CD Album - Various Artists - The Wigan Casino Story - Goldmine Soul Supply

CD Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	The Wigan Casino Story
Label:	Goldmine Soul Supply
Country:	UK
Date:	1994
Catalogue:	GSCD 51
Barcode:	5020522095129
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	The Casualeers	Dance, Dance, Dance	McBrien, Giametta	Rate
02	The Mylestones	The Joker	Grayson, Curtis	Rate
03	Judy Street	What	Barnum	Rate
04	Beverly Ann	You Got Your Mind On Other Things	Miller, Porter	Rate
05	Paul Anka	I Can't Help Loving You	Schroek, Loring	Rate
06	Dean Courtney	I'll Always Need You	Huff, Barry	Rate
07	The Invitations	Ski-ing In The Snow	Linzer, Randell	Rate
08	Sam Ward	Sister Lee	Hester, Wylie	Rate
09	Morris Chestnut	Too Darn Soulful	Yate, Cook	Rate
10	The Salvadors	Stick By Me Baby	Armstead	Rate
11	Epitome Of Sound	You Don't Love Me	Paladino	Rate
12	Eddie Foster	I Never Knew	Foster	Rate
13	The Tomangoes	I Really Love You	Claude Williams	Rate
14	The Group Featuring Cecil Washington	I Don't Like To Lose	B. Tuthill	Rate
15	Jerry Williams	If You Ask Me	Williams, Spain	Rate
16	Don Ray	Born A Loser	Ray	Rate
17	The Sherrys	Put Your Arms Around Me	J. Cook	Rate
18	Mistura (Featuring Lloyd Michels)	The Flasher	L. Michels, R. Hurwitz	Rate
19	Little Anthony And The Imperials	Better Use Your Head	Randazzo, Pike	Rate
20	Gerri Granger	I Go To Pieces .. Everytime	Weiss	Rate
21	Jimmy Radcliffe	Long After Tonight Is All Over	Bacharach, David	Rate
22	Tobi Legend	Time Will Pass You By	Rhys, Fekam, Zesses	Rate
23	Dean Parish	I'm On My Way	Greenburg, Morris	Rate

Notes

A compilation by Kev Roberts
28 page booklet with notes by Kev Roberts and Russ Winstanley

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RogerFoster 10th Jan 2016		Review In the words of that well known song written by Paul Anka "Regrets I have a few, but then again too few to mention", but if forced one of my regrets would probably be that I never went to Wigan Casino. The place ran from 1973-1981, so I was of the right age, and I knew about the place from the start, but it was always something that never quite happened. However, if I ever want to imagine what it might have been like I can always listen to this CD, along with its two follow-ups - GSCD72 "The Wigan Casino Story Continues" and GSCD90 "The Wigan Casino Story Volume 3 The Final Chapter". Given that one of Goldmine Soul Supply's bosses was Kev Roberts, who DJ'd at The Wigan Casino, it was going to be inevitable that the label eventually did a CD compilation based around the venue and musically this seems to encapsulate what I've always imagined the place to be like (Volumes 2 and 3 flesh this out a bit and so this review also applies to those). Given that the 23 tracks on this CD were aimed at keeping the dancefloor full the emphasis is very much on records with a heavy dance beat, mainly from the 1965-1968 period, but with a smattering of 1970s tracks thrown in for a bit of variety. One of the criticisms thrown at Wigan at the time (and some other "Northern Soul" venues) was that the emphasis was TOO much on the beat and that many of the records played had little connection with "Soul" once the thump-thump-thump was taken away. Certainly some of the most popular "Northern Soul" tracks in the mid/late 70s were by "Pop" or "Country" acts who had fleetingly attempted a "Motown" sound around 1965/6 before moving on to other musical styles. This facet of "Northern Soul" is evident on all three volumes and each contains a few blatently "Pop" tracks that have very little appeal to me, but then I'm not experiencing them in a packed venue at 5AM on a Sunday morning so maybe I'm missing the point. Anyway, taking the Paul Anka track at #5 on this CD as an example it really is so well produced/performed that I find it quite irresistible and I can't imagine that such snobbery would ever occur to me if it didn't have such a big "Pop" name attached to it. As examples of the more authentically "Soul" side of "Northern Soul" I'd particularly recommend the tracks by The Tomangoes, The Salvadors and Morris Chestnut, none of which seem to have ever broken out to a wider audience but really should be wider known IMHO. Some songs on here will be familiar to those who listened to UK radio in the '70s and '80s ... The Invitations song at #7 was a Top 20 UK hit for a group called Wigans Ovation in 1975, and the Judy Street song at #3 went Top 3 in the UK in 1982 for Marc Almond and Soft Cell, while I remember the tracks by The Casualeers, Jerry Williams, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Dean Parish and Gerri Granger all got significant airplay when issued on 45s due to their popularity at The Wigan Casino and similar venues. Perhaps the most interesting story on this CD concerns the final 3 tracks, the tale of which is told in the images posted above (#941770 and #941774). These became the three tracks habitually played just before 8AM on Sunday morning, right at the end of the Saturday night All-Nighter sessions and the interest in them became so great that they were issued together as a single in 1978 on RK 1004. Legend has it that total sales of this single approached 175000, which would have put it outselling a lot of entries in the UK Top 10, and yet it never charted. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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