James Fountain - Seven Day Lover

Another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for The Strange World Of Northern Soul, from Atlanta soul star James Fountain. The record was on William Bell's own label, Peachtree Records, and tragically James passed away not long after filming this classic for us. He was so excited that anyone had ever heard of him, and that his song was so popular in England, when he thought no-one ever cared about his career. William Bell was such a marvelous help in organising this for us. James certainly gave it his all, and it seems so sad that this was the one and only time he ever got to perform this song, a record which, along with the Carstairs record, changed Blackpool Mecca, and changed the face of the Northern Soul scene forever, heralding in a new era of more modern soul music in the mid 1970s.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• Motorcity
• Blackpool-Mecca
• Seventies-Soul
• Atlants
• Male-Soul
• Male-Groups
• Wigan-Casino
• Rare-Soul

[beebandloz]

fan song, by the way i listened to that radio programme on radio 2 on saturday from casino's to warehouses it was good. It was you talking on it wasn't it

[IanLevine]

Yes indeed, it was me talking on it.

[djmixmand]

got my mum to thanks for all these great samples! am i the only 17 year old DJ who loves Northern and House ?

[IanLevine]

When we did The Rocket, one of the DJs, Sean Livesey, was only fifteen at the time.

[oldholborn3]

Classsssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssssssssssss

[surreytownsoulie]

rare soul.....doesn't get much better than this !

[jelboysvw]

Its what made the mecca unique....Thanks Ian

[pipster101]

This and "Wanna spend some time" are just THE classic modern sounds - love it so so so so much...

[lastbus]

Would always be in my top 20 NS tunes. Brilliant..

[MrReillac]

lovin this northern blissfulness..dont know much about it but would love a whole night of this kinda music ringin in my ears..

[TheKaren2158]

brought this record in wigan casino still got to this day love it !!!!!!! got a great collection of northern soul

[ROYLE1]

Wow,

James must have one of the best soul voices in the business awesome stuff!

[joehancock01]

wow..if only the singers these days were had the talent to do this

[mirrwood]

this song was my pals song paul hunt a great northern soul fan in ashby whose life was taken from us ktf paul you were the one  believieve me

your friend mike lie at piece now

[corywory08]

LOVE IT!!! <3 KTF