Steve G

Good well why not keep it then - it's a very good record.

"O" if I promise to play this on Friday, will you pop into Hitchin I agree it is a good record, got mine from Dick Sniff.....

Yeah I never did get to the bottom of that story....... Also one of my mottos: "If I don't clear the dancefloor at least once or twice in a set I would be disappointed with myself".

Nope. If it's good enough to go on, then it's good enough to stay on....cutting records off sounds like someone's panicing to me...anyway it assumes everyone's a dancer, a lot of people like to listen...

Yeah and you had your chance with me a few weeks ago m8.....but you thought it was worth more than I was offering...Steve

These get better all the time......very entertaining....

Not according to Jerry Ross it's not

Don't want any of your records , but am curious is your avatar a real record?

Sorry Trevski, I am with Malc Burton on this one....

79 I think - great track BTW, it needs to be played a bit more,,,,,and I am as guilty of others of not playing it enough...

Yes and very little persuasion needed as I've always quite liked it - got that Detroit feel to it....it's on a revival path for me now so will play it again..... but then again so is Connie Laverne Tony!

Dunno but Wayne Fontana certainly did

Must admit to being a massive fan of Ray Pollard's original.....and agree that in comparrison it's like comparing a Ferrari with a Lada (remember them? Russian represses of the old Fiat 127). Perhaps if Ray Pollard hadn't done it, we'd like LJB more, but as Ray DID it so well, the cover seems a poor imitation. There is also another British cover version of this too, which I have somewhere....again not bad, but falls by the wayside whenever the stylus drops down on Ray's original.

Came out on UK Tamla Motown in the mid 70s and I was originally put onto it by John Manship; we used to play it down in Kent quite a bit at our do's in the late 70's as I am sure the vinyl-flixen will remember.

I have a white card, and also an orange fold up one. The number is the same on both......I also had a later light blue one knocking around somewhere.

I have had a root around and it appears that I was infact member number 58. Irene Wilmarsh, who later became my wife would have been number 59 as she came with me. I can't check with her though as she's no longer with us. Steve

Think mine is 6 (we were always early arrivals along with the Greenhills). Will have to dig it out and confirm.

I understand that - it's just that a few of the posters have implied a significant difference between warm up DJs and big names,,,,to which I say there are very few big names these days,,,,,,without self publicity there are five or six of us on at Letchworth tonight, any one of us can go on first, middle or last......anyway I've already said my piece on what should be played early doors earlier, so I am now off out for the evening .....Steve

Nice tune that Rootman - think he did a couple of others as well, I'll try and have a look later.

It is - but I think the problem is in the title..... Who is a warm up DJ then? At most clubs I frequent it tends to be the residents who go on first. And, excludsing a handful of genuine big name exceptions (and I do mean a handful) who would be arrogant enough to determine who'se a warm up and who'se not? It sounds like a throwback to the 70s when DJs were demi-Gods - it sure ain't like that now. Steve

Do you want the C&W, and pop as well Mold-meister?

There's hundreds of them m8!

I suspect that John A probably may well have got most if not all of the GSF stock at the time....so most of the copies probably came from him originally. It was quite often the case that John got the majority of stock on something - for example try finding a David Sea "Night after night" in the USA - you won't because they're nearly all over here...... Also I don't actually believe that many copies of records that were once around are sitting in peoples 'piles of records' anymore. I don't know where they've gone, but perhaps they do vanish into thin air after all, as you suggest with your Reggae comparison.....A quick survey at work today of 40 somethings - over 70% of them have gotten rid of their vinyl Mostly through boot fairs, threw them out, or gave them away. And those that kept vinyl largely only kept LPs......Why would these "Cheapo Cheapo" buyers be any different?

Right, after some other posts on another thread Connie Laverne is definately coming out to play at the N Herts Irish Centre tonight.