P.P. Arnold - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Pat Arnold was originally one of The Ikettes, Ike and Tina Turner's backing girl group. She left Los Angeles and emigrated to England and signed to Immediate Records in 1967, and had a huge hit with "The First Cut Is The Deepest". Another single on the same label, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", which was basically just a re-write of Bobby Scott's soul classic "We're Doing Fine", (also covered by Dee Dee Warwick), became a monster huge in-demand Northern Soul classic, and one of the biggest ever records at the legendary Wigan Casino. Many years later, in 1998, we were filming our Northern Soul documentary, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", so we interviewed and recorded Pat on her big Wigan classic. She also remembered, when she used to appear there, hearing a wonderful record by a girl called Gerri Granger on Bell Records, called "I Go To Pieces Everytime". Funnily enough, I was the one to discover that record first, and we used to play it at Blackpool Mecca before it crossed over to Wigan, so I suggested we have a go and record it ourselves, not for the documentary, but just to try it out. So we did, and the video for that is over on the Tropicana Productions page, as a nice complement to this wonderful video of her classic, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright".

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[pan42]

she was 65 when this was recorded ? bloody hell ! She sure fills out that dress well...doop doopy doo doo

[speedwaysamuel]

Jeez PP You look gorgeous babe, and to think you were my hero all those years ago at the casino.

One hell of a woman and one hell of a voice.

Marry me

[inflambulent]

Wow!

[zantepete]

mr levine,this is awesome.pp is so so soulful.wish we could go back over three decades ago and revisit the nighters to dance to sounds like this.

thanks for posting this.

pete from hemel ktf

[zantepete]

just awesome saw er live many years ago and thirty odd years later it sounds just as good not to mention her looks

i must be in love with a granny,it used to be a young girl.

pete from hemel ktf

[ADayWithAndrew]

65 years old? she's fit!!

[John Fraser]

good luck samuel MARRY HER or else i will (im married)

[jelboysvw]

She still looks and sounds fantastic WoW!!

[speedwaysamuel]

PP you sing like nobody else can and you look gorgeous....Keep the faith !

[edleew]

I love it and age is just a number