This Northern Soul classic is, as far as I know, the only single ever released by Lester Tipton, a one-miss wonder who met a tragic fate. No wonder they call it Rare Groove.

Lester began singing in church with his twin sister Leslie when they were children and went to the same school in Detroit as Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin.

In 1966, when he was just 17, he was signed for a session at a new local label, La Beat, and recorded this song, This Won’t Change (backed with Go On), written and produced by the label’s in-house team of Johnny Mills and Curtis Trusell.

It was not a hit but the twins soon found success in another branch of entertainment – as dancers on a local TV show called Robin Seymour’s Swinging Time.

Their talents won them national recognition when they were chosen to represent Detroit on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and the twins topped the grand finals in 1968, winning two Pontiac cars and a trip for their parents to Florida.

In another competition they won a trip to Hollywood and liked it there so much that they stayed on and appeared as dancers in various movies.

Lester still had hopes of a music career but after all his efforts to find a new record deal fell through, he finally gave up on his dream and went to New York to qualify as a hairdresser.

Returning to California to pursue his new career, he rented an apartment in downtown LA, where his sister Leslie found him battered to death in February 1982. He was only 33.

Police suggested robbery was the motive but Lester had few material possessions to steal: just a couple of rings and a wristwatch.

Today, though, original La Beat copies of his single – reissued three times in the UK as it became a Northern Soul floor filler – are as rare as hen’s teeth and can sell for upwards of £10,000.