Ian Dewhirst

Whoops, almost forgot to post last weeks playlist! Ist Hour Maryann Farra & Satin Soul - Stoned Out of My Mind Love Machine - Very Special Moment The Temptations - I'm Here - Remix The Sounds of Blackness - God Is Love Hard Soul featuring Ron Carroll - Back Together Carolyn Crawford - If You Move You Lose Teddy Pendergrass & Stephanie Mills - Take Me In Your Arms Tonight Vernon Burch - Never Can Find a Way Eloise Laws - Love Ain't Easy R & J Stone - A Little Late For Love Crystal Winds Love Ain't Easy Cissy Houston - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself 2nd Hour Hall & Oates - Storm Warning Al Kent - The Way You've Been Acting Lately Edwin Starr - I Have Faith In You The 5th Dimension - Don't You Hear Me Calling Ronnie McNeir - I'm So Thankful The Chi-Lites - You'll Never Be Sorry Executive Jam - I Want You Back In My Arms Again Al Hudson & The Soul Partners - Trying To Prove My Love To You Brainstorm - Waiting For Something Fat Larry's Band - Like To Get To Know You Better Candy Bowman - Since I Found You George Benson - This Masquerade Remix Harvey Mason - Til You Take My Love Aretha Franklin - One Step Ahead Featurecast Remix https://www.sixmillio...7-Starpoint.mp3 See ya next week! Ian D

Truer words were never spake. Many of the first wave of 60's acts were R'n'B/Blues & Soul enthusiasts from the Beatles/Stones/Animals/Yardbirds/Who through to Bowie/Bolan and Elton John, so not surprising really. I am surprised that he's credited with doing that INCREDIBLE piano playing on "This Will Be A Night To Remember" though! That's one of my favourite piano riffs ever. In all the time I ran Salsoul UK I never knew that. Completely logical though. After all, the Spinners did the background vocals on "Are You Ready For Love"........... I'm sure Rob was just being a bit crusty - he doesn't like anything unless it was recorded in Detroit in the 60's! Ian D

That doesn't surprise me. He certainly cleaned out some shops in L.A. in the early 70's - at one point he had 250,000 records in his personal collection and a lot of that was from shops he visited on his first few U.S. tours. I went to several shops around South Central and asked if anyone from the UK had been there before and got told The Rolling Stones in the late 60's and Elton John in the early 70's! Ian D

Maybe this guy.......? James Mokulani Young January 25, 1942-May 21, 2009 James Mokulani Young has entered into an eternal life with our Lord. He was a professional entertainer in Hawai'i and the mainland, a song writer, a recording artist and a member of the group Haleakala. Recently, he has provided 'ukulele classes at the Lanakila Senior Center. He is survived by sons Scott, Jimmy & Allan and one daughter, Kelly & grandchildren; brother, Mike Imaikalani (Peggy) Young; sisters, Kaui (Thomas) Ramos, Kapua (Baba) Kaho'oilihala; Kie (Vernon) Dias, Pomai (Kalei) Kaolulo, Deborah (Richard) Soares & Aulani Ho'omanawanui; cousins, nieces, nephews, one uncle & two aunts. Services will be held at the Elk's Club on Saturday, June 27 from 9am-1pm. Ian D

Well done Pete! May you and the family be blessed with good karma throughout the future. And best of luck Johnny. I hope everything works out in the new year and things straighten up for you. Happy New Year to all on S.S. Ian D

It's a dead cert read for Publishers Paul! It really goes into the creation of each song and the interaction between the writers, arrangers and producers etc. A cracking read for anyone into the Golden era of New York songwriting......... Ian D

