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Jump Children Jump!

Great post Dean. I loved the Flamingos. My knees are aching at the thought...

I am always a bit suspicious of anyone that doesn't (secretly) enjoy dancing !
 
Hey Dean,

Bloody great stuff, keep 'em coming!

Slightly off topic....Now I'm normally very very anti cover versions!

I've just played Seal-Soul..it's gotta be the best 12 covers of really great songs I've ever heard....magic stuff! Never thought I'd feel so strongly about cover versions. Mind you even better by the original Artistes of course. I just didn't realize what a good voice he had TBH.

Cheers....Dave

P.S. enjoyed the Scalford Rock!
 
Yep...brill, seen it before though (old fogey as I am). That'll do now, gotta get to bed myself.

Cheers
 
Hi,

More joint jumpin,


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Dean
 
Super stuff Dean! I just wish there was video, or even photos of the places where I used to DJ.
BTW, have you read those magazines yet?

Col
 
Fantastic stuff. James Brown, what an ego, but for crying out loud, what a performer. And the origins of the Moonwalk, superb.

I thank you.
 
Mullardman said:
Super stuff Dean! I just wish there was video, or even photos of the places where I used to DJ.
BTW, have you read those magazines yet?

Col
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Hi Colin,

It would have been great to see pictures and film of some of the place where you used to dj. I would have been a great snap shot of history.

I have read a number of those mags. Quite entertaining some of them.

Dean
 
I love all the dancing stuff from these days, it reminds me old school when people were crazy about dancing new rhythms.
 
Dean,

You clearly have an extensive knowledge of what we might loosely term Soul/R&B. I had a record about 1967, when I first started DJ'ing. The song title was 'Ready Willing and Able' (Not to be confused with an earlier (50s?) song of the same title.) The label was red or orange. It might have been similar to the 60s vintage Elektra label, or it could have been BigT, a la Chuck Wood. Truth be told, my memory of it is vague. Still it was a triffic dance tune. Chorus ended 'I'm ready willing and able, to give you my love', or thereabouts. Thing is I have no recollection of who sang it except it was a duo. They had a name along the lines of Root and Jenny Jackson, or Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson, but it wasn't either of those. Any ideas?

Col
 
Dean, This is one of the best pfm threads ever.

So Col, where did you DJ?


Could it be The American Breed?
 
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Mullardman said:
Dean,

You clearly have an extensive knowledge of what we might loosely term Soul/R&B. I had a record about 1967, when I first started DJ'ing. The song title was 'Ready Willing and Able' (Not to be confused with an earlier (50s?) song of the same title.) The label was red or orange. It might have been similar to the 60s vintage Elektra label, or it could have been BigT, a la Chuck Wood. Truth be told, my memory of it is vague. Still it was a triffic dance tune. Chorus ended 'I'm ready willing and able, to give you my love', or thereabouts. Thing is I have no recollection of who sang it except it was a duo. They had a name along the lines of Root and Jenny Jackson, or Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson, but it wasn't either of those. Any ideas?

Col
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Hi Colin,

That sounds like one of my faves. It is by Jimmy Holiday & Cydie King - Ready Willing & able. It was on the Minit label.

Cydie cut a number of singles in the 60s. She was also a in-demand session singer who sang on records by the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Linda Ronstadt & others. She also sang on the Joe Cocker's, 'Mad dog and Englishman' tour and is featured on the film.

Here's the record.
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Here's the tune.

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You can pick the track up on a Clydie King cd or as a download.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000VNT97G/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Dean
 
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Dean, you are genius!

That was indeed the song, though I'm not 100% it was that version. Could it have been done by anyone else? I'm almost certain that the label wasn't the black Minit label shown. Mine was Orange or Red with the title printed along the 'bottom' of the label, IE below the centre hole. Also, I don't recognise the names of the singers at all, and I'd have thought I would once reminded. Still, it was more than 40 years ago.... :)

You've got me thinking now. I'm going to have to do an 'ultimate soul' compilation...

