Peter

Have you ever smelt a damp beer towel on a Sunday morning.......oooooooh smells like cats

Love it, especially that deep voice and the intro..

I also still live in Swinton, remember the Pembroke halls and the Carousel, what about the Wishing well on Station road? and the Duke Of Wellington on the "top road".

I don't remember Gaetanos, but do recall going to nights at the Blackbird Cafe, which was behind Debenhams, that too had a badly tiled floor. I think it was in a cellar.

Seen as we are talking about dancing and accidents, one Sunday at the Ritz alldayer sometime aroung 78, 79 (the dance floor used to be raised about 4 foot with wrought iron railings around it and steps to walk up, the dj box was on the left hand side of the stage near the balcony). A few of us were dancing near the steps on the left side of the stage, I proceeded to do a high jump and hit my head the corner of a metal exit sign and went down like a ton of bricks, blood everywhere, I went down to the toilets to look a the damage, and ended going to Salford Royal Hospital (as it was then) for stitches then back to the alldayer Peter

I find the sweat from my beer towel, and waist band of my trousers helps keep mine in place.

no I'm sure it doesn't..and thats the time I say "Thats it...finished no more nighters" until next week

yes!!!!!! deffo had dreams whilst awake, glad somebody else has them as well, recently saw squirrells on motorbikes aftrer one allnighter

Sunday morning, can't even try to sleep, I just curl up in front of the fire on the counch and flick through the cable channels, I get that funny buzzing in my head because everything is so quiet. I seem to recover in the afternoon but am usually in bed by 9pm. recovered by Wednesday and ready to go again by Friday

Hi Ian, Saturday afternoon, I go to bed for a few hours, by which time, my Mrs has a decent tea ready, curry or chilli, plenty of rice etc, after tea iron the a couple of extra shirts (never let a woman do your ironing ) , polish the brogues (yellow duster, drop of water), pack the bag, plenty of lucozade/red bull, then just wait till its to go.....whooooo BUUUUUUT......what are you like when you get home at 8 OClock Sunday morning,

Hope this isn't "teaching you to suck eggs".....If using Photoshop for print, like deevee said set the resolution to 300dpi, turn on your rulers, then just measure out your flyer from an A4 sheet and set your pagesize up from there, then anything you do will be the correct size. When using text, set your text layer to smooth (the highest setting). If your not printing the flyer yourself save the file out as a jpg at the highest setting or as a tiff. HTH Peter

How spooky is this......went to Asda in Farnworth last weekend...in the £1.99 cd bin was a cd by Wilson Pickett called If You Need Me on the Crown Collection Label. First track is "Baby Don't Weep No More For Me, (Bridges/Smith) listed as the authors. This is the best track on the cd other tracks are:- Down to my last heartache I can't stop. Baby call on me. If you need me. Peace Breaker. R.B. special I'm gonn alove you I'll never be the same Give me your lovin right now. All RnB flavor tracks but what do you want for £1.99 Peter

Do you know this dancer??

Cleveland Eton - -Bama Boogie Woogie....good one..."Got myself together, Yeaaaa, Bama Wamma Boogie, Bama Wama Boogie oogie" great lyrics Good dancer too. Remeber this one too...Ashford Simpson Bourgie-Bourgie Peter

This takes me back ,a quick pint or two in Paddys Goose at Chorlton Street Bus Station the n walk down to the ritz, a lot have already been mentioned so here goes...... Evyln Champagne King...Shame Herp Alpert ...Rise played at 33rpm Players Association ....disco inferno (tramps version) Francine Magee...delerium (brill dancer) Celi Bee And The Buzy bunch..One Love ElCoCO cocomotion CJ & CO The devils Gun. Crown Heights Affair...Galaxy & Dance Dance. Vivky Sue Robinson- Turn The Beat Around 7th Wonder.....Captain Of My Ship Ralph MCDonald....The Path Kool And The Gang....Open Sesame. ??????????????????........Jazz Freak (Artist name just escapes me) Aquarian Dream.....You're a star. Manu Dibango.......Big Blow Mongo Santamaria.....Watermelon Man. Still got them all on vinyl........the list could go on for ages. Gentlemen and their lady..like her was excellent also. Anything by Al Hudson.... After dancing to these you would need oxygen even then Regards Peter. oops almost forgot...............Village People YMCA....dance anybody??

