Jerry Hipkiss

Yeh but I'm keeping it, sorry mate!

Ooops, just put it on the deck to play on air, of course it should be "Let's go together"! Pedantic Hippo...

Pat Lewis - Let's get together/Can't shake it loose (Golden World) - two for the price of one! Betty Swann -Lonely Love (Money)

Same thing happened to me on my last visit to Wig, probably didn't help that I was on my own and about 3 foot taller than the little sprog who accused me - nearly cracked up laughing cos his voice had hardly broken... Patti Labelle, great track, been spun a couple of times round here recently by Nige Brown and myself.

You should see it now Steve! Sitting drinking excellent (if expensive) coffee on a terrace in the sunshine...had to convince myself that it was the same place as where all those nights kicked in!!

Naaah...it's too early...sorry I missed it mate!

High Voltages "Country Roads" is a indeed cover version, but of a track by heavy rock outfit Grand Funk Railroad - Mark Farner, who wrote it, was their lead singer IIRC. So no Olivia connection, sadly...

Glad I'm not the only one who had that same thought!

The easiest way to spot the first boot is that the copy it was dubbed from jumps a few seconds before the end! PS Dave - dug out my Lester Young on Barry to spin at the weekend - guess whose name is scratched in the runout??

Dave, the full Big L theme should be somewhere on the web, it was actually called the "Sonowaltz", done by the jingle company PAMS in the states and used by quite a few stations over there. Caroline used Jimmy Mcgriff "Around midnight" as their closing theme for a while after starting up. Have a look at this: https://www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl/scrap60/fabforty/65fabs/april65/fab110465/fab110465.html Hippo.

IIRC Once 390 closed he went virtually straight into the Beeb - Dthedrug, yer memory's playing up mate, he was never on Big L as apart from John Peels "Perfumed Garden" (which in itself only came about because Peel realised the bosses weren't listening after midnight), Big L didn't do specialist shows!

Think there's a story there Nige, otherwise how did they get hold of the instrs?...and wasn't Vernon Garrett "Hands of time" another in that set?

Red first, turquoise was a 70's boot but has the instr. on the flip...

B*****r you Smith, I'm supposed to be working! - great stuff, seem to remember reading it on Micks site but so much info to re-digest. Keep it up!!

Not thinking of Norman Hutchins "I really love you" by any chance? A couple of years old, lot of modden spins around here at the time, can't see the resemblance to MBLM though...

Yes, the first boot was obvious, not a repro, IIRC it said "Dottys from Detroit" at the top?

I concur m'lud

Nooooo...far too tweee...shows my age, reminds me of listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes as a little 'un, this seemed to get a lot of (sponsored) plays!

...like first time round in 1966, a big disco tune and offshore radio favourite!

Don't think so, as it got a UK issue on Capitol.

A good read as expected...funnily enough last night I was re-reading one of my favourite ever "record hunting" stories which Steve wrote in Manifesto some years back, about wheeling and dealing on Picos Boulevard.

Correct.... https://simondesetages.com/id6.html ...and I still don't know what happened to my Pye demo of "Sitting in a ring" I had in the late 60's....

About 25 yrds for me...cos the postcode covers a few properties...good stuff, if you haven't done it, may I suggest you do?

Which surprises me, as IIRC this was the one readily available at the time - or were there not as many imported as it seemed?

In that case I don't know it!