ALL Goldmine CDs are little better than bootlegs, IMO (I mean, Kev Roberts!) - I'd be very surprised to hear that the artists got any royalties from any of them. I wouldn't accept one as a gift.
The master tapes of this song on CD would sound better than a vinyl rip, especially when most of the companies (particularly the awful Goldmine) rip from the vinyl incorrectly.
@xwsftassell There are some good CDs, "Northern Soul Floorshakers," "The Best of Soul Time." The sound quality on the KENT releases is best...but all of the Goldmine, and the other budget cd's...are horribly low quality.
Ah Leigy, you're not getting me, mate. I hate CD's. All of 'em = a vastly inferior medium. Have you got any idea how much sound content is removed during the digitisation process? Masses. I've just spent about 4 days trying to upload a 70's Tappa Zukie vinyl using state of the art Mac processing tools. The digital will NOT hold the sound of that record. To make it even vaguely listenable I have to remove most of the frequency spectrum. The truth = we've been ripped off by f*cking idiots.
But I still can't believe that I can't find this song on ANY Northern Soul collection mastered from the original tape. Just a couple of crap transfers from vinyl.
@leigy Get a vinyl of it then. Northern doesn't work that well on a CD @ the best of times. Not only have half the frequencies been sheared, the friction between the diamond and the vinyl is a key part of that sound + the musicians/producers/engineers actually took that factor as part of the base materia for what they were creating. The Golden World Story knocking 'round the web dispells any idea that the folk that made these records were techno-primitive. They really knew what they were doing.
OMG, I cried when I found this, my ex destroyed my whole Northern collection. Thank you so much for this one I LOVE IT!!!! Gotta play it for my kids - show them what REAL music is. (must stop crying)
This track is brilliant, it just hits the nail on the head in everyway. It sums up my youth dancing without a care in the world and all the future in front of me. Thanks
I have tried to post on his site but he removes my comments. I dont mean to be rude but does anybody else disagree with these awful remaked that Ian Lavine has done. Check out the out for this track. He has remade original northern classics very badly and has hideously poor videos to go with them . Its like seeing my favourite art work painted.
I agree with you. I would rather stick with my memories of the originals and still dance to them. Half of them lack soul. But I suppose the artists are getting something out of it....hopefully.
As a young DJ I did a short northern set in a small club full of new romantics in the early 80's, they ran for cover and a dozen amazing dancers took the floor, I finished off with this track and got standing ovation from both crowds......amazing experience! My kids dont believe Dad was once cool
Please do correct me if I'm wrong! In my memory though it was this most awesome of sounds that first brought dancers hands high above their heads to a unison clap on the wonderful whoos! There are and remain only a handful that could really start the ball the rolling; dayer or nighter, this being one of them. Sincerest thanks for its posting!! WHOO!
You're right mikris50 - the spontaneous (though always right on time!) "whoops" and handclaps, were very much associated with this classic stomper played alongside the Volcanos, Satisfactions etc.. A little too fast for these old bones nowadays, but I still love it to bits regardless!
Memories memories. Played at the Catacombs, Wolverhampton and Va-Va in Bolton mid-late 1973. Still in my "best box" after all these years. A genuinely exciting 'Northern Soul stomper' originally released on US 20th Century Fox and eventually issued here on Pye Disco Demand.
Pep at Cats is a good memory. First place that I heard Wombat! The dance floor at Va Vas was small but it was a good Friday night before hitching to Mecca. skf
Wombat was actually a Graham Warr discovery at the Cats. Others included the immortal Herb Ward "Honest To Goodness" on RCA along with Sam & Kitty et. al. In August 1977 Graham started the first "proper" Jazz/Funk venue (ie. playing 100% new imports) in Birmingham, first at Chaplin's, and later at the Rum Runner, both in Broad Street.
The Higland Room was ultra cool and it's fair to say Ian Levine broke many great, great sounds there. However, at my last visit there in summer of 73 the mob fight that errupted and spilled outside onto the street was not in any way shape or form what our scene was about. NS was across the country inviting and gentle, the blast came on the floor!
Regretably the div night club menatlity prevailed there and regretably interfeered.
Are you confusing the main dance hall area with the Highland Room? The (pop) dancehall downstairs was always stuffed full of holidaymakers and assorted drunken divs - (The prats would often indulge in the usual alcohol induced fracas outside afterwards!) I never saw a fight at the Highland Room (or anywhere else on the scene) - though I'm informed Simon Soussan's visit to the Mecca caused a bit of a riot with some angry punters one time, due to the many financial rip-offs he'd engaged in!
