Released back 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 have now released 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. Back in July 1999. when we launched "The Strange World Of Northern Soul" to an adoring audience of 1300 in Blackburn, I had tried every trick in the book to find Dean Parrish to film him singing "I'm On My Way" for the intro of our wonderful documentary. I knew his name was Phillip Anastasia, I knew his date of birth, I even knew who his old lawyer was, but I just could not find him in time. Years later, he surfaced, far too late for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul" but that loss is our gain, as here he is exclusively filmed especially for the new super-package on Wienerworld, "Northern Soul's Greatest 200 Floorfillers". This legendary song was the closing record every week at Wigan Casino, "I'm On My Way", which simply said it all. The record has been so beloved for over thirty years by the entire Northern Soul scene, and I am seriously proud to have filmed and re-recorded this wonderful performance of it, and I present it here on YouTube as a taster to encourage everyone to make an effort and buy the amazing 200 performances DVD set. The song was a piece of throaty blue-eyed-soul joyful exuberance on the Laurie label, from New York, released in 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.
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