Ian Dewhirst

You have to watch that Gil guy. I went around for years believing that the revolution would NOT be televised and then got home and watched the Berlin Wall being pulled down on telly! Ian D

LOL, fair enough! In that case can anyone explain the deal with The Contours "Baby Hit And Run" then? An old recording which had never been heard by anyone and which was a pure 100% Northern monster which was issued in the UK on Motown without ANY OVO or Northern Soul related activity whatsoever! Or is this the exception which proves the rule? Ian D

It's easy when you have a willing audience like your good self Mark! Ian D

Not always true. I remember the bootleg of Richard Temple's "Let's Do The Duck" (aka "The Duck" - Willie Hutch) being on the streets long before the record had broken. I believe there was only the one acetate which Russ had, hence the record had no time to break legitimately before the bootlegs arrived. In fact, thinking about it, I'm pretty sure there was no OV of "The Duck" in the UK before the bootlegs came in! There was a period of bootleg mania in the early 70's virtually all through Selectadisc in Nottingham. It wouldn't be uncommon for the bootlegs to come in and for us to say, "why the hell did they boot THAT so quickly"? "You Can't Tell The Good Guys From The Bad" - Patience Valentine (aka "Good Guys" - Edie Walker) and "You Don't Love Me" - Moses Smith (aka Epitome Of Sound) are two more examples of records which were bootlegged far too early. This is because Simon was paid per title, so the more boots he did, the more dosh he made. That also explains the ridiculousness of the bootleg of Lou Courtney's "Me And You Doing The Boogaloo" which to my knowledge wasn't being played by ANYONE prior to it arriving as a boot. To this day I still don't understand why this was booted. My only explanation is that Simon was running out of new titles hence he started 'inventing' new boots. Ian D

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You're showing your age with those two mate! That Judy Clay's lovely - almost a forgotten sound these days....... Ian D

This flying solo thing is OK apart from the fact that you have be ambidextrous hence the fact that I can't run any of the forum threads whilst I'm doing the show! Hopefully we'll have an assistant on in another couple of weeks so we should be back up and running on the forums shortly. In the meantime, here's another 2 hours of Soul heaven as broadcasted LIVE every Sunday afternoon! Six Million Steps Presents The Original Mastercuts Show with Ian Dewhirst Sunday 21st September 2008 on www.starpointradio.com. To download the show simply hit the link below! Or for this and all archived shows please pay a visit to www.sixmillionsteps.com where you can download the last 4 weeks worth of all Six Million Steps produced shows. That's 16 hours of free music over the last 4 weeks alone! Plus, loads of new fully downloadable KILLER mixes in a variety of styles! So let's go with this week's show:- 1st Hour Five Special - The More I Get To Know You Pts 1 & 2 Tongue 'N Cheek - Tomorrow Satoshi Tomii feat Arnold Jarvis - And I Love You La Trece - I Want To Thank You Guy Costley - I Surrender The Partners - Give It To Me All Night Long SWV - Right Here James 'J.T.' Taylor - Feel The Need Henry Thomas - My Dreams Are Clouded Gwendolyn Lassic -Never Gonna Give You Up Larry Wu - Let Me Show You Zingara - I Surrender 2nd Hour Gary The Master Blaster - Caf Regios Matta Baby - Do The Pearl Girl Pt 2 Buddy Miles - Just A Kiss Away Dave Love - Colalined Baby Melvin Moore - All Of A Sudden Little Johnny Blair - Momma's Gone Nolan Porter - If I Could Only Be Sure Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People Freda Payne - Memories & Souvenirs Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love Moseley & Johnson - Baby Come Back Matt Covington - We Got Love Sergio Mendes - The Real Thing Chaka Khan -Papillon (Hot Butterfly) Carolyn Crawford - A Nice Feeling Dietrick Haddon - Inspiration https://www.sixmillionsteps.com/6MS-...1-Starpoint.mp3 Best, Ian

