The Apollas - Mister Creator

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, Leola Jiles, lead singer of The Apollas, re-records her Northern Soul monster classic, "Mister Creator", written by Ashford and Simpson. This is another performance filmed for my now somewhat notorious documentary, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". Leola and Billie barnum, sister of H.B. Barnum, were The Apollas, and at the time we could only get Leola, so we added a couple of backup girls to support her, but she was the only lead vocal on the original version. She also made an amazing deep soul record on A&M, called "To Make A Long Story Short", written and produced by Van McCoy. Sadly, a few years after filming this, she had a terrible car crash, which left her scarred for life. 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 Leola 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
• Motorcity
• Centre-City
• Female-Soul-Singers
• Girl-Groups
• Diva
• Sixties
• Footstomper
• Uptempo
• Classic
• 60s
• Blackpool-Mecca
• Ashford-Simpson
• Los-Angeles

[MechelenManiac]

Hi Ian, what a couple of days that was, don't think I slept for more than 4 hours out of the whole 72 I was there, Leola was magnificent, thanks.

[IanLevine]

Hello Chris

[MechelenManiac]

I actually filmed this in Los Angeles and I can tell you she looked absolutely wonderful.

[isobella50]

love it!!!! she looks Great!

KTF

[BarbraAlejandro]

Ian- You Never Stop Leaving Me In AWE!!! Love This Video....Love The Song, It's Soo Much FUN!!! Take Care-David

[brindlog]

i danced to this at the mecca many years ago and hey it still sounds good

[bobrofmad]

total respect for her talent,

she looks gorgeous!