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| 1. Soul Stomp - Earl Van Dyke |
| 2. Come On Do The Jerk - Smokey Robinson, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles |
| 3. Motoring - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas |
| 4. Just A Little Misunderstanding - The Contours |
| 5. Shoot Your Shot - Jr. Walker & The All Stars |
| 6. I'll Keep Holding On - The Marvelettes |
| 7. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Four Tops |
| 8. Just Ain T Enough Love - The Isley Brothers |
| 9. (I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations |
| 10. Just Walk In My Shoes - Gladys Knight & The Pips |
| 11. Function At The Junction - Shorty Long |
| 12. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - Kim Weston |
| 13. You're Gonna Love My Baby - Barbara McNair |
| 14. I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying - The Miracles |
| 15. Tune Up - Jr. Walker & The All Stars |
| 16. Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart - The Supremes |
| 17. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas |
| 18. Little Miss Sweetness - The Temptations |
| 19. Helpless - Kim Weston |
| 20. From Head To Toe - Chris Clark |
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Northern Soul was something different, although there are overlaps. These are all highly contagious dance tracks, with clattery trebly beats, pumping bass rhythms and excited, passionate vocals, and some of the rarer items, such as Barbara McNair's You're Gonna Love My Baby, would have cost a small ransom to acquire. Incidentally, the version of Gladys Knight's Just Walk In My Shoes is the 2.46 mix found on the British mono version of the LP Everybody Needs Love in 1968, some twenty seconds longer than elsewhere. This compilation would make a good companion set for The Trojan Mod Reggae Box Set and any good original mod group anthology that contains the Who, the Small Faces, the Birds, the Kinks, Creation and others of their ilk.
All 20 tracks are in club speaker friendly mono.
This collection features tracks favoured by the Brit 'mod' scene and is by and large a good compilation of dancefloor fillers from 1962-68.
While I am aware that Spectrum need a few established tracks to get the casual buyer interested, do we really need an otherwise fine collection let down by the inclusion of such war-horses as the Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself", Gladys & The Pips' "Just Walk In My Shoes", The Supremes' "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart" and Martha & the Vandellas' "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave"? This is why this release gets 3 instead of 4 stars from me.
However there are enough gems on here to delight any fan. Apart from proven greats by The Temptations, The Marvelettes and the under-rated Kim Weston, tracks like the Contours' stomper "Just A Little Misunderstanding", the silky "You're Gonna Love My Baby" by Barbara McNair, Smokey Robinson's fantastic vocal on "I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying" and Junior Walker ripping it up as only he could on "Tune Up" all stand the test of time, sounding as vibrant and full on as 30-odd years ago.
However the real revelation is the last track "From Head To Toe" by the fantastic Chris Clark. One of the few white girl singers signed to Motown, she has been sadly neglected on previous compilations. But here, sounding a bit like the US's answer to Lulu, Chris takes this Smokey Robinson song and turns in as exciting a performance as any of her more acclamed labelmates. It's hard to stay still with this track which starts off quiet and builds to a frantic stomper! Hopefully one day a collection of her work might see the light of day as Spectrum have recently done with artists like Florence Ballard and Tammi Terrell.
Okay... lights off, push the furniture back and dance!
Northern Soul was something different, although there are overlaps. These are all highly contagious dance tracks, with clattery trebly beats, pumping bass rhythms and excited, passionate vocals, and some of the rarer items, such as Barbara McNair's You're Gonna Love My Baby, would have cost a small ransom to acquire. Incidentally, the version of Gladys Knight's classic Just Walk In My Shoes is the 2.46 mix found on the British mono version of the LP Everybody Needs Love in 1968, some twenty seconds longer than elsewhere. This compilation would make a good companion set for The Trojan Mod Reggae Box Set and any good original mod group anthology that contains the Who, the Small Faces, the Birds, the Kinks, Creation and others of their ilk.
All 20 tracks are in club speaker friendly mono.
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