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<\/div>As northern soul grew in popularity, more and more of the scene\u2019s defining singles started to be reissued, and many of them ended up breaking into the mainstream pop charts. One of the very first was Gene Chandler\u2019s \u2018Nothing Can Stop Me\u2019, originally released on Constellation Records in 1965, but reissued by Soul City \u2013 the shop and label reportedly responsible for coining the term \u2018northern soul\u2019 in the first place \u2013 three years later, in 1968. The original release might have been a flop, but its reissue reached a commendable 41 in the UK singles chart that year.<\/p>\n
Northern soul reissues reached their peak in the early to mid-1970s, though, with Motown Records particularly adept at capitalising on the success of the scene. After all, Berry Gordy had bought up a lot of the labels that northern soul fans were obsessed with, including the likes of Ric-Tic and Golden World Records, so reissuing tracks like The San Remo Golden Strings\u2019 \u2018Festival Time\u2019, R Dean Taylor\u2019s \u2018There\u2019s A Ghost In My House\u2019, or Frankie Valli\u2019s \u2018The Night\u2019, was something of an inevitably.<\/p>\n
All of the above tracks entered the pop charts as a result, the highest-charting entry being \u2018There\u2019s A Ghost In My House\u2019, reaching number three in May 1974.<\/p>\n
Multiple other northern soul classics entered the charts around the same time, with Chuck Wood\u2019s \u2018Seven Days Too Long\u2019 and the Dean Parrish classic \u2018I\u2019m On My Way\u2019 being two notable examples, but the only number-one single ever garnered from that deluge of reissues came from the unlikely source of The Tams and their 1964 single \u2018Hey Girl Don\u2019t Bother Me\u2019, which topped the charts for three weeks in 1971, only displaced by Rod Stewart\u2019s \u2018Maggie May\u2019.<\/p>\n
Although the fact that this collection of reissues became mainstream pop hits exists in defiance of northern soul\u2019s original mantra of obscurity, their success did reflect just how popular and widespread the northern soul scene had become by the mid-1970s. And after all, even the most puritan of soulies cannot deny the footstomping brilliance of a hit like \u2018Seven Days Too Long\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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