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  • Lady gaga totally bit off 2:38 for poker face, but then again a lot of vocalists use similar runs, as do guitarists. I don't think of them as cliches as much as classic tags, but I wonder if this is the place from which gaga got her tag. Joanie has a beautiful voice.

  • I,ve been listening to this record for years but its the first time i,ve seen her,a real nice looking lass.

  • If you UK Northern Soul fans dont like this amazing record, can I buy your original Warner Brothers copy for cheap?

  • Joanie is a babe-great song too...

  • what a beautiful woman, Where are are woman this good looing anymore? different era.

  • What a F in brilliant Class soul sound...Tha a gud un, Thanks

  • go soulgirl thats my babe x

    

  • i'd gie her one

  • Was that Frankie Avalon MC'ing? I had the biggest crush on Joannie S when I was a kid. She was, I think 18 & got the contract for singing Pepsi commercials. Loved the voice. Then she came to Pittsburgh for a gig, saw the publicity phots - that was it - I was in luv. Bought her LP's, and singles. And even today in her 60's, she hasn't lost the voice or stage-presence of the past. A true artist - and I admit - my babe! Thank you for uploading. CFN

  • absoulute babe,& still is

  • Fantastic voice & Video thanks for posting,

  • she sings the same bridge each time, yet each time makes it slightly different... the phrasing and synopation at 1:55 is a great example

  • Joanie Sommers was born February 24, 1941.

  • Interesting track.

  • Superb track - one of the best floaters out there. All I need now for a perfect weekend is for someone to upload Lena Junoff's Yesterday Has Gone.  Peace N Rhythm!

  • to the mongs who say this is not soul its called blue eyed soul for instance dean parrish,bobby goldboro,timi yuro ect ect ect you moron

    K.T.F

    by the way before you answer i,m 50 years old not some kid

  • @BLITZKRIEG66688 - You're forgetting Peggy March (If You Loved Me) & Nancy Ames (I Don't Want To Talk About It) or Susann Farrar (The Big Hurt) & Susan Barrett (What's It Gonna Be) Soul is soul is soul ;o) KTF

  • @soulboy1965 - oh And Bonnie St Clair - I Surrender. The list is endless really and if it's got rhythm and one can dance - it MUST be Northern lol

  • Forget the categories. This is a GOOD song!

  • a real cool tune, upbeat, snap your fingers,nobbing head up and down type of song,

  • This is'nt soul but it is northern soul, but then most soul tunes are'nt northern soul. Its a strange world for sure!

  • Dont pity me either i love this choon x

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  • @drwhatson Many people would agree with you but it's not worth arguing about. We're getting to an age where we have to consider the onset of palpitations and gout hehe

  • @TheSoulgirl I take your point, but some of the daft comments I read on Youtube GIVE me the palpitations and gout...

  • @TheSoulgirl Same here really, but life's too short Dr :)  Like what you like and forget the rest xxx

  • @slapmyfunkybass Well, this definitely ISN'T Soul in any shape or form, so I suggest you find out what is, then pass on your revelations to the deluded hoards of ex-Wigan pop fans that seem to infest Youtube.

  • @drwhatson Wind your neck in Dr LOL.

  • @drwhatson I guess they are allowed to infest as we all are, it's called freedom!!

  • Linda Jones was a fantastic Soul singer but Donty Pity Me always fills the dance floor

  • @AndyGibson1960 Yes, but it fills the dancefloor with ex-Mr.M's mouldering middle-aged divs! I doubt if genuine Linda Jones fans would ever give it the time of day.

  • Ooops! according to Frankie, that program was Hullabaloo. Thats what I get for speaking off the cuff. Hey, by means of a diversion, have you all heard: Heartaches Away My Boy on Cameo/Parkway by Christine Cooper? Ok, you have? Well then I hope you'd also dance to another intriguing Philly track called: If Thats What You Wanted... by Frankie Beverley & co. We Philadelphians hold our own on the northern scene, however tenuously.

  • I agree. That's Frankie Avalon intro-ing Joannie Sommers (northern soul legend that she is...) on an American Bandstand spin-off program called: Where the Action Is! I'm a second gen fan of this music, also a Northern fan. My mom danced on Bandstand and was an extra in the Colonial Cinema exodus scene in "The Blob"(Phoenixville PA). Now I'm sounding pretty old...

