Maxine Brown - One In A Million

Coming in October 2008, a tremendously exciting project for Northern Soul fans everywhere. We've done a deal with Wienerworld, a major music DVD company, and the same company who originally released our classic documentary "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", and we are now doing the definitive DVD box set. A five disc set of 200 performances called "Northern Soul's Greatest 200 Floorfillers". This uses some songs from "The Strange World Of Northern Soul" which are completely re-edited, so they look fresh and sparkling new. All the previous video effects done in the 1990s are gone forever, consigned to history. Plus loads and loads of never before seen videos, many of which have sat in the can untouched for many many years. Plus some newly recorded tributes to the classics. If you ever went to Blackpool Mecca or Wigan Casino, this is the must-have purchase of the year. This is the legendary and beautiful Maxine Brown singing "One In A Million", which was yet another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This is a piece of classic 1960s New York which epitomised the early days of Blackpool Mecca, championed by Tony Jebb back in the very early days of the Highland Room, way back in 1971 and 1972, prior to the Torch opening. It still sounds great but has been much forgotten and neglected over the years. It was a piece of Motownesque joyful exhuberance on the Wand label, owned by Florence Greenberg, from 1965, that golden year, and as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. And the very quintessence of the mid Sixties. 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, we tracked down Maxine Brown in New York, and filmed the lovely lady, and she was more than happy 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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[Sandra Lawson]

I guess you don't have to be very young, just to be a

singer. You know, The Supremes, Martha Reeves, The

Marvelettes was not very young when they start singing,

in the mid 60's, they were already in their late twenty's,

in that year's. So Maxine Brown! I want to buy your album.

[IanLevine]

Not true. They were all teenagers when they first started out. The Supremes were all sixteen, so were The Marvelettes.

[Simon Cuerden]

Fookin brilliant!

Any chance of "It's Torture"?

Ian, keep going mate coz you rock!!!!

[IanLevine]

We only ever did two songs with her, this and "Let Me Give You My Loving".

[Margandy]

Hi Ian

What a fantastic release Northern Soul 2008 is ... and this when added to the picture is just superb along with all the other videos and forthcoming releases ..... keep up the fantastic work .... we all appreciate it

[IanLevine]

Thankyou, and I appreciate your support. More than I can ever put into words, as, sometimes it feels like such an uphill struggle.

[flomurdock]

Whatever, Maxine was way above all of them in talent. I've never seen this before, but it's such a treat.

[arthursmaid]

sounds a lot like 123 by Len Barry

[redrock1965]

bloody fantastic record ,,cheers nice one

[Karen B]

Thanks to the late great Randy Cozens who had faith in Maxine and 'championed' her so everyone could enjoy hearing her like he did.

[ccmajc]

I have, at last, got the DVD's. You tracking the artist down is just amazing! driving my other half daft. Thankyou.

[Lucifernio]

One of my favourite songs in the world.

[thebottle51]

I wish I knew where to get this stuff,on hard form,here in the states.Fantastic ..she sounds fantastic..good work ian