Various - Cooler Shakers! 30 Northern Soul Floorstompers (CD, Comp)

Brand new sealed copy! (As a result, cannot confirm runout)

Northern Soul is that most rarefied of sounds, a primitive dance music scored from the very heart of the black America of the '60s. Today, in the CD age, where labels like Music Club offer a veritable library of archive music, it's difficult to appreciate the sense of adventure which permeated the original Northern Soul scene among DJ's and collectors trying to hunt down records like those on this album. New discoveries were 'covered up' with bogus credits to avoid detection, and dealers made frenzied busmans holiday trips to the U.S. where the Americans must have puzzled over this strange influx of earnest record buyers who'd go potty over what they deemed some crappy Motown spin-off.
Later, of course, this mentality, this thirst to devour new rarities, spread like wildfire through pop music, such that everyone from Madonna and Prince to Oasis have valuables to their name - and the scarcest Northern Soul 45s are now tagged at several thousand pounds apiece. So there's a definite sense of the pioneer about those enterprising characters who dug up the Northern Soul classics heard on "Cooler Shakers" back in the very late '60s and 1970s.

Media Condition:  Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country:    UK  
Released:  1997
Genre:       Funk / Soul
Style:         Soul

Track listing:

1. Sam Dees - Lonely For You Baby 2:46
2. Gene Chandler - Nothing Can Stop Me 2:55
3. Betty Everett - Getting Mighty Crowded 2:11
4. The Valentines (12) - Breakaway 2:30
5. Don Thomas - Come On Train 3:16
6. The Ad Libs - Nothing Worse Than Being Alone 2:40
7. Sidney Barnes - I Hurt On The Other Side 2:57
8. Little Richie - Just Another Heartache 2:42
9. Fred Hughes - Don't Let Me Down 2:22
10. The Inspirations (4) - Touch Me, Hold Me, Kiss Me 2:44
11. Roscoe Robinson - That's Enough 2:42
12. Ann Sexton - You've Been Gone Too Long 2:16
13. Van McCoy - Sweet And Sexy 2:31
14. The Falcons - I'm A Fool I Must Love You 2:21
15. Sam Fletcher - I'd Think It Over Twice 2:32
16. Jack Montgomery - Dearly Beloved 2:40
17. Marie Knight - That's No Way To Treat A Girl 2:19
18. The Ivories - Please Stay 2:30
19. Linda Jones - You Hit Me Like TNT 2:16
20. Stanley Mitchell - Get It Baby 2:32
21. Ohio Players - Love Slipped Through My Fingers 2:25
22. Gladys Knight And The Pips - Stop And Get A Hold Of Myself 2:54
23. The Showmen - The Wrong Girl 2:47
24. Maxine Brown - One In A Million 2:58
25. Billy Thompson (2) - Black Eyed Girl 1:55
26. Dee Clark - That's My Girl 2:34
27. The Masqueraders - Do You Love Me Baby 2:10
28. Porgy & The Monarchs - That Girl 2:03
29. Johnny Maestro - I'm Stepping Out Of The Picture 2:19
30. Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over 2:29