Roburt
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Brett, the above may have been prompted by the 'attacks' on CC that took place on here after he DJ'ed a '70's club' revival night & didn't play OVO (or even any vinyl at all hardly). I'm with you entirely, if you want to transcribe your collection onto CD-R & play those out, then everything's just fine. There are those (especially on here) though that will only accept OVO being played at all do's (& it's impossible to play OVO at a Modern Soul night as lots of the top sounds have never been released on vinyl). -
RE: Any "modern" acts on ? None have been announced so far .... BUT ... with Richard Searling now being the organizer of all things 'Modern' at the new Prestatyn Weekender (& Richard -- along with Ralph -- owning / running Expansion Records) ... I'd be amazed if an Expansion-related artist didn't put in an appearance in Nth Wales next March .... ..ALL THE ABOVE (regarding live acts) is just guesswork though & I know nowt really.
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RE: is fish involved ? ..... NO ...... he is not involved in any way, shape or form with regard to organising or sorting out this event. I believe he has been asked to be one of the DJ's in the Modern Room but that's it. So the Modern Room set-up (co-ordination, layout, acts, DJ line-up, etc) will be nothing to do with Fish. Guess he will DJ there though as he will be there 'selling his wares' (he is a 'dealer' by trade after all). Don't think Mark Randle & Co. will be organising the radio stn happenings either ........ ALL THE OLD PONTIN'S GUYS involved with the Prestatyn weekenders in the past have also gone ... ... so basically (as I understand it).. it's Britannia + others as promoters + John Poole as front man (& 60's room organiser).
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Great news at last ....... a good weekender that features great live acts !! Just got to get back into the swing of things and maybe (as a 60's UK covers group said) ... ... ........ they'll be ...... BRINGING ON BACK THE GOOD TIMES
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But is there any 'light at the end of the tunnel' yet ?? Hope the release date ain't still (to quote Art Freeman) Slippin Around (or Slippin away even).
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RE: the discoveries of the last 35 years represent obscurity for the sake of it and / or a celebration of the ordinary .... ..... Loads of great obscure sounds unearthed over the last 35 years so can't agree in the main .... ... but many 'ordinary sounds' are championed just coz they are SO RARE....... I'm much more of a SOUL FAN than a RARE SOUL FAN ....... give me a great William Bell Stax track over a messy obscure Detroit little label cut (substitute any other US city here) any day of the week.
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...... Would it be this one Ady ?? .. https://www.midwest45s.org/MichiganGaragePage.html
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...... RE: delivery put back by Amazon again ....... ...YEP, I got an e-mail from Amazon as well ... delivery not till after 21st June now ... .......come on,I've been a good boy ...... I deserve my CD asap !!!!!
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RIP Lou, another good one lost. I interviewed him at Prestatyn & asked what inspired "I'm Com'un Home In The Morn'un". He said it came about after a call home to his then girlfriend; she was missing him so he told her what she wanted to hear (the song title) .......... he got off the phone & wrote the lyrics out almost straight away. So I asked the obvious .... So did you head home in the morning ?? He broke down in fits of laughter and told us that he never went home to her at all.
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Herb wasn't actually on too many of the recordings that the Platters made during their spell with Musicor. The group were touring across the States all the time back in the mid to late 60's ... ... so Sonny Turner would fly back alone to New York; team up with some studio session singers, cut 4/ 5 tracks in one session (overnight -- most of the time to pre-recorded backing tracks). Next morning he would be on another plane and flying back to join the other members of the group who by then had moved onto their next engagement & were set up ready for him to undertake lead vocal duties with the others.
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Those nasty record company guys have taken the video of Stevie singing this down ... .... so we have to make do with this 'foreign' version (it beats the Lime IMO)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKOiFh1QmqI When you think of music from the Motor City, Oslo probably isn't the first place that springs to mind. But fans of Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre must have been dancing in the streets when they first heard this little corker. Issued in 1967, the song proved a hit for the singer in her homeland. By that time, she had also become one of a host of Scandinavian dolls to be taken to the German bosom, scoring a string of hits from 1965 onwards. After relocating to Germany, she entered the 1965 Deutsche Schlager-Festpiele song contest in Baden-Baden as she would get to appear before millions of German tv viewers. Although she finished in 2nd place behind Peggy March, her performance was enough to launch her career.