Respectfully no I am not confused at all! The balloon went up in the Highland Room, DEfinite I was there, my pal a quiet handsome lad was severely head butted for no apparent reason by some div, just off the floor and all hell broke loose as we SY lads piled in. It spilled down the club onto the street. It was Jock week - the town was nuts!
OK, since you (or rather your mate!) had the bruises to prove it... :-) Still, you did get the odd div wandering occasionally in from downstairs with their "Kiss Me Quick" cowboy hats and sticks of Blackpool Rock... (Usually a collective "You're not welcome here!" cold stare was enough to stop them embarrassing themselves with their pathetic drunken antics!) LOL
I get your drift on that score. We used to que outside Samantha's in Sheffield as the night club wallers roled/staggered out looking totally bemused and confused at these clean cut looking kids just patiently waiting for their in. 'What no beer? No, Plenty of birds then eh? err No just lotsa good friends! What's the fuckin point? You'll never ever know! It was like a Vis cartoon-8 Ace outside a nighter!
LOL BIG TIME RESPECTS I LOVE YOUR COMMENT .. IT HAS TO BE BEST EVER POSTED ON YOU TUBE haha I must try to remember it ... lol, so few on here are real and genuine, and even when they are most are full of shit! Or have extremely bad memories, lol must be alziemers I guess lol. Your humour is TOP rank! hehe I love it xxx
cor i remember the days,15 years old,going to the usual saturday night gig at top of the world stafford and seein all these unusual wide eyed folk coming into the complex queing up at the bottom of the stairs to go up into cinderella rockerfellas for the all niter.ever the curios one me and my mate snuck in and that was it!a regular occurance then on in.Heard this stonker and had to go round to Good Deals records round the corner next day.Timeless and a real kicker.LOve it LOve it!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was buying the disco demand LP that put me on the road to wigan,this track, wally cox,the fuzz etc,i couldnt work out back then how me mother knew all the words to ila vann, we always think were the first ones dont we
makes the hairs stand up, all of em ha, fookin stunning
MrAndyoe 3 months ago
ALL Goldmine CDs are little better than bootlegs, IMO (I mean, Kev Roberts!) - I'd be very surprised to hear that the artists got any royalties from any of them. I wouldn't accept one as a gift.
drwhatson 5 months ago
Barn stormin' excellence !!! .......KTF
TheGeeze61 6 months ago
bam , your dancing
shadow3pne 10 months ago
massive stomper ... always filled the floor ... pure brilliance ...
smilecal 10 months ago
150 mph stomper ! floorshaker of the highest degree. Have it on Pye Disco demand . Great post
Tony64walkin 1 year ago
is this this pure northern ?
TheRikerman 1 year ago
this makes my balls tremble
TheRikerman 1 year ago
oh yeah! KTF
issy3607 1 year ago
pure northern cleethorpes 75 brings back so many memories ktf
trebilco58 1 year ago
The master tapes of this song on CD would sound better than a vinyl rip, especially when most of the companies (particularly the awful Goldmine) rip from the vinyl incorrectly.
leigy 1 year ago
@leigy Well yeah, sure, but Northern CD's always sound crap anyway, was my point.
These records were never meant to be CD's, just in the same way that a Turner painting was never meant to be a low-res JPEG, if you know what I mean.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
@xwsftassell There are some good CDs, "Northern Soul Floorshakers," "The Best of Soul Time." The sound quality on the KENT releases is best...but all of the Goldmine, and the other budget cd's...are horribly low quality.
leigy 1 year ago
Ah Leigy, you're not getting me, mate. I hate CD's. All of 'em = a vastly inferior medium. Have you got any idea how much sound content is removed during the digitisation process? Masses. I've just spent about 4 days trying to upload a 70's Tappa Zukie vinyl using state of the art Mac processing tools. The digital will NOT hold the sound of that record. To make it even vaguely listenable I have to remove most of the frequency spectrum. The truth = we've been ripped off by f*cking idiots.
xwsftassell 1 year ago 2
@xwsftassell well said
TheRikerman 1 year ago
@leigy yes well said
TheRikerman 1 year ago
I agree about Ian Levine. Yick.
