Northern Soul Dancing - VENICIA WILSON - THIS TIME I'M LOVING YOU

Ian Levine wrote about the tune in a late 2001 "rarest of the rare" This is my biggest floorfiller of the moment, and the record I paid the most for in my whole life. Probably white I'd guess, but almost up to Sandi Sheldon standard for pure Northern Soul, this is the kind of discovery people thought we'd never ever turn up again, and yet, larger than life, here it is. It's basically a female version of an awful pop record on Jamie by Peter Hamilton called "Hey Girl". The lyrics are similar but different in places, the backing track is similar but different in places, and whereas the gimmick on the Peter Hamilton version is that it keeps jumping up a key, doing it four times through the song, this one doesn't, and only modulates once after the big instrumental in the middle. It's got the kitchen sink thrown in... huge strings, big brass, and the most stomping sixties beatsince Nancy Sinatra made "These Boots Are Made For Walking". So while not truly an actual soul record, in fact the song is a bit like "Downtown", it's easily the BIGGEST Wigan Casino stomper that NEVER was. Despite that I love it to bits. It reigns supreme, and everyone wants it, even dyed-in-the-wool old Pete Smith.