SHARON MCMAHAN
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH
KENT RECORDS UK
6t’s
CLEETHORPES
NORTHERN SOUL
WEEKENDER 2015
PRESENTS
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FRIDAY 12 JUNE – SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2015
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NORTHERN, RARE
& MODERN DJS
PA R E XC E L L E N C E
JOCK MITCHELL
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WHAT’S GOING ON
MAIN ROOM
M A I N DA N C E H A L L
FRIDAY ALL-NIGHTER
SUNNY SUNDAY AFTERNOON
8.00
8.45
9.30
10.15
11.00
11.40
12.20
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9.30
10.15
11.00
11.40
12.20
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12.00
1.30
2.15
3.00
1.00
1.40
2.30
3.15
4.00
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2.30
3.15
4.00
5.00
Pete Hulat
Keith Money
Dave Rimmer
Mick Smith
Butch
Mick H
Roger Banks & The Cleethorpes
2015 Dance Competition
Keith Money
Ady Croasdell
Butch
Mick H
Pete Hulat & Mick Smith
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1.30
2.15
3.00
4.00
4.00 – 5.00
Banbury Boogie
Ford Anglians
Hinckley Hunks
Soul Mastermind of 2015
With Roger & Dave
Mick Smith
SUNDAY SWEATATHON
8.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
1.00
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11.00
12.00
1.00
2.00
Dave Rimmer & Mick H
Keith Money
Roger Banks and DJ dirty deeds
Mick Smith & Support Team
Ady’s Adieu
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SOUL WORLD CUP
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All teams & timings are subject to alteration and we work on
the FIFA “largest envelope gets it” principle
12.00 – 1.30
WALES
1.30 – 3.00
SCOTLAND & IRELAND
3.00 – 3.30
SPAIN & GERMANY
4.30 – 6.00
FRANCE & CHANNEL ISLANDS
SATURDAY SPECTACULAR
9.00
10.00
10.45
11.30
12.15
1.00
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4.00
4.45
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4.00
4.45
5.30
6.15
7.00
Dave Rimmer
Pete Hulat
Keith Money
Mick H
Mick Smith
SHARON McMAHAN & JOCK MITCHELL
Live on Stage
Butch
Keith Money
Soul Sam
Mick H
Dave Rimmer
Roger Banks
MODERN ROOM
FRIDAY NIGHT
9.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
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4.00
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12.00
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2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
Steve Woomble
Andy
Ivor
Cliff
Terry
Mark
Soul Sam
Soulful Cris
Peake Practice
Poser
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MODERN ROOM
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SAT NIGHT 1AM-6AM
12.00 – 1.00
1.00 – 6.00
TEF’S DJ FOLLIES
Fish’s newish releases round up.
THE NORFOLK VILLAGE EXPERIENCE
DJs Terry Jones, Chris Forrest, Ivor, Alan
Paterson, Tats, Dave Halsall & late signing Binsy
for your edification.
SATURDAY NIGHT
8.00
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11.00
12.00
1.00
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10.00
11.00
12.00
1.00
2.00
4.00
4.00 – 5.00
5.00 – 6.00
Cliff
Taffy
Terry
Ivor
Mark
Andy
Sean Hampsey
& Tats Taylor “Just Soul” Jamboree
Soul Sam
Steve
SUNDAY AFTO
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
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U P S TA I R S R O O M
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4.00
5.30
Tats
Andy Davies
Soulful Cris
Steve Woomble & Pals
SUNDAY FINALE
9.00 – 11.00
11.00 – 1.00
Stafford returns
Taffy & Sam
Cliff & Steve
Staying Up
Lots of big name DJs playing a handful of records each
for the hell of it.
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Soul pixies
Cross Border Raiding Party
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Happy
He went Thataway
Cheese
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EDITORIAL
2014: That Was The Cleethorpes That Was.
Lest we forget, it’s a minor miracle we’re here at all. The phone call on the
morning of the day before the event to tell me we didn’t have any nighter
licenses and had to close at 2am each night should have put us out of business:
it came close to getting me admitted to The Priory.
