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The Golden Torch special - Richard spins gems from Tunstall's legendary All-Nighter

Richard Searling presents the best in Northern Soul and Motown for your Saturday evening.

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Sat 10 Oct 2015 18:00
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Music Played

  • Bobby Hebb

    Love Love Love

    • Philips.

  • Duke Browner

    Crying Over You

    • Impact.

  • Dee Dee Sharp

    What Kind Of Lady

    • Gamble.

  • Phillip Mitchell

    Free For All

    • Shout.

  • Sandi Sheldon

    You're Gonna Make Me Love You

    • Okeh.

  • Willie Kendrick

    Change Your Ways

    • RCA.

  • Barbara Mills

    Queen Of Fools

    • Hickory.

  • Major Lance

    You Don't Want Me No more

    • Okeh.

  • The Millionaires

    Never For Me

    • Philips.

  • Sam & Kitty

    I've Got Something Good

    • Four Brothers.

  • James Bounty

    Prove Yourself A Lady

    • Compass.

  • The Dells

    Run For Cover

    • Chess.

  • Just Brothers

    Sliced Tomatoes

    • M Merchant.

  • Patty & the Emblems

    I'm Gonna Love You A Long Time

    • Kapp.

  • Robert Knight

    Love On A Mountain Top

    • Monument.

  • Nolan Chance

    Just Like The Weather

    • Bunky.

  • The Fi-Dels

    Try A Little Harder

    • Keymen.

  • J.J. Barnes

    Please Let Me In

    • Ric Tic.

  • Rose Batiste

    Hit And Run

    • Revilot.

  • Earl Wright & His Orchestra

    Thumb A Ride

    • Capitol.

  • Dobie Gray

    Out On The Floor

    • Charger.

  • Rufus Lumley

    I'm Standing

    • Stateside.

  • Larry Williams & Johnny Watson

    Too Late

    • Okeh.

  • Lenis Guess

    Just Ask Me

    • SPQR.

  • Eddie Parker

    Love You Baby

    • Ashford.

  • The Prophets

    I Got The Fever

    • Smash.

  • Soul Twins

    Quick Change Artist

    • Karen.

  • The Sweet Things

    I'm In A World Of Trouble

    • Date.

  • Jackie Lee

    Oh, My Darlin'

    • Mirwood.

  • Little Richard

    I Don't Want To Discuss It

    • Okeh.

  • The Valentines

    Breakaway

    • Sound Stage 7.

  • Maxine Brown

    One In A Million

    • Wand.

  • The Vibrations

    Surprise Party For Baby

    • Neptune.

  • Jo Armstead

    I Feel An Urge Comin' On

    • Giant.

  • Luther Ingram

    If It's All The Same To You Babe

    • HIB.

  • The Four Fuller Brothers

    Time's A Wastin'

    • Soul Clock.

  • Mamie Galore

    It Ain't Necessary

    • St Lawrence.

  • The Younghearts

    A Little Togetherness

    • Canterbury.

  • The Tymes

    What Would I Do

    • MGM.

  • Jimmy 鈥淪oul鈥� Clarke

    Sweet Darlin'

    • Soulhawk.

  • Earl Jackson

    Soul Self Satisfaction

    • ABC.

  • The Triumphs

    I'm Comin To Your Rescue

    • Okeh.

  • Lou Johnson

    Unsatisfield

    • Big Top.

  • The Exciters

    Blowin' Up My Mind

    • RCA.

  • Father鈥檚 Angels

    Bok To Bach

    • MGM.

Tunstall's Golden Torch, 1965-1973

Tunstall's Golden Torch, 1965-1973
The Golden Torch opened in 1965 as a mod club听and from 1967 became a major soul venue similar to Manchester's Twisted Wheel. Following the closure of the Wheel in 1971, the Torch became the premier all-nighter Northern Soul听club in the UK,听but became a victim of its own success as the听small 500-capacity听venue in a quiet听residential backstreet听became plagued by drug-taking, overcrowding and noise complaints.听

Just as with The Twisted Wheel, the club's license was not renewed by the local听council听and it closed in 1973.听Years after the building was demolished, former club barman John O'Brien commissioned a plaque for the site of the Torch. Due to treatment for a serious听brain tumour he got the dates听mixed up but the plaque remains as a memorial to the venue听and the man known as OB.


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