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Going out to have fun? Is that allowed? Do the "Soul Police" know that people like you exist ? Think you may have got away with it just this once - I believe the Vinyl Constabulary are all attending a seminar this weekend discussing whether the measuring of run-out grooves should be metric or imperial !!

Last year in Blackpool there was an event called "Blackpool Mecca Revival Reunion" - how does that sit within your formula for the promotion of events?

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In 1975 for example records were played as new releases - I would call it modern then - but oldies now.

Think one or two of the attendees would possibly disagree with that statement.

These days on the more modern side of things tunes are sometimes only ever available as a download & never make it commercially on to cd or vinyl.

Barry The vinyl versus CD - MP3 - Memory Stick - Download - Laptop - Wax Cylinder has been done to death on Soul Surce & here are the conclusions - there are two answers :- 1) OVO Only. 2) Don't care what it is played on. Here endeth the debate.

Re-union says to me that people who actually went to The Torch in circa 1972 will be attending. Fair play to Malcolm his ticket sales have gone well - realistically you are giving the people what they want - another "oldies" night. If he had promoted a rare, underplayed, crossover, modern soul night I think the tickets might not have sold so well. The scene basically lives & breathes "oldies" because that is its life blood - it is no surprise really that promoters wanting to do something "different" fail because people only want to attend venues where the tried & trusted tunes are played. Doesn't matter whether you use the words revival, re-union, oldies, night etc. an old record still sounds the same. Barry - if you play The Fuller Brothers at a "re-union" does it sound any different than if you play it at a "revival" 'cos I don't really understand your point.

Nest Of Vipers ???????????? Sounds like a sales box with 15 copies of "The Snake" in it.

My old copy of Brothers & Sisters is yellow with green writing (as below) & "Instrumental#1" is on the blue label. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_63w9728YzZ8/Rr4n...1600-h/CLS2.bmp https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yXbx8UpP6U4/SZHc...tal+%23+One.jpg There is a copy of of Brothers & Sisters on Manship & that is on the blue label.

It's on Nickel - Richard played it at Wigan a few times as well. Another record around about that time on the same label is "Instrumental # 1"

Few more sprung to mind Don't Let 'Em Tell You - Brothers & Sisters Boo On You - Chuck Jones & Company There Must Be A Love Somewhere - Ede Robin

Barry Thanks for the "Gettysburg Address" but I feel at times mate you don't half complicate things. Kenny Bobien has a new tune out - I posted it up for people to be aware of it - they either like it or they don't - it really is as simple as that Take it by your negative sounding post that you are not a fan of it. Like you I have many Kenny Bobien tunes - 90% of which I would not recommend on here because of their mainly out & out house/gospel content. I feel this tune has a sort of retro feel that may appeal to certain people on here. If more people become aware of, like & buy music by Kenny Bobien then that is all good isn't it ?

Brand new - might appeal to some people on here - give it a listen - very Curtis Mayfield to my ears. https://www.traxsource.com/index.php...titles&cv=31144

In those days where I lived the postman arrived before I went to work - used to number the tunes in order in which I wanted them - my mum would then do the phoning for me whilst I went to work - she would often talk to a Scottish chap (Mr Anderson I believe) who would usually say to her "Och - that's gone" - we were all after the same records each week. Around about '76 it became a great place to get new release jazz/funk & soul albums on demo for about 2 quid - happy days!!

Why this record has never got the recognition it truly deserves is beyond me - wonderful (& cheap!!) tune.

Welvcome Ray - two pieces of work you were invoved with which I have enjoyed over the years. The Street People album on Vigor - as good an example of a 70s disco soul group you will ever find - brilliant album which I have recommended to many many people & a 12 inch single which you yourself sang - "Stepping Out" on Polydor from 1978 - quality disco tune.

Yes it was It's All In The Back Of Me Now - Linda Perry You Take My Love For Granted - Hodges James & Smith Sex Trip - Crown Heights Affair Has Love Been Here Before - Fabulous Determinations I'll Always Need You - Len Barry Strange Book - Gorgeous George I Don't Know - Bobby Womack That's How Much I Love You - Art Wheeler It's Not Like You - Lydia Marcelle Happy Without You - Ann Byers Whatever Happened To The Love We Knew - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds

Anybody mentioned Admirations - Heaven Is In Your Arms Dushons - You'd Better Think It Over Ruby Andrews - I've Got A Bone To Pick With You Sandy Hadley - Since I Found A Love Don Renaldo - Fiddlin' Around Apologies if they have.

Thought the review of the Motown tour was good - TOTP videos left me cold I'm afraid - thought the guy (Tony Hall - old DJ) who said Stevie Wonder was "blindingly brilliant" might look back at that & cringe. Frankie Valli - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" - was that a Motown record ?

Let's not forget that in all the time they were there Colin & Ians playlists were evolving every week - they didn't fall back on "oldies" which have realistically been the backbone of the scene since about 1977.

Think you should aim that statement at Richard Searling, Kev Roberts, Russ Winstanley, Ginger Taylor etc. - I strongly suspect they would disagree with you!! Take it you haven't looked that closely at Ian Dewhirst's list of Mecca tunes - is their not enough "Northern" in there for you to see the venue deserving its place as one of the top clubs ever. It is no coincidence IMO that between 75 & 78 the standard of Northern tunes played at other venues dropped dramatically once The Mecca influence was no longer there. Benny Troy was not a Mecca record - it was a tune you could pick up for 30p back then. I know it has risen in value since then , but to me it is still a 30p record - both in quality & value.

Vernon Burch - "Frame Of Mind" - Cracking tune & a big Les Cokell fave - still sounds great today.

Problem with a "Mecca Revival" is that records like Carstairs - Eloise Laws etc etc are EXPECTED to be played - if the DJ waivers from this path the attendees ask him for the bleedin' obvious because they find it hard sometimes to think "outside the box" or they question the choice of music - usually because they don't know or believe it was a Highland Room spin. People have a pre - concieved perception of what Mecca music is - it is not just Gil Scott Heron & James Fountain - just as Wigan music is not just Frank Wilson & Judy Street. Like everybody else I embraced the "big" tunes back in the day, but I was always drawn to the quirky "left field" tunes that Colin & Ian used to drop now & again. I can remember emptying my pockets on a Sunday morning & finding old beer mats or slips of paper with all manner of weird & wonderful tunes written on them. Some went on to bigger & better things & some sunk without a trace or even many years later made a huge impact at some other club.