Sal

Had some great nights in there when it first opened. Wick Barrett used to DJ when I used to go.

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Good one Twoshoes Junior Walker and his sax........never fails for me

Got to say that last night's slot on the one show was............ ...........as useful to the scene as a chocolate fireguard

Absolutely Andy Jackie Wilson at 30 and Levi Stubbs at 48 ?????????? Get out o' town .......top ten positions in my humble opinion. Junior Walker and Jackie Lee missing there for me as well ......and not even a mention of Jimmy Ruffin??

No problem mister.......I'm just one of those old fossils from the 60's......you know what we're like

Don't be silly sir cumference........just because some of the music wasn't to my taste doesn't mean to say that it wasn't a crackin' venue. There is no doubt whatsoever that some wonderful classics came from the Casino. Just think it's an age thing.....I started off late 60's on the soul scene so my "tastes" tend to be a little bit different to the younger ones who started going to the Casino around mid 70's.

Think that's the problem I have with these sort of tunes if I'm being honest......can't get my head round pop music being classed as any genre of soul music. But that's just my own personal take on it.....probably an age thing (and I'm mighty bl**dy old !! haha )

Wouldn't class it as either to be honest.....it's just pop music to me that

......oh and add that Gary Lewis (son of Jerry Lewis) ....^My Hearts Symphony".......words fail me

Bobby Goldsboro......"It's Too Late" ........ how the hell that is classed as soul music I'll never know. Tunes like this one was probably one of the reasons I didn't last long at Wigan. Thankfully, there was some excellent classics came out of the Casino but there sure as hell was some utter cr*p as well.....just my own humble opinion here

Just listened to that track Bazza, and yeah, like that just as much as the Marvin Gaye one. Can't believe I've never heard either one of these before because "All For You" has been one of my favourite instrumentals for years and years. Soul music......can one person EVER get to hear every single track out there in their lifetime???

.......to come across something you've not heard before. Never knew that Marvin Gaye had done this vocal version of Earl van Dykes *All For You"......one of my favourite instrumentals. Like it

Hated this but it was definitely a girlie tune.......

That's brilliant.....well done all

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I can still remember being at the Cromwellian in Bolton early 70's the first time I heard James Brown's version of "There Was A Time" and just fell in love with it straight away. Hadn't even heard the Gene Chandler's equally good version of it then. If I close my eyes I can still feel myself right there dancing my little feet off to it......still get's me going even now when I hear it. Happy days

Hell's bells.....yes !! Agreed ZootSuit

First visit to Wigan for me was in 1974 when I was 19 years old. Did about half a dozen visits in that year then gave it the big heave ho I'm afraid......couldn't get into some of the tunes that were being churned out, probably because I was one of the "older" ones who had started off in the soul scene as a young teenager during the late 60's early 70's in the Twisted Wheel days (my haunt was The Cromwellian in Bolton). Having said that though, there was, thankfully, some absolute top classics came out of Wigan. One guy who did used to go to Wigan (an old Twisted Wheel soulie), who I still see at the local soul night was Fred (Dicky) Dickinson from Bolton who was very well known (still is well known around the Bolton/Manchester area). Fred turned 65 years old last week so he must have been mid 20's when he first started going, and believe me, he can still strut his stuff. It just doesn't matter what age you were then, or are now......if that music is in your blood, then it just doesn't leave you. For as long as I've still got my health and can still stand upright, I'll be on that dance floor (maybe not quite as energetically as I USED to do, but I STILL have the need to get on up there ) Age is just a number......

If there's any Bolton soulies on here who are as ancient ( ) as me who frequented the famous Wheatsheaf pub in the early 70's......this one was always being played on the juke box. Some fab memories from way back then.......where did the years go???

Absolutely ......I'm totally uneducated when it comes to labels, bootlegs, originals etc. Still got two record cases full of old classics from way back very early 70's that I used to buy from a mailing list that was posted to me every month (my teenage days) but I wouldn't even know if any of them where original or copies. Wouldn't part with them for anything because there value to me is purely sentimental......and that's about as romantic as I get

Love how some of you guys pull a record apart, disect it, discuss it, elaborate on it and then give your final verdict on it......and I mean that in a complimentary way Then there's me.......play it, like it, dance to it......that's it. Easily pleased me....lol

One that reminds me so much of the Cromwellian in Bolton, early 70's is this one......takes me back