The Tempos were Bobby Sanders' group, after already forming The Younghearts. This song, "Countdown Here I Come" epitomised the fast style of Northern Soul being played at Blackpool Mecca in the summer of 1973. Bobby found the original lead singer for us, Curtis, who sadly died two years after shooting this video. This video was filmed for me by my friend Chris Lalor, while he was in Los Angeles in early 1999. The shortest guy in the group is Bobby Sanders himself, one of Northern Soul's real characters, and the other guy is one of the original members who was also in The Younghearts. The song was such an iconic classic, that in 1984, Kev Roberts covered it with Kofi and The Lovetones, for his High Energy label called Electricity Records. I myself did the twelve inch mix for it. It was such a joy to get the original members back together for this one time only legendary performance, specially staged in a theatre in Los Angeles.
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