Charlie

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  1. And just next door(ish) was the Cabin club, where you could drink 24 hours a day and just above the Cabin club, up the next flight of stairs was my flat! Gordon, like all club owners, was a little bit shady, drove a Rolls-Royce and was treated with due respect! I remember fair hair, specs and a look it was best not to muck with. Not sure how the Hippo would do these days - the dancefloor was only slightly bigger than a handkerchief and the DJ stand slightly smaller than a matchbox! Have to say the totty was the tops - best girls in the world ever - apart from the ones I knew later at the
  2. Mick there was somehere else as it happens - The Hippo, cos Petal and Pat used to work there. They usually played Layla to segue into a slow section and Samba pa ti to get out of it! Funk 49 is one of theirs as are: She's alright The Shape I'm in Witch Queen I did a compilation of stuff they used to play and it ran to over 2 CDs of timeless, brilliant music.
  3. And does anyone remember the name of the guy that managed the Brit? Dark hair - beard - went on to manage the Bench and Bar....................
  4. Now then - DJ Petal rings a bell - I think that's my old mate Keith in disguise - so does any tone know where he might be these days?
  5. Nope - they lived on George Road (off musters). I lived at Julie Warwick's house on the Epperstone road. One day, Norma and Julie stole a carpet out of a house for sale on Epperstone and dragged it to Norma's house (it was the 70s). They were very pleased with themselves till I pointed to the trail of carpet fluff, so there they were at about 7am hoovering Epperstone road! They were good times really! An incident? Hmm, sounds bad. I liked Alex, he was a cool guy. The only other guys I knew that went on holiday were Mick Wallis - after shunting a car into the foundations of a new buildi
  6. Back in the days when I had a proper job, I used to travel a bit, usually with friends. We had a game which required the naming of dead people (and maybe dead people - like Moses or Lord Lucan - maybes were worth two points. This list was alos never ending but it was also a lot of fun. Smokey - you really got a hold on me!
  7. I hope Alex didn't go away over the little matter of a car accident in a spitfire? Well the other Pete went out with a barmaid called little Norma. Little Norma was Calvin Palmer's wife at one point but later on married Micke Norton, who for a while managed Annabelles which (so I believe, had some of the best orgies ever while he was there) was kind of post Norma. Now me and Norma were bezzie mates for a long time and if any of you out there know where she might be - I'd love to know. C
  8. I agree with beefsteak 'cos I sent in my suggestions too. As well as Groovin with, Kev also had the good sense to include Spooky's day off, which in it's day was guaranteed to pack the floor at the Place. He didn't, sadly, include Franki Valli's Opus 17 which Alex used to fill the floor with at the Hippo. Now back to the topic - my favourite tracks this morning are Going to a go-go and I can't give back the love I feel for you - Rita Wright's version. On or off topic - I like this game, it's got me going through my motown tracks and rememebering a lot of very good times - now isn't that wh
  9. I'd never heard that Temps track till I bought their Lost and Found CD - great track, great CD, just pipped at the post by the Marvin Gaye disc - also in the Lost and Found series. What amazes me is the quality of the rejects when I listen to them on these complilations. So many great songs just not seen as good enough! Which is why all the singles (well most of them) were classic soul cuts. Thinking of obscure Motown there is an awesome Marv Johnson track called 'Why do you want to let me go' which I have on a German CD called 'Detroit (rare tracks from) vol 7. It's a very good compila
  10. Didn't the Sandpiper start out as Pharoahs? Without a drinks licence? Then it became the Sandpiper and finally - I think - the Final solution? It's where I started my career as a DJ! Half a Schweppes box of soul singles and about three very young soul fans on the floor at any one time. Always wanting records I'd never heard of! Can anyone remember the name of the guy that owned it - He was blonde, not very tall and I think he went on to open the first beerkellar at the top of Arkwright Street. Pete something? C
  11. God Mick this is so hard! I have so many favourites. So, forgive me if I have a top three!! 3 - Cleo's Mood - when it came out it was the most awesome thing on the planet ever! (Although the Packers 'hole in the wall' came close but not on Motown, of course. 2 - Just a little misunderstanding - Awesome squared and I was in love with Linda from the Hippo and we'd fallen out and I got Alex to play it and it did the trick! 1 - but, unbeaten and unbeatable - 'It's been a long, long time' by the Elgins which is on my favourite Motown Album together with The Monitors singing 'Since I lost You G
  12. Hah! A virgin shop in Nottingham! Didn't know you had any - I never came across one. !laughing! Didn't Selectadisc move up onto King street? I do remember what a fantastic place that was - awesome albums at very good prices - so long as you checked the vinyl first! i spent so many hours in there! The only place I ever found that was better was in San Francisco. That was a musical instument shop with a sign reading 'second-hand vinyl downstairs'. So I made my way down into this must basement and found myself in a place as big as - Slab Square absolutelt crammed with vinyl - floor to c
  13. See - it was easy peasy! Their version of 'Gonna Fix you good' is very OK. I saw the band loads of times in the 60s. They went down the toilet after Jess left. Come to think of it Jess went down the toilet too! Bsteak -f you're related by marriage does that mean thet he is SWMBO? Wow! I think he became a record producer. Tell him/her someone remembers him at the Place and that his band was AWESOME! So - who's next? Unless someone wants to tell me which-one-hit wonder band covered Toyland - but I think they called it Toys. It's important to stay calm while you think about this........
  14. Thank you for being kind! Bet that doesn't happen very often. This one is extremely tenuous - but I bet you get it! What connects Jess Roden and Little Anthony? I've got a clue, but I doubt you'll need it
  15. Now then superjock! That may be the case but in the clubs they absolutely loved it especially when followed by Lynn Collins! it's not too late to try it out now!
  16. It is indeed Fred Wesley and the NEW JBs! Ribs and rice is one of the better funk tracks of the 70s - it really, really rocks!
  17. I knew someone would............... OK, how about this. Willma and the wws There is a clue there! But anyway if you know the surname of the guy who started the methodist church then you know the the surname of the guy who fronted the band who made the record! If you can figure out which of the stone-age characters first names to use then you have the whole of htis guys name!! Is this really too obscure?
  18. Well, I don't want to be too obscure but if I make it too easy, there's no fun in it. OK - the answer is a guy and a new version of a backing band that belonged to perhaps the most famous soul singer of them all. The guy's first name is the same as that of a famous stone-age cartoon character I'll do a clue for the second name when someone knows this one!
  19. I don't think you should be telling us what SWMBO would do to your personal bits - and you a moderator!
  20. Oh right and you wouldn't sell yourself out for a countess, an enormous estate and gazillions in the bank! I'd do it for an old age pensioner with 20 quid who fancied me! I wish I were a young DJ in the town centre again!
  21. Well, all I can say is...........Please don't ever change! and what a good record that was!
  22. Leave it for someone else! PS - have you always been this warped? !faint! C
  23. OK - here we go - Cultural - Liverpool - Beatles. And the Beatles covered songs by all these groups! Now tell me - who recorded Rice and Ribs!
  24. Cultural!! bu99er me! Do you do obscure for a living? OK, they are all Black Americans living in Detroit and recording for Motown! But cultural - what? they all like rice and ribs? (there's a question - who recorded that song!) They were all black panthers? They all loved Magic Roundabout? jeez...................Oh - no - I've got it - culture nearer to home!! They were all Nottingham Forest Supporters!!