However the spirit of Cleethorpes Weekender goers shone through.
Everyone supported us in our predicament and pulled together in whatever
way necessary. After driving up the A1 with Harold Melvin’s ‘Bad Luck’ on
repeat on the CD player, I was touched by the attitude and sympathy of
everybody on arrival; when they said “It’ll be brilliant as usual”; I almost
believed them. Three days later, I did. That’s the only reason we’re here again.
Licenses are in place already. We’ve shaved an hour off the nighter times
by public demand. Many wanted a couple of hours lopped off but there are
plenty of younger ones and diehards who like to push it, so we’ll see how 5 am
and 7am go and can adjust next year.
Sandy and Greg were a pleasure to work with and resulted in me getting
phoned on the mobile by Dionne Warwick when they failed to meet a couple
of times: nice. It has also led to some licensing of Greg’s recordings from the
60s and 70s further down the line.
Like the Art School Dance, the 100 Club goes on forever. Three dozen years
this September, I’m sure I’ll see a lot of you at the anniversary nighter.
And we’ve revived the Anniversary Thames Riverboat party on Oct 3rd for the
first time since the 80s; book that one soon.
Tomas McGrath has joined the 100 Club roster of DJs and has added more
youth and enthusiasm. For a quiet chap he obviously enjoys himself behind the
decks; it’s infectious.
We have a very classy pair of acts this year, as befits our connoisseur
crowd. Sharon McMahan is both a singer and songwriter whose tunes we have
thrilled to over the decades. She will sing the best of her recordings and those
she wrote for the likes of Barbara Lewis and Deon Jackson at Carla & Karen
records in the 60s. Jock Mitchell is a very active singer in Florida nowadays
and has brought two of his musicians to augment the band and show there is
much more to his vocal skills than that Northern Soul masterpiece ‘Not
A Chance In A Million’.
Kent continues to flourish and “Pied Piper – Follow Your Soul” is the most
talked about Northern CD since “Pied Piper Presents”! Vinyl continues its
return and we’ve restarted the LP series with “Dave Hamilton’s Detroit
Dancers” Kent 502.
Soulfully yours
Ady
Sandy & Greg
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SHARON McMAHAN
Sharon was born in Sevierville,
Tennessee and moved to Detroit
when she was four. Her
grandmother had a baby grand
piano in the house where they
lived and she and her siblings were
all taught on it, she from the age of
five. She loved the piano and began
writing songs; turning professional
at the age of thirteen.
A cousin told her of a DJ from Ann
Arbour, Michigan called Ollie
McLaughlin who had started a
publishing firm and was looking for
songs. She auditioned four songs for him
in December 1961 and with her mother’s
consent he signed her as a writer.
In a recent interview with Lois
Wilson, Sharon remembered;
“Sometimes he would ask me to write
something and have it ready in a day or
so. He would put an order in and come
by a couple days later to pick it up.
That’s how ‘Someday We’re Gonna Love
Again’ came about.
Ollie stopped by, like on a Monday
and told me he needed a song for an
English group and that he would be
back on Thursday to pick it up. I was
dumbfounded. But I reviewed the pop
sound and I got my creative juices
spinning but needed a title.
Out of frustration, I went out on the
front porch. I looked to left and saw
a boy from our street and
he was on another porch
two houses down,
ringing the doorbell.
So, quickly, I hollered
to him. “Hubert, I
need a title for a
song!” He thought for
a second and said,
Someday We're Gonna
Love Again’.”
It became a hit for the
group it was designed for, The
Searchers from Liverpool and Ollie
cut it on Barbara Lewis whose version
sold well and Sharon got to write her
follow-up ‘Straighten Up Your Heart’.
Deon Jackson was Barbara’s male
equivalent at Karen/Carla and Sharon’s
songs for him included the terrific
dancers ‘That’s What You Do To Me’
and ‘I Can’t Go On’.
She worked with Don Davis on
‘You’re The Fool’ for Mavis Staples,
The Three Degrees and Etta James
and another Detroit legend Johnnie
Mae Matthews on ‘I Have No Choice’.
