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    You don't have to look much further than my "Top Tips" thread, at New Year, where I tipped it.

    Scouring around looks as though someone's done a good job of hoovering them all up!

    Sean

    Here's the handful I played down Yarmouth way, this year!

     

    Jim Wray Lounge – Saturday Evening

    1. Curtis Mayfield – To Be Invisible – Buddah
    2. The Dells – Tripped, Slipped, Stumbled & Fell – ABC
    3. Shirley Brown – When You Really Love Somebody – Arista
    4. Sam Dees – I Found Love In My Own Backyard – Sterling Sound Acetate
    5. Dynamic Tints – No One Else Will Do – Previously Unreleased Twinight
    6. Carlson Oliver – Stay Away – Unreleased / Pre Release
    7. Johnny Adams – Lonely Man – SSS International
    8. Peggy Scott – Nobody’s Gonna Get Your Mama – ATCO
    9. Harold Holt – I’m a Stranger – Rujac
    10. Thomas Bailey – Wish I Was Back – Federal
    11. Bobby McClure – To Get What You Got – Hi
    12. Bill Wright – Tomorrow – Smoke City
    13. Don Covay – Somebody’s Been Enjoying My Home – Mercury
    14. Candi Staton – I’m Gonna Hold On – UA
    15. Dan Penn – I Need Some One – MGM
    16. Smokey 007 – My Precious World – Birdland
    17. Camille Bob – I Wake Up Crying – Whit
    18. Bobby Womack – Thank You - Minit

    Main Room – Saturday Night

    1. Wilson Pickett – I Want You – EMI
    2. Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair – Epic
    3. Creative Source – Who Is He – Sussex
    4. Greg Perry – Come On Down – Casablanca
    5. Bobby Womack – I Can Understand It – UA
    6. Bobby Womack – I Don’t Wanna Be Hurt By Your Love Again – UA
    7. Bobby Womack – How Could You Break My Heart – Arista
    8. Four Tops – I Just Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind – Probe
    9. Four Tops – Still Water – TMG
    10. Sam Dees – Lonely For You Baby – SSS International
    11. Sam Dees – After All – RCA
    12. Lamont Dozier – Can’t Get Off – WB
    13. Big Brookln Red – Taking It Too Far – Soul Brother
    14. Willie Tee – First Taste Of Hurt – Gatur
    15. Darrow Fletcher – It’s No Mistake – Crossover
    16. Aretha Franklin – Oh No Not My Baby – Atlantic
    17. Bobby Patterson – I’m In Love With You – Action
    18. Ann Sexton – You’ve Been Gone – Seventy Seven

    Main Room – Sunday Lunchtime – Goodbye Songs

    1. Silk – Simply Beautiful – Prelude
    2. King Floyd – I’m For Real – Chimneyville
    3. Jae Mason – Woman – Buddah
    4. Gregg Jackson – One For The Road – KYP
    5. Maxin Swann – Don’t Send Nobody Else – Unreleased / Pre Release
    6. Street People – Your Momma Had A Baby – Unreleased / Pre Release
    7. Loretha Vanover – I’m Here To Give It To You – Chas Ann
    8. Curtis Mayfield – Show Me Love – Curtom
    9. Joe Hinton – Don’t Tell Her The Truth – Dunhill
    10. JP Robinson – Our Day Is Here – Blue Candle
    11. Doc Peabody – Here Without You – Best Sides
    12. Ann Bogus – Don’t Ask Me To Love Again – Statue
    13. 2001 Black Essence – Change In My Life – JWJ
    14. Talmadge Armstrong – Give It Up – Spindletop
    15. The Implements – Look Over Your Shoulder – Philips
    16. Dontells – I’m Gonna Tell The World – VJ
    17. Lamont Dozier – Take Off Your Makeup – ABC
    18. Deltones – Be Thankful – Soulvation
    19. Love Affair – I Can’t Stop Loving You – UA
    20. Bobby Patterson – I Get My Groove From You – Paula
    21. Love Committee – Tired Of Being Your Fool – UK Test Pressing
    22. Johnnie Taylor – You’re The Best In The World – CBS
    23. Ronnie Dyson – I Want To Be Where You Are – Columbia
    24. Deena – Bring Your Loving Back Home
    25. The Jones Girls – Baby Don’t Go Yet – Phil Int
    26. Cynthia Sheeler – I’ll Cry Over You – JB’s
    27. King Floyd – I’m Gonna Fall In Love With You – Chimneyville
    28. Al Wilson – Show And Tell
    29. Al Johnson – I’m Back For More – CBS
    30. Al Johnson – I’ve Got My Second Wind – Columbia
    31. Debbie Taylor – I Don’t Wanna Leave You - Arista

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

    Remember singing "That's How It Is" to my 'then' wife with Otis, in his dressing room, 20 odd years ago. It wasn't a great performance, to be honest, (I ruined it) but he'd missed it off the show and I was hell bent on hearing it.

    One of the greatest real Soul records in the history of the universe. Period.

    The flip side is my old Jimmy Burns cover up from early Bradford days.

    Sean

    One of my favourite tunes from Pitches was by Skip Mahoney but I can't remember any details. Can anyone shed any light?

