He went on to channel his productions in the direction of Hi-NRG dance music, with considerable success.Īnyway, Constantine’s soundtrack album contains some great stuff, running the gamut from Shirley Ellis’s sublime “Soul Time” to a fabulous eccentricity like The Crow’s “Your Autumn of Tomorrow”. Johnson’s “Your Magic Put a Spell on Me” as being the other finished masters Ian brought with him.
I remember Evelyn Thomas’s “Weak Sport” and L.J. Sadly, it turned out to be not the sort of thing the Island promotion and sales machine was good at handling in 1976. They included Barbara Pennington’s “Running in Another Direction”, which we put out. When I was at Island in the mid-’70s, Ian had approached me with the idea of releasing some recordings he’d been making in Chicago with American singers. The clip of Legend (real name: Bessie Gupton) was filmed at the behest of Ian Levine, the former Blackpool Mecca DJ, who tracked her down in Canada in 2007. It lives on in this special music, in which the whirl of authentic emotion is all that counts. “Feeling everyone was your pal.” What a wonderful memory to have. Remember oldies night and the nicotine and sweat dripping off the ceiling. This song takes me back to the last moments of dancing and grabbing your bag to get home on the train to Wigan. Scroll through the comments under the YouTube clip and eventually you’ll come to this, posted five years ago by someone called “cherry blossom”: Give yourself a better chance, because time will pass you right on by.” (A few years ago my Guardian colleague Laura Barton wrote an eloquent column about it.) Many years later the singer was filmed, miming to the record. “Life is just a precious minute, baby,” she sings. There’s no better example than one of the most famous of them all, Tobi Legend’s”Time Will Pass You By”. The inherent poignancy of so many Northern Soul records springs from an undertow of regret in the lyric or the voice, carrying the suggestion of a moment of pure happiness that can never be recaptured. In the 1960s we didn’t know, as we danced to “Candy” by the Astors, or “Earthquake” by Bobbi Lynn, or “1-2-3” by Len Barry, that we represented merely the prelude to something much bigger. Now I listen to the records I never danced to, the stuff dug out by DJs in the early ’70s - the Fuller Brothers’ “Time’s a-Wastin'”, David and the Giants’ “Ten Miles High” or the Ad Libs’ “Nothing Worse Than Being Alone” - and experience a strange pang of thwarted belonging. Listening to Constantine’s choice of tracks revived an old yearning to have been born five or 10 years later, to have stayed in the Midlands, and to have taken part in the Northern Soul phenomenon. The soundtrack album arrived the other day: a CD of 27 songs featured in the movie, a second disc of another 27 favourites for which she couldn’t find room, and a DVD including interviews with the director and Richard Searling, the DJ at the Wigan Casino. See our other listings for more Clem Wear designs - more added upon design.Elaine Constantine’s much anticipated feature film Northern Soul is finally due for its release in mid-October, some 17 years after the project started to form in her mind. We will do our best to get your item as soon as possible. If the colour/size you require is 'out of stock' in the drop down menu, please send us a message with the size & colour. Long sleeved shirts also available - see our other listings.īespoke designs possible - message us with your request and our designers will look into it. More colour variations upon request - message us with your desired combination. Our T-shirt manufacturer has adopted a robust policy with regard to the following minimum social responsibility criteria:įreedom of association and the right to collective bargainingĬolours may differ slightly to those seen on screen. The carbon footprint has been reduced by some 90% and the calculations were certified under the PAS2050 standard by the Carbon Trust. They are produced in manufacturing facilities powered by green renewable energy, from low-impact raw materials. Meet standards from GOTS - Global Organic Textile Standard.įair Fashion Network and BSD Consulting has implemented a scheme that aims to deliver a LIVING WAGE for the garment workers at its factory in India. Meet standards of the Soil Association Organic Standard. Our T-shirts are a premium product, which are:Ĭlimate Neutral - made in factories run on wind power.įair Trade / Fair Ware - providing workers in India a living wage. 'Northern Soul' exclusive design by Clem Wear, on a quality t-shirt.īespoke designs constructed/hand assembled in Great Britain. Our shirts are packed in 24cm wide envelopes which will fit through average UK letterboxes.
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