Neil Rushton

Here's a weird one. When Ron Holden "I'll Forgive & Forget" had gone massive at Wigan, I was married and left my Mum and Dad's house in Pelsall, near Walsall. Went back one tea time to take my kid sister out to the fair on Pelsall common. One stall was giving out 45's as a compensation for not winning whatever the stall did. Anyway, I paid for my sister to have a go and guess what....was handed a mint Ron Holden as the compensation single! I took it to back to my parents and then went straight back to the stall and told the guy I would buy his records if any I wanted. He let me have a look through and nothing else there.

Ian Dewhirst has just confirmed that he will have the following tracks with him on Sunday -- no way will he have time to play them all... All brand new Tom Moulton remixes. All taken from Mulit-Tracks. Ian has played 4 of them on his radio show, but none of them ever played in any club anywhere in the World - so WORLD EXCLUSIVE CLUB PLAYS for the ones he drops on Sunday...Ian will be in the downstairs club from 10pm to Midnight. BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU GOT - WILLIAM DEVAUGHN KISS MY LOVE GOODBY - BETTYE SWANN I CAN'T FIGHT YOUR LOVE - THE MODULATIONS HOLD BACK THE NIGHT - THE TRAMMPS HOT SHOT - KAREN YOUNG MAKING LOVE AIN'T NO FUN - THE EBONY'S STANDING RIGHT THERE - MELBA MOORE I'M DOING FINE NOW - NEW YORK CITY GOT TO GET YOU BACK - SONS OF ROBIN STONE LOOK ME UP - BLUE MAGIC I JUST CAN'T SAY GOODBYE - PHILLY DEVOTIONS Proper Ritz exclusive!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Breaking news ... loads of brand new Tom Moulton remixes will get their World exclusive plays at The Ritz on Sunday night. Ian Dewwhirst will be DJ'ing in the downstrairs club room, which will be devoted to 70's Ritz/Mecca/Cleethorpes favourites, and will be using his set to launch the forthcoming Philly Re-Grooved Volume 3 album of Tom Moulton mixes. Listen out for remixes of Bettye Swann "Kiss My Love Goodbye" , Sons Of Robin Stone "Got To Get You Back", The Modulations "I Can't Fight Your Love" and loads more... The album is not out until June.

I remember being very happy that Wigan did not book Tavares.Russ reckons it was because the group didn't want to stay up halfway through the night to do a show. The Casino must have regretted missing out as we had 1700 plus in the Ritz that day..

Tickets are selling very well for Sunday. They are £10 each (plus booking fee) online from www.soulvation.biz or to callers t Beatin' Rhythm, Tib Street, Manchester.Beatin' Rhythm sold a load today.

Tavares was Sunday Oct 2 or 3, 1976. A long time ago. What a great All-Dayer that was! Neil

The forthcoming Manchester Ritz Easter Sunday Mini All-Nighter will be the first since the day the SAS saved the hostages in the Iranian Embassy siege! The rescue took place on May 5, 1980 - and at the same time the 5th Anniversary HESC All-Dayer was taking place with Ronnie Laws live on stage. Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full

THE DREAM TEAM I'M NOT SATISFIED / THERE HE IS (GREGORY RECORDS) (EXCELLENT) £130 POSTAGE FREE PAYPAL TO - neilrushton2@btinternet.com PM to reserve Thanks, Neil

Deja Vu - E-Smoove Featuring Latanza Waters (1998 UK AM;PM 12" Promo) Note - Promo denoted by "Not For Sale" on Sleeve Condition - Excellent £30 including free Recorded Ist class post. PayPal to - neilrushton2@btinternet.com Please PM to reserve.

Pat Lewis has got to be one of the ultimate Soul Survivors. If she had just recorded "No One To Love" that would make her a heroine, but a career taking in The Andantes at Motown, Golden World, Don Davis, George Clinton, Sidney Barnes, doing backing vocals for Jackie Wilson, touring with Aretha Franklin, working with Isaac Hayes (Love it that it's Pat who pipes up with "John Shaft" on "Shaft, when I first heard that at school would never have dreamt getting to know the singer)....wow, that is some CV. Great that she is still making records, good on you Ian for putting it together.

Been through some old paperwork. It was February 1981 when I heard the tape.

The song is great Retro-Philly...love Ronnie Walker.

