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Smooth FM just playing a tribute to Frank now.

...and there was me waiting for an Ian Dury reference

Is that a Soulboy version of Superman's coal to diamond trick? *flippant remark, ain't drawing any musical conclusions between Russell Thompkins and Sam Campbell

Spit of Carl ay? He don't see it strangely haha

Sam Dees keeps gazelle in his garden. (I swear I'm not making it up)

Got drunk on a boat with Johnny once and got round to talking about this album - he was going through a messy divorce at the time he was recording it - which obviously comes through in his choice of sleeve art.

An oldie but a goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxs0zhGqTWY Bernie Hamilton - owner/writer - Inculculation Records https://ring.cdandlp.com/lesbonnesaffaires/photo_grande/114729393.jpg https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTJkJjyzZfo/S9jdYwXpQbI/AAAAAAAABNA/2cGn-Hh8wI0/s1600/Arthur+Adams+-+You+Got+The+Floor+(1981)+(12'').jpg

Wasn't he in This Is England too?

Strange venue but had some good nights there, Sam etc

....and just come across this: https://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/morecambe-and-district-news/the-dome-is-demolished-1-2940312

We've had a discussion about this show in the dim and distant but it was the first show I remember having a young lad who was into Northern...Sammy...the chubby one with bins on the photo's along the bottom: https://www.going-out.org.uk/

Rotherham Clifton Hall was not only a all-nighter venue but a punk haunt too... ....speaking of haunts....did any of you see The White Lady knocking about on the dancefloor in the early 80's? ;0) Clifton Hall In the late 1970's, the Rotherham Advertiser ran a column for local people who had had supernatural experiences, inviting them to come forward and tell their tales. One elderly Rotherham resident, Mrs Nettleship, recounted an episode which concerned her family, and had taken place in a house on Clifton Lane, Rotherham, in the mid-1930's. The Nettleships had two young children, baby Roy and four-year-old Audrey, and their circumstances meant that the whole family were forced share the same bedroom. A fortnight after moving into their new home, the little girl began to grow fretful when left in the bedroom alone, and insisted that a 'white lady who shook her hands and cried' was appearing as she lay in bed. Putting this down to the vivid imagination of a child, the Nettleships reassured Audrey that nobody could get into the bedroom, and assumed she had been dreaming. Several months later, Mrs Nettleship discovered an old-fashioned doll in a cardboard box in the bedroom, which had previously lain hidden on a high shelf. As the family were poor, she decided to keep the find a secret and repair the doll as a Christmas present for Audrey. She returned the doll to its box and replaced it on the shelf. It was shortly after this discovery that, at around 9.30 pm one evening, the Nettleships were in the living room when they were startled to hear screaming coming from the bedroom. They ran in to find Audrey in a state of shock, such that her mother later described her as 'rigid with terror'. Mrs Nettleship noticed that Audrey's nightdress was torn, and took the little girl downstairs to comfort her. Audrey described how the 'white lady' had tried to 'take her away7, and she had had to fight to pull away from her. Although the Nettleships could see for themselves that their daughter was in a terrible state, they dismissed the story as a vivid nightmare. However, as time progressed, Audrey became more and more subdued, stopped eating and eventually became ill. Mrs Nettleship took her to the childrens' clinic, and the doctor informed her that somebody or something was obviously frightening the little girl very badly for her to be in such a state of terror. The Nettleships once again put this down to the 'nightmares' which they assumed Audrey had been having, since their baby son Roy (who slept in a cot next to her) had never once been disturbed in the night. Shortly afterwards, the family decided to move house, but before they left, Mrs Nettleship went to look for the old doll she had found some months previously in the bedroom. The box was exactly where it had always been, but the doll had vanished. Nobody else admitted to having even seen it, and in its position on the high shelf it would have been very difficult for Audrey herself to have removed it. Although the happenings on Clifton Lane were never quite forgotten, the family continued with their new life in a different area of Rotherham and soon the memories faded into the past. Then, many years later, an article in the Rotiierham Advertiser caught Mrs Nettleship's eye. In a piece about local ghosts, The White Lady of Clifton Hall was mentioned. As she cast her mind back to the old house on Clifton Lane, where Audrey had experienced such discomfort as a child, Mrs Nettleship was horrified to read that the self-same White Lady is said to appear wringing her hands in distress as she cries for her lost children... and began to believe for the first time that perhaps somebody - or something - could have indeed tried to take her small daughter away. This is an interesting find about punk @ The Casino too: https://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/swine/swine_features_aug_eleven.htm

