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..... to perform .... in late August ..... https://www.beachlandballroom.com/calendar.asp?Page=11

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.

.. and yet another duet ....

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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.

The Prolifics ... who earlier had gone by the name of the Moovers (Deep City).

CHEERS, no doubt I'll get a partial refund from Amazon when the 2fer comes.

Ian, what will the RRP (if there is such a thing anymore) for this 2fer CD (Amazon charged me £11 for it) ??

Trevor Vallis produced soulie type stuff by Casablanca (for Elton John's Rocket label) in 1973 .... ... AND .... Sandy Davis í…½- A.P.B. (All Points Bulletin) a 45 for Pacific Records (a W.Bros distributed label in the US) in 1978. In 1979 he produced Sylvia Love on "Extraterrestrial Lover" & "Instant Love" (RCA). He seems to have (usually) used London area studios for the sessions he ran back then & worked with artists who also used the likes of Ian Levine + Stock, Aitken & (ex NS DJ Pete) Waterman to produce their tracks. By the 80's he had moved onto to dance, pop & rock stuff.

Been on holiday all week so "Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday" is most apt. William has been performing live for over 50 years now & yet I can't wait to see him at Cleggy. Back over 40 years ago, he got to spend a Christmas perfoming in Miami ....

Back 'across the tracks' & Xmas 1969 saw upcoming Cleggy star William Bell entertaining the punters ...

Get some work done our kid !!!

A 'white audience' show on Miami Beach in September 1970. Jesse Lee Ferguson had got tired of his group being the Outer Limits and by this time they had become the Jet Setters. Support act Little Willie has to be southern soul icon Little Willie Johnson who recorded down in Miami shortly after this show was staged (though he wasn't from Florida). What the white audience made of this deep soul & gospel singer I can only guess. Anyone know which set of SOUL SETTERS the act also on this bill would have been ??

Can't wait for it to come out now .... hopefully as I ordered my copy ages ago, I'll get it on Day 1.

Marie Knight followed the Impressions (& was on with them) ....

RE: Most of the RSD release are forgettable or "interesting" at best In your opinion only ..... I know that just about all of the Ace RSD releases are very much sought after & you have to be a lucky punter to actually get a copy of some of them. Of course, you can always buy the track on the alternative CD release (which most folks do). But as we all know, some folk are vinyl only.

Another Philly artist hits Miami ...

Still buy blind, especially when out in a shop looking thru the racks. If it looks promising & the price is right, I risk it. Picked up some dross (pop, C&W, etc) & some goodies that way (mind you I like 60's, 70's 80's, 90's, Y2K, slow, deep, dancers, blues, gospel, funk, jazzy, southern, Motown, etc).

RE: I'd expect to hear that type of rhetoric from divvies, but it's a bit odd to hear it in soul music circles. Steve, I think you will find that there are 100's of divvies in soul music circles. I know a guy who loves 70's Curtis Mayfield & yet don't like 1960's Impression's track .... go figure; he has to be a real divvie.

Cal Roberts is still performing ...... see here for info on him .... https://www.doubleexposureinc.com/legendslive/bio/croberts.html .............. ALSO ................. A few memories of a dancer at 'CASTAWAYS' and other venues in the Miami Beach area ..... 1. TOMMY STRAND AND THE UPPER HAND WERE PLAYING AT THE CASTAWAYS ALONG WITH SOME OTHER BANDS 2. JOE HART, THE FATHER OF TELEVISION PERSONALITY JEANNIE HART, OWNED THE CASTAWAYS 3. ANOTHER BAND BY THE NAME OF GEORGIE PORGIE AND THE CRY BABIES PLAYED AT THE CASTAWAYS AS WELL (I BELIEVE THAT THE SISTER OF THE LEAD SINGER WAS IN THE BAND AND, I THINK, PLAYED THE KEYBOARD) 4. CAL ROBERTS SANG THERE AS WELL AND SO DID HELEN GLOVER 5. ONE NIGHT I WENT TO WORK AT THE CASTAWAYS AND LEARNED THAT THE SAX PLAYER IN ONE OF THE BANDS, A GUY NAMED " DIZZY" HAD MYSTERIOUSLY DIED 6. A GUY NAMED "LARRY" WAS A GREAT GUY WHO WARNED ME,JUST A KID FROM MISSISSIPPI AT THE TIME, TO STAY AWAY FROM THE MOBSTERS, AS HE HAD BEEN MARRIED TO A GIRL WHOSE FATHER WAS IN THE MOB AND IT WAS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK AWAY 7. I SAW FATS DOMINO AT THE 'NEWPORT HOTEL PUB' AND WAYNE COCHRAN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. COCHRAN HAD A HABIT OF JUMPING OFF STAGE AND BUSTING UP BOTTLES OF BOOZE. HE WAS QUITE AN ENTERTAINER. ( COUNTLESS YEARS LATER I SAW WAYNE SHOW UP AT MY FORMER CHURCH IN MARGATE AS A PASTOR.) 8. BY THE WAY, FUN THING ABOUT THE CASTAWAYS....YOU COULD SIT AT THE BAR THERE AND SEE PEOPLE SWIMMING THROUGH WINDOWS BEHIND THE BAR....LOTSA' FUN! 9. I ALSO DANCED AT THE MARCO POLO BRIEFLY WHEN A BAND LED BY "JUSTIN" (CAN'T REMEMBER REST OF NAME) WAS THERE. WILSON PICKETT WAS A GUEST PERFORMER IN OUR SHOWS AS WELL AS A LEANER AND MEANER "CHUBBY" CHECKER. I THINK THAT THE GREAT PETER MARSHALL BAND WAS THERE AS WELL. Mike Vetro and "The Treasure Chests" were another group that played the '7 SEAS' Club & Lounge in the Newport Motel (see earlier ads I have posted here). also .... a Ken Dixon states that he played with The Brass Dimension in the WRECK BAR (in Castaways -- see earlier ads) in 1969. They were, by default, the house band and backed up singers Dorian, Cal Roberts, Helen Glover and The Fabulettes. He says that the best bar in the area was one block west of the strip on 163rd Street, 'The Funky Broadway'. Tommy Strand and The Upper Hand played there. A pic of the Newport Hotel (where the 7 SEAS club was sited) on Miami Beach.

One of Clyde Killens posters just seems to say '5 Big Acts' ........... I thought the newspaper ad might be more specific, but it seems that it isn't that much better ... Here is the ad that I assume is for that show (staged in Oct 66) .... ALSO NOTE at the bottom of the flyer that upcoming act Sam Early & the Sweet Daddies will be playing the venue after .... '3 years across the tracks' so I guess they were just finishing a long engagement at a local 'white audience' venue.

Paul Kelly was on this show ....

There's some more Philly related acts to come, but I thought i'd post up this piccy of a Windy City act that played Miami in 66 ...

May 62 and Detroit meets Philly on the same bill ......