Track Listing

1. Matador - Major Lance
2. Abracadabra - Franklin, Erma
3. Chain Reaction - Spellbinders
4. Boston Monkey - Butler, Billy & The Enchanters
5. Keep On Loving You - Leavill, Otis
6. One In A Million - Hughes, Rhetta
7. I Don't Want To Talk About It - Ames, Nancy
8. Stranger In My Arms - Randell, Lynne
9. Breakaway - Lloyd, Linda
10. Get My Hands On Some Lovin' - Artistics
11. If You Were There - Wilson, Orbrey
12. I Worship You Baby - Glories
13. I'm In A World Of Trouble - Sweet Things
14. We're In This Thing Together - Peaches & Herb
15. Walk Like A Man - Moore, Johnny (1)
16. Angel Baby - Carrow, George
17. Temptation Is Calling My Name - David, Lee
18. Shy Guy - Uptights
19. Tend To Business - Rivingtons
20. There's A Pain In My Heart - Poppies (1)
21. Help Me (Get Myself Back Together Again) - Spellbinders
22. Right Track - Butler, Billy & The Enchanters
23. I Need You - Martin, Shane
24. You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies - Valery, Dana
25. Eternally - Charmaines
26. You're Messin' Up My Mind - Fame, Herb
27. I Feel Alright - Richards, Turley
28. What A Difference Love Makes - Lucien, Jon
29. Didn't Say A Word - Austin, Patti
30. Of Hopes Dreams And Tombstones - Frazier, Jimmy
31. Little Bit Of Something - Little Richard
32. Get It From The Bottom - Steelers
33. Cause You're Mine - Vibrations (1)
34. Cause You're Mine - Vibrations (1)
35. Soultime - Ellis, Shirley
36. Two For The Price Of One - Williams, Larry & Johnny Watson
37. He Who Picks A Rose - Carstairs
38. Come Back - Williams, Ken
39. Gone But Not Forgotten - Robinson, Johnny
40. Are We Ready For Love - Austin, Patti
41. Don't Leave Me Baby - Brown, Maxine
42. Let Your Heart And Soul Be Free - Tangeers
43. Hang Up Your Hang Ups - Lester, Bobby
44. Seven The Loser - Lomax, Eric
45. More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
46. Can We Share It - Sheppard, Rick
47. I'm Just A Kiss Away - Miles, Buddy
48. I Just Can't Say Goodbye - Philly Devotions
49. Lady In Red - Dyson, Ronnie
50. Fickle Finger Of Fate - Purdie, Bernard
51. Counting On You Baby - McNeil, Landy
52. Talkin' 'bout Poor Folks Thinkin' 'bout My Folks - Edwards, Lou & Today's People
53. I'm Not Ready - Ujima
54. Baby Don't Waste My Time - Knight, Gladys & The Pips
55. And You Know It - Tower Of Power
56. If You Don't Want My Love - John, Robert
57. Pity My Feet - Bernard, Kenny
58. Love On A Mountain Top - Knight, Robert
59. Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache - Johnson, Johnny & The Bandwagon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42815 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-26
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

ONE OF THE BEST YOU WILL BUY!
I would think that this CD contains more classic stompers than most other CD compilations. And All the genuine tracks not reworked like some rubbish comps. Around 25 of the biggest floorpackers that has ever been....The sweet things....johnny more...george carrow...patti austin...robert knight...little richard..All massive Torch sounds.
In total there are 58 tracks here and this must be value for money....I am fussy over which CD comps I buy, as there are some utter rubbish CDs out there........Fortunately this is not one of them....This is excellent

This is probably the best (and certainly the best value) ever Northern compilation !
On this one CD are four of my favourite tracks of all time: Nancy Ames, Dana Valery, The Poppies, and Lynne Randell. If you know them you will probably agree. If you don't know them then you have a treat in store.There are many other five star tracks on this CD and very few less than good tracks.If this CD cost £100 it would be excellent value as it is these tracks will cost you just over 10p each. This is a pure guess but on original 7" vinyl I bet there wouldn't be change from £5,000 for the tracks on this CD.

Whatever Columbia say
There's no such thing as Northern Soul in the States-all this music is known simply as rhythm'n'blues.Mostly its a collection of musical failure where every other label copied Motown or Atlantic.
Therefore it seems absurd that collectors end up paying daft money for these discs which are rare because few went to the shops or even got radio play.It was there simply because big labels like Columbia threw enough mud at the wall in the hope that maybe one record would stick-the cold hard facts are that rather than pay exorbitant income tax they would invest further and its perfectly legal.Same as paying millions for advertising
However for collectors like me who love copycat stuff its manna from Heaven.
Even some of the titles here are stolen from the obvious hits-Walk like a man and Angel baby.Did nobody ever notice that there WERE songs of this name which had made the top 5 only a few years earlier? Disapointing as well-I thought I was getting proper cover versions of these songs!
Anyway I agree there is a lot of rubbish being released under the name of Northern Soul and maybe this rubbish is the REAL Northern Soul?
How to spot it? Simple-the name Ian Levine tells you its as faked as most TV "reality shows" are