Here's a track which, when I was a teenager I would never have described as Northern Soul. Since then I like to think that I have grown up, (possibly) become less blinkered and realised that all that nonsense about the tracks having to be 60s stompers was exactly that, nonsense and that there is room for the likes of Don't Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come in that broad church that is described as Northern Soul, a scene that can include the likes The Theme From Joe 90 or Nosmo King and other records vastly inferior to this recording by Bessie Banks.
Bessie Banks has featured here before with one of my all time twenty one favourite tracks, Go Now. Don't You Worry Baby is a completely different beast. Released in 1976, it is a baw hair away from disco and is probably more at home in the modern room than on Northern dance floors. It was however a mainstay in Colin Curtis' sets on a Saturday night in the Highland Room and if it was good enough for Mr Curtis then it is good enough for me. I just wish that Bessie Banks had been rather more prolific during her recording career as she has an absolutely amazing voice.
Bessie Banks - Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come
2 comments:
Pretty thin baw hair Drew! I go as far as to call this proto-Disco! The beats are interesting in that there are no breaks or fills and the hi-hats have that distinctive disco pattern. It's great!
Great stuff and agree 'Go Now'up there with the best....the Moodys version is not to shabby either.
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