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Well I know if they quote a lower price first & you order it at that point .... then their price increases; they sell it to you at the price they 1st quoted !! When that happens, they always state that they sell it at the best price they can but always honour a lower price if you ordered when that was quoted. I'm sort of hoping that when the price falls after an order, they will sell it to me at the best (lowest) price they have it on at (as they have not yet dispatched my copy of the CD). Otherwise, surely I could just cancel my original order .... and then re-order at the new lower price.
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CHEERS, no doubt I'll get a partial refund from Amazon when the 2fer comes.
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Ian, what will the RRP (if there is such a thing anymore) for this 2fer CD (Amazon charged me £11 for it) ??
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Can't wait for it to come out now .... hopefully as I ordered my copy ages ago, I'll get it on Day 1.
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Bugga, I bought a copy of the CD on Amazon earlier today & only just noticed that I have to wait about 3 weeks before I get my copy !!
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....... RE: We could have done with that for the booklet Roburt! Ian, You only had to ask & a decent definition copy would have been yours. I 'collect' stuff like that and at present am assisting Emily Gibson of the Black Archives in Miami stage a show about the entertainment scene in Overtown (Colored Town), Miami back in the 1950's / 60's / 70's.
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Wow, some great tracks on this 2fer , off to buy a copy on Amazon as soon as I've posted this. Hope it sells well enough for a Vol.2 ...... as there's still many great tracks to fit onto CD .... ........ How about these ......... The Violinaires -- "Doing My Thing" OR "Condition" Brooklyn All Stars -- "We Need God" OR "Storehouse of His Love" Willie Morganfield -- "Are You Satisfied" OR "You Are Blessed" Bronner Brothers -- "Hold On To God's Unchanging Hand" .. PLUS ..... an added task ahead ........... I have the Morning Echoes of Detroit 45 track "How Do You Stand" but this is only 2min 40secs long. The 'singing bits' are great but too much of the 45 version is taken up with talking (rapping). There must be a longer version on tape with more & longer singing sections. Your mission (if you take it) is to find , mix & release that version !!
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Stan's home base .......... He specialized in BLACK GOSPEL !!!!!
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RE: Glenn Hunter would have been impressed ...... Cleggy & Prestatyn (now also sadly gone) will never seem right without Glenn being there. RIP old mate.
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Leader of the Soul Searchers back in the early 70's and DC Go Go star Chuck Brown has passed away. http://www.washingto...6zUU_story.html http://www.washingto...GGxT_story.html added by site Affectionately known as the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown created the Go Go sound. He combined Latin beats, African call and response chants and American Jazz, throwing in a touch of soul with a continuous drumbeat. This nonstop dance music is and has been a trademark of original creative music from the nations capital, Washington, D.C., and has gained Chuck Brown worldwide fans. Chuck Brown began his musical career in the early 60s. His first stage experience was with Jerry Butler and the Earls of Rhythm. Then in 1965, he joined Los Latinos, whose syncopated backbeat enthralled him. This experience gave Chuck the confidence to get out on his own, incorporating all these styles into his band and introducing a sound unlike anything available at that time. I got sick and tired of watching people sitting around, Chuck says Disco was too fast-people didnt want to get all sweaty, and they just sat down. So we cut the beat in half. Chuck called this new sound Go Go, because it never stops. Chuck Brown exploded onto the scene in 1971 with his first hit We The People. In 1972 he scored again, with the hit Blow Your Whistle. This was followed by the gold album Bustin Loose and the ..1 hit single of the same name on MCA/Source Records. full bio can be read via http://www.myspace.com/chuckbrowndc
