Rose Battiste - Hit And Run

And yet another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This is Rose Battiste, singing her absolute Northern Soul anthem, "Hit And Run". I was a teenager when I found this record in a shop in Miami in 1969, and took it to the Twisted Wheel, where it received its first ever Northern Soul, plays, and was my first ever really big discovery. This was first recorded in 1966 and we recut it in 1998 when we were filming our marathon six disc, twenty four hour massive documentary about the entire history of the Northern Soul scene, which contained 131 specially recorded performances of all the classics, and is still available on a six disc box set from Wienerworld. As all Northern Soul afficionados will know, legendary Detroit songbird, Rose Battiste, was on the Revilot label, as was this classic "Hit And Run", and also as was the original version of a song, by the late great Darrell Banks, "Our Love Is In The Pocket". As fans, back in the 1970s, we always used to muse whether Rose Battiste had ever recorded this song and it remained unissued. Well it transpired that she never did. So in 1998, when she flew over to appear at the Blackpool Mecca Reunion, we decided to re-write history, so we took her straight into the studio, and for the first time ever, Rose sang that song. And performed it at the Reunion alongside her massive floorfilling anthem, and here it is, with priceless footage from that weekend. So, in 1998, after much searching, we tracked her down to make this one and only one-time performance especially for us, for our ground breaking Encyclopedia Britannica of Northern Soul, and I am so glad that we did.

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Music

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• Northern-Soul
• Diva
• Female-Soul
• Sixties
• Classic
• Soul
• Detroit
• Girl-Groups
• Uptempo

[allwayssoul]

Fantastic oldie!! memories come flooding back!!

[Discoboy1974]

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[std0555]

nice one ian , keep the faith bro , brill x

[bobrofmad]

brings back many memoiries...

i wish i had been there to

great video and the audience is

so young and handsome...

[ianhow2478]

I challenge "Anyone!" to be able to keep their feet still whilst hearing and seeing this! Northern Soul at its "Very Best!" Thank You Ian!