Last night I finished watching this DVD called The Strange World Of Northern Soul, the producer of which believe to be Ian Levine who I believe was a DJ at the Blackpool Mecca. The film looked at the origins of the Northern Soul Scene, looked at what is Northern Soul, and what has made it so special to so many people for over 40 years, saw some stuff about The Torch, Blackpool Mecca, the legendary Wigan Casino etc... the fashions, the record dealers, the promoters etc... But the bit that really made the film for me was the fact that some Artists had been tracked down and filmed and had the 3 minutes of fame with their songs that they deserve. The two videos that made the film for me where Gwen Owens - Just Say You're Wanted (And Needed) and Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools. Firstly Gwen Owens - Just Say You're Wanted (And Needed) is just in my top 3 and I love it and it made the hairs on my neck stand up, Miss Owens still had singing talent and in her interview she told us she was in-fact only 15 when she recorded the song! Secondly, Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools... Honest truth, I got a bit tearful at this one, Miss Mills had lost that maturing teenage voice and now had a mature voice, it was not the best voice but it was magical and for a blue-eyed artist she seemed to be soulful and she seemed to feel the song as if it was her first time singing it. I just wondered who here has seen the film and if you had/hadn't enjoyed any parts of it or all of it and why? KTF! T x

I have not seen the documentry part but have seen some of the video clips don't really rate many of them as i prefere to remember the artists as was and not remind myself that we are all aging together

Best of all of them by far is Sheila Ferguson who still looks stunning for her age singing "Heart broken memories"

also i think all the music and backing vocals were rerecorded fresh or at least remastered which spoils it somewhat

Edited March 18, 201213 yr by allnightandy

  On 18/03/2012 at 11:15, nstomp97 said:

Last night I finished watching this DVD called The Strange World Of Northern Soul, the producer of which believe to be Ian Levine who I believe was a DJ at the Blackpool Mecca. The film looked at the origins of the Northern Soul Scene, looked at what is Northern Soul, and what has made it so special to so many people for over 40 years, saw some stuff about The Torch, Blackpool Mecca, the legendary Wigan Casino etc... the fashions, the record dealers, the promoters etc... But the bit that really made the film for me was the fact that some Artists had been tracked down and filmed and had the 3 minutes of fame with their songs that they deserve. The two videos that made the film for me where Gwen Owens - Just Say You're Wanted (And Needed) and Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools. Firstly Gwen Owens - Just Say You're Wanted (And Needed) is just in my top 3 and I love it and it made the hairs on my neck stand up, Miss Owens still had singing talent and in her interview she told us she was in-fact only 15 when she recorded the song! Secondly, Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools... Honest truth, I got a bit tearful at this one, Miss Mills had lost that maturing teenage voice and now had a mature voice, it was not the best voice but it was magical and for a blue-eyed artist she seemed to be soulful and she seemed to feel the song as if it was her first time singing it. I just wondered who here has seen the film and if you had/hadn't enjoyed any parts of it or all of it and why? KTF! T x

I've seen it, Pete Smith did a really good review of it as I remember, but I can't find it, sure it's on here somewhere. For what it's worth, I thought as a box set it was ok, there were some interesting interviews as I recall.

also i think all the music and backing vocals were rerecorded fresh or at least remastered which spoils it somewhat

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I was told this was due to copyright difficulties ? Is this true ?

I have had the box set for quite a long time some good stuff on it but mostly get it out now & again for a good giggle

Julie

  On 18/03/2012 at 14:22, donkit said:

also i think all the music and backing vocals were rerecorded fresh or at least remastered which spoils it somewhat

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I was told this was due to copyright difficulties ? Is this true ?

Yes there were recorded from fresh, for some tracks it spoilt them slightly but for others it did not make a difference, Copyright sounds like a logical reason yes :-)

  On 18/03/2012 at 14:22, donkit said:

also i think all the music and backing vocals were rerecorded fresh or at least remastered which spoils it somewhat

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I was told this was due to copyright difficulties ? Is this true ?

I believe I've read somewhere it would have cost Levine a thousand quid per track.

The Original poster mentioned the Barbara Mills Re cut

Most of the re cuts are on You Tube but i can't find this one !

Can anyone post it ?

Andy

Edited March 18, 201213 yr by allnightandy

  On 18/03/2012 at 15:22, allnightandy said:

The Original poster mentioned the Barbra Mills Re cut

Most of the re cuts are on You Tube but i can't find this one !

Can anyone post it ?

Andy

I think Ian Levine has only posted a few videos and this one appears to not have been posted on Youtube unfortunately :-(