Roburt

Met a few old mates last night in Dony ... Iggo, 'Sugar' Kane, Cliff Sirs, Audrey, Hilary & many more ... we talked old times & no doubt were very boring people to be around !!

Lived in Belgium for a number of years & cut tracks there.

I've always loved the sax bits in this (& the singin' .. & the piano tinklin' by Nina herself) ... moody as HELL !!

Well if you're into sax playing on record, you can't do much better than many Jnr Walker tracks ... OR .. what about this played-out stomper ... too fast for me but ho-hum ...

Also used to buy in late 60's / early 70's from Ray Avery's in Calif (didn't his shop get destroyed in the 71 earthquake ?) -- thou a branch exsisted after that, I believe it was in new premises. Before Avery's, used to buy from Randy's Record Store in Gallatin, Tn (they sent out catalogues). Also bought (mail order) from big cut-out warehouse somewhere in the NY / NJ area (gave all their lists -- sent out monthly) to Snowy way back in the mid 70's. The warehouse list went from 10c per 45 to 50c per 45 .... with tea-chests full of 45's on offer at about 1c per 45 (but the chests contained 100's & you didn't know what you were getting). In the 80's, used to go down to Telford to Oldies Unlimited and get 'locked in' the old chapel where they kept all the old stock of import 45's ..... would be let out at the end of the day with piles of 45's & haggle with owner over how much we had to pay (a few pence per 45 it was but he was always trying to push up the costs as we had 'picked em' ourselves). Prior to that, around 1968/69/70, would go down on train to Leighton Buzzard to F L Moores (when he was still in the old house) & dive thru all his piles of soul 45's ...then up to Wheel to sell some for 2/3 times what we'd paid a few hours earlier. GREAT DAYS !!

£150 on Amazon at the mo ... so you did well !!

And so it came to pass, the great and famous King Mojo All-Nighters had to stop! A wailing and crying as never heard before over took Britain's Mod Populous ... and at the last one, Saturday XV April MCMLXVII multitudes of all creeds gathered ............ REMINDER: King Mojo Reunion nite @ Earl Of Doncaster tomorrow ......... seems that "I'll Be There .." afterall .....

What my lil'bro says above .... I'll even post up Cliff R's classic sound on this post ... well maybe not !!

Confirmation here ........... https://onewestmagazine.com/magazine/2016/04/06/leon-haywood-passes-away-74/ R I P Leon !!

Saw him @ the Cleggy Weekender .... he's still got it (in a major way) ....

It has been reported on Facebook that Leon Haywood has passed away. Nothing more known at present. Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

The Mary Elizabeth Hotel was an early casualty in the drive to clear the Overtown district of Miami. This place housed a nightclub: in the early 60's it was the Birdland Fiesta Club ............

Any update on this Mark ??

Pat says it was reported that he's pickin' up a bit ..... too early to say yet though.

Some photos taken inside the Esquire Club Sheffield .......

The I-95 being blasted through the centre of Overtown (Miami) back in summer 67 ..... housing clearance in the area soon followed on .... .... AND YET ..... the Miami soul recording scene flourished in the 70's (even though the Overtown club scene had been decimated) ... so urban renewal wasn't the whole story ....

I'm told that there's a Mojo Reunion do this Saturday @ the Earl Of Doncaster (in Dony obviously) .... but my head has been turned by a young(ish) lady in Worksop & so I'm already committed to a do over there (22 mile drive each way -- how quick could we do that ?).

Urban renewal also largely destroyed the black club scene in Memphis & indianapolis ... however .... the end of strict segregation meant that blacks could also now visit venues / resorts where they couldn't in the past. By going to new venues / locations they were deserting their old haunts & these soon fell into decline.

Not for this record ... but an associated one ...........

A photo of the Hull crowd outside the Mojo at a Sunday alldayer session .... think this is the photo I refused to be on .... frisell, frassle, drat ....

SEE EARLIER THREAD (same topic) ....

Yes, I back up the last post. Billy says they put huge effort into their stage act & were highly regarded because of their dance work. He also confirms that, so far, no footage of them performing in the 60's has been found. It all seems to have been destroyed. SHAME !!

There's nowt wrong with Cleckheaton, Drighlington, Slaithwaite (pronounced SL-HOW-IT), Linthwaite & Hipperholme .... apart from the fact that Kegsy lives up near there !!

The book on the Esquire & Club 60 gets mentioned earlier ... there's a new version of this out & it seems to be much changed from the original version .....