Coming in October 2008, a tremendously exciting project for Northern Soul fans everywhere. We've done a deal with Wienerworld, a major music DVD More

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. 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, Evie Sands recreates her beautiful mid-Sixties classic, "Picture Me Gone", which was yet another legendary Northern Soul smash that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". This was first recorded in 1966, and then we recut it in 1999 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. We had no lead for Ronnie for ages, but kept on looking, until, after much searching, we tracked him down to make these one and only one-time performances especially for us, for our ground breaking Encyclopedia Britannica of Northern Soul, and I am so glad that we did. Evie Sands is a Brooklyn-born singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career began as a young teenager in the mid-1960s. She was born and raised in Brooklyn to music-loving parents, and fulfilled sooner than expected her mother's intuition that, "this baby will come out singing". After cutting two singles on obscure labels (ABC 10458 - The Roll / My Dog -- 1963, and Gold 215 - Danny Boy, I Love You So / I Was Moved -- 1964), she signed to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Blue Cat Records in 1965, and her initial single was that year's Chip Taylor/Al Gorgoni-produced 'Take Me For A Little While'. Her follow-up single, 'I Can't Let Go', subsequently got lost amidst the post 'Take Me...' chaos, leaving Brit-invaders The Hollies clear to have a hit with a re-recorded version of the same song in the spring of 1966. That same year, Sands parted ways with Blue Cat, and moved to Cameo-Parkway Records, where she maintained her successful pairing with Chip Taylor, who penned her next single, the hotly-tipped "Angel of the Morning". However, once again, Sands was unfortunate, for a matter of weeks after its release, Cameo-Parkway went bust, allowing another version of the song, by Merilee Rush & The Turnabouts, to steal its thunder, topping the charts just months later. It was here at Cameo she recorded her legendary Northern Soul smash, "Picture Me Gone". In 1969, Sands moved to A&M Records, where she notched up her biggest hit, 'Any Way That You Want Me', another Chip Taylor composition. Incidentally, this track had earlier been recorded by The Troggs in 1966; they also had a hit with another Chip Taylor song, the altogether better-known "Wild Thing". Evie's album of the same name came out on A&M in 1970, several months after 'Any Way...' (the single) had peaked. It was followed by 'Estate of Mind' LP on Haven/Capitol Records in 1975, which was made up of ten Sands original songs. In late 1996, Sands went to see Chip Taylor perform at a club gig, and he invited her onstage to perform with him. Despite not having kept actively in touch through the previous years, the experience was so successful that the two reignited their collaboration, spawning the critically acclaimed 'Women In Prison' LP, which was released in 1999 (and again in 2000) on Taylor's Train Wreck records. A more rootsy project than the blue-eyed soul of her late 1960s-70s output, the album consisted of various Sands-Taylor-Gorgoni originals. We recorded and filmed her in 1999 singing her beautiful classic, and we found her utterly lovely and charming and felt privileged to film 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.
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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Lyrics: Run, Run away Close your mouth Don't you say Scared And all alone The door is closed Ain't no one's home More

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Lyrics: Run, Run away Close your mouth Don't you say Scared And all alone The door is closed Ain't no one's home You speek But no one hears Brace yourself Your darkest fears Your sick and twisted mind Has sought you out It's come to find She, she deserves a free ride She, she deserves a free ride She, she deserves a free ride Val, Don't you cry You ain't to blame Don't wonder why The sick and twisted mind Seacrh for peace For you shall find She, she deserves a free ride She, she deserves a free ride She, she deserves a free ride Artist: Black Label Society Album: Hangover Music Vol. VI Year: 2004 Title: She Deserves A Free Ride (Val's Song)
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