@TheClassicalSymphony whereas you sound like one...you poor needy sad act

@TheClassicalSymphony sad loser indeed,go back to your soulless basement and don't leave and I hope your internet connection goes down so we don't have to any digital recording of your sad sad shit,what have you ever done,nothing!!

@TheClassicalSymphony why dont you just investigate northern soul scene a bit more and then see what you think after ?!

@TheClassicalSymphony I meant the youth culture you stupid wanker not the fucking countryside ffs !

@TheClassicalSymphony nice country side shit boring people, upper middle class London commuters yawn yawn

You had some great moves! I love the guys spinning. It dazzles me that many of these wonderful soul songs were popular in Northern England but weren't hits in the US--at least not in Southern California where I lived. Years later, I 'd find out that some of my favorite soul songs that were flops in the US were cherished by kids in England. I should have been there! KTF.

@elizabethbarrow3801 there's still a big following of northern soul here indeed there's a soul and mowtown club once a month near me but at 60+ the moves are a little more sedate 😅 glad you enjoyed the footage it brings back lovely memories KTF

​@@garyasher5918 Keep the Faith and keep on dancing!

Awesome mate! My son is a professional ballet dancer and I’ll have to show him this. You’re all really going for it there - were injuries common?

@worse-than-gnomes thanks for the compliment twisted ankles and back strains were quite common but you didn't feel it at the time, the girl in the white top was a fantastic dancer but 50 odd yrs on I can't remember her name good luck to your lad

Yes I do - I was a ' Placemate ' Susanne !

I lived just outside Tunstall, I was at most of the torch all nighters, or we’d head to Wigan for their all nighters. Go to the Place in Hanley. I emigrated to Canada in 1976 (I was 21) and I’m still kicking.

More than that... nobody cares how well you can dance.... just get out on the floor!

Yes the dancer's were amazing .Memories of love ,I left school in 1975 . You could taste the sweat when you went on the dancefloor. Mandy .

What I loved is that, just now and again, a Soul Sister got a look-in on camera...

@@mandytyers4481 Yes, and the drips from the ceiling.

I saw it on TOTP when I was 14 not knowing I would be at Wigan Casino about 18 months later! Keep The Faith

Agreed...

KEEP ON KEEPIN ON

speed'speed

Only stopped for water!

@@soulboy6073 wizzin smile

Wizzers chosen few

The time off my life Wigan case

Remember stomping to Don Thomas's Come on train at the pier, awesome nights

Gethro Jacko and Steve I remember at the Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton..1976 giving it some welly to luther ingram.. But I also remember playing Deansfield (1968) in the semi final cricket match (we was Danesfield) I was 10 years old...anyway KTF and let's have some Tomangoes..😊

He was almost 18 when he died.

Sorry to hear that

Malcolm Coghill......The club you are referring to was originally called the 'Golden Torch Ballroom' but was better known as the 'Torch' on the Northern scene. It was located on Hose Street in Tunstall [one of the 'Five Towns' of Stoke] and I was privileged enough to attend it. In fact, I was even there on the night it closed down due to fire in March 1973. The Torch was initially established as a Mod club by its owner Chris Burton before it began hosting all-nighters - sadly it didn't really survive too long after it became a NS club as it was constantly being raided by the local police for overcrowding and drugs. But whilst it was open, it was in my opinion the best NS all-nighter I ever went to! The crowd were already 'veterans' of the Soul Scene and the atmosphere was electric! I have never ever felt anything like it before or since! And the dancing was spectacular! [some of the dancers were more like acrobats and were actually back-flipping off the balconies!] You simply had to experience it yourself to truly appreciate just how incredible it was. I had first heard about it in early 1972 from a DJ who was always playing 'Tunstall Tunes' at our local Labour Club! [this was before Dave Godin famously named the music as 'Northern Soul' and we just called it 'Uptempo soul' before that. The Torch had some of the best DJ's at the time - Colin Curtis, Keith Minshull, Tony Jebson, Alan day, Ian Levine etc] Although I never got to go to the Torch as much as I would have liked [I was only 16 at the time so it was difficult to travel all that way at my age] the Torch will always be a really special place to me - and some of the 'Tunstall Tunes' [Lenis Guess, Dalton Bros, Johnny Wyatt, Lou Johnson, Bobby Wells, Herb Ward, Bob & Earl etc] are still amongst my all-time favourites!

Did your cousin stay with you too?

Too right! 👍🎶🗝

It's very reminiscent of the rave culture 15 years later. Kids off their heads dancing through the night. And now there's nothing, just kids gawping at their phones like zombies. The best years have come and gone.

From billericay dicky this is purfleet

Spot on no hint ov any problems just people havin fun

Wizzin on time

ps Gethro's book is one of the best, most honest books about the scene too.

Toby Cole : What's it called please.?

They danced all night - Gethro Jones 😉

@@CartagenaSoulBoy thank you G x

@@CartagenaSoulBoy Thanks!🤗

I went all the way to Stoke from Widnes on the back of a Lambretta ld125 and they wouldn't let me in because I looked too young. Spent the night in a bus stop until my mate came out at god knows o'clock, (thoughtless******). You did well to get into the Casino at 15 yo ..believe me. Great days, still love it . Ktf

gillian bergh : sorry - the 'Footsee dance'?

