The Vel-Vets - I Got To Find Me Somebody

And yet another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This is the Vel-Vets (not to be at all confused with Motown's Velvelettes), singing their absolute Northern Soul anthem, "I Got To Find Me Somebody". This record first broke in 1973 at the legendary Highland Room in Blackpool Mecca. It was a piece of Motownesque joyful exhuberance on the Twentieth Century label from 1967, that golden year, and as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. The lead singer, Janet Terrell, also known as "Spirit", is the cousin of legendary Detroit chanteuse Pat Lewis, and Janet lives in California. I dedicate this video to my old Blackpool Mecca friend, Joanne Leech, who used to stomp to this in 1973 in her platform heels. This was first recorded in 1967 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. So, in 1998, after much searching, and the most massive amount of detective work imaginable, we tracked them down and filmed them in an old Los Angeles theatre, organised by the late Bobby Sanders, 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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• Girl-Groups
• Diva
• Female-Soul
• Sixties
• Classic
• Uptempo
• West-Coast

[jelboysvw]

I remember Joanne Leech dancing to this Ian........what happened to her?

[IanLevine]

She lives in Australia and stays in touch with me.

[sparzy12]

Freaking Fantastic Keep the Faith Ladies

[BigGavStearn]

wondefull,

[jelboysvw]

Ian, Im curious to know .....what was the response of Janet Terell and the girls when they found out how much this song had been played and loved by us over the years??

[6motion6]

Thanks for this-great song,

[adrianpeterjohn]

EXCELLANT stomper skf ,keep on keepin on,

[allwayssoul]

What a Classic!! let the love of soul live on and on ktf xx

[agent005oul]

Reminds of my first visit to the casino in 1979..the hairs stood up on the back of my neck watching the packed dancefloor literally shake to this tune...

[sammious]

fukin sweet mover tune,u felt the floor as u danced listning to that