Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools [Hickory]

[sidacboilerhouse]

First heard this in the Iron Door soul club in Liverpool circa 1967,long before the term ''Northern soul'' was invented.Keep on Keeping on.

[vapourphaze]

Remember this one from Wigan Casino. Big Tune!!!!!

[modette69er]

That's me, no more!!

[carash123]

the first ever 'northern soul' sound I heard. Many people knock it but I think it's down to personal tastes and memories lol. We all love being taken back 30 40 years? Can remember shuffling along nicely to it often .

[anthony66irish]

I have been into the "scene" for many years and there are many po faced idiots who prefer to diss people , rather than encourage, Enjoy the music we all love and tell the idiots to f**k off. To answer the question,,"Keep the Faith" --- in Northern Soul..

[SteveArpo]

Apart from, 'Queen of Fools' what are the rest of the words?

[motown60s]

@SteveArpo

im a fool!!!!! or maybe it's you thats the fool ? who knows?

[SteveArpo]

@motown60s I sorry but I see there are so many enthusiastic and knowledgeable people on here I just thought someone would know the answer. Is that another way of saying, 'Keep the faith' - calling someone a fool for asking a perfectly innocent question?

[barnsley1ful]

@SteveArpo go to wikipedia put in barbara mills queen of fools lyrics

[trasime]

all time classic !! notts soul suvivors first friday of the month a great northern and motown veue.

[spegangles]

@TheHuntress144 Yer showin yer age now! I can only remember Radio Luxembourg. Surely you're hearing better soul now that you're in America!

[SuperMinimunchkin]

Im 46 and STILL trying to learn how to dance like you lot do to this (mind you my hearts in it so who cares) lol x

[hoppo444]

ha ha this is my ringtone



[sarahc311]

Happy memories going back nearly 40 years! Still good for many more

[TheHuntress144]

i was a teenager many years ago in macclesfield england, i used to listen to radio caroline, it was great it inroduced me to soul music witch at the time was banned on the british radio. i love this song and lot's of other northern soul. l went to wigan casino a few times. i live in the usa now. lets keep northern soul alive.

[thfc5674]

top soul sound takes me back to highland room blackpool and tony jeb and ian levine and all the farnworth, bolton, soul gang.

[dewittseattle]

This years spring issue of Blue Suede News Magazine has a short story on Barbara Mills. Box 25 Duvall,Washington 98019-0025 U.S.A.

[rovers6100]

Number 1 sound in 1971. It was massive and still sounds as good today.

[Redhotcook]

Classic all time great dance song

[dewittseattle]

I just wrote a story on Barbara Mills in the Blue Suede News magazine Spring 2011 issue. Dennis McKenzie DeWitt

[Redhotcook]

Love this first heard it at st Ives great memories thanks

[JackMDT8888]

One of my lifetime faves.......totalheartstring puller and easy dancer to get your breath back between millionmile a minute stompers.......Ktf to all that were there

[soulbrother61]

@JackMDT8888 reading your comments, big respect brother, like me you were there witnessing something special never to be repeated,if we could get a tardis, if only for a day, to take us back to that special place, it's never going to happen but we have the memories and that's what matters, probably passed you a hundred times..k.t.f brother and hey feck DR WHATSON

[jugganautjones]

great song..great memories....

[Boothroyd13]

Dance, dance, dance... The Northern Soul way... God I miss those late 60's and early 70's more because the music at the Twisted Wheel, The Mecca and the Torch was so goooooood!!! Rambo Ramsden

[lydonboy]

Good tune

[philwww]

I remember two people from Wolverhampton who drove all the way to St Ives Cornwall instead of St Ives Cambridge. LMFAO. Great memories, pass the duraphet this way please.

[MHudson49]

Big time player at St. Ives as well!

[lambretta]

great sound , what was the b side to this called , seem to recall that being ok to

[jam2boi]

timeless!!!! brilliant

[smilecal]

this was the theme tune for the palace disco on rhyl prom ... i first heard it at the age of 15 ... that was 1971 ...  pure brilliance ...

[wglovett]

I had this before the term Northern soul was invented.The Attic Rainhill 1968.lily7white got it perfect.

[olwyn1957]

this was played at top rank loved it

[lily7white]

it was recorded in 1965 and played at the wheel, cats, torch, casino, night owl, you name it and it played there

[bmj190267]

i heard it at the torch i think 1971 cant remember it being played before that.

[74souledout]

Good Share Andy xx

[therapywizard]

love this track always  reminds of great memories

[carash123]

first Northern Soul record I owned...1976

[jacqueline5103]

Amazing by far, Id say so.

