Not this weekend, but this morning on my Ipod in the gym.
On shuffle the first 5 were :
Vandals - In my opinion
Waters - Heart lead the way
Rotations - If I could be like Columbus
Odyssey - Our lives are shaped by what we love
Reggie Sadler Revue - Love is like a baseball game
Now this is what it's all about. Just wonderful, wonderful music.
Great credit to you Kev and the others for putting this together.
Going to have to make this at some point. No excuses.
Is it Ron Harrington, not Henderson on "It happened to me again"?
"In our garden" a perennial favourite as well as the sublime "Rocking you eternally"
An under-rated talent perhaps overshadowed by the "bigger" names he worked with.
I got this at the time and is one of the best put together compilations ever in my opinion. I said at the time that the sequence of Gene Toones, Darrow Fletcher and Edward Hamilton is simply electrifying.
One of THE great vocalists.
The oft recorded "I forgot to be your lover" probably makes it as my favourite of his, but you could pick plenty.
He will be forever cherished and dearly remembered.
Vastly underrated outfit.
Responsible for one of the best tracks ever - Let me heal the bruises from a great album - Madame Butterfly
This is a quality track that I've known for years and definitely needs more airing.
Bobby Bland - San Diego 1981
Millie Jackson - Manchester Apollo early 70's
Marvin Gaye - Manchester Apollo early 70's
Gladys Knight - Manchester Free Trade Hall early 70's
Edwin Star - Basement Club Bury 1972 and lots of other places after that
Junior Walker - Can't remember the first place now - somewhere in Manchester and then Wigan on the same night.
Not a nighter but I remember the first track I heard at the Mecca was "Little Queenie"
Could make it out from the muffled sound as you came up the escalator.
Hairs on the back of the neck moment.