But I still can't believe that I can't find this song on ANY Northern Soul collection mastered from the original tape. Just a couple of crap transfers from vinyl.
grrr...
leigy 1 year ago
@leigy Get a vinyl of it then. Northern doesn't work that well on a CD @ the best of times. Not only have half the frequencies been sheared, the friction between the diamond and the vinyl is a key part of that sound + the musicians/producers/engineers actually took that factor as part of the base materia for what they were creating. The Golden World Story knocking 'round the web dispells any idea that the folk that made these records were techno-primitive. They really knew what they were doing.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
.... + far more so than Ian Levine and his musical McDonald's Happy Meals.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
@xwsftassell ok to that
TheRikerman 1 year ago
OMG, I cried when I found this, my ex destroyed my whole Northern collection. Thank you so much for this one I LOVE IT!!!! Gotta play it for my kids - show them what REAL music is. (must stop crying)
DianeSian 1 year ago
Love it! ktf
soulchosen 1 year ago
where's the stutterer
trebilco58 2 years ago
TOP TUNE,,thanx 4 posting,,K-T-F
lestheo 2 years ago
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soulbrother61 2 years ago 4
yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.....! I'm gonna find me somebody..
vespastic73 2 years ago
cleethorpes 75 all over again
trebilco58 2 years ago
fantastic!!! that is NORTHERN SOUL!
pamabosssounds 2 years ago
THAT INTRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soon as it starts I'm heading for the floor - Top drawer stomper! C,mon - it don't get no betta!!
RitmoNo1 2 years ago 2
This is just one excellant track!!...takes me back...thanks for the share...Sarah..xx
allsoul61 2 years ago
Hahaha it's a little joke I have going with that Jellyboy character...cannot tell you what it means though LOL all the best Sarah x
smartypantsnancy 2 years ago
Cluvatwko smartypantsnancy hahahaha
jelboysvw 2 years ago
that's o.k...lol..x
allsoul61 2 years ago
This track is brilliant, it just hits the nail on the head in everyway. It sums up my youth dancing without a care in the world and all the future in front of me. Thanks
CLUVAT x
smartypantsnancy 2 years ago
what does CLUVAT mean?? twice I have seen this?...lol...Sarah xx
allsoul61 2 years ago
Cluvat smartypants
jelboysvw 2 years ago
I have tried to post on his site but he removes my comments. I dont mean to be rude but does anybody else disagree with these awful remaked that Ian Lavine has done. Check out the out for this track. He has remade original northern classics very badly and has hideously poor videos to go with them . Its like seeing my favourite art work painted.
saddamsalaugh 2 years ago 6
Experience teaches that Ian can't take even constructive criticism. It seems to be part of his DNA makeup, unfortunately! LOL
drwhatson 2 years ago
I agree with you. I would rather stick with my memories of the originals and still dance to them. Half of them lack soul. But I suppose the artists are getting something out of it....hopefully.
chylogurti 2 years ago
The fat don't dance, they commentate to tell you where its at! Live your own groove!
SK&F!
mikris50 2 years ago
@saddamsalaugh
Well there's an embarrassing video of The Volcanos miming to one of their old hits.
Quite awful.
Bovon2 1 year ago
@saddamsalaugh well said
TheRikerman 1 year ago
Northern Class!
soulchosen 2 years ago
As a young DJ I did a short northern set in a small club full of new romantics in the early 80's, they ran for cover and a dozen amazing dancers took the floor, I finished off with this track and got standing ovation from both crowds......amazing experience! My kids dont believe Dad was once cool
Alrightbigman1 2 years ago 2
Please do correct me if I'm wrong! In my memory though it was this most awesome of sounds that first brought dancers hands high above their heads to a unison clap on the wonderful whoos! There are and remain only a handful that could really start the ball the rolling; dayer or nighter, this being one of them. Sincerest thanks for its posting!! WHOO!
mikris50 2 years ago
You're right mikris50 - the spontaneous (though always right on time!) "whoops" and handclaps, were very much associated with this classic stomper played alongside the Volcanos, Satisfactions etc.. A little too fast for these old bones nowadays, but I still love it to bits regardless!
drwhatson 2 years ago
100 mph northern soul.
Wat a floorfiller man!
KTF!
mitchismod 3 years ago
Right. Also booted in between on OOTP.
Drop something, play this, You Can't Sit Down.
ggrayzee 3 years ago
Memories memories. Played at the Catacombs, Wolverhampton and Va-Va in Bolton mid-late 1973. Still in my "best box" after all these years. A genuinely exciting 'Northern Soul stomper' originally released on US 20th Century Fox and eventually issued here on Pye Disco Demand.
drwhatson 3 years ago
Pep at Cats is a good memory. First place that I heard Wombat! The dance floor at Va Vas was small but it was a good Friday night before hitching to Mecca. skf
chylogurti 3 years ago 3
Wombat was actually a Graham Warr discovery at the Cats. Others included the immortal Herb Ward "Honest To Goodness" on RCA along with Sam & Kitty et. al. In August 1977 Graham started the first "proper" Jazz/Funk venue (ie. playing 100% new imports) in Birmingham, first at Chaplin's, and later at the Rum Runner, both in Broad Street.
drwhatson 2 years ago
yes I can personally vouch that wombat was a graham warr discovery
jelboysvw 2 years ago
The Higland Room was ultra cool and it's fair to say Ian Levine broke many great, great sounds there. However, at my last visit there in summer of 73 the mob fight that errupted and spilled outside onto the street was not in any way shape or form what our scene was about. NS was across the country inviting and gentle, the blast came on the floor!
