One of the greatest slices of Sixties Detroit Soul ever put down onto vinyl. Tobi Lark , who was also know as Tobi Legend, was a mysterious singer who the Northern Soul Scene spent twenty years trying to find. We first knew her as Tobi Legend and never guessed, in all those years of searching every nook and cranny of the US recording industry, that this enigmatic mystery was really the famous Detroit soul singer, Tobi Lark, who recorded for many Detroit labels, especially Dave Hamilton's Topper label. We had filmed her and re-recorded her in early 1999, a few months before launching "The Strange World Of Northern Soul" at Blackburn in front of 1300 people. Of course it was her particular performance of "Time Will Pass You By", that brought the house down and got a standing ovation. I tried to get Tobi to come over in person to appear, but she didn't want to. It seems that this one time that we filmed her, by those glorious huge fountains, on the border of Detroit and Canada, was the only time we got to see this true legend. Dressed to kill and performing for posterity, I marvel that we were able to achieve what Wigan Casino spent nearly ten years unsuccessfully trying to do, to locate the lady herself, Tobi Legend. Here is her one time performance of "Happiness Is Here".
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