70's TV cop TENAFLY (James McEachin) Following his military career, McEachin dabbled in civil service, first as a fireman and then a policeman in Hackensack, New Jersey, before he moved to California and became a record producer. Known as Jimmy Mack in the industry, he worked with young artists such as Otis Redding and went on to produce The Fury's. He began his acting career shortly after, and was signed by Universal as a contract actor in the 1960s. He was regularly cast in professional, "solid citizen" occupational roles, such as a lawyer or a police commander, guesting on numerous series such as Hawaii Five-O, Rockford Files, Mannix, and Dragnet. He played the deejay Sweet Al Monty in Play Misty for Me (1971) with Clint Eastwood. In 1973, McEachin starred as Harry Tenafly, the title character in Tenafly, a short-lived detective series about a police officer turned private detective who relied on his wits and hard work rather than guns and fistfights. He also appeared occasionally as Lieutenant Ron Crockett on Emergency!

Cliff White's... https://www.rocksbackpages.com/writer.html?WriterID=white ...missus was a white witch.

Joe Pesci attempte to break into the music biz, releasing an album under the pseudonym Joe Ritchie, playing guitar with Joey Dee and the Starlighters and singing tenor with New Jersey's Chang Lee & the Zani-Acts

I was going to suggest that someone who owns one of these contraptions offer a service of squaring a record up for a small fee but I don't think I'd like the responsibility of playing about with someone elses vinyl.

In 1961 Jackie Wilson was involved with Harlean Harris, a former girlfriend of Sam Cooke and a Ebony magazine fashion model while at the same time having a relationship with a Juanita Jones. February 15, 1961, Jones shot Wilson twice as he returned with Harris to his Manhattan apartment. Despite his wounds, Wilson made it downstairs where he was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital. Life saving surgery was performed followed by weeks of medical care. Wilson lost a kidney and would carry the bullet that was to close to his spine to be removed, around for the rest of his life. Leaving the hospital after being shot with mother Eliza Wilson, Jackie and wife Freda

Dorando, local Bay Area artist https://soul-sides.com/2005/11/dorando-ira-sullivan-we-heart-giles.html ...was christened Doran, was lead guitar with a local Blue Eyed Soul band and amassed quite a fortune early on whereby he came to a position whereby he could invest in property. He was quite a well known figure around his area and used to travel to gigs in his white Rolls Royce handing out $20 tips - which is why he changed his name from plain Doran to Doran 'Dough' or Dorando.

Nice Freudian slip there mate.

Any interesting soul facts? Booker T was 16 when he wrote Green Onions The Ramsey Lewis Trio's 'other two' - Isaac Holt and Eldee Young left eventually to form Young- Holt Unlimited Johnny Kemp was the lead singer of Kinky Foxx

https://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Oliver%20Cheatham.html https://www.allmusic.com/artist/oliver-cheatham-mn0000472460 https://www.discogs.com/artist/Oliver+Cheatham

Half the posters on here have a slight warp and you wouldn't want to change them now would you!?

....sorry, I'm at work, so can't expand fully. I was looking to get a general feel of the European scene musically.

Yes Ady, also the titles I've picked up from the odd European list that I didn't know, I've loved - now, they could have been played over here and I'm too far out the loop to have known but there - from what I've picked up/ read - seemed a lot less restriction on what and how things were played. I was just hoping for the European lads and those in the know to fill me in on what is and has been big on the European scene to see if there were, if any, major differences....simply, as a scene, it seems to be handled a little more loosely than us anal buggers handle ours.