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  1. Frankie Crocker
    A very good record, overlooked for decades. Big floorfiller in the last decade so demand has soared, as has the price. Got mine for £25 at the 100 Club in the Nineties. Yes, there are better records, but this up-tempo stormer is what it's all about.
  2. Frankie Crocker
    I think it’s an Emidisc with scratches revealing the metal underneath. The stuck on photocopied label has peeled off at the lower left - nothing a dab of Pritt Stick can’t fix. The spindle hole for a USA record has been cut by a blunt pair of primary school scissors. This is a very rare case of a USA label being applied to a record. Bids starting at £10,000 for this one-of-a-kind piece of legendary memorabilia...
  3. Frankie Crocker
    Best viewed as an end of an era mini-documentary. Frank Wilson was one of a tiny number of records that crossed over into the public domain - as its value soared, the legend grew. If Russ actually played the tune out on an Emi-disc-carver-thingy, then such an artefact merits a place in the Wigan museum when the time comes. Whether records were first spun at Wigan or just popularised there, a little bit of information to educate the public is not a bad thing.
  4. Frankie Crocker
    So, did he actually own a copy back in the70’s? I know Soussan pilfered a file copy to bootleg the Eddie Foster cover-up - did this copy end up with Russ?
  5. Frankie Crocker
    Russ needed a copy of Frank Wilson to flash in the clip, but as there’s only two in existence, he had to improvise. As far as I’m aware, he has not stated he actually possesses a copy.
  6. Frankie Crocker
    Maybe a lookalikey mocked up for the clip? Nevertheless, a seriously important disc back in the day and of course, a big spin at the finale. Enjoyed the whole segment.
  7. Frankie Crocker
    Hi Tim. You were indeed a lucky lad. Please tell us more about the first Allnighter. By the way, I’m in the market for the yellow badge given out that night - I’d be happy to take it off you in return for a stack of Mecca sounds...
  8. Frankie Crocker
    Mike Post and Lee Andrews were both spun during the month of March 1974. Both sounds were taped by yours truly and posted by Pete Smith on here.
  9. Frankie Crocker
    The suspense is finally over. Giovanni did not make it through to the next round. The scene can now return to its usual state of freedom, contentment and joy...
  10. Frankie Crocker
    Steve Caesar from Leeds won the first one. Gethro Jones of Wolverhampton was third. A young lady was second but I do not know her name - she might have been the lass who featured in This England, a laundry worker from Leigh but I’m very hazy on this.
  11. Frankie Crocker
    Thanks for the heads up. Russ is a top man in my books. Stuart Maconie is excellent value. Both Wigan men, I’d expect them to do justice to the subject.
  12. Frankie Crocker
    Fortunately, it was not my copy but it belonged to someone else who didn’t rate it. Think I read about it on here years ago. I wince in pain when I read these stories.
  13. Frankie Crocker
    Ouch... Nearly as bad as throwing a Magnetics on Bonnie off Cleethorpes Pier. Good luck with your search.
  14. Frankie Crocker
    Did you manage to collect every record played at Wigan? Sticking closely to the topic of the thread, would you say that the ‘best’ records brought the best out of the dancers at the Casino?
  15. Frankie Crocker
    I missed out Jimmy Burns...
  16. Frankie Crocker
    Donna King, Johnny Hendley, Yvonne Vernee, Holly St James...still big sounds today but rarer than ever Thanks for posting. A great set of tunes.
  17. Frankie Crocker
    Necklace had a black fist. Sandy wore towelling wristbands and tucked a beer towel into the waistband of his bags. Probably did more than anyone else to present a much-copied dress style as he was an eye-catching dancer with a much-copied routine of acrobatic stunts in between stints of pedestrian footwork.
  18. Frankie Crocker
    A couple of tasty rare tracks here but quite a few poppy-soul sounds too. The Sharonettes were big in September 1974. Tommy Hunt given a big plug as the Casino’s house act. The chart reads like a sales listing of UK tracks and recently pressed bootlegs available. Some really popular tracks are not mentioned yet they peaked mid ‘75 eg Pye Disco Demand series.
  19. Frankie Crocker
    Not too sure about this. I think she’s dancing for the camera. She’s mixing up three styles of dancing with bit of showing off thrown in. Admittedly, the tune prompts a bit of doing the fandango, but the video star has got carried away methinks. There are better video clips of her strutting her stuff at other venues.
  20. Frankie Crocker
    Not convinced the warped record in the oven between two sheets of glass method works. I tried it with a Lonnie Lester and well and truly corrugated it. In the short run, you can increase the tracking weight of the tone arm, but this is a nuisance. In the long run, I would upgrade the record if it was a favourite that was played regularly. There are old record decks out there that play warped vinyl without significant deterioration so maybe need to sell on to another collector.
  21. Frankie Crocker
    Glad the thread is still running. Hottest topic on here for a while. Please keep it open as it is a great read with lots of good clips. AND we’re really looking forward to the next show...
  22. Frankie Crocker
    Some good tunes here. The answer is ultra-catchy up-tempo but not too fast. Would need to be well known as most dancers back off when confronted with ground-breaking tunes. Of the above, Delites or Marie Knight would do the trick. Constellations for sure. Joe Hicks ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Funky’ might be better than his rare track perhaps?
  23. Frankie Crocker
    Yep. Dancing on autopilot. The more proficient interprete the music and adapt their footwork. Shuffle to 70’s and stomp to 70’s... or is it the other way around? Some lads and lasses in the video clips mix the two styles up to good effect. And a big nod of thanks to Judd and others fir providi g the clips.
  24. Frankie Crocker
    Now there’s a title for the next BBC Saturday night prime time slot - ‘The Effortless Dancer’... But maybe not as we dance for pleasure and not the cameras, we dance to the music and not the judges, we dance in grungy subterranean caverns and not under the spotlights, we dance for ourselves and not a critical audience.
  25. Frankie Crocker
    He’s just mucking around in front of the camera after putting in a bit of serious footwork. The trousers confirm he has a sense of humour and knows a good tailor. Now the lass in the reddish-orange top is really showing how it can be done


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