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The thing is, if there were a plaque, the rset of the force would have to look up to him. Come to think of it, that is how it used to be - everyone did look up to him. Yes, let's have the box, the plaque and a police force with men in it half as good as Tug! Incidentally, at 5' 6" I seem to remember coming to just above his knees......

I hope it went well apart from that. Daughters hey, who'd have em! Still, maybe next year you should just go for the pizza! (maybe they do a curried one, you never know).

Now that is a good track! It takes two to even get close! Both from 'A cellar full of Motown' Frank Wilson - My sugar Baby and The Velevlettes - Ain't no place like Motown - not a great song, pretty bad in fact but I just love the title!

How about Mary Wells - You beat me to the punch?

A Warren Zevon fan! Now I am impressed! A very underrated performer! I love Suzie Lightning! As for Kid Rock - I've never heard of him, but that track is awesome. I played a couple more off You Tube, but that seems to be the one brill track. So, does he have an album that is 'the good stuff'? If you want to hear one of the best rock tracks in the world ever (but I can't find it on YouTube) you have to hear -'Stealin' all day' by C C Adcock - It borrows nothing but you've heard it a million times before. Just to keep the topic on topic a little - The Supremes - Love is like an itchi

I don't mind folks re-using riffs and stuff - there aren't that many to go round really. It's the lack of creativity or even ideas that bugs me. So, I liked the Las and Stone Roses but my toes never did tap to - was it 'S Club 7' who seemed interchangeable with about 50 other groups. I do like Sugababes even though they steal no end of stuff! It maybe something to do with the way they dress. This AM I was listening to the double CD - Motown Dance Party - and on there we have loads of good songs - but the one I'm still hummiong is 'He was really saying something' - The velvelettes!

Beechwood 4-5789 - The Marvelettes

Someone fetch the man a violin

Yes - that's it! Thank you very much

Actually, I think maybe Birdcage was more or less across from the Hippo - and the shop I bought my stuff from was further up - just past the back entrance to the Co-op. Was that Paul Smith's?

I hear a symphony - the isley Brothers - from one of the best motown albums!

Their version of Nights in white satin was awesome! They did do an album, which back in the 80s was cahnging hands for about 25 quid. The lead singer got pulled by my landlady one time which is how he and me became mates. Wish I could remember his name now.

HMM.................. If Birdcage was acroos the road from the hippo and back towards town a little, I bought a purple budgie jacket and a pair of maroon loons together with a kind of 'accident in a paint factory' shirt with rounded collar..........I still have the shirt, which has a few 'spliff' burns in it. I also had a kind of cream blazer thing with brown piping AND (which even I can't believe as I write it) a brown maxi-cardi. Pulled in it though................... :smile: And - although they weren't from birdcage, at one time I had a bunch of T-shirts that had litle bits of mirror s

Put yourself in my place - the Elgins

The thing is Craig, it's money men who run businesses - including radios and lots of popular DJs have sold out for the money too - so in the end it's a money thing! I've never heard you on the radio - but reading stuff you've written I imagine it would be a good show. Same with Kev Roberts - his compilations make me think the same thing. so, keep doing your thing when and where you can. I do like the radio stoke soul show on a Friday night and I think that is local - but maybe not. Speaking of which, how come Stu Morris hasn't signed up to this site yet? And, speaking of Stu Morris - I k

Well, it's very good of you to quote me :smile: but why?

Pete Groves - I have so been trying to think of that name! Now if anyone knows where he is these days, I'd love to hear about it!

Well, the Gaumont was demolished somewhere between '72 and '74 because I remember the footings across the road from thre Penny. The very same footings into which Mick Wallis pushed a car and its occupants for pissing him off in the Penny - He had quite an audience as I recall and the guy going over the edge kept trying to usze his brakes to saty on the road. Mick was considered, not exactly well-hard but very, very dangerous! Nice bloke though! I thnk the Penny must be the club you're thinking of since it was on the opposite side of the street and I think the council offices were above it.

Definitely superb! My first album was the Supremes Sing Motown - in '67? - not sure now and I loved their version of 'I'll turn to Stone'!

Well...........this was in 1980 and I think they were called CDC (Control Data Corporation) and they had a deal with RR where RR would take on a lot of the graduates. Is it Chapel bar that sits above slab square? Walking up from Yate's almost to the railings at the dead and and then a narrow entrance where you have to go upsatirs to the office? This is the big problem with getting old - so many memories are full of holes! I started out as a trainee analyst and ended up as head of IT Security for Barclays Corporate sector. Not bad for an uneducated, ex-dj from the Penny!

I can honestly say that until about '79 when my market-stall business was going bust I didn't really know that computers existed - certainly not in a meaningful way! It all came into focus when I was job-hunting and read a book called the mighty micro! Now of course they're everywhere and magic with it!

So was Headline News, come to that! Now I like that! Hope you kept the voiceover - I would have! Today we're into Smokey and 'I'll second that emotion' and if it ere on motown, but I don't think it is, we still like him when he released 'Cruisn'!

Well yes, but it is cool when you can drop the fact into conversation! My boss at the Penny once persuaded all of 'Chairman of the Board' to come up to Scamps after they'd finished their gig at the Intercon, so I did get to be their DJ and we did have a bit of a chat............but that is pretty well my claim to fame. You're half right about Gladys :-) but it's fair to say there are some excellent tracks out there - she does a stonking version of 'I heard it through the grapevine'. Still, that's probably true of all the Motown artists.

Shouldn't that be 5/100 then?

I should add that I learnt my computing skills in town - just across from the cinema and up a bit - what is that little bit of road called, that dead-ends when it reaches Upper Parliament Street? I was sent there by a guy in a computer shop that used to be on upper Parliament street - on the right-hand side as you drive up and out of town. The guy told me it would cost a lot to get on tyhe course but in fact it was a TOPS course, paying £35 per week! Once a week we used to go down to the Bell and have a couple of jars!