Nolan Chance
Just Like The Weather / Don't Use Me
Constellation : C 161 DJ
Detail
- Artist: Nolan Chance
- A Side: Just Like The Weather
- B Side: Don't Use Me
- Label: Constellation
- Format: 45s
Condition
Description
Description
Some records have the power to transport you back decades to the very best of times - to your "golden years" of Northern Soul when everything was fresh, leaving the young soul-teener hankering for the weekend to arrive, in near unbearable anticipation to hear what newly-harvested Soul dance tunes had been gathered up by our heroic DJs at The Catacombs, The Golden Torch or the Highland Room at the "Blackpool Mecca". Every week there's was an avalanche of "new sounds" reverberating through your brain, some of them so darn good, they instantly became your "fave of the month" or in some cases a "record that changed the course of your life!!"
In 1973, to me this tune, was delivered by a demi-God from the confines of that tiny DJ closet peering out onto the condensation-showered rain-forest of the "The Catacombs" dancefloor. Those soaring girl choruses sending the hairs on the back of my neck erect triggering tingling sensations down my spine, Nolan served us with his beseeching adulation for his love for his girl, is split in two by the most inspiring saxophone break break I'd ever heard.
This tune had EVERYTHING!! Every note firmly affixed in your brain until something came along to topple it from its perch.
The combined genius Richard Parker and Bunky Bill Sheppard created quintessential Northern Soul a real deal creation, that seldom leaves the confines of the lovingly compiled Northern Soul collection, that has taken many most of their life to amass. It is a record that most would rather take to the grave than sell.
We think the sound file attached will say all about the magical powers it has, capable of catapulting the "Old-School" back to their finest of Northern Soul times... you can of course insert your own personal superlatives, to describe what Nolan means to you; for what is unquestionably one of Northern Soul greatest ever classics. A record I've certainly never tired of hearing or Dad-dancing to.
A top drawer NS anthem this certainly is but do not overlook Bunky Bill Sheppard's penchant for the moody Northern Soul wailer hidden away on the flipside, "Don't Use Me" has all the credentials to pleasure today's Northern Soul allniter. Drenched in Chicago horns, squealing girls and whirling Hammond... surely some enterprising NS Jock will turn it over, and give birth to possibly another Nolan Chance monster..
A NS anthem to own, cherish and love... forever. A flipside to turn heads, trigger questions and shock a dancefloor into action, killer revival tune.
Condition Report
Two totally clean WHITE PROMO labels, see images. Strong gloss on vinyl, a-side reveals a few soft surface blemishes under light, a strong clean excellent! The flipside the recently made turntable favourite by those NS Jocks digging deep for the tunes we missed first time round "Don't Use Me" is mint minus. We have "averaged" out the condition to EX+.A Side
- Title: Just Like The Weather
- Title: Don't Use Me
B Side
- Year: 1965
- City: Chicago, Illinois