Maxine Brown - One In A Million

This is a piece of classic 1960s New York which epitomised the early days of Blackpool Mecca, championed by Tony Jebb back in the very early days of the Highland Room, way back in 1971 and 1972, prior to the Torch opening. It still sounds great but has been much forgotten and neglected over the years. It was a piece of Motownesque joyful exuberance on the Wand label, owned by Florence Greenberg, from 1965, that golden year, and as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. And the very quintessence of the mid Sixties. 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, we tracked down Maxine Brown in New York, and filmed the lovely lady, and she was more than happy to make this one and only one-time performance especially for us, for our ground breaking Encyclopaedia Britannica of Northern Soul, and I am so glad that we did.