If anyone's interested, I stumbled into a tremendous Hendrix collection about 9 months ago and it's been sat here ever since gathering dust. I didn't want to split it up as there's 32 albums there, mostly originals and rare oddball European labels (maybe some early rare presses) and it's got all his Soul stuff in there too. Original UK London, Polydor and Track pressings plus the Rainbow Bridge soundtrack which is rare. Anyone wanna make me an offer for the lot? I'd rather they went to a Hendrix fan......... Here's the titles:- Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight - Get That Feeling U.K. London SH-8349 Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight - Strange Things U.K. London SH-8369 Jimi Hendrix feat Curtis Knight- Before The Deluge German Emidisc C048-50780 Jimi Hendrix with Curtis Knight- The Eternal Fire Of Hallmark SHM 732 Jimi Hendrix & Little Richard - Friends From The Beginning U.K. Ember EMB 3434 Jimi Hendrix - Looking Back With U.K. Ember EMB 3428 Jimi Hendrix - Cosmic Turnaround U.K. Audio Fidelity AFELP 1002 Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix U.S. Springboard SP-4010 Jimi Hendrix - Birth Of Success U.K. Music For Pleasure MFP 50053 Jimi Hendrix - In The Beginning U.K. Everest CBR 1031 Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix Live German HOR ZU SHZE 293 Jimi Hendrix - In Concert U.S. Springboard SPB-4031 Jimi Hendrix - Tomorrow Never Knows German Happybird B-90166 Jimi Hendrix - Guitar Giants Vol 3 Belgium Babylon DB 80022 Jimi Hendrix - Countdown Series U.K. Dakota Count 10 Jimi Hendrix - 20 Golden Pieces Of Jimi Hendrix U.K. Bulldog BDL 2010 Jimi Hendrix - For Real UK DJM DJLMD8011 Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsies U.K. Track 2406 002 Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes U.K. Polydor 2302 020 Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes U.K. Polydor SPELP 4 Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning U.S. Reprise MS 2229 Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge U.K. Reprise K44159 Jimi Hendrix - A Man Of Our Time Vol 2 Italian Napoleon NLP11018 Jimi Hendrix - Hornet's Nest U.S. Nardem 001 Jimi Hendrix - Starportrait German Polydor 2672 002 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced UK Track 2407 010 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love UK Track 2407 011 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits UK Polydor 2310 268 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland UK Track 613 008/9 Jimi Hendrix - Nine To The Universe UK Polydor Super POLS 1023 Jimi Hendrix - Isle Of Wight U.K. Polydor 2302 016 SUPER Jimi Hendrix - Loose Ends U.K. Polydor 2310 301 SUPER PM me if interested or if you know someone who can use 'em.......I need the space! Ian D

Funnily enough I'm just reading about how the song was written in an excellent book called "Always Magic In The Air" by Ken Emerson - the story of the Brill Building era in New York. It covers the history of such songwriters as Burt Bacharch, Hal David, Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Classic songwriting era! It turns out that the original Tommy Hunt version of "I Just Know What To Do With Myself" was ignored by Florence Greenberg as she never liked Tommy Hunt in the first place and Luther Dixon (the guy who signed Tommy to Sceptre) had left the company by then so she never bothered promoting it. Dusty Springfield had the first hit with it in the U.K. in 1964, so Cissy doing a cover circa '69 would suggest that there was probably a bit of competition going on between Cissy and Dusty as suggested earlier....... Ian D

Out of curiosity, did Simon also supply Selectadisc with bulk loads of assorted records as well as the pressings? I'm wondering where else Selectadisc would have sourced from other than Simon? Also, talking of Nottingham, where did all the Ila Vann's "You Made Me This Way" come from? I know they came from Nottingham originally but I'm not sure if it was Selectadisc.......... Ian D

Don't rub it in Dave! Ian D

OK Daryl, that'll be London, Barnsley and Hull then! Blimey. Has it ever been booted then? Ian D

I think it could have easily slipped through the net though Sean. Cissy's Janus stuff was veering too much to the M.O.R. side for most Northern sensibilities (my own included) so nobody was championing Cissy Houston much in the 70's. I loved her vocals but nothing bar "Bring Him Back" from the 60's would have been remotely playable in the early era. She also made a bunch of pretty naff Disco fodder in the 70's so she really wasn't right up there with the 'must-hears' for most folk. She kind off missed the way a bit really. Thelma pretty much took over in the 70's and Whitney stole the 80's....... In fact, as I said, the only way I heard it was via listening to "The Long And Winding Road" again and wanting to specifically check-out her other stuff from that era. That's the first time I heard "IJDKWTDWM" and couldn't believe that I'd never heard it before unusual as it seems (bear in mind I wasn't around much in the 80's and 90's so there's a big knowledge gap in some of those years). I mean it's almost 40 years since it was released - you've probably got tons of stuff like this which some young (and not so young) ears may not have heard yet mate. I got to say that there's really nothing much else from that album that sounds Northern to me but this would have done the trick for me if I'd heard it out for sure! The next thing you'll be telling me is that there's some killer unknown Joe Simon tunes.............. Speak soon! Ian D

