Chas

Had it all figured out didn't he? Fast forward a few years and most of those luminaries he mentions go on record saying the quality and volume of 60's unknown 45's was on the wane. Whilst I agree with him on the stale playlist subject i take exception with his superiority complex. You tend to live and die by what you say on this scene and sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for as you just might get it! Stood in a venue with the pondie boys and a scattering of other flat earthers with no chance of getting an atmosphere going, not my cup of tea. After all it's a 10 Yr period and no matter how prolific it was, it could only be a finite figure. It may have been seen as 'their scene' by some but it wasn't, most people progressed from the 'jet age' to further their education and were just as passionate as they were, more in fact. 'Judge baby.. i rest my case.'

This by Dusty Wilson, re hashed as 'gonna be a tragedy' to great acclaim.

Solaris juxtaposed between Lolleata Holloway and M'tume, the best £5 you could ever spend at one time, stands against any of the big hitters does that, inspired selection.

Still as strong, still gives me goosebumps after nearly 40 years, that's value for money!

Always found this to be quite uplifting, great 'rallying call' intro, probably came across it first at the halcyon monthly all dayers at the Manchester Ritz in the 70's.

Move away all sharp and pointy things before playing.

Styrene tastes like chicken, vinyl tastes like tripe and makes your wee smell like sugar puffs... So i heard!

At a soul charity event for alzheimers some time back, a chap with a megaphone at the pre event rally... 'what do we want?..' we don't know!.. 'when do we want it?..' want what? '.

Didn't Tommy Ridgeley see the light of day at Wigan? Maybe in the latter stages.

Check the website below, a mine of information.

He was playing this little ditty around the same time, under the guise of Des O Connor. It emerged some time later covered by Carl Fortnum as Tony Middleton, superb track for the dance floors.

Not forgetting Eddie Rey.

Quality 45 from those guys,as good as anything coming from the U.S. at the time,a real beauty.

Killer from the man.

Amazing how things change isn't it? Not long ago it seemed that specialist radio shows were no longer viable due to low response to advertising, putting the podcast at the forefront of specialist programming.A welcome return this is, albeit in the"graveyard"slot.

Did he have an"ask Pete"agony column for the confused amongst us?..or even"pop up"surgeries from various venues? They could've been held in adjoining cubicles in the bogs along the lines of a confessional...forgive me Pete,for I know not what I do,I have succumbed to the lure of the 12"..'ll get me coat!

I would have thought it was easy to make comments like those at that time,I'm sure no one thought there was a finite amount of top quality 60's sounds to be discovered, but as we know from the last few years this is turning out to be the case.So who's the forward thinker?.Would be interesting to have his opinion today, would he still be as static or would he have thrown his hat in with the majority of us?

"Hair is the first thing,and teeth the second, hair and teeth.. A man got those two things, he's got the lot"..James Brown(who had both in abundance)

Fast forward 40 years,and the lead singer with"a flock of seagulls"revived that hair do..or hair don't in this case!

How can you have an authentic celebration of that great club when the music that featured at that time will be played in the lesser of the two rooms?

Didn't Ian do a version of"hang on in there baby"with Johnny Bristol and Liz Lands a few years ago?

It's a commercial radio station that relies on advertising for its very existence,the days of specialist programmes going to air are long gone,expect classic tracks with ads aimed at fifty year olds and over.For truly forward thinking formats the arena for that is podcasts.

Saw both Dionne Warwick and Martha Reeves live not to long ago,very disappointing,both well past thier best and Martha looked like Arthur! It's true what they say about going to see your heroes,it can be disappointing,specially if it was Jimmy Saville.

Now how sad is that?The Wilton has been one of the few progressive venues,ran by folk who really care,been sad to see the club go down but those guys can be proud of what they have achieved at that venue.

Butch has probably eclipsed all the major jocks,and rightly so.Its easy to say Richard was fed by John Anderson but folk throw that old chestnut in as if Richard obeyed orders and played what he was told to.If he didnt rate em,they didnt get played.