This record was played continually in discos and nightclubs (including Wigan Pier) throughout the UK and can only assume that you only started going to discos as a young John Travolta with your 5 inch platform soles,penny collars shirts and opened to show your chest,with wide flaired trousers and dashed out in a pearl white jacket.
Me !! A true Mod mate and collector of some wonderful Soul/Tamla etc records from a shop in John Dalton Street,Rare Records.The guy used to buy some wonderful imports from the States and he couldn`t get enough copies quick enough for the demand of Wade In The Water,which was played throughout the disco land.I have Ramsey Lewiss` hits in front of me and I accept he primarily is a Jazz pianist/group but it didin`t stop him from playing other well known tracks not connected to Jazz.On the album I`ve goy here mate its got a Beatles number,Hard Days Night,Hang On Sloopy,Function At The Junction,blah,blah,blah.
Now back off or I`ll have to run you over with my yellow Lambretta GT 150 Scooter. ;)
I quite like Jazz mate.Seen Jamie Cullum three times me and the missus.I was born in the 70s so was more of a floppy sunhat and whistle kinda guy to be honest, a 90s raver than 70s disco fever, it was all hugs and love when I was clubbing mate.
Now start a thread on Jazz if you want to listen to Ramsey Lewis ;-)
Looks like you had a similar upbringing to me then, in which case I offer 'Wade in the water' by Big Mama Thornton as the superior version, Oh and Wigan Pier??..Casino surely. More VA VA's in Bolton and Blackpool Mecca when I was on the way up...KTF.Motown/soul its all the same innit.;)See my response to Paul Lakes Left Knee ref Ramsey.
I quite like Jazz mate.Seen Jamie Cullum three times me and the missus.
Yes Casino mate.Blackpool and Bolton became other big hotspots for the dance scene Soul Nights in the north-west including The Twisted Wheel in town.I`ll check out Big Mama and see what she has to offer.Cheers mate.Looks like you had a similar upbringing to me then, in which case I offer 'Wade in the water' by Big Mama Thornton as the superior version, Oh and Wigan Pier??..Casino surely. More VA VA's in Bolton and Blackpool Mecca when I was on the way up...KTF.
The Wheel had long gone by the time I was throwing down talc...I caught about the last year of Wigan, which was in a terminal decline of war between trad soulies and new DJs playing the theme from Hawaii 50...so Bolton/blackpool/stoke it was...for a while.Yes Casino mate.Blackpool and Bolton became other big hotspots for the dance scene Soul Nights in the north-west including The Twisted Wheel in town.I`ll check out Big Mama and see what she has to offer.Cheers mate.
WOW mate,love Big Mama and had a listen to a few of her songs.Never heard that original Wade before so it`ll be downloaded on my Ap etc.Watched a docu some 12 months ago about Wigan and how it closed and the impact it had on people.Only went there three times and I got kinda pissed off as there was no bar there,but as you say plenty of other ways to "feel happy".The Wheel had long gone by the time I was throwing down talc...I caught about the last year of Wigan, which was in a terminal decline of war between trad soulies and new DJs playing the theme from Hawaii 50...so Bolton/blackpool/stoke it was...for a while.
Rare records was great, as was the Spin Inn....