Yep, it sure sounds like a 100 Club record for sure Ady. Mmm. London and Barnsley then? Any other takers.......? Great night t'other night mate! Saw tons of the old Yorkshire crowd down there but had to leave early to meet up with the Mother-In-Law so that put paid to that LOL........ Ian D

Sometimes that's the mark of an enduring record though Mike. I can clearly remember Dean Parrish, Gerri Granger and Tobi Legend clearing the floor many a time until they got established....... Ian D

Yep. That's the one John. Well remembered! Interesting shop. I was going through a mad 12" collecting mentality at the time so I wasn't totally focussed on 45's so it was happy accident that I found 'em - I never did go through the place properly. Did you find anything there? Ian D

Very classy. The label credits alone kind give it away - Bacharch/David tune (the greatest songwriters of all time IMO) and one Charles Koppelman in the production credits - he went on to run EMI music but had been around since the late 50's so presumably knew a good tune when he heard one! In fact here's 'lil biography from the Cigar Aficionado Website LOL..... https://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,825,00.html I presume that this was probaby recorded in '69 then? Either way, those PYE copies are probably rarer than people may think. She never had any promotion or airplay in the UK at the time so there was no big demand so there's not that many of 'em floating around......... Worth snapping up methinks..... Ian D

Talking of which, does anyone remember any of those cut-out record shops that used to take over a town centre shop and knock out U.S. albums @ 25p a pop? One turned up in Leeds with TONS of incredible titles. Lots of Curtom, Casablanca, Boardwalk and other cut-outs probably around '77-'78. I actually ended up buying hundreds of albums from 'em - I even put a small ad in Echoes with Parliament, Jeanie Reynolds and other album titles at the time. You'd never know where one of these type of shops would appear. They'd often open overnight and close down as quickly. There were quite a few in London in the 80's as well. I remember a fantastic haul of cut-out import P&P and other small label 12"'s in a Berwick Street shop in the 80's - 1000's of 'em. Co-incidentally, the same 12"'s would become hugely collectible some 20 years later and would virtually be hung in Reckless @ £100 or £200 apiece despite the fact that the vast bulk of 'em could have been found just yards away some 20 years earlier for pennies. Fate goes full circle, what goes around comes around etc, etc And talking of the Bostocks penetration of the UK, I worked @ Island Records in Chiswick in the late 80's and popped into Chiswick for a sandwich one lunchtime and noticed a tiny Rock N' Roll type shop packed to the gill with 45's. I just presumed that everything in there would be Rock N' Roll or Pop but popped in anyway. Lo and behold, they had a boxful of MGM/Verve stuff which could have originally come from Bostocks 'cos virtually everythng was in there - all the Spyder Turner, Howard Tate, Kim Westons, Tymes, Shalimars, Triumphs, April Stevens, Dottie Cambridge etc, etc but also I found promos of The Embers and The Velours which I'd never found in Bradford. So maybe an ex UK record company bloke from the 60's unloading a bunch of his old U.S. sample stock or the long arm of Bostock's again? I'm beginning to think that the vast majority of everything on MGM and Verve ended up in the UK 'cos I never saw much of it in the U.S. at all come to think of it...........that early Bostocks hit probably cleared all of their overstocks in one fell swoop! Ian D

I know but I did go the 100 Club party t'other night if that counts........ Don't know that Sweet Inspirations either so you may have a point...... Ian D

Now THAT is a story! Brilliant! Cissy Houston and a crate of Stella is a marriage made in heaven LOL...... Believe it or not I hadn't even heard this until recently. I always rated her version of "The Long And Winding Road" for the sheer power of her vocals so I stumbled into her "Midnight Train To Georgia - The Janus Years" package and thought I'd check out the rest of it and being a sucker for Bacharach/David tunes ended up loving "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself". Sounds like a classic ending record to me........ I just checked my UK singles and I have a minter of "The Long And Winding Road"/"Be My Baby" on Major Minor but alas not a 45 of "IJDKWTDWM". Yet another one to look out for........ Ian D

