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1	–Sam Dees	Lonely For You Baby Written-By – Dees*, Crump*	2:46
2	–Gene Chandler	Nothing Can Stop Me Written-By – Mayfield*	2:55
3	–Betty Everett	Getting Mighty Crowded Written-By – McCoy*	2:11
4	–The Valentines	Breakaway Written-By – Cason*, Gayden*	2:30
5	–Don Thomas	Come On Train Written-By – Thomas*	3:16
6	–The Ad Libs	Nothing Worse Than Being Alone Written-By – Cobb*, McCoy*	2:40
7	–Sidney Barnes	I Hurt On The Other Side Written-By – Jackson*, Barnes*	2:57
8	–Little Richie	Just Another Heartache Written-By – Gilmore*, Jarvis*	2:42
9	–Fred Hughes	Don't Let Me Down Written-By – Hughes*	2:22
10	–The Inspirations	Touch Me, Hold Me, Kiss Me Written-By – Redd*, Crosby*, McCoy*	2:44
11	–Roscoe Robinson	That's Enough Written-By – Wildroot*	2:42
12	–Ann Sexton	You've Been Gone Too Long Written-By – Burton*, Lee*, Burton*	2:16
13	–Van McCoy	Sweet And Sexy Written-By – Cobb*, McCoy*	2:31
14	–The Falcons	I'm A Fool I Must Love You Written-By – Munro*	2:21
15	–Sam Fletcher	I'd Think It Over Twice Written-By – Berry*, Willingham*	2:32
16	–Jack Montgomery	Dearly Beloved Written-By – Mancha*, Jones*	2:40
17	–Marie Knight	That's No Way To Treat A Girl Written-By – Bruno*, Milllrose*	2:19
18	–The Ivories	Please Stay Written-By – Dorsey*	2:30
19	–Linda Jones	You Hit Me Like TNT Written-By – Kerr*, Harris*	2:16
20	–Stanley Mitchell	Get It Baby Written-By – Wylie*	2:32
21	–The Ohio Players*	Love Slipped Through My Fingers Written-By – Lewis*, Lewis*, Farmer*	2:25
22	–Gladys Knight & The Pips*	Stop And Get A Hold Of Myself Written-By – McCoy*	2:54
23	–The Showmen	The Wrong Girl Written-By – Johnson*	2:47
24	–Maxine Brown	One In A Million Written-By – Clark*	2:58
25	–Billy Thompson	Black Eyed Girl Written-By – Richards*, Dwellingham*	1:55
26	–Dee Clark	That's My Girl Written-By – Clark*	2:34
27	–The Masqueraders	Do You Love Me Baby Written-By – Moore*, Jones*, Wrightsil*	2:10
28	–Porgy & The Monarchs	That Girl Written-By – Kusik*, Randazzo*	2:03
29	–Johnny Maestro	I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture Written-By – Raleigh*, Barkan*	2:19
30	–Jimmy Radcliffe	Long After Tonight Is All Over Written-By – Bacharach/David*	2:29

Credits

• Compiled By, Liner Notes – John Reed

Notes

Northern Soul is that most rarefied of sounds, a primitive dance music scored from the very heart of the black America of the '60s. Today, in the CD age, where labels like Music Club offer a veritable library of archive music, it's difficult to appreciate the sense of adventure which permeated the original Northern Soul scene among DJ's and collectors trying to hunt down records like those on this album. New discoveries were 'covered up' with bogus credits to avoid detection, and dealers made frenzied busmans holiday trips to the U.S. where the Americans must have puzzled over this strange influx of earnest record buyers who'd go potty over what they deemed some crappy Motown spin-off.
Later, of course, this mentality, this thirst to devour new rarities, spread like wildfire through pop music, such that everyone from Madonna and Prince to Oasis have valuables to their name - and the scarcest Northern Soul 45s are now tagged at several thousand pounds apiece. So there's a definite sense of the pioneer about those enterprising characters who dug up the Northern Soul classics heard on "Cooler Shakers" back in the very late '60s and 1970s.

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