I had it for years with the bloody Si Hightower Test Pressing! Can't play it to anyone ever again. What a bastard. This OVO thing's a real pisser........... Ian D

Wow! Sounds great Phil! When's the next do? Ian D

OK, thanks Yank. I was told it was the same Spinners as Tri-Phi/Motown but that's obviously wrong...... Ian D

Or this even: Punter: 'Excuse me Mister DJ, would you perhaps have (insert random tune name here) that you could play for me and my friends, it's one of our favourites and we'd love to hear it. I realise that there's only one known copy in the world and that's in Japan, but I was wondering if you could play it off the CD which is legitimate and supplies royalties to the artist and in fact, has earnt him far more in royalties than the one-off copy in Japan ever did. It would really add to the enjoyment of our night, for which we've paid seven pounds entrance fee'? DJ Warwick Hunt: "No, sorry mate, original vinyl only. If you wanna hear that you'll have to go to Japan'. Ian D

Here goes...... Pat Lewis "Moving On" https://www.zshare.net/audio/1917612845feee55/ Ian D

A friend from the U.S. has just posted a list of records he's had in storage from the 60's & 70's and one of 'em is:- THE SPINNERS "RICHARD PRY, PRIVATE EYE" b/w "BIRDWATCHIN" - 1 copy END - # 1045 (With End Paper sleeve) I can't locate it in any of the price guides. It's the same Spinners as the Tri-Phi/Motown group but I can't find any info about this release. Can anyone help? Cheers, Ian D

Sure does wise one! Sounded brilliant @ Essex t'other week and sounded brilliant on the radio this afternoon! One of her best ever vocal performances IMO - she sounds better than many of her Invictus recordings and was obviously right at the top of her game when she did this! Great stuff! Ian D

Yes folks, I'm back on a regular rhythm now and just getting used to flying solo again. Actually, it's OK as I don't have Alan nattering in my ear about bloody Chelsea Football Club any more LOL....... Anyway, please feel free to join me LIVE at 2.00pm today for another 2 hours of the most superlative sounds you could wish to hear spanning the last 4 decades of Soul Music. The show is packed to the seams with wonderful music from:- Five Special, Tongue In Cheek, La Trece, Guy Costley, The Partners, Sisters With Voices, James 'J.T.' Taylor, Henry Thomas, Gwendolyn Lassic, Larry Wu, Zingara, Gary The Master Blaster, Matta Baby, Buddy Miles, Dave Love, Melvin Moore, Little Johnny Blair, Nolan Porter, Sly & The Family Stone, Freda Payne, Bobby Caldwell, Mosely & Johnson, Matt Covington, Sergio Mendes, Chaka Khan, Carolyn Crawford & Dietrick Haddon The names speak for themselves! So 2.00-2.30 we have a bunch of Soulful uptempo gems from the 70's & 80's, between 2.30-3.00 some beautiful mid-tempo Soulful grooves from the 80's & 90's, between 3.00-3.30 a nice burst of Northern, Modern and just great uptempo tracks from the 60's, 70's and even 90's and then the final 30 minutes of killer slowies, sensual grooves and soulful anthems. Try and join me if ya can! It's so much better to have an audience....... 2.00pm today LIVE on www.starpointradio.com. You know it makes sense.......... Ian D

Let's give it a listen........... Freda Payne "Memories And Souvenirs" https://www.zshare.net/audio/19147069ac3e7081/ Ian D

515 Downloads in 10 days is pretty exceptional in my experience I think it's a natural. We'll soon see........... Ian D

I don't think they're worth that much unfortunately. I think Damian's genorosity only runs to a couple of grand for his workers. Not done bad for a lad from Leeds has he? Ian D

I know. Old habits die hard as this thread proves! My ideal gig would be OV and Laptop. Even though the quality from the laptop would be far superior to the quality of the vinyl, I guess you'd have to have vinyl for certain gigs wouldn't you? I bought 3 vinyl records this week too. I'm not a very good advert am I? Ian D

