Now, this is what you call a festive ding dong!!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - DATELINE: BROOKLYN NY

NORTON RECORDS PRESENTS… A GIANT HOLIDAY SHOW AND DANCE!

Saturday Dec 27 9 PM
Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn New York (718) 230 0236 Club info at http://www.spsounds.com Tickets $20 online at http://www.ticketweb.com or at Wowsville Records, 125 2nd Avenue, NY NY

Brooklyn-based Norton Records celebrates our founder Billy Miller’s 50th birthday with the ultimate all-Norton Rhythm & Blues/Soul Spectacular hosted by RUDY RAY MOORE and featuring Norton artists Andre Williams, King Coleman,
Nathaniel Mayer, Gino Washington, The Mighty Hannibal, Lonnie Youngblood, The Great Gaylord and the Soul Shakers! Doors open at 8 and the non-stop show starts at 9 PM sharp! Don't be late, you won't want to miss a moment!

Join us on this very special night with our top soul artists! After the stage show, top NYC DJ Mr Fine Wine will spin the wildest and most favorite singles with local record spinners and wax hounds through til 4 AM so please, comfortable shoes and a change of underwear, as always, are recommended! Mingle with the stars and let's get them to teach us how to Fishin Pole, Greasy Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, the Frog and mo'!Tickets are available at Wowsville records, 125 2nd Avenue in NYC and at www.ticketweb.com. See you all there!

The Southpaw is a beautiful new club with great sound, dance floor, clean restrooms, massive bar and dark corners with cushy seating for any attendees avoiding other attendees! (Southpaw, 125 5th Ave. at Sterling Place, Brooklyn NY) telephone (718) 230-0236. www.spsounds.com Get tickets now!

CHECK THE NORTON WEBSITE FOR THE BEST REASON TO END THE YEAR IN THE WINTERLAND HINTERLAND-- BROOKLYN, USA!!

ANDRE WILLIAMS Andre Williams’ career took off with Bacon Fat, Goin’ Down To Tijuana, The Greasy Chicken and the lascivious Jail Bait . Mr. Williams enjoyed success as a member of the Five Dollars as well as a solo artist on Detroit’s reknown Fortune Records label. Known as “Mr. Rhythm”, he was also instrumental early on at Motown, working with the acts including the Contours and Mary Wells. He also worked as an independent producer, scoring with the Five Du-Tones’ Shake A Tail Feather in 1963. Mr. Williams found further success as an artist in 1968 with Cadillac Jack. In recent years, he has released over a dozen albums and toured the world several times. In 1999 alone, he performed over 200 live shows, and toured Europe on four separate occasions that year. This year, Mr. Williams headlined in Las Vegas and has just returned from a southern states junket. His latest Norton album HOLLAND SHUFFLE, was recorded live in the Netherlands and features a superbly executed cross section of career hits and new recordings. Mr. Williams currently resides in Chicago, where he continues to write and record.

KING COLEMAN This Miami disc jockey scored his first hit in 1959 with (Do The) Mashed Potatoes backed by James Brown and his group. He spent much of the sixties on the road as a singer/master of ceremonies, and hosted countless shows at New York’s Apollo Theatre. He recorded dance classics like Alley Rat, Bull Dog and Show Me What You Got for a host of labels. The King would reunite with James Brown for the classic Boo Boo Song in 1967, before entering the ministry. Today King Coleman is Miami’s number one gospel disc jockey and is enthusiastic about his new Norton collection IT’S DANCE TIME, which collects the best from this true legend.

NATHANIEL MAYER Detroit artist Nathaniel Mayer needs no introduction. His 1962 hit Village Of Love on Fortune Records remains a superlative standard in the hearts of soul and R&B fans worldwide. After a long period out of the limelight, Mr. Mayer has returned to the stage, stunning audiences with fiery renditions of his Fortune label killers such as I Want Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction) and I Had A Dream. He brings is atomic stage show to New York on the heels of public acclaim for his latest Norton single I Don’t Want No Bald Headed Woman Telling Me What To Do. Mr. Mayer resides in Detroit, where he can be reached for interviews and bookings.

GINO WASHINGTON This dynamic Detroit soul legend had scored two monstrous Motor City hits in Out Of This World and Gino Is A Coward by the time he was eighteen. As a teenager, he even headlined over the Rolling Stones on their first Detroit appearance! Gino recorded dozens of singles, all collected on two Norton collections entitled OUT OF THIS WORLD and LOVE BANDIT. Aside from his own vocal recordings, Mr. Washington branched out into production, piloting countless Motor City singles, notably Nathaniel Mayer’s I Don’t Want No Bald Headed Woman Telling Me What To Do. Both Gino Washington and Nathaniel Mayer will be backed by The Shanks, led by former Detroit Cobra Jeff Meier. Both artists performed together before a worldwide audience this spring during the New Orleans jazz festival a the Ponderosa Stomp. Mr.Washington also resides in Detroit where he is currently working on a televised music program.

