Chatty

As she alluded to Elton John is a massive soul fan, and by all accounts used to visit The Wheel in the late 60s before he made it big whenever he was gigging in the North West!

If memory serves not long after Craig Charles first appeared in Coronation St, Northern Soul and Wigan got a mention and his characters reply was "yes the Pier, what a club"!

There you go that should keep you busy well into the New Year!

Better still it says.. "must go to a good home"... Now call me a cynic but I reckon if you offered him 6 times the going rate and told him you always "wiped your backside on a record after playing it" you'd still get it!

"The 5 records if I had to rescue from my collection before they all went up in smoke:" 1 My World is on Fire--Jimmy Mack 2 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- The Platters 3 Keeps on Burning--Burning Bush 4 Please Operator-- Tony&Tyrone 5 Panic-- Reparata & The Delrons No apologies, it's that's time of year and I' am bored Sh...... witless!

After recent finds could we say without fear of contradiction that it would be impossible to make a counterfeit that would fool everyone? Especially one like say the DB which is the first on that label to appear so no one as reference to any other for comparison? Art forgers have managed to knock up Rembrants etc that have fooled " the experts" for years, and the price these top end records are fetching it must be worthwhile if possible? There are plenty of people who are convinced man never stepped on the moon and it was all a con, counterfeiting a 7 inch piece of vinyl in comparison would be a doddle surely?

So after 3 pages of debate on here, am I allowed to call my FW on Tamla an original or not?

Mentioned "soul producer Ian Levine".

That would be brilliant, maybe the mods could do some sort of "matrix box thingyo" where people could type in a tune and others could confirm where it was first played, there would then be no need for an ongoing thread on said subject! Anyway anything that would stop "dr watson" on You Tube from nearly self combusting every time someone mistakenly called a record a Wigan sound when it had been played elsewhere first has got to be worth a go surely!

The start of Tommy Hunt's Loving on the Losing Side not just influenced by Harold Melvin's The Love I Lost but was a complete lift, as admitted by RW many moons ago!

Don Ray, Born A Loser 1.41?

Don't know if it made the "monster category", and if now forgotten? but;

The theme from Joe 9..... only kidding!

Remember this being big for a while, don't know if it still gets a spin?

Header Says Wigan ETC PJ Proby You can't come home?

Jay Traynor, Up and Over The Inspirations, Your Wish is my Command

The Ad Libs, New York in the Dark

Mad Jimmy the doorman, rite fecking monster, i 've never forgotten him!

It free P+P though!

The flats are set further back than where Central railway station was situated, across the other side of the River Douglas if you look at the old map already uploaded!

Having used Station road thousands of times not only going to the Casino but in later years having moved across town I always used the steps at the side of the cinema to walk up Station road to get into town. I would say Debenham's is situated were the cinema and the car park opposite the Casino was, and the Blue plaque is stuck on the cafe next door to the were the Casino was!

You must have missed the Blue Plaque unveiled the other week downstairs from the cafe.

Sure when Dave Godin coined the phrase he was referring to the type of music rather than the attire?

Adolf's not impressed, "I heard you whistling Nine times out of Ten! Classic!!