A couple of my mates work for him and they often nick the paint he uses because it's a special type apparently. Also he pays his staff bonuses with small pieces of his own artwork but woe betide anyone who tries to sell it whilst they're still working for him! Ian D

I realised the gig was up a few years ago, when I staggered into Madame Jo-Jo's with two crates of 12" vinyl. I finally managed to manouver my way to the stage, dumped my crates and stood there panting to get my breath back. The kid who was deejaying had no records. Just two I-Pods. He even had an I-Pod 'gunbelt' which held his I-Pods like a western gunslinger. I said to him somewhat snottily, "Don't You Have ANY records then"? He said, "What For"? I said, "To give you plenty of choice and variety in what you play!" He said, "How may tunes do you have there mate"? I said, "about 300" He said, "I've got 20,000 right here" he said patting his holsters. He then proceeded to click to the next track and watched the floor swell to 200 people dancing completely unaware of the format. To add salt to the wound, I lined up my first record to play and SOME PRICK bumped the deck knocking the stylus onto the mat, so all the 200 dancers heard was the noise of a stylus scraping the deck! He looked at me with a smirk and said, "You do it your way and I'll do it my way mate, OK"? Ian D

However, the scene has changed a lot hasn't it? It's actually much more diverse in tempo then before so you can get away with beat ballads, early 60's and even slowies etc, etc. And is better for it, IMVHO, judging from the RW Wigan playlists that pasted up so frequently on this site! 'A venue's only as good as it's deejays tastes' is a mantra worth remembering. I pretty much stopped going when I emigrated in '76 but in those early years it was pretty magical. Everyone played a part, but Richard Searling and Kev Roberts made the trips worthwhile for me primarily and both of 'em had phenomenally rare OV LOL. And let's not forget that it was Russ who championed "Put Your Arms Around Me" - The Sherry's on OV and had the 2nd copy of "Cool Off" amongst other things. I'm kinda glad that my last trip was in '75/'76 as I only remember the good times. I started losing interest when the Joey Dee's, "Hawaii Five 0"'s, Joe 90's and Gary Lewis & The Playboys started getting aired....... Ian D

Cheapies/revived items - around 10% Note, no oldies back then. Can somebody explain to me the difference between a "revived item" and an oldie? perhaps has something to do with the DJ playing it... Yep, a revived item would be something which maybe had been played at an earlier time but which had never taken off before. A certain deejay might then decide that maybe the timing is better 2nd time around and hence start hammering it again and give it a new lease of life. You could say that Lee Fields "Take Me Back" could be termed a 'revived item' in that it only received plays at select venues in the mid 70's and never became a classic first time around. 30 years later Butch starts playing it and lo and behold, finds a new appreciative audience 2nd time around. Some examples of 'revived items' in the mid 70's include "Looking For You" - Garnett Mimms, "Better Use Your Head" - Little Anthony & The Imperials, "Girl Don't Make Me Wait" - Bunny Sigler, "Keep On" - Sterling Magee etc, etc - all were 'known' and played in a couple of places here and there, but didn't really establish themselves until the whole scene adopted 'em. Whereas an oldie would be an established monster from first time around, if you see what I mean. Ian D

I would Sean. THAT sounds like a progressive venue with the correct philosophy for this day and age! Truth be told, I like a bit of everything as some of the best pieces of 'MUSIC' I've heard in the last 5 years have been via several different formats OV, LP, CD or MP3 - I'm not particularly aware of the format when I first hear something out. If what comes out of the speakers slays me then I'm not even that bothered about the format to be honest. It's the music bit I like mostly. And can you imagine never being allowed to hear this.... The Originals "Suspicion" https://www.zshare.net/audio/19098538a565d8f5/ or even this Freda Payne "Memories And Souvenirs" https://www.zshare.net/audio/19098713fea3cf8e/ Doesn't bear thinking about for me. How much great music could effectively be censored simply because it's never actually been on vinyl through no fault of it's own? Ian D

Yeah but it's very RARE Cheese presumably? Ian D