mike I had the misfortune to pick up a 12" version. Torture. Godz

Patti Brooks - After Dark - Casablanca Godz

You never said they had to be soul records - you're just changing the rules so you don't have to pay up you tight bastard!!!! Back to the cupboard of doom then Godz

Well it looks like I've hidden most of the real bad stuff away somewhere. Maybe in an act of mental preservation. Meanwhile, try this for size: Godz

Right then! Got the day off today so I'll have a dig around... Godz

Aww - now you've gone and spoilt it you bloody know all Yep it's an astounding record all right! Should give a few people on this site a bit of a fright though Godz