    Pretty sure it was Sean that used to play it.

     

    I'd picked this up on a limited edition CD in Baltimore.

     

    The shop I bought it from were the only place selling it at the time.

     

    The title was 'Overnight Success' but I used to announce it as 'Send Your Love Back To Me'.

     

    Which I guess could make it the first instance of a CD 'cover up', lol.

     

    It was certainly a very big tune at Pitches / Phoenix and Soul Essence etc, at the time.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

    'Kinel!! 20 years!

     

    Pitches was perfect & Phoenix phantastic. My favourite times. 

     

    Marie Franklin, Being In Love Ain't Easy off Gary for a fiver. Oh yes. (And many, many more similar besides)....

     

    Tomorrows Wish, My Love With You.... not heard that out since I don't think..... Criminal! Diggin it out now as I type.....

     

    Didn't we end up 'upstairs' at Phoenix? It's a bit hazy now.... :-)

     

    20 years? Insane. 

     

    Hi Steve,

     

    Yes mate, we ended up upstairs!

     

    No idea how many we did up there, but I always liked that room. Downstairs was huge and difficult to fill for our type of music, but moving from Pitches to Phoenix gave us the extra hour that people begged us for. The upstairs room was a nice compromise, but it seems every venue has a life span and it can't have lasted more than a few months.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

    Canal Tavern, Thorne, was easily the best venue in the country for a very long while; when under Gary and Steve Kilgour and later under the auspice of Rod Dearlove.

     

    The playlist from those years set the bedrock and tone of the 'crossover' scene for years to come.

     

    Rod Dearlove, to me, was one of the very best collector / DJ's.

     

    He always displayed excellent taste and wit. A great entertainer on all levels.

     

    Proud to say Rod worked for us at The Phoenix in Dec 1998 - Can't remember if he did Pitches or not? Guys, can you recall? (I do know I only got to work at his venue, Thorne, the once, so I guess that was about right :D). 

     

    I think Dec '98 was the last night, from memory!

     

    See photograph & flyer of the night below!

     

    Superb!

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

     

     

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    Right, I've fired up the scanner a done a few from that first year. First off is a playlist, from Echoes, affectionately called "Pitches Bitches"!

     

    attachicon.gifSoul Solution Pitches Bitches Autumn 1995.jpg

     

    Next up is a 'newsletter' we put out, originally from an article in Derek Pearson's mag, Shades of Soul:

     

    attachicon.gifPitches The Soul Solution p1.jpg    attachicon.gifPitches The Soul Solution p2.jpg

     

    Finally, an article from Echoes around the time of the first anniversary, with a short review of the second tape we gave out at the back end of 1995.

     

    attachicon.gifSoul Solution Pitches 1 year Echoes Jan 1996.jpg

     

    That's all for now - thanks for the interest!  :thumbup:

     

    They're brilliant John.

     

    Playlists were streets ahead, looking back, even though I say it meself!

     

    Great stuff matey.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

    I don't think Chris is trying to make the facts fit his memory of how it was - he's not exactly on his own on this. Others have also commented similarly.

    Yes, the demo 45 does state February 1974 as it's release date and the LP does show 1974 as it's (P) date.

     

    It is odd that we have similar thoughts on the period, but it was 41 years back so things can get a little hazy  :g:

     

    But I can relate to Sean's comment regarding the R. Dean Taylor song getting plays from the MFP LP and maybe it is that that's confusing some of us a bit?

     

    Hazy is right John.

     

    It's a long time ago.

     

    I just don't have 'Baby Hit And Run' in my mind or memory as a one time 'LP only' record.

     

    I think the 45 snook out in early '74 without much of a fanfare and then Russ (and I also seem to recall the Mecca :g:) started playing it.

     

    It was big that Summer and the LP then made an appearance and because of it's budget price a lot of us bought.

     

    Fascinating discussion.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

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    Thanks Kimbo, Dave, Jim, Baz etc. :thumbsup:

     

    Here's a photograph taken at Pitches of the Pitches and Phoenix DJ's.

     

    Left to Right : Sean Hampsey, Tats Taylor, John Benson, Kev Briscoe.

     

    We all look very much older now (except John Benson who we are convinced bathes daily in Royal Jelly).

     

    And yes, we're all still putting a shift in 'occasionally' too!

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

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    Edited by Sean Hampsey

    OMG! that reminds me of the night we (me, Flanny and Ged Lunt) came over from St Helens, we used to be descibed collectively as the 'Scousers'! .....and we got snowed in, we should'a turned back miles before but the Pitches force was strong and we though F**K it get there a have a fookin' good night and worry about getting home later.........Great, not to be missed for the world nights over the border :yes:

     

    Wouldn't have been the same without the 'Scousers' Baz!

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

    Yes Sean, it's in hand, two more tapes were done - I'm on with 'compiling' them at present and will put them up on Mixcloud in the near future.

     

    In the meantime, I'll go through my 'press cuttings' and see what I can dig up from there first  :thumbsup:

     

    Thanks John. That'd be great.

     

    :thumbsup:

     

    Sean

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