In her own words – “She was a true
soulful singer and she felt it all the way
down to her toes. I was there when she
recorded it. It was a Saturday morning
at United Sounds. She loved that song
so-o-o-o-o much. She used to come over
to my house to practice it. Ollie was
producing her then and he told her to
come over and learn that song! She
would have coffee with my mother and
we practiced that song over and over
and over again. When she recorded it,
she wore a flowered dress and she had
a little bottle of gin. But her vocal was
fabulous. Her voice resonated like
thunder out of a cloud.”
Sharon’s own singing career started
in 1963 with ‘Here Comes
That Boy I Love’ for
Ollie’s Karen label. She
then concentrated on
writing, until 1966
when she returned to
the studios with ‘Got
To Find Another Guy’
cut at the same session
as the Capitols ‘Cool
Jerk’ which was recorded
first. “Ollie had all of us
stand around a mike and he
recorded our hand claps onto the Cool
Jerk track. So, the next time you hear
Cool Jerk, you'll hear us back there…
havin’ fun! What a memory!”
Other McLaughlin recordings
remained in the can though some like
the sublime ‘Where There Is Love’ have
escaped and can be heard in lo-fi on
YouTube. Her Cleethorpes’ rendition of
it will be the first time it has been sung
since 1968.
Sharon took a regular day job when
Karen folded and managed a band for
some time. She returned to the studios
for producer Clive Davis in 1973 when
he was at Columbia and recorded the
beautiful, self-penned ‘Get Out Of My
Life’. Having signed Sharon on an
excellent contract, Clive had big plans
for her but was ousted from his position
there and her career stalled.
She moved between Detroit and
California where the Columbia sides
were cut and has recently issued the
CD “Somebody Else” which was cut at
her new home in Altadena, California
with vocals put on in Hollywood.
Sharon will have copies of this
great new CD with her and is so
pleased to be able to sing her songs to
her dedicated fans; as are we.
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JOCK
MITCHELL
Florida native Arthur Mitchell
began singing seriously in 1956 as
a twelve year old. His manager
loved his voice and put a group
behind him before taking him
to Chicago to cut four
sides as Jake Mitchell
for Chess. They were
sadly never released.
However he was a
great live act and
went on tours with
some of the greats
of black music like
Sam Cooke, Roy
Hamilton, Lulu Reed,
Amos Milburn and
James Brown.
His first 45 was under his real
name for the Philadelphia Newtown
label where he recorded Ted Jarrett’s
blues-tinged ballad ‘You Can Make It If
You Try’, a big hit for Gene Allison in
1957, and also covered Bobby Bland’s
early soul classic ‘Turn On Your
Lovelight’ on the flip. Both sides were
produced by Richard Rome.
Jock moved to Detroit in the early
60s, signing for Harry Balk’s Impact
label in 1965. His first release, this
time credited to Jock Mitchell, was the
punchy soul take on Hank Ballard’s
‘Work With Me Annie’.
The next year saw the release of the
R&B flavoured ‘I Got To Know’ and on
the flip was the Duke Browner penned
soul of ‘Not A Chance In A Million’.
Those two and a half minutes of
superb Northern Soul have brought him
to Cleethorpes nearly 50 years later.
Jock remembers rehearsing the number
for three weeks before recording it in
five takes at United Sound studios.
It was many years before he
found out that the UK’s
Northern Soul crowd had
adopted the record as
an anthem and rushed
to the dancefloor every
time those distinctive
opening chords
blasted out of the
speakers.
Jock went on tour with
the Shades Of Blue
around the time of their ‘Oh
How Happy’ hit and next appeared on
his own Golden Hit label with ‘Nomad
Woman’.
This atmospheric, moody number
was a Detroit collectors’ favourite for
many years, played at venues like
Stafford’s Top Of The World club, along
with Stewart Ames ‘King For A Day’
which shared the same backing track.
The Golden Hit flip ‘Free At Last
(Great Day A-Comin’)’ was also
recorded by James Barnes & The
Agents for the label.
As well as the record
company, Jock ran two
nightclubs; one of
which Jock Mitchell’s
Rose Room was
named after his wife
Rosa.
