Winnie :-)

============== Winnie? Now that's an unusual name

============= Where's the world of difference? Small record companies also produced good singers who couldn't get a major record deal, and got them to imitate, for instance the Motown sound, or whatever else was popular at the time. Presumably they did this with a view to having a successful record by tapping into the current trend. Levine did similar as far as I can see? Winnie:-)

========== Hi Pete, yep, very well thanks I can see what you're saying re the vandals being easily available making it less popular with DJs, but still suspect it's 'questionable' origins to be the biggest reason it isn't played, which equates to, not judging a record on it's merits IMO. As Dave T said in an earlier post, probably better not to analyse things, but on these cold winter nights what else is there to do?

=========== Ok mate, it's only cos I've got no speakers, and miss out on some of these clips

============ Fair play Mikey, ever the gent

============ Mikey got told off, Mikey got told off Notice Mikey, it went from Mikey in the first line to Michael in the last.............

=========== Do they do transcripts of these interviews on the net?

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============ It's not unheard of

=========== Smokey for me I'm afraid Col. Dusty had a good voice but I'm not convinced she was naturally soulful. By that I mean she was probably asked to imitate a sound/style and whilst she could carry it off, that's what it sounded like ...... imitation.

============= That's the corniest lead in line to an advert for a nighter ever Think I'll definitely have to come to the nighter now, would be nice to be in the elite, even if it is only the once

============== I sort of thought you might think that Baz Well I like it, but then again I also like Joey DeLorenzo and the Oxford Knights

============== I bet she'll be chuffed to bits about you relating that story

========== I agree with that, but do find it interesting that if you take "Wrong side of town" for example, people everywhere were dancing to it. When it's background came out, suddenly it was a no no. The record itself hadn't changed, just the circumstances surrounding it's arrival on the scene. I remember someone saying recently judge a record on it's merits, so how come suddenly everyone was required to hate it? Is it really worse than all the records currently played?

============ That's a tough name to swallow.........

=========== Fair play to that

========== I have several from Hugh Jism in mine, anybody caring to use it, be my guest, don't even want a finders fee

Mike I abhor the use of the term "tailor made". Why was Diane Jenkins making a record with a classic mid seventies dance beat wrong in any way ??? When all your beloved Northern records were created, they were similarly an attempt by producers and artists to make a sound that was in most cases ALREADY popular. Usually trying to gain access to the market that already loved the Motown sound. Similarly, my own "Twenty Four Hours A Day" was recorded in Chicago in 1976 to be a then current soulful Disco release, and indeed it topped the Billboard disco charts in the US for a staggering seven weeks. As did James Wells' "My Claim To Fame" in 1978. So I put it to you that this is all pure NONSENSE. EVERY F***ING RECORD MADE is "tailor made" for something. EVERY other music scene [House, Garage, Reggae, Techno] encourages its DJs to make new music for the dancers. STILL the Northern scene suffers from the Ponomarenko type cancer that has ALWAYS plagued it. WHY THE HELL CAN'T TALENTED ARTISTS RECORD SOMETHING NEW FOR IT, WITHOUT IT BEING DENIGRATED AND DISMISSED AS A TAILOR-MADE. It truly makes me sick to my stomach, and will eventually cause the scene to dwindle away again, as a sad bunch of seventy year olds pat themselves on the back and gloat at how wonderful they were for ALWAYS boycotting ANYTHING that might have been made with a Northern Soul Scene's dance floor in mind. The ammount of bad feedback Goldmine got over this proves my point. Kev Roberts is very forward thinking, but Tim Brown listens to too many purists. I delivered Volumes Three and Four of that series of my Northern stuff back in August, and, do you know, they STILL haven't been scheduling because Goldmine are scared stiff of upsetting the purist "anti-tailor-made" brigade. As for being a collector, I do count myself amongst the purists as far as collecting vinyl goes, but this subject makes me sick to my stomach. Thank God for open minded collectors and dealers like Steve Jeffries, Steve Plumb, and Keith Williams. And shame on some of you for DENYING the artists a chance to fill dancefloors again. Tailor-f***ing-mades.... HAH !!!!!! Bollocks !!!!!!!! ALL RECORDS ARE TAILOR-MADES

============ Saw him in Northampton many moons ago, think it was at the Derngate, fantastic performance

============= Maybe a badge or a t-shirt would be in order to celebrate?

================== Well done Smokey

============ If I'd have said that Dave would have slaughtered me Always got on with the 'London crowd', they just take some time to get to know

============ Think we're going round and round in circles now. Dave said something about references such as 'this was big/broke at wigan', and said do we have to keep hearing them. Thought you agreed with him from your next post, "well put Dave" or something like that, which was why I was confused. The above is what I expected from you re: history

========== I did think that