Freddy Butler - That's When I Need You

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 Detroit singer, Freddy Butler, singing "That's When I Need You", which was so popular off his late 1960s Kapp album that it got bootlegged as a seven inch in the 1970s on a fairly authentic looking Kapp demo. This is yet another legendary Northern Soul smash, that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This is a piece of classic 1960s Detroit, which absolutely epitomised the glory days in Blackpool Mecca, and the Highland Room. Freddy was a wonderful male solo singer from Detroit who had releases on Wheelsville and Samo Records, and a classic Pied Piper Productions Detroit album on Kapp, which included this classic song. He sadly passed away not long after we filmed this performance in Detroit 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, Freddy 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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• Male-Soul
• Sixties
• Detroit
• Blackpool-Mecca
• Fingersnapper
• Michigan
• Classic
• Male-Group
• Uptempo

[mariefrancedjezar]

excellent

[NorthernNige]

Great song from a great album

[Margandy]

What a superb sound

[tahira1]

RIP Freddy this is a wonderful epitaph.

[bobrofmad]

I just discovered Freddy Butler...lovely song

[bosley11111]

What a happy choon

[Soulanddisco]

So sad to hear this wonderful singer passed away.