[No1ClashFan]

Fantastic!!!!Gives me goosebumps just remembering the old days!!!!!xxx

[cheekymonky61]

crackin floor stompa,,thanks for sharing matey,ktf,take care

[vodachef]

love this song from my youth club dayz 1974..14 yr old then went to ryecroft club at newcastle -under-lyme .. does any one know them dayz ...buster jones . screwy bolton me even lol..tina heaney..as was

[loek3377]

@vodachef

chessy youth club for me mate, Screwy boulton got busted with him a few times lol

[divinilla100]

Me encanta, gracias.

[john111257]

WONDERFUL..im 53 this yr...this comp thing is great..pickin my top songs..INSTANT CLASSICS

[Okeh2760]

One of my all time favourites

[texasskytexas]

To Torch: Well, her brother , Larry Henley did more than a "winky dinky wing dang do" with Wind Beneath My Wings". Can you agree? she would have been great too if she had been promoted and not confused with the black singer Barbara D Mills.

[trackieben]

Brilliant track. But was it ever available as anything other than promo opy?

[RicTic66]

@trackieben American and British Hickory promos + issues (The British promo is the holy grail) Boot legged to death so be aware if purchasing a copy...

re-issued on UK London records in 1975.

I hope this helps

[bonny2go]

ITS JUST INKY DINKY WANG DANG DO.. THE TORCH

[Jacstar3]

For sure this is a classic, many memories, Wigan Casino for one. Good old days when I could dance all night.

[Jacstar3]

For sure this is a classic. So many memories.

[bobmonkhouse50]

Superb haunting vocals, I can just hear this echoing round The Casino,hairs on your arms standing on end, tingles down your spine, there is nothing else as good as Northern Soul.

[SuperCaroline1408]

brill

[stuart2164]

What a pure northern classic thanks for posting KTF.

[tommoakler]

this song makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck!!!! It takes me back to so many wonderful places in the 1970s - The Central Soul Club Leeds; The Sovereign on a sunday evening near Huddersfield; Wigan Casino; the Intercon Wakefield......

it was one of the sounds that made me fall in love with northern soul.

Steph Singleton (Hudds)

[dianneclarkson]

ace song !!!!

[isobella50]

Awesommmmeeeeeeeeeeeee ktf

[tushebabe]

ace, ace, ace and a million ace's brilliant tune thanx

[Backdropblue]

brill

[Backdropblue]

Westfields youth club Cheltenham 1973ish....great memories...

[cyprus2001]

wot a tune used to dance to this at the alldayers xx

[jacqueline5103]

This is awesome, by far

[steviefaepaisley]

fantastic song. one of the best northern tracks

[LONGTONWOLF]

THE TORCH STOKE ON TRENT WILL LIVE ON FOREVER

[oiyoumuppet]

@LONGTONWOLF  yes as the best club ever bar none

[geofflovett]

Got this ,long before you ''younger'' soul fans had stopped shitting yer undies.

Long live the ''Torch''

46 Macca.you miseed the 60's in Widnes and ST.Helens,Fucking brilliant.I was a scooter boy in Widnes in 1968-1970

[s299hughesy]

what a tune KEEP THE FAITH

[tommoakler]

This takes me right back to the Northern Soul Club in Leeds - mid Seventies with Twink and Frank dee jaying What heady days they were, we were young and free!!

Steph

[46macca]

one of my all time Northen Soul songs too young to go to wigan casino but Queens hall in widnes used to do Northern Soul Nights for the high school kids so we didnt miss out

[dundee520]

goood

[DSilius]

i love this record! one of my fav's

[gar861646]

good old tune

[jacqueline5103]

Ace track indeed, Id say.

[bobphillifent]

A1 record. One of the best uptempo dancers on the N.S. scene. That slamming backbeat is just awesome. Canny vocals as well!

[donnysoulboy1959]

it doesn,t come much better than this must have worn 3 pairsof shoes out just to this track over the years (a lot of em lol)

[royfayharley]

dancing to this on friday at wheatley northern soul night in doncaster.

[colinbradford1]

How often do they have Northern Soul Nights in Wheatley and wheres it at?

Colin

[royfayharley]

@colinbradford1 Its on last friday in month. Its at wheatley wmc just of beckett rd in doncaster

[senna1uk]

class song bring back tot mems 2 old now lol

[celticcatty]

memories, golden record, golden memories!!!!!! thanks. KTF

[alfiesgirluk]

Ahh wonderful memories of the early seventies :-)))

[248kimberley]

dancing to this friday night at the wheel manchester with my daughter what a blast

[smartypantsnancy]

St Annes youth club Accrington 1973 ...brings it all back x

[greyhound681234]

wigan casino soul night 1977 superb.

[tonsils77]

When Tony Ellis dropped this one at The Shades of Green in early 70's it thrilled my soul - and still does, a classic

[petegriffin]

great tune

[markydjh1]

me too

[notfinalized]

OMG this is the first time I`ve heard this since 1975. I always use to ask the DJ to play it, about 3 times a night lol.

