Sean Hampsey

Yep - I'm sure Sam would have played it, along with Arthur too. 

Robbie Vincent may well have played it on Radio one, but he didn't join the Beeb until 1983, so that would have been after the event, so to speak.

It was a Top 5 Northern tune through most of 1982 and most of the top half doz DJ's of the time will have played it!

See 1982 Northern Soul DJ's, Venues & Tracks chart which should show what was going on at the time... 33 years ago!

Cheers,

Sean

Very good Peter thanks mate.

Just thinking, Steve Croft would probably have played it a few times too at Cleggy from the 'share' box.

Reading the comment above, I understand it wasn't 'classic Northern' but these were very creative times and we were committed to playing the whole of Soul, which often meant the best of the new releases in particular!

Sean

Yep - I played it from new release, every weekend for a couple of years in fact (right up until Parr Hall and Morecambe).

Was a big play at Clifton Hall, KGB, Cleethorpes and Bradford Queens Hall.

And you're right Peter, a couple of us played it, probably Steve and Pat from memory.

Humungous Clifton record.

Sean

I have the Green issue, if you want Ady?

Sean

I played it out every weekend for several months, must have been around mid '75? Agree John, a huge record around S.Yorks at the time.

There was certainly more than 300 pressed. Dave gave me my copy some 25+ years ago. He always had piles of them around the house, in light blue sleeves, just as they were the day they were pressed. When he died I saw at least 30 copies in his collection, before they went. Infact I know where 30 mint and unplayed copies are right now.

Sean

Nice one John. Can you show the playlist?

Cheers,

Sean

Interesting that.

I always remember Poke saying to me 35 or so years ago, when talking about digging in Detroit, 'we used to tread on Jock Mitchell's to get to the good stuff'

Sean

​This is the rare 45.

Every home should have one!

Sean

I used to play the Three Degrees version early 80's at Bradford nighters, a few good years before we knew of the TT Motown version. Storming record.

Sean

So, this can be assumed to be a boot?

 

Also, forgive me but I don't know who Bob Catteneo is??

'Daly City' Bob used to press up indemand Nothern Soul records in the 1970's and every now in then he'd throw in a coloured 'special' into the pack.

If this is one of those (which is very likely, being mono/mono) it's a bootleg, but obviously a pretty rare one.

Sean

Sean

Looks like a Daly City Bob Catteneo job.

Very pretty.

Really need to upgrade my copy of this great 45.

If you have a reasonable playing copy and would like to sell it for a suitable figure then please pm me and let's do business.

Thank you in anticipation.

Sean

Yep, you might be right Chalks. It was certainly being punted around by a few at that time. Maybe got a spin early Thorne under Gary and Steve Killer, but pinpointing it to its earliest spins, I guess it must have been 100 Club and Dave at Stafford.

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Sean

It's easy to see how a few folk might have suggested Thorne Ian. It's just I don't remember it there whatsoever. It was clearly getting plays in the UK before then and Thorne was always 'groundbreaking' - apart from the odd real 'classic' thrown in for good measure.

I'd most likely go along with Dave's take on it. Played around mid - late 80's at Stafford and 100 club. I say that because the lads who raved to us about FTOH (Danny Speddings & Bob Steer) were ardent fans of both venues. Dean at Parkers and the Pitches boys played it and helped it reach its peak, but it was originally broken a few years before then.

A truly Fantastic record.

Sean

I would have said "Please Don't Go" was Pat Brady, every weekend, late 70's / early 80's.

Never heard anyone else play it, at that time, like he did.

Also, don't believe I ever heard 'First Taste Of Hurt' played at Thorne... and I never missed one.

Funny how 20 -30+ years later things sometimes get a little cloudy, but I'm pretty sure FTOH was never really a Thorne record.

Sean

 

 

IMO I would trace it back to Rod Dearlove Voices / Canal Tavern, then probably 'across the board' venues like Pitches, plus 100 Club where Mick Smith was playing George Hughley for example.

 

 

We all had it (and hammered it) back at Pitches. Copies were around for about a tenner. Think we were introduced to it some years earlier by a young Danny Spedding at Capones. Danny was a real enthusiast and always had a good ear.

Sean

I found 200 copies in a record shop in the late 8ts.  I left 100 behind, thinking that they were hard to move (as they were then, even at £4)  I know there were a few blue label copies in there, but at the time i didn't realise that they were a different version.  Initially, I used to ask anyone who wanted to buy a copy, 'which colour label they wanted'  It really was a different collectors scene then.

Jim Russell's will have had a stack back then. I left a dozen Willie Tee 'Walkin' on Nola for 5 bucks each, thinking nobody would have wanted them.

I'll drink to that Steve ?

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Ah! That's what happened. Clouded memory! Thanks Arthur.

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Sean

Didn't a copy go missing in the post, between Richard and Sam... Or someone or other, many moons ago?

Can't remember the detail. Big Thorne record at the time.

Pretty awful record in comparison to most big tunes of the time (Corey Blake, Bobby Reed, Tony Lampkin etc.)

Sean

I assume Bobby Moore = Score...

Think you're right Godz.

Unfortunate use of 'rhyming slang' on a Soul 45 thread.

But thought I'd better check, just in case there was a Bobby Moore record I'd missed.

Sean

I've noticed Edwin Starr- Running back & fourth and Aristocrats - Lets get together on La Coupe.

What's the Bobby Moore ?

Which Bobby Moore is that?

Sean