Richard Temple - That Beatin' Rhythm

And yet another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This is Richard Temple, singing his absolute Northern Soul anthem, "That Beatin' Rhythm". This record first broke in 1971 at the legendary Catacombs Club in Wolverhampton. No-one believed the name, because the club was located on Temple Street, but it was the real name on the record, on the Mirwood label, as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. Richard Temple was a pseudonym for Jimmy Conwell, a famed West Coast 1960s soul legend, and this backing track was used on at least three other Northern Soul records too. It just epitomises the 1960s so encapsulatedly. I found my copy in a Goodwill store in Flagler Street in Miami, and brought about ten copies of it back to England in 1973. 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 him 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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• West-Coast
• Sixties
• Classic
• Mirwood
• Male-Soul
• Uptempo
• Floorfiller

[IanLevine]

I am so tired of hearing this business about the backing tracks. If we hadn't redone them we couldn't have legally made this project. You simply cannot licence in 131 backing tracks and then still have the rights to use them ten years later. Instead of complaining, why oh why don't people just appreciate what I gave them, and went eighty grand into debt to do !!!!! Sheeeeeesh !!!!!!!!!!!!

[soulfortoday]

ktf soulie

[StagTowner]

personelly I love the revamps and appreciate your efforts in keeping the faith.

magical tune!...ktf

[Lionboy2930]

Here here Ian.... you're a legend, having no doubt spent day,s months, years ect finding and taking time to put all these excellent performers together for the benefit of us soulies... Many thanks... keep up the great work..

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[faffytunes]

nice Beating Rhythm