Fantastic dancing old school!!! these dancers had soul you cannot manufacture this youngsters May try to imitate but they will never know that feeling we had back in the day when you walked in to a soul do and heard those great sounds how you felt when you walked in through the doors and felt at home omg what a feeling you can tell the who the old soulies are ! It’s in their blood the moves you can just tell no fabrication ! Just pure soul in the soul nothing ! no one ! can imitate

OF COURSE "THE FOOTSIE DANCE" PART OF THE NORTHERN SOUL REPERTOIRE ....VERY IMPORTANT.

​@@sarahjones-jf4pr shouting doesn't make right. There is no such thing as the footsie dance just northern soul dancing to a whole variety of soul sounds and occasional oddities such as this.

@@MegaOwlsman Used to go to Northern Soul all nighters every weekend at the Wigan Casino was going out with DJ "Hippo" R.I P in the 70s and I can assure you we used to do. "The Footsie " all the time especially in competition and even still do a bit now!

They were thin because they were all high on coke.

Coke hahaha

Dout it would have been coke back in 75 . Billy would have been the powder of choice.

@@fntime It wasnt coke pal,chokers,blues,green n clear,bombers.Chokers were slimming pills,drop 6 and you wouldnt want to eat till tuesday.

@@caroltweddle9247 thursday

I've watched some videos of some brilliant dancer's doing the Shag. You call it Beach music I believe? KTF.

crowhillian58 yes Sir. Beach music. The Tams, The Showmen and many others!

@@philliphutson7250 I live in Chicago from UK and i noted that dancing years ago we hope to be in Carolina next year spinning tunes Gethro

Well said mate.!

Here here x

As an Wheel boy from 65 onwards I for one am delighted at what the casino brought to us - For me and extension and improvement on what we did - Mainly because of the floors and the room but hey ho great to see it -- D

Absolutely 👍

Just as you have your opinion that the Casino went down the pan post 78 you must let others have their opinions too. There was some amazing soulful tunes (And DJs) at WC post 78. And you must remember that this time at Wigan was very emotional and cause heated arguments on the scene. It tore the scene apart with it causing alot of truly soulful peeps to leave it completely. DJs also. What I will say about the song tho is that even tho Russ put this on everyones playlist and it was played umpteen times a night it still fulled the floor and emptied M's and they all trotted back as soon as it finished lol A strange site to behold.

I was a 12year old at Deansfield high school , wolves . when this was shown and it sent us into a northern soul frenzy , the influence of Gethro , Jacko and some of the older kids still at school who were into northern had a massive influence on me and my mates . first went to wigan as a 15 year old with and kept going to the end . Still have a dance now on the scooter rallies . Total respect to these guys , certainly started it for me

Well said that man Gethro .....one of our idols from back in the day....like myself he has never give up on our love of the music and the scene , we may have drifted out of it for a while to bring up our family's up but it was allways there engraved in our hearts .....if we ever tried to explain Northern Soul to the chin strokers of this world it would take a fecking eternity......come on folk get off ya high horses and have a walk round on the ground.......no need for all the shit on the scene that basically tries to be little the true music lovers , who really did and still do enjoy everything about this music , friendship and a life story that has stood the the test of time .......if you have nothing good to say about it ......please , please stroll on by.....Ko Ko...x

Geoffrey Jones Hey I'm tipping my hat to you and everyone on that floor I think Northern Soul dancers are absolutely amazing...!!!!

Stuff the critics, Jethro. Without this I'd never have heard of The Salvadors, The Millionaires, Gene Toones etc. This made me curious, made me search into what was going on. The day trippers disappeared as soon as they appeared, but it garnered an interest for many of us. I love seeing this. It reminds me of how I got into Northern Soul. Stuff those who say "not like in our day" or "Shit dancing" etc. Who put them in charge of how things should be?

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Was just thinking that, some really great footwork and everyone seems very much in harmony and no jostling others nor trying to grab the limelight. Really wonderful nostalgia. I was just slightly too young but caught a lot of those singles that didn't make the chart at some point duing my youth club days, our DJ kept the faith.

Have a look at mally the best northern soul 12 wigan keel dance champ 87 beat vernon

When I seen it on TOTP, I wanted Dr Martin Chelsea boots ?? For some strange reason.

Your most welcome....Thankyou :-)

There used to about 10 of us from Leyland went to the casino early 1974,we used to get the 113 bus to Wigan from Hough Lane at 10.30pm,the casino didn't open in them days till 2pm,so we just hung about avoiding all the piss heads.

@@Kirishi- ha, they couldnt spin on a roundabout.

Ha like to see you spin.

sheilz soulful tiddy his name is graham jackson from wolvo..R I P graham...EXCELLENT DANCER

Marion Bridge So sad to know the poor fella has passed. I knocked about with the Worcester crowd back in the day incl wagsy if you know him ? Take care Marion x

I do apolagize..the chap in the white vest is graham... The chap in the green top is Tom Mercer ,a Wigan local and brill dancer..some good pics of him online in the casino dance competition..

Was that the 2nd comp? When little Danny won it?

Thought that was Gethro ?