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

Aww I wish I could ask my "DJ" to play stuff like this now.( I am 25)

[TheMandysad]

@notfinalized yeah an it woz me who danced three times too, brill song luv it luv it memories

[248kimberley]

i luv this song ...sing it all day quite sad really

[rodderss52]

Gr8 tune this.. a real classic

[chris127ukk]

Great days at the Gallopers Cleveleys,one of our fav tunes,thanks for posting.

[tushebabe]

Good days, great times, happy memories ace song ta x

[InTheMoodForSandy]

Love this! Thanks for posting :)

[markydjh]

Thanks Jacqui4, and i know what you mean about the disco funk thing - never was my type of music

[LOOPINS1]

An old northern soul classic

[TheHuntress144]

I am from Manchester England I love this song. I had it on a 45 yrs ago. I'm so happy I found it again. I live in the US now and nobody here knows anything about northern soul, they don't know what the're missing. how ironic.

[Mobanc]

Hi

I am from Manchester. They have opened the Twisted Wheel again ( one Friday night session and one Sunday Afternoon session) it gets packed to the rafters...they play all the old songs and they play this song almost every time...one of my all time favs too : ) I think a lot of the artists don't realise we still play these tunes.

[judystreet]

Where in the US are you. Some of the soulies go over for Motwon "tours" Kev Roberts organises them. I live in Australia now and we have a Northern Scene over here, mostly ex-pats. This was playing when I walked in to my first Soul night in Australia, and I knew it was the real deal! I had this record and someone nicked it!

[motown60s]

Lucky u living in USA!. BUT A SHAME NOT APPRECIATED NORTHERN SOUL. wigan casinos will be remembred 4 eva, and the music will live on!. Enjoy your life across the pond!

[tustles]

I Love it. New to me though. 30******** Great post. Fantastic share spiritladsoul God Bless ktf Cheers From Canada

[std0555]

respect , keep the faith people , best ever x

[soulchosen]

classic imo! ktf

[Soul3Ian]

It is indeed a classic

[markydjh]

Herringthorpe get some therapy ! its just a song

[jacqui4elvis]

narkydjh, i couldnt agree more with your comments. I dont understand all this ill feeling, from different era's, venues, clubs etc, i love northern soul, be it from clubs in the 60's 70's, the only reservation i have, is the sound that started to come through, which reminded me of a disco/funk sound, but i still appreciated how good it was. there is room for every one out there, we dont have to be rude to one another. best wishes jacqui

[keepingthefaith72]

Ace northern classic ... great post .. KTF..

[sweetiebabesxx]

Thankyou for this share!!!

[markydjh]

Still a great song

[herringthorpe]

Here we go again Chewy, the untouchable torch crowd. I was a Wigan regular from 74 onwards.The best thing was when the sightseeing " old guard " vanished up their own arseholes, you thought we should look up to you because you were older, and had visited other soul clubs, coming to the odd nighter looking down your snotty noses. YOU thought you invented Motown !!!!!!

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

A track players and hula hoops

[markydjh]

i think the label gives it away on the opening shot 7/12 /65 ? hey still a great song

[alfiesgirluk]

I bought a copy of this in 1972 and it was not an original, I can pinpoint the year precisely as it was the year I turned 18.

[markydjh]

flax- 75 was when i first heard this, i think it is more 1965 but not 100% sure never the less great tune

[markydjh]

Just found this after, well after many years and a lot of water under the bridge, But wow time travel back to happy days 1975, Cheltenhan (uk) the only northern soul club in the south- brilliant

[flaxflaxflax88]

sure its 1975???

[atam100]

simply fantastic - cant stop listening - want to jump and waltz around the dance floor northern soul style , unfortunately just had cartialage ops on both knees must have been all those back drops all those years ago!!!

[Xpinger]

stay well friend, keep fit, keep dancing and ktf ;)

[wabble26]

@Xpinger have to agree one of the best tunes ever

[Arai64]

Marvellous!

[judystreet]

This was playing when I walked in to my first soul night after a break of 20 years. I just went straight onto the dance floor and remembered every beat!

[mrdeleuze]

this is a defining moment in the the soul of the North. The Northern Soul. Proud and enduring. The sound and lyric drills right into the bone like nothing else.

[cherryobabi]

glad to see the lyrics here,ive been singing them wrong..loudly to anyone who would listen for years!!!

