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Originally Posted by barbless
yes,Phil was a good guy and became good mate,Harry never left the door and always wore his own dark suit instead of the red Baileys jacket like the rest of us, he was good at stopping a lot of bother at the door being older and more experienced. Another good mate at that time was Frank the bass player from the house band, that was when Mike Allen was the band leader.The good acts of that time were Jimmy Helms,Four Tops,Smokey Robinson,Tommy Cooper[did you hear about the taxi driver and the teabag],Sha waddy waddy used pack the place put were so arrogant and used alot of backing tapes to mime to, who did you enjoy?
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The taxi driver was called Tez worked for M & M cabs Manni and Marie, there place was next to the Saccumo Restaurant where a lot of us went for a meal and a drink after work, Tommy Cooper went for a meal there on the friday night. Sweet Dreams was one of my favorite acts to appear Polly Brown and Tony Jackson, Carl Wayne was a brilliant guy (ex lead singer with The Move married to miss Dianne from Crossroads
) Spent a lot of time with Carl back stage, sadly he's no longer with us. The reception Manager at the Time was a guy from Darwen called Jimmy Balmer, small chap with glasses on always smiling, until the chips were down, never seen anybody remove their specs and deposit them in their top pocket quite like Jimmy. Phil's wife Dianne was a receptionist together with a really big woman whose husband was the Organist, can't think of her name. The Guy who was one of the first reception managers at the Cav came in early some Thursdays to give lessons in Martial Arts and self defence, was called Rod a very handy lad