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MAD RAT MAG editor costs no more or less than getting flyers done, that maybe get lost or thrown very few Wow Wow Baby ! people will throw a magazine away. So come on, we haven't got time to chase you Well what a response we have had, you lot up, get those ads and gigs in and quick, are just brilliant. We’ve had loads of you space is limited. Use it or lose it, you’ve contact us to say what a great quality mag heard that before I know, but we are here and what a good read we’ve created. to promote a scene that we are very proud to be a part of. END OF MOAN ! Thank you to everyone who has contributed this month and many thanks to all the adver- Thanks for reading and enjoy October's tisers and those of you round the country edition of the world famous, Mad Rat that are willingly distributing; you’re stars all Mag...it’s stonkin’!!! of you. Til the next time A very special thank you to Mike Cookson who has been an incredible one man adver- Rockin regards tising campaign on behalf of the mag, thanks and hurry up and get well soon. SPIKE Oh boy I’ve been having fun this month, I have been up hill and down dale delivering mags to the waiting hauds and i am loving it! Gently coaxing those who can write their name to write reviews and articles and fea- tures, a bit of chinese torture here and there to extract the gossip and the news its been brill! I cannot begin to tell you how excited the Mad Rat team are about the response, so I wont, I’ll shut up now!!! Yeah right that’ll be the day! Well you can guess I’m about to moan so let’s get on with it. Well it’s like this, if your gig has been missed off the gig guide then get it to us by phone by email by snail mail, you got to be in it to win it and with thou- sands of magazines going round the country free of charge then you’d be daft not to. All our details are in the mag over and over again so there really is no excuse. Bands; email us your gig list, promoters; just send us your dates for the year, we can separate them into months come on use it. Placing an ad with us 3 MAD RAT MAG feature 4 MAD RAT MAG home in feature Carlo Little - 1938 -2005 Where can I start! Well let's go back to 1960 when Carlo was a young drummer scratching round to earn a living. Carlo had a mate called home in Wembley to live in South Shields we Mick Jagger who formed a band called the saw less of him. The first day he moved into "Rolling Stones". The band were getting a few his new house he phoned me to say "Dell, get gigs here and there and one day Mick asked me tuned in to your SKY programme" and Carlo to join them full time. Carlo said they from that night on Carlo would phone me on a were earning about ten shillings a week (that's Thursday night to make his request for the fol- 50p today). He told Mick that he couldn't sur- lowing day. His favourite artists were Bill vive on that money and suggested his school Doggett and the Champs. I miss those calls mate Charlie Watts was looking for work. The now that he has gone. Carlo was a fighter and rest of that story is history and the media to he fought hard with his cancer in the latter part this day call Carlo "The Nearly Man". Carlo of his life. When the doctor's gave up on him then joined Cyril Davies as his drummer and and said he only had days to live he fought on they had some success on PYE records. You for another 2 months! Karen and I went to his may know "Country Line Special" one of their funeral in South Shields and there were many better known releases. Also at this time Carlo stars attending. The Rolling Stones sent a had met "Screaming Lord Sutch" at the lovely wreath as well. Another mate turned up, famous 2 I's coffee bar in Soho. Carlo is fea- even though he had suffered two strokes and tured on all of those classics like "Till The now walks with a stick was Freddie Fingers Following Night" and "Dracula's Daughter" Lee. Freddie wept at losing his old mate for and many more. Carlo was with Dave Sutch many years. The music at the funeral was for years. Carlo was also a session drummer "Honky Tonk" and Nick Simper from Deep and worked with many big names on the Purple read out a celebration of Carlo's life. scene. On the 11th August 1997 I got Carlo to I am priveliged to say I have known Carlo for come with his daughter Gizell to our radio sta- many years and he was a good mate. His wife tion in central London called "Country Music Iris is a lovely lady and they have two fine girls Radio". I shared my show with country DJ called Gizelle and Emma. Bryan Chalker. I remember Carlo telling our listeners some amazing stories about Joe Our thanks to Dell & Karen Richardson for Meek, the Stones and Dave Sutch. Carlo this article and to Mrs. Iris decided to start his own band called "The Little for use of the photo- Carlo Little All Stars". They wrote a great jive graph. Further inormation number called "Ace Cafe" but sadly it was can be found at www.car- never released. A couple of years later I got lolittle.com Carlo to come on to a new radio station called "Merlin Network One" which was based in the city of London. Carlo bought some of the All Stars with him and they played a "live" set for our listeners. What a night that was!! I wanted to get Carlo to come to Radio Caroline but it never happened. When Carlo moved from his 5 MAD RAT MAG owned by This the EMI Records Group. Artistes from feature month’s R’n’B reviewed looks briefly at the Aladdin stable included the great two of the great record labels that brought Amos Milburn, Charles brown, Lester us some of the artistes that we know and Young, Five Keys and Shirley and Lee to love today. Firstly, Aladdin Records name but a few. Sadly, Shirley Mae which was formed in late 1944 in Los Goodman-Pixley, the female half of the Angeles, California by Eddie and Leo 1950s New Orleans rhythm and blues Mesner. The label was originally called duo Shirley & Lee, died July 5 of compli- Philo, but the Mesners were forced to cations from a stroke at Cedars Sinai change the name to Aladdin in 1946 due Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 69. to a lawsuit. The Mesners recorded Born in New Orleans, Ms. Goodman- Rhythm and Blues, Jazz and Gospel. Pixley was a high school student when They were one of the first labels to issue she first teamed with Leonard Lee, a fam- R & B albums, with five of their first nine ily friend. The legendary Dave releases being of that genre. The albums Bartholomew produced the duo's first sin- on Aladdin are some of the rarest in the gle, "I'm Gone," for Aladdin Records. The record collecting field with eight appear- song hit No. 2 on the national rhythm and ing on the Goldmine list of "The 100 Most blues charts in 1952. After the demise of Valuable U.S. Albums". Jazz West and Aladdin Records, Shirley & Lee recorded Intro were jazz subsidiaries. Orefeo was for both the Warwick and Imperial labels. a classical subsidiary. But their heyday had passed, and they broke up their act in the early 1960s. Mr. In 1957, the Mesners formed a budget Lee died in 1976. R.I.P. label named Score. All of the Score albums were $1.98 and many of the You just Aladdin, Jazz West and Intro albums can't imag- were reissued on Score. The establish- ine what ment of the Score label may account for the world of the scarcity of the Aladdin albums, as rock'n'roll many were only in print for a short time would before being deleted and reissued on look like Score. In fact, several intended Aladdin if releases may not have been issued at all before being transferred to Score. The Mesners sold their entire catalogue to Imperial in 1962. Aladdin/Score Records is currently 6 MAD RAT MAG Specialty Records had never existed? feature After forming in Los Angeles by Art Rupe (real name Arthur Goldberg) in 1946, it had raised to one of the leading inde- pendent companies, and had released a countless number of hit recordings over the years. The list seems to have no ending: Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Jimmy & Joe Liggins, Earl King, Don & Dewey, Larry Williams, Wynona Carr, Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers, Art Neville... there ain't no doubt that this was the most important label of all-time, when it comes to black rock'n'roll, gospel and rhythm'n'blues. However, Rupe's career in the music business had started already in 1944, when he formed Atlas Records with Robert Scherman, record- ing for instance Nat "King" Cole, Charles Brown and Frankie Laine.

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