Steve Karmen / Jimmy Radcliffe ...Breakaway

Big Boss Man....... Humanize Anything by Keith Emerson

My moneys on the Queens

After reading this thread with interest, heres a couple of stories, though not I'm not an avid vinyl collector anymore mainly because of the high price, I do like to look around. Summer 2001 my wife and I went to Boston (Massachusetts) for a holiday, we spent the first night in Boston then the next 7 days on a campsite, but the last couple of days was in a hotel in the centre of Boston. So day 1 we went on a trip to Salem, did the usual tourist spots and came across a record shop selling only vinyl, we walked in talking to each other when the guy behind the counter shouts "Hey you guys from the UK? well you won't find any Northern Soul in here, we had Mark Lamar in a few weeks ago and he cleaned us out!!", so after a quick look round we left. Day 2 Being in I.T. I wanted to visit Harvard and M.I.T. So we got on the tram/underground railway and following the maps we got off at the wrong stop on Massachuests Avenue in a place called Cambridge. We walked up the steps to the street and opposite the steps was a record shop called (I think) Cheapo Records, it ws a fairly large shop selling mainly cd's and lp's, the 45's were all behind the counter and you had to look through a large book to choose your selection. I got a copy of The Dells Make Sure and a motown compilation cd but when I got home I discovered it was a boot made buy a guy in the midlands!!!! We left that shop and started to walk down towards Harvard and M.I.T when we came across another shop called "Skippy Whites" this was a smallish shop with dusty shelves of vinyl, the guy behind the counter was very helpfull, he brought us two beer crates to sit on and we started to sift through all these 45's but they were in alphabetical order so you had the Beatles in the same box as Jerry Butler etc, we were asked how much we wanted to spend, if we spent over $250 we could go down in the cellar!!! We spent a few hours looking through boxes and came out with I hate myself in the morning The Four Ladds on Okeh, Roscoe Robinson One Bo-Dillion Years on Sound Stage, Joe Tex Someone To Take Your Place/Should Have Kissed Her More on Soul Sound, Big Dee Irwin Singing On A Star(lol) Jay and the Techniques Strawberry Shortcake on Smash, Barbara Aklin Love Makes A woman on MCA, Gino Parks Talkin About My Baby/My Sophisticated Lady on Golden World and Sam and Dave Soul Sister Brown Sugar on Red Atlantic. No big finds and we never did get to Harvard but managed to get to M.I.T!! Two years later in 2003 we went back, but stayed in Province Town on Cape Cod. We came across a small arcade of shops and one selling only cd's BUT hanging in the window were about two dozen 45's hung on string looking very decorative and they were all Scepter and Wand 45's Maxine Brown, Jack Montogomery Dearly Beloved!! all hanging in the sun I asked the girl behind the counter if these were for sale, she said no but after a little persuasion she phoned her boss to see if she could sell them, NO was the answer I called her bluff and offered her a $100 but she would not budge. A few days later we went to a town called Orleans, we came across a very upmarket row of wooden whitewashed shops and cafes and a record shop selling allsorts of vinyl and dvds. The ceiling was decorated with 45's all fastened with staples!! we looked round and I saw a copy of Monkey Time/Um,Um,Um, Um by Major Lance on a grey Epic label., I asked the assistant if the records were for sale, he said no, they are for decoration, but if theres anything you want you can have it and he handed me a pair of scissors to prise the said record from the ceiling. Later that week we had arranged to meet some members of the Boston Stranglers Scooter Club in their bar in Cambridge, Mass, so we caught the ferry from Cape Cod to Boston, we went to find the bar where the meet was and sure enough came across a very small shop selling dusty paperback books and records run by a little vietnamese lady, we spent a couple of hours in there and came out with Robert Parker Barefootin on Island, Jackie Wilson Helpless on MCA and Linda Jones Can You Blame Me/Baby You Move me on Neptune Records and two lps Deon Jackson Greatest Hits on Solid Smoke, Gene Chandler Just Be True on a Charly reissue. All these were not expensive, we had no big finds but enjoyed every minute of it. Regards Peter

Jerry Butler - Stop Stepping On My Dreams, most of the track is spoken, but the intro is excellent. Also Bobby Womack How could you break my heart