Bus Pass Dancer

https://youtu.be/b2rHa3c0ju8?si=o9ku-064Z86TqnKd Now and again, an article will pop up on my YouTube. This one will knock your dancing shoes off!!

Everyone be aware!!!! Ted Massey was apparently followed home after Whitchurch all nighter at the weekend. He was robbed by two people who took that nights box of discs!!! If you’re offered or see ‘unusual’ sales, or have any knowledge about the people concerned.... REPORT IT!!!! SOULIES STICK TOGETHER!

Paul-s. You are now obviously a very intelligent and observant person, but what I was trying to say was that back in the day I doubt anyone was that clever that they could analyse what was happening at the time? Maybe now we’re old and grey and have experienced life, our views differ. I just prefer to look back and remember the good bits! The dancing. The music. The highs! (Even the come-downs). No doubt in a couple of years someone will be writing a dissertation on raves of the 2000’s.......... and everyone will remember something different. I’ll stand by the old maxim ‘if I had to explain, you wouldn’t understand ‘ KTF

I’ve just got to get into this one...... Good chat Chalky but was anyone else that intelligent back then?? And totally agree Northern Soul was and still is ‘a way of life ‘! The sounds came from all genres of records, and still does! One of my favourite ever plays is by Phil Coulter but who the heck thought to play it in the first place? He’s a country music piano player??? If the song worked it got played, end of! The ‘scene’ was just that. I said it before, you dressed how you wanted, only the shoes really mattered... if you couldn’t afford leather soles you used talc! You had to take something to keep you awake and dancing all night! It was pure escapism from the 70’s ...... no matter what your colour, class or creed. There was no racism. Not all the songs were by long suffering black Americans! Not all the participants were drug taking working class Northerners! It was a few years of excitement and despite all the clubs still doing their things it’ll never be the same again. I still do all-nighters. I still dance the same way. I still close my eyes and remember.

Can’t remember if we went before Wigan or the Sunday for the all-dayer? I was a little sheep and just followed the crowd

Yeah!!!! Someone remembers!!! I seem to recall a 70’s disco floor?

I’m replying to my own topic here!! Talking about old clubs, does anyone out there remember the ‘Steam Machine ‘????

As someone has already said, individuals can say I first heard that at ? But nobody knew who first played something. I know one person who had a massive record collection and somehow got copies from who knows where but never DJ’d until very recently. I think a lot of local clubs played the odd northern record, or what the uninitiated thought was northern...... I personally started going ‘up North ‘ in 73.... never knew who artists were but knew what I liked (nearly 50 years on and still the same)!! Early recollections were ‘Ghost in my House’, Ski-ing in the Snow’, ‘Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie’, ‘Personally’ ‘Joker’ and numerous other what later became ‘cheesy’ stuff.... but could still listen to them now. Plus a bunch of instrumental foot stompers that I still dance to. Anything under a hundred miles per hour was played at the all-dayers on a Sunday when you were ‘winding down’!!! The weekend started at 7 on Friday and lasted pretty much till 7 Sunday night. Anyone that went to work on the Monday had obviously lied about going to the all-nighter on Saturday!!! And getting to a do was never a problem whether you had transport or not, you would find a way! No-one wore labels or made to measure clothes, you wore whatever felt right - and sewed a badge on it!! And not that many people danced at the all-nighters. Only the talented minority would, whilst the rest looked on in awe wishing they could do that!! Then going home to practice in private or at the local club until they got up the courage (with a little chemical help) to actually have a go!! I never knew anyone’s name, just faces. That’s just how it was. It was, is and for me always will be A Way of Life

hi Joe! Where are you?

I know what you’re all thinking..... not really a northern tune- a ballad and as someone described it a ‘guilty pleasure ‘ but it brings back memories of Wigan and whoever thought to play it thank you

Local do last night at Rushden.... A GOOD THING GOING- Phil Coulter........ Happy Days!