Regretably the div night club menatlity prevailed there and regretably interfeered.
mikris50 2 years ago
Are you confusing the main dance hall area with the Highland Room? The (pop) dancehall downstairs was always stuffed full of holidaymakers and assorted drunken divs - (The prats would often indulge in the usual alcohol induced fracas outside afterwards!) I never saw a fight at the Highland Room (or anywhere else on the scene) - though I'm informed Simon Soussan's visit to the Mecca caused a bit of a riot with some angry punters one time, due to the many financial rip-offs he'd engaged in!
drwhatson 2 years ago
Respectfully no I am not confused at all! The balloon went up in the Highland Room, DEfinite I was there, my pal a quiet handsome lad was severely head butted for no apparent reason by some div, just off the floor and all hell broke loose as we SY lads piled in. It spilled down the club onto the street. It was Jock week - the town was nuts!
mikris50 2 years ago
OK, since you (or rather your mate!) had the bruises to prove it... :-) Still, you did get the odd div wandering occasionally in from downstairs with their "Kiss Me Quick" cowboy hats and sticks of Blackpool Rock... (Usually a collective "You're not welcome here!" cold stare was enough to stop them embarrassing themselves with their pathetic drunken antics!) LOL
drwhatson 2 years ago
I get your drift on that score. We used to que outside Samantha's in Sheffield as the night club wallers roled/staggered out looking totally bemused and confused at these clean cut looking kids just patiently waiting for their in. 'What no beer? No, Plenty of birds then eh? err No just lotsa good friends! What's the fuckin point? You'll never ever know! It was like a Vis cartoon-8 Ace outside a nighter!
mikris50 2 years ago
Sadly, nothing seems to have changed very much in the "Twilight Zone of Div" ;-)
drwhatson 2 years ago
LOL BIG TIME RESPECTS I LOVE YOUR COMMENT .. IT HAS TO BE BEST EVER POSTED ON YOU TUBE haha I must try to remember it ... lol, so few on here are real and genuine, and even when they are most are full of shit! Or have extremely bad memories, lol must be alziemers I guess lol. Your humour is TOP rank! hehe I love it xxx
CHEWDwivTHEinCrowd 2 years ago
Quite agree dr once again i find you are correct...as Ive discovered this many times here on the tube
jelboysvw 2 years ago
cor i remember the days,15 years old,going to the usual saturday night gig at top of the world stafford and seein all these unusual wide eyed folk coming into the complex queing up at the bottom of the stairs to go up into cinderella rockerfellas for the all niter.ever the curios one me and my mate snuck in and that was it!a regular occurance then on in.Heard this stonker and had to go round to Good Deals records round the corner next day.Timeless and a real kicker.LOve it LOve it!!!!!!!!!!!!
entrokid 3 years ago
Got to agree, just soars
ggrayzee 3 years ago
fuckin awesome mover of a tune
sammious 3 years ago
it was buying the disco demand LP that put me on the road to wigan,this track, wally cox,the fuzz etc,i couldnt work out back then how me mother knew all the words to ila vann, we always think were the first ones dont we
doddlesock 3 years ago
brings tears to my eyes - fantastic!
Bowie99 3 years ago
Great track. Never heard of the group till last week. Thanks!
metromonthly 3 years ago
I am ready,there's no one left!
G.b.rules.
gigmillbaggie 3 years ago
Always filled the dancefloor!!!!!!!! THANKS
Jxxx
tzein85 3 years ago
Goose bumps every time ktf
sparzy12 3 years ago 2
great track
motown250 3 years ago
If anybody ever asks me what an out and out fantastic northern stomper is......I always say this. Soon as I here the intro...I'm up!!!!!
RitmoNo1 3 years ago 4
Ive just stopped dancin around the living room with my 3 year old to this 100mph CLASSIC.....just let me get my breath back!!
cjp0349 3 years ago
In my top 10 easy!!!! fantastic ktf
northerngirl72 3 years ago 2
I'm back to listen again i always loved this track soooo much, IT'S VERY SPECIAL .... THANK YOU!!
CHEWDwivTHEinCrowd 3 years ago 3
Oh YEH...Carn't put in words what this class tune means to me....THANKS SO MUCH.
Cheers,
Sean.
seanlik 3 years ago
UTTER CLASS ..... Ohhh memories ... THE TOPS! thank you, can taste the sweat on the floor listening to this,thank you xxxx
CHEWDwivTHEinCrowd 3 years ago