ImberBoy

still not heard this fooker either Paul???? have you got a file ??<

Cheers pete

love to hear Maxine do this live......

Ady was this ever played at the 100 Club and if not why not?

Can any one put this version up?

Sorry Godzilla, I'll type slower. The clip I have taken from Youtube does not say who it is, take a sneaky peaky I have re read the original thread and there are possibly four versions with a tentative version "Gino - Its Only A Paper Moon", the jury is still out on that one but I can hear similarities. I would still very much like to hear the four version and definitely id them. Thanks though for pointing out that I am a bit of a knob, but most know that already, keep on truckin.

I remember standing on a chair at Cleathorpse watching her, absolutely brilliant!!!! Any one who can't get down to this hasn't got a fookin pulse!

A touch of velvet A sting of brass Ask any "Soulie" for their favorite record ever ever ever and they will tell you how impossible it is to answer that question as there are so many wonderful tunes. Ask me and I will tell you "A touch of velvet a sting of brass" is my all time record ever ever ever ever! There are loads of records that blow my socks off, some make me want to do the funky chicken and some make me curl into a ball and sob like a child. This great instrumental from Mark Wirtz and the Ladybirds, credited as Mood Mosaic, back in 1966. Used by Dave Lee Travis as his theme tune on pirate Radio Caroline. Britannia ruled the airwaves! For me it was the defining moment that made me choose the path towards every thing Northernsoul, I love the silky smooth purity and crystal clear production. The harpsichord is a complete joy, the brass and the perfect backing from the ladybirds; you can't help but mimic that silly yet completely right "wahhh wahhh oooh oooh ohhh ohhh ohhhhhh". The hook that took me into the clouds to see the angles was and still is the strings, I can feel my whole body literally lifting into the air as if tempted into a different, better, plain, and that's no mean feet as I am a big fat pie eater now! I wish with all my might that this exceptional tune could shake off its "Divvy" mantle and be played on the Nighter circuit once again, I love I love it love it!! Below I am adding two versions of the tune, one is Mark Wirtz and the Ladybirds, credited as Mood Mosaic and the other I do not know? It may well be "RON GRAINER ORCHESTRA", but I have a feeling it isn't??? What do you think.........

Barry, always good to care mate!

Time Machine Track What's yours? My "time machine track" is Terri Wells - I'll Be Around. It transports me instantly to the summer of 1984 when I was just about to join the Army. I was courting my first wife and smashing her back doors in every chance I got mega year, mega mega track!! Terri Wells - I'll Be Around was on a duke box in Hull Kingston General Hospital Social Club and I nearly put my wages in listening to this superb version of a soul classic. What's your "Time Machine Track" and where does it take you?

How many "Fred's" did you know who went to The 100 Club? I knew Fred Herron from Luton, any more?

Not been for a while but I am going to rectify that soon. The 100 Club for me was a taste of home. I think it was the first ever Allnighter that I had been to that you could actually get an alcoholic drink at, I must admit to finding this a little strange, the only time you could get a drink to Northernsoul was at a an Alldayer? I remember never having my bleedin membership card with me, it was yellow and ripped, still have it today. Kinda weird having a nighter in the middle of London, Oxford Street is well busy in the day time then when the night falls and the crazy people are left roaming the streets a queue of right dodgy characters forms out side a seedy jazz club. As one o'clock approaches the last of the jazz cats stumble out of their zip zap zippedy zap drinking hole stumbling towards taxis and Sunday morning hang overs, the odd one looking back in confusion at the bizarre gathering of Soulies waiting to be let in. No matter where you where in the queue, no matter how long you had waited, the place always seamed to be full and every seat and table taken. The ubiquitous Hawaiian shirt, slicked back hair and Japanese student, the visiting TV type and trendy bendy never diluted the real nitty gritty Northernsoul essence and this was its strength. I always thought the music was a little hit and miss during my early visits, there didn't seam to be cohesion or direction, maybe it was me? I think that because it carried the Northernsoul torch standing alone I kinda expected some thing different than I got? I suppose I wanted what I hate now and that is floor fillers, my my how taste buds can change.

I like the amount of threads it has

Ady didn't you used to play "Tribute to Betty" by Frank Spencer? Love to get a file of that fooker!

Well that didn't go as well as planned? Mind you I'm thicker than a whale omelet!

Cant find John Edwards version on the TUBE? Any one got a file please? XX

Fookin mega bieng a Divvy!

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Barney SSSC great idea mate!! Mark....... Kin brilliant lol lol "IOW should be called soulfull vanning" Pete Salford Knights!! Me and Derek are taking the scooters to Middleton as soon as my new one is done in June, you up for it?

