1970/71 & The Twisted Wheel

ARTISTS THAT APPEARED AT THE TWISTED WHEEL

1970 - Whitworth St

January
Sat	3^rd	Root & Jenny Jackson - All-nighter (reet on Ska Soul from Yorkshire!)
Sat	10^th	Red River Band - All-nighter
Sat	17^th	The Showstoppers - All-nighter
Sat	24^th	Edwin Starr - All-nighter
Sat	31^st	Jimmy Ruffin - All-nighter

February
Sat	7^th	The Fantastics - All-nighter
Sat	14^th	Oscar Toney Junior - All-nighter
Sat	21^st	Edwin Starr - All-nighter
Sat	28^th	Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - All-nighter

March

Sat

7^th

Herbie Goins - All-nighter

Herbie returns after years, he fronted Alexis Korner’s band at the Brazennose Street Twisted Wheel in 65’ He sang on the groups single (1964) ‘I Need Your Loving’

Herbie would sing James Brown and Charles Brown and Chuck Willis numbers. Alexis would sit behind him with his massive grin whilst playing guitar, Alexis even wrote a track in appreciation of herbies singing style: ‘Herbie's Tune’.

He has a big fan base in Italy!

Sat

14^th

Jimmy Ruffin - All-nighter

Sat

21^st

Junior Walker - All-nighter

Sat

28^th

Lucas and the Soul Sounds - All-nighter

He left Mike Cotton and set up his own band.

Other Dates:

05-12-70

April
Sat	4^th	Fontella Bass - All-nighter
Sat	11^th	Bob and Marcia - All-nighter A bit a de Reggae at de Wheel. In fact SKA and Blue Beat was very popular at the Twisted Wheel. The Wheels major influencing DJ – Roger Eagle and his pal Roger Fairhurst would play lots of Jamaican Music and ‘Al Capone’ was always getting requested right up to 1970, of course ‘Pied Piper’ was played at Brazennose Street. But the main place for Jamaican music by this time 1970 was the Blue Note Club.
Sat	18^th	Harry J and the All Stars - All-nighter A bit more o’ de Reggae at de Wheel. This tune is used these days as a theme for Boxing Matches.
Sat	25^th	The Showstoppers - All-nighter

May
Sat	2^nd	Ben E King - All-nighter
Sat	9^th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	16^th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	23^rd	Ben E King - All-nighter
Sat	30^th	unknown Check the Evening News

June
Sat	6^th	Marv Johnson - All-nighter
Sat	13^th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	20^th	Jimmy Ruffin - All-nighter
Sat	27^th	All-nighter - Records

July
Sat	4th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	11th	The Drifters - All-nighter
Sat	18th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	25th	The Drifters - All-nighter [Major Lance was unable to appear]

August
Sat	1st	Summer All-nighter - Records By this time a new wave of what was to become the foundation of a new identifiable sound was emerging, with the main focus upon finding ‘lost’ sounds from the sixties only on original USA labels, imports had always been around on this scene , but now it became fully mainstream: NORTHERN SOUL!
Sat	8th	Summer All-nighter - Records
Sat	15th	Summer All-nighter - Records
Sat	22nd	Summer All-nighter - Records
Sat	29th	Summer All-nighter - Records

September
Sat	5th	Horatio Soul and the Pavements - All-nighter
Sat	12th	Sweet Inspirations - All-nighter They did the original "What the World Needs Now" also released by Dionne Warwick.
Sat	12th	Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - All-nighter
Sat	19th	Root and Jenny Jackson - All-nighter I could never work out why they were on so frequently?
Sat	26th	The Fantastics - All-nighter

October
Sat	3rd	Hightimers - All-nighter
Sat	10th	Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - All-nighter
Sat	17th	Joyce Bond Review - All-nighter Home grown English Ska-Soul girl Miss Bond. Written by Jackie Edwards – ‘Tell Me What It’s All About’. ‘Sugar’ on the Pink Island label, was a bit of a hit for Joyce at the Wheel in earlier times it was a version of a song by Joe Tex. ‘Do The Teasy’ was the ‘A’ side a version of a Prince Buster Track, also quite a popular item at the club along with ‘ This Train’ Groove it baby groove it as her train carries the Mods & Rockers!
Sat	24th	Root and Jenny Jackson - All-nighter Oh no not again! Who was sleeping with who?
Sat	31st	Jimmy Ruffin - All-nighter

November
Sat	7th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	14th	Ben E. King - All-nighter
Sat	21st	All-nighter - Records
Sat	28th	All-nighter - Records

December
Sat	5th	Lucas and Soul Sound - All-nighter
Sat	12th	Root and Jenny Jackson - All-nighter
Sat	19th	All-nighter - Records
Sat	26th	Johnny Johnson and Bandwagon