SHARON MCMAHAN 1 IN ASSOCIATION WITH KENT RECORDS UK 6t’s CLEETHORPES NORTHERN SOUL WEEKENDER 2015 PRESENTS 23 FRIDAY 12 JUNE – SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2015 AND NORTHERN, RARE & MODERN DJS PA R E XC E L L E N C E JOCK MITCHELL 2 3 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 – – – – – – – 8.45 9.30 10.15 11.00 11.40 12.20 1.00 12.00 1.30 2.15 3.00 1.00 1.40 2.30 3.15 4.00 – – – – – 1.40 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 – – – – 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 – – – – – 10.00 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 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 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 – – – – – – 10.00 10.45 11.30 12.15 1.00 2.15 2.15 3.15 4.00 4.45 5.30 6.15 – – – – – – 3.15 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 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 – – – – – – – – 10.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Steve Woomble Andy Ivor Cliff Terry Mark Soul Sam Soulful Cris Peake Practice Poser 4 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 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 – – – – – – – 9.00 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 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info U P S TA I R S R O O M – – – – 2.00 3.00 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. 5 6 Soul pixies Cross Border Raiding Party 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info Happy He went Thataway Cheese 7 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 8 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 9 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 10 11 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 12 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. 13 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 14 15 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. 16 17 East Midlands movers 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info What’s Butch thinking? Pleased punters 18 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. 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 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 Name of Party Leader Address Postcode Telephone (Home) (Mobile) NAMES OF MEMBERS IN PARTY 1 2 3 4 5 6 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] 19 20 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 6t’s WEEKENDER 2015 www.6ts.info 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
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