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LOL! If that don't get you in the mood then nothing will! Have fun and Merry Christmas! Ian D

I think she's really under-rated as a vocalist anyway but this is one belting version of the Bacharach/David classic. I liked Dusty Springfield's ballad approach but this version is pure Northern to me and what a brilliant production and vocal performance from Cissy...... ....come to think of it, there was a bit of former competition between Cissy and Dusty 'cos Dusty covered "Bring Him Back" so maybe this was Cissy getting her revenge.........? Either way, a cracking version IMO.......beats the shit out of the White Stripes for sure LOL...... Ian D

I love the almost relaxed attitude we had in those days. Dave says "Next time I was passing I popped in......" and that's exactly how it was back then. No urgency LOL. These days if there was even an inkling of possible hit you'd have people booking plane tickets within seconds! I guess it's because back then there weren't so many crate-diggers and you'd get to know the competition pretty quickly. Sometimes I'd see certain faces at certain places and think, "Oh B*llocks! He's there. I may as well go elsewhere else then.....". But there was lots of choice and you get lucky down the road at another shop/stall/2nd hand store. Luckily I had a job which took me around the UK a lot so I knew most of the hot spots around the North and I'd occasionally get lucky and find somewhere that hadn't been previously foraged. But you could just as easily pop somewhere locally and suddenly find a ton of new stock which had more often then not come from Bostocks. It would always be worth checking 'cos really nobody knew where that stock was going in the UK - it could trun up anywhere. I found a couple of MGM Tony Middleton's in the UK but that 13 copies in one hit was a beauty Dave. I never saw it in that kind of quantity @ Bradford but that's the point - you just never knew what could come out of there at anytime....... The sobering thought is that somewhere in the U.K. right NOW, there will be thousands of unopened 100 count boxes of Bostocks U.S. 45's stock lying in an attic, a garden shed, storage unit, a disused factory unit or a barn. Paul Bostock would have been knocking 'em out by the box at one time probably at a fiver per 100 mixed 45's. There would have been a lot of market-traders, cut-out buyers, wholesale traders and funfairs buying 'em so that stock will be all over the U.K. I bet there's actually 10K Spyder Turners and Kim Westons in the UK 'cos they were everywhere. Ian D