[lbf1974]

magic what a voice and what a tune just makes you want to get up and throw some moves out

[chris2438]

Great song.....as i remember was just about the girlies top sound...suited their dance style..and that is not an insult in any way...ktf

[adrianpeterjohn]

brilliant what more can you say,

[allwayssoul]

reminds me of my good old soul mate Karen from Lancaster she loved this and youd allways catch her dancing to this in Mr Ms, those were the days!! sigh!!! hope your ok Karen if you log in here. xx

[jonmelkay]

Well im the queen of fools oh so they say Yes this half is the part needy only yesterday but now look at me and you will see the lonely but proud queen of fools And Im the fool they talk about yes im the one that your heart had last You'll now look at me and you will see the lonely but proud Queen of fools well now the heart that loved you so yes the one that cared the most, you finally let go so now take a bow,and we'll propose a toast to the lonely but proud queen of fools

[keshling]

Yes I had his heart completely only yesterday

[keshling]

Sorry, should have said that's the second line!

[allwayssoul]

Fabulous classic track, still gets my feet tappin infact cant help but dance to this !!!!

[JackMDT8888]

This is SO the best version...........its got everything.......and for all you are surprised I think about 15 to 20% of all out favourite taks are by white artists......who have the same soul heart that we do......KTF

[Seann5]

Could anyone tell me where i can get a cd or mp3 version of this please?

[jeffmagic32]

message me your email and I can email it to you

[jennlfc]

cant beleive this is a white woman..shocked me just as much as dean parish

[jacqui4elvis]

love the line, the town look at me and now you will see the lonely but proud queen of fools

[jessiesaxman]

brilliant track , love it!

[gigmillbaggie]

I am the dancer.

I am northern soul,see me before we die!

G.b.

[SEADOGG77]

i have this on my ipod,used to play this endlessly on my dads old record player when i was only about 5 or 6...am now 30!

[RedWitch999]

great sound .. has anyone got an mp3 url link for this record please?

[jeffmagic32]

if you message me your email I can send you the MP3

[carpetcal]

hey just another thing i never realised barbara mills was white. if you find her on google there is a pic so far removed from the voice?/ great voice, really do need the words if anyone has them

[carpetcal]

anyone know the words i cant make them all out??? great tune

[nelzceltic4]

one of my faves of all time, casino gone but neva forgotten, keep the faith

[drwhatson]

What's this record got to do with Wigan Casino? - or the Ritz for that matter? It was played donkey's years before those venues even opened! :-)

[CHEWDwivTHEinCrowd]

Great track made and played b4 divs from Wigan were out of nappies Dr Watson! Way those from Wigan rewriting history of music they'll be tellin us they'r responsible for Motown next. When fact is wigan casino only have 3 claims to fame 1. They were voted best DISCO in damn world lol 2. Divs that followed in our footprints goin to Wigan commericialised very special ngter scene LOL but they couldn't EVEN do that alone TOP OF THE POPS HELPED! 3. Biggest Con Ever! So amazing - sooo many fell asleep!

[HunkKeepa]

reminds me of the talbot pub in stalybridge best pub in the world ah if we could only go back just for one friday night!! would be wicked..from jayne robbie in Stalybridge.

[motown60s]

These were the good old days. Superb dancing record!

[afcbadboi]

Brilliant.

[maristlucia]

Great thanks for posting reminds me of the allnighters at the rallies. Thanks so much.

[a24l05a56n]

Wicked. takes me back to the ritz in manchester. keep the faith

[dmnattack]

Excellent SONG!!!!

[tustles]

This is great I love it Thanks Lavene KTF

[smilersweetness]

This is lovely, x

[dubadub69]

Classic 4 sure !

[drwhatson]

Still haunting after all these years. They don't make 'em (or should that be FIND 'em!) like this anymore...

[torchmems]

lets have a torch revival

[spiritladysoul]

classic. love it

[soulchosen]

Love it

[babyblob01]

my son is 2yrs an he loves this song

[superlativesoul]

can't stop playing this,brill thanks a lot

ktf superlativesoul

[motown250]

nice

[JOHNNYSOUL66]

nice girly dancer

[northerngirl72]

Can't believe how much I love this classic,an all time fav, never tire of it..ktf

[sweetsallymarie]

Brilliant!

[tandrewl]

Such a beautiful, dreamy melody - takes me back to the Highland Room in the early 70's. A truly wonderful, peaceful track. Many, many thanks for this classic.

[leighlabella2]

keep comin back 2 this tune love it ktf

[maxine115]

Classic ! one of the best..

[aceyface67]

Excellent. Thanks for posting.

[motown250]

nice

[susanwilson41]

i remember strutting my stuff to that!!!!the good old days.

[harvedog69]

what. a. tune.

keep the faith.

[avxc81]

An northern soul classic

[motown250]

brill

[leighlabella2]

still the best northern rec ov all time . ktf

[northerngirl72]

This is well just gone in my favourites,great! thanks!

[gtopete]

any dollar value to these records i have a sack full of them from my younger days

[chrisstephens1957]

what a majestic piece of music this is....

If any of the no-talents that pervade the charts today could come up with a masterpiece like this it would be number 1 for 6 months...

[chloedayglo]

that rules.