  • @dogstoat Not even that I'm afraid. Northern Soul is always better than Northern pop, with a few exceptions that prove the rule. This ain't one of 'em IMO. There are too many genuine Soul sides out there to waste time with the likes of this - assuming one is an actual fan of Soul music in the first place...

  • That Girl Joanie Sommers sure is a beauty..and she can sing too..:)

  • Sorry....one more bit from me..........Joanie is a stunner....eyes, hair, style.

    However, where does that face pull come from at 2.28. It looks like Joanie has a momentary 'Gurn'....if you freeze it you'll see what I mean.....Scary!

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  • Fantastic 45...I've just bought an Original on Warner Brothers for am arm and a leg.

    I love this footage too....however everytime I watch it I am more amazed....how did Joanie manage to keep her feet still all of the way through. It would be easier not to chew a fruit pastille!!!!!!! Could you stand still like that when this was playing????,,,,,,not I.

  • Cant remember her name but the bird that does that (cook yourself thin) programme on channel 4 i think, is a dead ringer for Joannie Summers(imo)

  • Like this? Yet another tune that I can't say I like, LOVE IT would be more accurate!!!!

  • Im in love with this track,it takes me back in time.Dont tell the wife but im also in love with Joanie Sommers,ive never seen eyes like hers before.

  • Simply fabulous..........

  • yay! I love this - having a Northern Soul morning I love it KTF!

  • Great northern .And she is so naturally beautiful love her .

  • i,m in love she is beautiful and those eyes oh my god sigh !!!

  • Anyone know what she is doing these days?

  • Brill KTF

  • Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!! 

  • Originallly telecast on May 11, 1965. Frankie Avalon acknowledges her "Pepsi Girl" persona {Joanie was the vocalist behind Pepsi's radio/TV ads during the '60s} by referring to the last line of her famous "For Those Who Think Young" jingle...

  • I watch this and feel fourteen again...I`m 55...

  • Brilliant and what a find

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  • Does Anybody have The Flip To This Called "My Block"?

  • she is just amazing. reminds me of Pet Clark with all that natural talent.

  • I love this stuff!!!

  • Beside being a great song does anyone make love to the camera like Joanie on this song? When she says she wants to be my girl I think if only it was 64 and I was 12 again or maybe 21. Her big hit Johnny get Angry was being sung to a pitcher in a Little League game at the time. His name was Johnny Cronkite best pitcher in the league with a good curve. My older brother threw me curve balls to get ready and when they sang Johnny I hit a 3 run homer. Thanks Joanie

  • wow what a looker she is fit.

  • Don't give so much credit to the Beatles ... They are great, but got lucky as well , I had some great stuff on 78's eg Bill Haley , Chebb Wooley, etc. It was the/a moment in time ! The 45' presses multiplyed and advent of the mass production with those little players in our bedrooms.....London-America records, Fontana, Oriole,Decca, Pye &Stateside made it all an affordable religion....Now we can access almost any song for a very small price.

  • Oops, wrong aspect ratio. Don't worry, I am gonna add all of Joannie's Hullabaloo performances streaming in the DivX web player with h.264 mkv streaming. That means you can watch this great stuff in perfect DVD quality, with the full quality Dolby audio intact. I'm adding every good performance from every one of the DVD sets. Go to my youtube channel and you'll find a website link to my other channel, for DivX web player streaming. Come one come all. I'm talking about something very special.

  • I have a crush on Joannie Sommers! She really is positively the most! She was such a Doll Face. You gotta love the Pepsi girl.

  • Killer dress!

  • I t will reach 200.000 viewers! I love your voice!!!!!!!! Juan Arica Chile

  • This is a PERFECT example of the pre-Beatles image of the 60s. Perfect makeup... guys wearing sports coats... her singing a Burt Bacharach, Hal David wannabe.... I would love to see what Joanie Summers looked like by 1969.

  • @Quixote010

    Pre-Beatles? The Beatles were the biggest band in the world when this show aired!

  • Look at the guys' haircut...still relatively short compared to what it would look like at a later date. The Beatles eventually changed everything from hair style to clothing, but at the time this show aired, rock was still in the Frankie Avalon, Bobby Vee era.

  • It aired on May 11th 1965. At the time, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" was number one in the U.S. But the Beatles had the very next number one hit with "Ticket to Ride". The Beatles had 5 number one hits in the US the year this came out. Nobody else did, but the Supremes, Hermin's Hermits, and the Rolling Stones all had multiple number ones as well. The Supremes had 4 number ones, and the Rolling Stones had the biggest song that year, but the Beatles were just unstoppable.