Huh, typical that after all this time I never realised you were from Bradford originally Dave. Now that I think about it, it probably makes sense as Bradford was always prime vinyl-sniffing territory with a generation of vinyl hounds and a high percentage of sinus-deblocking discoveries LOL.... You're absolutely right about Bostocks stock leaching into everywhere around Yorkshire. You could find it in local market stalls, local junk shops and basically almost anywhere that did 2nd hand records. Often, a second-hand record shop would spring up in the weirdest of places - Cleckheaton, Bartley, Morley, Armley, Halifax, Huddersfield etc, etc and a large proportion of their stock would obviously be from Bostocks. We didn't always realise the connection at the time because frankly, West Yorkshire was packed to the gills with U.S. cut-out 45's. For a start, Bostocks had stalls in Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield and Huddersfield Markets and Paul or his Mum would sometimes be depping at those stalls. They got sick of seeing me everywhere - sometimes I'd hit all 4 Bostocks stalls in the same day. An Alice Clark or two, a couple of Tymes, couple of Shalimars @ Leeds, some oddball looking 45's from Bradford like Ronnie & Robyn on Sidra or Lenny Curtis on End, some Dottie Cambridges, Righteous Brothers Band, Ambers and Triumphs from Huddersfield and finish off in Wakefield with a Howard Guyton, Spiral Staircase, a Webs and a couple of Billy Woods to round off the day. Not bad considering that all of these were within 30 minutes of where I lived. It was like Christmas every week but we never realised it at the time...... ......and you'd often go to a visiting funfair and see the Bostocks stock as prizes. I won a Don Gardner "I Can't Help Myself" and Mongo Santamaria's "The Now Generation" by honing my dart-throwing skills! I don't recall any of us locals managing to get into the legendary Bostocks warehouse at the time pre '76 although I think Julian Bentley may have had access for some reason (can you confirm Julian?). I didn't get into it until well after John Anderson had re-plundered it maybe around '77 or thereabouts (or so the story went). By this point they'd probably got rid of most of their early stock from House Of Sounds 'cos there was a lot of relatively new 70's releases by the time I got there but I did snag just about everything on Buddah that was any good at the time - Charisma Band, Tony Owens, Mel Williams etc, etc so not a total bust....... ......around the same time a couple of us had a decent hit at some place in Telford (can't remember the name unfortunately). I think Colin Curtis and Keith Minshull had been there as well. This was where I left a 100 count box of Lew Kirton "Heaven In The Afternoon" because frankly I couldn't stand it (and stil can't) but also every other shop you went in seemed to have the 12" in! I actually think that some credit has to go to people like the Bostocks, Global, Robinsons, Soul Bowl etc, etc who actually brought in such huge loads of U.S. 45's in the early 70's that they unknowingly stoked the Northern Soul fire at exactly the correct time. It was an embarassment of riches when you think about it. Simply staggering the amount of stuff which came from these sources and others between 1970-80. They probably account for a good 30-40% of the key discoveries in the early 70's and certainly made our lives easier finding 'em. Just to put things in perspective, even the Leeds branch of Virgin had a box of U.S. 45's in! That's where the 2nd or 3rd copy of Candi Staton "Now You've Got The Upper Hand" came from for 10p! Happy thoughts. Merry Christmas All! Ian D

Hi Dave, I actually went there after stopping at Val Shively's the previous night whilst on my way back to UK in '76. I remember climbing into 20ft high palletts and wading through thousands of mostly C&W 45's and that was just on the ground floor. I remember thinking that there were actually too many records and you'd need at least a year or two to get through the whole place. Believe it or not that could be a common problem in the early-mid 70's. The sheer amount of 45's in some places meant you had to do some basic maths to figure out if the amount of work involved would be worth the effort of spending days or weeks going through individual places. This would usually be determined by spending a couple of hours ducking and diving around somewhere to get the basic lay of the land and to see what kind of stuff was there. If, after a couple of hours, you hadn't managed to find anything of significance then it could be time to move on. I clearly remember going to a garage in East L.A. which was crammed floor to ceiling with tens of thousands of 45's. There was a ton of latin american stuff there but also lots of early L.A. stuff which I left 'cos it was simply too dated at the time. When some of those earlier L.A. releases started getting played in the Stafford era I actually remembered that I'd left quite a few of 'em at this East L.A. garage (Kell Osbourne and Andy Fisher spring to mind). Can't win 'em all........ It makes perfect sense that the Bostocks stuff came from House Of Sounds. Co-incidentally, House of Sounds owner John Lamont was caught up in a Mafia overstocks operation which got detailed in an excellent book about the mob and MCA records called "Stiffed":- "Though former Los Angeles Times reporter Knoedelseder has dug up much dirt, his fast-paced tale of music industry nefariousness suffers from convoluted detail. In 1984 a minor tax investigation sics Justice Department attorney Marvin Rudnick on Sal Pisello, a reputed mobster who had planted himself inside MCA Records managing sales of budget "cutout" discs. The story eventually involves strange upheavals inside MCA, a counterfeiting ring, a corrupt cutout dealer who turns on the Mafia, and a band of dishonest record promoters. As Rudnick probes deeper, he faces threats from MCA and odd pressure from his superiors. Knoedelseder suggests that a greater scandal has been missed because the Justice Department, under Attorney General Ed Meese, backed off from making a deeper inquiry into mob involvement in the record industry. Knoedelseder's effort to weave together several court cases, competing investigations and a large cast of characters makes for a confusing narrative". https://www.amazon.co...a/dp/0060924942 John Lamont ended up with a broken jaw when the mob visited him @ House Of Sounds and then eventually he and his family had to go into a witness protection programme. All the time this was going on, weird people from the U.K. kept turning up looking for something they called Northern Soul! Ian D