When his music
business interests
petered out he moved to
Connecticut where he
worked as a head chef and
then relocated to
Tampa Bay,
Florida and then
to Gainesville in
that state where
he formed Little
Jake & The Soul
Searchers in
2008.
This outfit
has worked
regularly
around south west
USA with their dynamic
live act ever since.
Some of our crowd will
remember Jock from
his appearance at the
Gold Soul trip a few
years ago and he is
keen to meet the fans
that he met there and
the many new ones he
will win over at this
appearance.
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About The Venue
The Weekender is held at the Beachcomber Holiday Centre,
208 North Sea Lane, Cleethorpes DN36 4ET, telephone 01472 812666.
Cleethorpes is easily reached by road just off the M180 which links up
with the M18, M1 and A1. There is also a railway station with regular
trains from London, Sheffield, Manchester and the Midlands.
The holiday centre is reached by travelling east along Cleethorpes’ seafront,
past the leisure centre to Pleasure Island theme park. It is just to the right
of the roundabout at the junction of Kings Road and North Sea Lane.
A taxi from the station is about £5.
When You Get There
Bring your receipts and any bizarre correspondence we may have had with
you, we will trade that in for your weekend passes. The reception is open from
4pm-11pm, then we’ll move everything to the main door. You won’t actually
need the passes for the venue until 8pm.
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Accommodation
Please remember to keep accommodation, dance and other areas as clean and
tidy as possible for the goodwill of the management. Towels, sheets and toilet
paper are NOT provided but there are basic pillows and duvets or blankets.
The caravans have cookers, fridges, TVs and crockery etc.
Passes
You will be expertly fitted with a wristband on arrival. Once your wristband
is on you must keep it on until you have evacuated the premises for good.
Passes must not be tampered with or removed as we can’t issue replacements.
Electricity & Deposit
Electricity and gas are included in the caravan accommodation. There is a £25
deposit on each caravan. Fully refundable if all is in order.
Facilities
Heated outdoor swimming pool, snooker/ pool room and amusements are all
adjacent to the dance hall. There is an all day and night café by the pool.
There is a very good fish and chip shop and a small convenience shop just
outside the front gates. The pub opposite also does good food.
There will be a cloakroom for the Saturday all nighter on the ground floor near
the main toilets, £1.50 per item and well worth it for peace of mind.
Thanks
This year the vehicle for running around the acts is supplied by Just Vehicle
Rental Ltd 03334 566000. Thanks to Dean, Dougie and Tats.
BOOK NOW
for our 24th 6Ts Weekender
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th June 2016
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Unfortunately there is no spare accommodation on site, we can only offer
weekend dance passes.
A deposit of £20 per person is needed to guarantee your place.
This is refundable up to May 1st 2016.
Cheques or postal orders payable to:
6t’s Weekenders, (Don’t postdate them)
10 Hatfield House, 108 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 6SN
(Please enclose a SAE for your receipt)
PayPal is now an option, but it will be £20.75 per deposit to cover their
charges. Mail the dosh to [email protected]
Final prices and Live Acts will be confirmed in January 2016
Enquiries 020 7636 2622 or 07773019559 [email protected]
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6t’s
6t’s All-Nighters
At The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street,
London W1D 1LL 11pm-6am unless stated
No membership required
RESIDENT DJs
BUTCH, KEITH MONEY,
JOEL MASLIN, TOMAS McGRATH
& ADY CROASDELL
DATES FOR 2015 ALL NIGHTERS
Saturday July 11th
Saturday August 22nd
Tickets go on sale for 36th Anniversary
Saturday September 26th 10pm-6am
36th Anniversary – Ticket only
Details on www.6ts.info
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Saturday October 31st
Saturday December 5th
Thursday 17th December 9pm-2am
Xmas Party
Saturday October 3rd 7pm-midnight
The return of the Anniversary Thames Riverboat Roustabout
£22 Cheque to A. Croasdell or £23 PayPal
(details on page 19)
Saturday 10th October
Crossfire Oldies All Nighter
Venue 229 by Gt Portland St tube station, London W1W 5PN