Jack Ashford pressed up at least 500 copies of The Magnificents. Ian Dewhirst was in LA from August to December 1976 and sent me a handful, between 2 and 4 as I recall. In 1976 I phoned Jack Ashford and asked if he could supply 500?. He expained he had not paid Monarch for the run and they were still held by the plant, but if I sent him the money he would get them and ship to me. I never did the deal, cannot remember why. A

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Right On was owned by Bill Downs. I know because Bill used the Right On trading name to licence to me in the 70's mastes to release on Inferno -- New York In The Dark - The Ad Libs You Don't Mean Me No Good - Jelly Beans Come Back - Fantastic Puzzles and Dave was not involved in those deals Bill also acted as middle man for us to buy outright the master to Your Autumn Of Tomorrow - The Crow which had been previously releaseed by DG on UK Right On. Again Dave was not involved in the deal Bill at one stage was very close to Dave Godin. He was aso friendswith Van McCoy and was the DO in the VANDO label. Van was the VAN, We tried to release some Van McCoy masters via Bill, but Van was so busy with his post "Do The Hustle" disco career he did not have the time to deal with it.

Was very impressed to see an acetate off "What's The Use" - Chairmen Of The Board on John Manship Auction site, and very relieved too, as I thought I was going mad... The tape of it was actually played to me at the Holland Brothers office in LA around 1981 and I did a deal on the spot to release it on Inferno. I was visiting their office some time after the release of Invictus recordings by, Chairmen Of The Board, Freda Payne, Just Brothers and Eloise Laws on Inferno, probably went over to pay royalties. Anyway they were very happy with the sales on Inferno and the royalty statements, etc, and the day before I had to fly back, I was taken to a studio to meet Lamont Dozier and Paul Riser and then back to the HB office In Hollywood where a pile of unreleased tracks had been pulled out to listen to. "What's The Use" blew my socks off, I could not believe how good it was, and it was arranged that the next day I would come back to collect a copy of the tape on my way to the airport. The following next morning I met Fred Darian, the guy who with Al DeLory co-wrote "Out Of The Floor" - Dobie Gray and owned the master, and did a deal with him to release that, which was great, but all the time I was thinking about "What's The Use".. Then it was on to the HB office Trouble was the tape waiting for me was not "What's The Use" and due to the filing system no tape called "What's The Use" could be found there and then, or in subsequent weeks when I was back home . The guys at HB said I must have got it wrong, as they could not find anything with that or similair title, and that they had played everything and could not find any song with that hook or anything like it. I was absolutely gutted. Over the years I have wondered if I had somehow got the title wrong, or somehow just imagined the whole thing, as I remember it being so catchy I just couldn't work out why it had not been released as a key single. And now an actetate turns up. Amazing.

James was a wonderful guy, and a great eccentric. He loved restaurants as much as he loved music, and would go miles out of his way when on the way to gigs in order to eat at places he had heard about. He came over as aristocratic and autocratic, but could laugh at himself too, when making the Altern 8 records we asked him if he would mind doing a spoken review of it in his inimitable Record Mirror bpm 131.5 - stuttering, juddering, bass heavy...style which we would include in the recording. To our surprise, he agreed and did it on the spot down the phone to the studio and his inimitable review in posh voice was dubbed at the end of the track which went on to be a hit. In New York at the height of the House Music mania I asked about his DJ career playing Soul in the 60's and he delayed going to some club he was going to where he would have been made a VIP fuss off just so he could talk about that era. He loved Soul, and I think he is the source of the story about Jerry Wexler doing an acetate of "The Sloopy" - Billy Young to be cut by Atlantic in New York and sent over from New York to The Scene or similair club in London. He was the kind of guy who would have had Jerry Wexler's phone number in his contacts book. Bought some of his collection from Mick Smith after he died, things like Hoagy Lands on Stateside demo, but they sadly all had the middles dinked out as James wanted them to look like USA imports. He met a lot of the USA Soul acts when they toured the UK in the 60's.

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Doubt very much if it was 1976. We only started wholesaling in August 1976. Ian Dewhirst was my partner then and was based in LA, & all West Coast stuff came via Simon Soussan. At the strart of the next year Ian and myself went our separate ways. I carried on wholesaling and started looking to buy from other sources than Simon.I distinctly remember getting the Highland label info from a Billboard Annual and doing the deal myself, so would have been 1977 earliest. The Wigan plays did not affect me getting the stock...I just loved the record!!!

Like Pete says, middle one is the repress