  • Sadly, Hullabaloo only aired for two seasons in 65-66. If you know anything about classic music, every episode aired smack dab in the middle of Beatlemania! They mentioned the Beatles or covered the Beatles in many of the episodes. In fact, Joannie Sommers, Barbara McNair, and Frankie Avalon sung a wonderful Beatles medley together on this very same episode. Good times, great hits!

  • Let's read this again... I said "Pre-Beatles image." I didn't say the Beatles weren't popular at the time, but it wasn't until later that a dramatic change in men and women's appearance began taking place. Tie-dye shirts, longer hair, sandles etc weren't mainstream in 1965. When I started college fraternities and sweaters were big..when I came back from Nam in 69 long-hair and social revolution were in.... divide the decade in half...that's all I was saying.

  • I'm not going to argue with you. The Beatles had already changed everything by then. People had mop tops in '64 and '65. You said they didn't. I'd admit if I was wrong, and clearly made a mistake. It's no big deal. But anyway, I've got to go. I love this babe Joannie, she was classy!

  • very strong played and sung!!just great and powerfull..dang me i was born too late..!!!

  • Smokey-eyed little pixie.

  • This is a great song. Was it on an album of similar Northern Soul songs by Joanie. By the way I had a crush on her then at 14. She was beautiful.

  • absolutely gorgeous and such a voice

  • Obviously she has a lot of talent. How the hell else can you lipsynch (no, this is not a comment on lipsynching) perfectly and look into the camera without those guys shooting in and out at you.

  • @StanBennet This is Hullabaloo! I didn't think they lip-synced. A lot of the time they had the microphone hovering overhead, like on a sitcom or a movie. Maybe they just hid the mic very well. I know you can't see it when they zoom in at the beginning though. It certainly sounds live. I haven't ever heard the record. Unless you're correct, and then I have. I do own the Hullabaloo DVD sets. You know what stinks is that the bastards haven't released the entire seasons, just random episodes!

  • Sorry, i don't speak english jeje... ¿What is the lyrics to this song?

    Please

    Cheers from Mexico!

  • Wow having only recently discovered 6t's soul on youtube ( I always thought it was for happy slappers and steam trains...plus other things hehe) have enjoyed looking at your clips.

    this is a great discovery...do you have Holly Stjames singing that's not love !!! ? (surely Duffy will cover this)

  • She is the pop culture of the early 60s.

  • NORTHERN SOUL!!!!!

  • Haaaaahahahahahahahaha!!! Those dancers are silly!

  • And as for Timi Yuro -I.N.B.O.F.M been described as Pop Then what is Justine Baby Washington's original?? Which most deffinately was categorised in the R&B Section of the store because she was a black artist even though theres not a blues progression in the tune? Yet i suppose thats an improvement on race music which was its former category before Mr J wexler made good effort to change things somewhat! I may be 2 years too late but Timi Yuro not Soul??

    Glad i dont have your ears Blackpool77!

  • Pop classified it may have been but a soulfull record it certainly is? popular i don't think it was for originals are few and far between andfkin expensive,Dont think ive heard this on a radio ever! in fact the only places ive heard it is at soul nights every now and then over the last 30+ years.Why is it just because she's white and not born out of detroit that this song by some is not considered worthy to be a tune to be played amongst the rest,Imagine if H.D&H had written material for her!!!!

  • same thought what if H-D-H had written for Joanie. I like her style ....she rocks!

  • ...not to mention that voice !

  • You can drown in those eyes!

  • still superb!!!

  • GREAT SONG - She was also the singing voice of many 60s jingles - what a fine talent!!!!!

  • this is a great song and the video is adorable

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  • Cheers Phil :o)

  • Great tune Karen and to the self appointed soul police who don't allow themselves to like it because she's white, DON'T BE SO  ****ING RACIST :)

    Phil B^)

  • crackin tune. ktf

  • It is what it is to each and every one of us which wont be the same as it is to each and every one of us. Long live diversity and uniqueness :) We don't require soul police at all... just love your soul any way you wanna :)

  • @TheSoulgirl

    What the hell are some of you talking about?

    It's POP and has nothing whatsoever to do with soul music, it's like saying that Wigan shaped the UK soul scene, when they were responsible for playing most of this kind of shite dressed up as 'Soul Music'

    Oh, and I include so-called 'classics' like Dean Parish among them. Blue-eyed Soul FFS!