Thanks again.

Col
 
cooky1257 said:
Dean, This is one of the best pfm threads ever.

So Col, where did you DJ?


Could it be The American Breed?
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Hi Cooky,
Nope.. it wasn't the American Breed, though that is a great song! Dean has it in his post, though I'm still not sure it's the version I had.

I started DJ ing about 67-8.

I had just walked out of a job in the Coal Board Laboratories in Nottm and was doing a door knocking sales job. I was invited to join 3 mates in setting up a mobile disco.

One guy dropped out pretty quick. The rest of us carried on.

We had no money, and started by hacking the auto changers off a couple of Dansette decks and throwing them into a chipboard box. Amplification was via a BEL guitar amp. It sounded horrible, but got us started. Our very first gig came about when we went to a disco at a local miner's welfare and discovered their DJ hadn't arrived. We offered to stand in and after a frantic hour of driving about to gather the kit we did it. We went down a bomb!

Our first regular gig was a place called the 'Room at the Top' in a pub in Glasshouse Street Nottingham.

Soon we were doing residencies in the 360 Club, Bulwell, Nottm. This is still fondly remembered by many people. We also did a couple of other local clubs, the usual 'weddings and funerals' circuit and a residency at the 76 Club in Burton on Trent.

Frankly, we were damned good. If you wanted a good Motown/Stax/Atlantic soul type night we did it. We also had the usual Ska/RockSteady stuff. But we also had enough sense to recognise that the weddings and funerals circuit demanded a wide range of stuff. We could throw in everything from 40s swing to 50s R&R etc. We had a ball.

We eventually had 2 sets of gear and DJs out 7 nights per week. I regularly did Graduation Balls at Nottm uni and we did a few epic gigs in country houses for very wealthy people..

The kit improved as well. You have to remember that short of commissioning something from a specialist audio engineer, you couldn't really buy an 'off the shelf' set up at the time. We pooled all of our money, our profits and our knowledge. We also enlisted a bit of help. What we ended up with was a dual mono set up powered by two Leak TL50 mono valve amps and controlled by a pair of 'Linear' pre amps and a cross fader. We used a pair of Goldring Lenco GL68 TTs and made two,. then four open backed column speakers containing 12 inch Baker and Fane units and Wharfedale Super 3 tweeters.

Best of all, and hilarious to use, was our 'strobe'. These were pretty obligatory back in the psychedelic days of the late 60s, but the lamps for them were horrendously expensive. So, ever resourceful, we worked out that smallish standard tungsten filament bulbs had near enough quick enough switch on/fade characteristics to give a semblance of a strobe effect.
We mounted a dozen or so such bulbs inside an open ended tin. (originally intended for wholesale pig's livers!) These were controlled by a little electro-mechanical gizmo. The effect of this strobe alongside the hypnotic drone of Donovan's 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' was phenomenal.

We used to book a lot of groups in to the 360 as well, including some pretty famous ones. They commonly consented that we had the best disco sound they'd heard. TBH, whilst great for many venues, we struggled in bigger halls.

Still, we got loads of work and I had a ball for a few years. In the end, we started to suffer as Carlsboro brought out a cheap and effective 'instant DJ' kit, which resulted in everybody and his brother becoming a mobile DJ.

I walked away from it about '71. My only regret was leaving all those classic soul singles behind. That was a mistake.

Col
 
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I'll throw this cracker in for now.

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Mull
 
And this one. One of my fave Ska tracks ever. This used to go down a bomb at the 76 Club in Burton on Trent. (Well known epicentre of Ska ;) )

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Mull
 
And another. I loved this, because it has the true blend of jazz and Carribean rhythms which make 'proper' Ska.

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And this. Mine was on the Punch label, purchased from the seedy but fab Sign of Four shop in Nottm. This seems to be from an album but is closest to the sound I remember.

Winston Francis Too Experienced. God this thread is making me shiver.

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Mull
 
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