Ello Steve!! Now that was a good day, that lady was your mum! F.B, never said any thing about a forum? I am referring to a Scooter Club with real people and real scooters, not Cyber men!! Oh and as far as font size, you know what they say.... The bigger the font the smaller the wanger and mine is like a baby carrot!

Apart from saying "I just know", how the fook would any one ever tell if it was a fake or not? I bet with today's technology it would be easier to forge a copy and flog it, how would any one really know? I am at present making my own copy using an old ashtray and my scanner, it looks fookin mega.

The old water Geezer by The Ascots or the fantastic and very touching Doris Troy - I'll Do Anything, which of course is about a young bride telling her newly married husband that he can do her up the trumpet.

I have a Vespa GTS 250 ie fookin mega! Malossi kited with every go faster product available including the bigger back tire. I have ridden her for three years to most national scooter runs with no problems at all, it's the only way to fly!

It amazes me how much both the Northernsoul scene and the Scooter scene mirrors each other, the scooter you are on about sounds like a Lambretta SX 200. They aren't particularly rare just rarely available and command around the three grand mark. Unfortunately there are a few dodgy look a likes, LI 150 models dressed up as SX 200's https://www.invidia-scooters.co.uk/Lambretta_sx.html and Spanish Ebor models sold as their more expensive Italian models. To be honest with you most of the "barn" finds are well and truly gone now and when some one does come across an old Lambretta or Vespa its easy to gage the price thanks to e-bay and good old Google. I am one of the lucky ones who kept his first lambretta, can't take credit for any foresight it was garaged in 1984 when I joined the Army and used on leave. She is a Lambretta GP 200 and the oldest love of my life. I have just ordered a new scooter, not to replace her, just to add to my collection. This time I have gone for a "Kit" lambretta, it is going to be a little tricky and it will have a Vespa engine, full Arthur Francis replica paint with Wigan Casino Patches. It will puzzle most and fool the others, I cant fookin wait! You can see the sort of thing here: https://lambretta-evolution.co.uk/default.aspx

Tabs it gets quite complicated, you are correct that Quadrophenia was a major boost to the cult, but it was not a second wave, it was a "Mod Revival". Mod in its popularity fizzled out of main stream interest in the late sixties and in exactly the same way as Northernsoul did; it carried on with its die hearts evolving into various metamorphosis's of the cult driven by practicality and geography. Quadrophenia gets the credit for "The Mod second wave" The second wave, if there was such a thing, was very much a north south divide thing with "Northern Mods" a term coined retrospectively to describe the very different slant the Northern Scooter Clubs had on "Mod". In the north of England and predominantly on the M62 corridor in towns and cities grown from the industrial revolution, Lambretta and Vespa sales continued when concessionaires all but closed in the south. Vespa and Lambretta where more abundant in the north and became deeply rooted in the psyche of northern youth culture. A love affair with scooters was a little more passionate and faithful oop north. Scooter clubs of the seventies where big and ultra cool with clubs such as; BURNLEY & PENDLE SC, Preston Wildcats, Chorley Mod Squad, Bolton Spartans, Trojan SC Morcambe, Beverley Mods, Scunthorpe Path Finders, Birkenhead Cloud 9, Manchester Lions SC, Selby SC, Leeds Central, Salford Knights, to name a few. When Quadrophenia hit the screens there was a massive surge during two hot summers of Plastic Mods rubbing shoulders with the big boys from the seventies clubs, this was never a second wave, it was a Tsunami! I can remember the sad demise of the Mod Revival and I can time line it no better than "The Specials" in 1979 smashing the charts followed by the embarrassing (if you where a Mod) "Fun Boy Three" in 1981. 1981 the party wasn't over, some of the revelers wanted to continue drinking, well after the tonic drain pipes and the pork pie hats became naff. The real wave, the nitty gritty wave, the wave that silently swept along unnoticed by the former band wagon Mods was happy to flow without the blessings of the fashion police. The early eighties saw a new "Mod: emerge, one that needed to throw away all of the trappings of a fashion blip, the cloths changed to a more practical and cheaper alternative to suits, the ex Army and Navy Shops where the new tailors. The scooters changed as well, the lights and mirrors where ditched in favor of tuned engines with the emphasis on getting to the rally rather than posing. We saw a health mantle being passed with honor from the Northern Mods to the new "Scooter Boy" and the Vespa and lambretta gods where happy. Come about 1998 another explosion took place, "The born again's" came. And in perfect mirroring with what happened to the Northernsoul community we had the raise of the cheque book customisers and the CD experts. The prices of scooters shot up beyond all recognition driven by the now middle aged mid life crisis Mods. Tabs, sorry for drowneing on.