  • @elvingtonred I think you need a dose of syrup of figs because you're obviously constipated Or perhaps you're not getting any from the wife.... However, you're entitled to your opinion whether we like it or not. :-)

  • @TheSoulgirl

    Ha Ha whatever, let's throw a personal jibe in! you just crack on!

  • @elvingtonred I apologise; I'm not getting any either! hehe

  • My collection of Soul records may be "overpriced and rare" NOW - but weren't when I bought them! (I can't help being way ahead of my time can I?? LOL) Perhaps we need so-called "soul police" occasionally, if only to point out to the younger and musically uninitiated on the scene that records like the above are er, NOT actually SOUL RECORDS at all - or what are they to think when faced with a choice between the above and, say Bobby Womack or Linda Jones??

  • Who are you then? Do you DJ? What rare overpriced records do you have?

  • knob !

  • @drwhatson

    You're right..........this Joanie Sommers spin isn't classically 'Soul' in the purist sense...............but it's definitely top-class 'Northern Soul'!!!

  • @drwhatson if this isn't soul this website isn't youtube

  • wow she looks good

  • Hi Soul Girl great posting

    ps - mojorebel aka Steve S (who wrote the soul classification paper that you feature on your webpage - We Class Ones have to stick together

    KTF - Keep it Real, Keep it True

  • the classification paper is a great peice of work

  • thank you very much - I'm pleased you like it and agree with it-

  • WOW - hOW great is this ...Joanie Sommers what a uniquie voice !

  • YES! It is Frankie Avalon! I've just watched Grease LOL

  • Thanks bigd. Not sure if it's Frankie Avalon but it certainly looks like him lol!

  • WOW,

    hey, the SoulGirl

    Thought i'd seen and done most everything..........but Joanie Sommers is something else.

    You have now set me on a mission to find out everything about La Sommers.

    Great vid. Great track. Great post.

    thank you.

    KTF

    Dave

    PS. was the host Frankie Avalon

  • Sommers is positively the most!!!

  • what a top tune, used to include this in my set, never seen this video though so well done soulgirl, top lass :)

  • Northern Soul monster track!! Been played in many an allnighter!

  • Ahhhh muuuyy buen temaaa!!

    Caray!

  • The beautiful unique voice of Joanie Sommers.

  • Pretty you bet what a heart throb! As a teen I was in love with her and that voice.

  • What a wonderful talent- and she's so pretty!

  • I thought I knew everything about this era but I have never heard of this song. It is great! I met Joanie in 1991 and she was still very pretty at that time. She has a very unique voice. This is a great song!

  • Another great track , I first heard this when I was about 16 & it just makes me smile :-)

  • I thought this was the best track on the cd. The others are not like this style.

  • This is on a cd. She has a cd out "Johnny Get Angry, Joanie Summers", I have it.

  • What are the other tracks like?

  • The Flip To This Was Jimmy Radcliffe's "My Block" That The Chiffons (As The Four Pennies)And Clyde McPhatter Had Previously Covered And Freddie Ryder Tried Out Too.

  • Because she's not got a CD out? This particular tune was hoiked from a DVD or Video

  • Why can't you find this on iTunes/Amazon or anywhere her other songs are listed?

  • great voice,i love her singing

  • shes terrific what a fabulous voice

  • What a Star, and such a brilliant powerful Northern Soul record. Sounded so good in Keele Allnighter! Exciting stuff!

  • I adore this song. Thanks.

  • hi soulgirl--i see the debate goes on, but they're still more civil here than at missohio83's channel-she finally deleted paul anka's 'eso beso'because some brazilian hoodlums kept arguing that it wasn't a bossanova...

  • This is a kick-ass song and I LOVE this performance. We should thank our lucky stars it even exists, much less that it was filmed to begin with.

  • love the back up dancers!

  • Glad you found it Ken :)

  • Wonderful! Never saw or heard this before! Love it!

  • If N Soul didn't embrace records like this it wouldn't be NS just soul. The N Soul scene is unique and I for one wouldn't be without :-

    Holly St James, Kelly Garret, Joannie Summers, Chapter 5, Rufus Lumley,Timi Yuro & countless other white "pop" artists. Stranger in my arms excluded from all nighters by the soul police? .. come off it. They may lack a bit of soul but when you're on the floor they sound incredible

  • Not a lack of soul. I'd always thought Joanie Sommers was black before today.

  • Go to Girl Watcher by the Okaysions. That's another "I always thought they were black..."

