If this Northern Soul classic sounds reminiscent of Motown there’s a good reason for that. Sidney Barnes learned his trade with the label.

Barnes was signed up by Berry Gordy back in 1963 when he was in a doo-wop group called The Serenaders, and became an in-house songwriter, producer and talent scout at Motown when the label opened a New York office.

By then he had already crossed paths with Marvin Gaye, Van McCoy and Herb Feemster of Peaches & Herb at high school. 

He has songwriting and production credits on more than 150 albums by artists including The Supremes, The Flirtations, The Jackson 5, The Shangri-Las and Muddy Waters, BB King and George Clinton, Parliament and Funkadelic.

He put this out as a solo single in 1966 on the Red Bird label, along with another called You’ll Always Be In Style – another future Northern Soul floor filler – before teaming up with Marshall Chess and joining the Chicago psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, where he shared vocal duties with Minnie Riperton.