Released back 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 have now released 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. In putting together this box set, we have nearly all the biggest all time blockbusters, "Out On The Floor", "Night Owl', "I'm On My Way", "Time Will Pass You By", "Blowing My Mind To Pieces", "Do I Love You", all sung by the original singers. We believe this will go down in history as the greatest Northern Soul DVD collection of all time. Here, Baltimore legend, Bob Brady, sings his Northern Soul monster classic, "More More More Of Your Love", on Chariot Records. This is another performance filmed for my now somewhat notorious documentary, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". Bob Brady and The Con-Chords were a white group in the 1960s from Baltimore, who everyone thought were black, mainly because Bob sounded so much like Smokey Robinson. It took a lot of trouble but I tracked him down for The Strange World Of Northern Soul, and we redid two of his hits, one of which became famous on the KFC commercials in the UK. The members were: Bob Brady - lead vocals - George Layfield - lead vocals, backup vocals - Jim Samuel - piano, organ, backup vocals - Dennis Zwirlein - guitar, backup vocals - Tony Constantino - trumpet, baritone sax, tenor sax, vibes, backup vocals (although his primary instrument was drums) - Dave Wladkowski - alto sax, baritone sax - Larry Sprigg - trombone, vibes - John Drexler - drums - Vince Sansone - bass guitar. "More More More Of Your Love", a Smokey Robinson cover, became massive on the Northern Soul scene because it was faster and more generic than the original. I filmed and interviewed over three hundred people and 131 artists performing their Northern Soul classic songs, for the six disc DVD box set extravaganza, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", with twenty four hours of footage, including some rare footage of the Motorcity reunion. The project started in 1997, was released on VHS tape and premiered to 1300 people at the King George's Hall in Blackburn in July 1999, then took four more years to refine and re-edit into its DVD release in 2003. A life's labour of love. So, in 1998, after much searching, and the most massive amount of detective work imaginable, we tracked Bob 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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I've never heard anyone sound like Smokey. This man does. It's remarkable. You go!!!!!!!
imbees2 2 years ago
so handsome!
bobrofmad 2 years ago