  • Then you need to clean your ears out.

  • @jayeevee

    Northern Soul didnt embrace songs like this ; Wigan Casino did - you said it all : Holly Pop James ; Chapter (Brass Band) 5 - lacks a bit of Soul - lol -think thats just an slight understatement .

  • great tune, but more importantly she's such a babe.

  • Think you have some way to go to match the taste of drwhatson . Putting this piece of pop music against something like Bill Brandon's "Streets got my Lady" -well there's no comparison is there ; I really must have missed something when I started out at Manchesters Ritz All-dayers back in 78 to have not appreciated Jody Sommers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You still at it? LOL

  • yes !

  • Peerless.

    Thanks.

  • Hahaha, I love those "backround" dancers!

  • Trainspotting chin strokers, like drwhatson with their vast collections of overpriced "rare" vinyl are dinosaurs, and are thankfully becoming extinct. The rest of us are mature enough to like what we like regardless if the artist is, as in this case, a "real" soul artist or, God forbid, pop.

  • @ricardodlm; think maybe Dr Whatson just has good taste and likes quality Soul - nothing to do with rare or overpriced

  • I suspect that the trouble with most ex-Wigan divvies is the simple fact that they got onto the 'Northern' scene after they saw "Footsie" on TV or read about Wigan in the Sun newspaper, and consequently never really knew what Soul music was... and they apparently still don't know how to define a Soul record other than a simplistic 60s style beat. Sad really. This is lousy pop music - like Abba, but far worse. It has no connection with Soul music at all. Stuff Wigan.

  • And you're such the soul snob aren't you! This record (and I know my soul tunes) is fantastic. Pop it may be, but it's still a brilliant track. Now go back to stroking your soul-chin :D

  • Blackpool77 - people are allowed to like this tune - stop bullying people trying to persuade them to like what you like!

  • Soul girl I dont think I could persuade Mr Herringthorpe to like anything outside of his field of soul !!! lol . I dont want to convince anyone (yourself included)to not stop liking this track , but , people like Mr Herring and his crowd were the very ones back in the 70s who dished out alot of flack to other people over their soul "tastes" . Funny though , they dont like it back .

  • By the way I do like your "page" and your comments -so if you want me to refrain from using your page here as a sounding board against "our" Wig-un friend I will do .

  • No, carry on... just pointing out we can all like what we want :D

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  • With me at the moment yes... LOL

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  • Think Winstanley wouldn't have be entertained anywhere outside his Wig-un venue . A person that brought disgrace to a great scene .

  • Thats rich coming from the venue that turned what was left of Northern Soul into a retro and preservation society ; what do you think the Wheel and the Torch were doing between 1969 to 1973- playing old stuff ? No, playing new and cutting edge Soul . I think the other venue down Whitworth street was continuing that broad and rich legacy , whilst the Wig-un brigade were turning the clocks backwards and destroying everything which the Northern Scene stood for.

  • I wouldn't imagine Russ Winstanley would want to go within 10 miles of the Meccak either. The place where they tried to turn the soul scene into a gay scene.

  • he wouldnt me allowed within 100 miles of the Mecca or the Ritz !!

  • Oh and Mr Herring -Wigun , lets get one thing straight, I don't chuck out all white singers as non soul singers - check my comments on the Millionaires etc ; however , blatant pop music and the likes of Holly Pop James and this pop act here , ain't anything some of us recognised back then or now . The likes of Russ Winstanley wouldn't and couldn't have got within 10 miles of Whitworth Street back in 1969 at the Wheel or 1977 at the Ritz

  • O.k Mr Soul77 explain Patsy Gallant, now then we are talking white pop shit there.

  • oh Mr Herring of Wi-gun faith !!! Patsy Gallant --is a white jazz singer : your surely not comparing this piece of pop music to the jazz funk of Gallant -there is a subtle difference ; although I'm not a great lover of Gallant's stuff if were talking authentic Soul music then I think there's a wide gulf between this pop track and the efforts of Patsy . .

  • This video is great...luv Joanie. The voice track is slightly different from the 45..She was probably singing to the music track live.

    Great!!!

  • Adore this track - so emotive!

  • love it!

    teenagers power!

  • pop music? soul?

    STILL PACKS THE FLOOR AT ANY NIGHTER!!

    CLASS TRACK

    KTF!!

  • good song but i am sick of seeing my dad slide around the living room floor to it.

  • LOL - have a slide yourself then :D