This song, "Lucky To Be Loved By You", was one of my earliest Northern Soul discoveries as a teenager. I bought it in 1970 in a shop in Miami, and took it to Les Cokell at the Twisted Wheel. No-one had ever heard of Emanuel Lasky back then on the embryonic Northern Soul scene, and then, early on at Blackpool Mecca, we discovered "I'm A Peace Lovjng Man" and "I've Got To Run For My Life". When I did Motorcity in 1989, Emanuel had agreed to be the lead singer of the newly reformed Lovetones, but changed his mind at the last minute, handing it over to Buford Glanton. Anyway, in 2006, I was none too happy when reading Detroit fan Rob Moss's musings after Emanuel's death, bemoaning the fact that no-one ever filmed him, when he knew full well that we had done so for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". I guess this will always be the cross I have to bear with these purists and so called Soul Police!!!! So, back on track, this record first broke in 1970 at the legendary Twisted Wheel in Manchester. It was a piece of Motownesque joyful exuberance on the Wild Deuce label from 1965, that golden year, and as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. In 1998, we tracked Emanuel down and filmed him in his house in Detroit, and this time he was more than happy to work with me, to make this one and only 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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