THE MIGHTY HANNIBAL This Atlanta, Georgia soul giant is a self proclaimed “former pimp, heroin addict and elephant thief” but promises that those days are all behind him! His distinctive delivery, superb vocal abilities and poignant songwriting style are shown in a wide array of styles from the hip dance floor favorites Jerkin’ The Dog and Get In The Groove to the “message music” of his powerful 1967 anti-Vietnam hit Hymn No 5 and the 1972 drug confessional The Truth Shall Make You Free ,which have established him firmly as a musical contender.
The Norton collection HANNIBALISM! has reunited the singer with an eager audience. He resides in New York City and continues to write, perform, and conduct business from his offices in Harlem.

LONNIE YOUNGBLOOD The heralded tenor sax player known as the Prince of Harlem began his career as bandleader for the great Faye Adams. In the sixties, Mr. Youngblood’s New York club band included Jimi Hendrix. Together they recorded the stompin’ Go Go Shoes on Fairmount, still a strong soul DJ favorite today. Mr Youngblood’s band, featuring guitarist Bill Sims (formerly of the legendary Four Mints), will be providing backing for several stars on the holiday show. Mr. Youngblood is a featured guest artist on the Norton album BAIT AND SWITCH by Andre Williams. He is a revered fixture on the New York music scene and enjoys a worldwide reputation.

THE SOUL SHAKERS New York’s frenzied vocal group sensations deliver high geared Five Du-Tones style dance floor killers. The very in-demand Soul Shakers depart for bookings in the Islands immediately following the Holiday Show and promise to continue wowing audiences in New York and abroad in the near future.

THE GREAT GAYLORD The Sultan Of Squat, idolized worldwide in many circles, returns to the concert stage after many years as a top disc jockey thanks to the phenomenal resurgence in popularity of his lone hit on the Norton label Squat With Me Baby, which has been lauded as one of his finest recordings. Double G, as he is affectionately known by his fan base, hails from the tri-State area where he is kept busy answering mail and making personal appearances at many top affairs.

RUDY RAY MOORE Very special guest MC for the evening will be none other than Rudy Ray Moore, King of the Party Records and star of such feature films as Dolemite, Petey Wheatstraw and Human Tornado. This creative man claims, “I was through with it before the others knew what to do with it!” Indeed, his many ventures in the field of media have all enjoyed universal success, including his recent return to the stage as a vocalist, due to the release of HULLY GULLY FEVER on Norton Records, a massive collection of his early recordings as a rhythm & blues artist. Today, Mr. Moore calls Las Vegas home base. He is kept very active with personal appearances, interviews and consultations. He recently performed at the esteemed Utrecht Blues Festival in the Holland where he was
lauded for his many contributions to the field of entertainment.

MR. FINE WINE Michigan import Mr. Fine Wine is one of the New York area’s top radio disc jockeys at WFMU, where he hosts the Downtown Soulville show dedicated exclusively to soul music. He also spins soul records in person and is in demand and available at clubs and venues both locally and elsewhere.

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Amy Allison recorded a set as part of radio Scotlands 25th anniversary at The Rothes Halls last Sunday and it was broadcast on the Brand New Opry last night. You can listen to it (if you have the technology) by clicking here and then on the listen again icon. The one and only David Scott and his Pearlfishers are on the Janice Forsyth Show today (Saturday) and you can tune into that by whapping that wee button down here and likewise on listen again.

Aye, we're sliding down into the silly season alright. I dunno about you but I like to keep to my 'ain midden heid' in such circumstances. The older I get (and that's getting on a bit) the less I can tholl the scumhordes. That's those that'll buy any old shite under the premise of gift giving. Those that are choking up the stores and just generally polluting the earth with their mobile phone wielding, no taste, gibbering general existence. I like Christmas records but I detest practically every other facet of the big business charabang that goes along with it. I like It's A Wonderful Life even although I've seen it a gazillion times and Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas too. This leads me to wonder whatever happened to The Man In The Santa Claus Suit that starred Fred Astaire? It hasn't been seen for yonks. But anyhoo I digress, with every passing year, the spirit of Christmas is consigned further into a feeding frenzy of false bonhomie and bogus revelling. Do you fancy hanging about in Edinburgh at Hogmanay in the cold, surrounded by drunks watching Erasure and The Coral? Thought not. It's slightly better in Glasgow where they've got The Proclaimers but no real incentive to attend either. Listen to me, if Amy Allison makes it on to the bill at Stirling Castle then we'll have to drag our bahookies up there but we'll see. Anyway, do what you feel ya gotta do and try not to buy into the downside why dontcha.