This is it - the grand diva herself performing what has been acclaimed by many, as the greatest Northern Soul song of all time in the history of the genre and one of the famous "three before eight" at the legendary Wigan Casino. The popularity of this song was so massive that Pete Waterman even covered it with Kylie Minogue singing in the 1980s. Anyway, we had filmed Tobi 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. And of course it was this particular performance 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 know. 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 mysterious and enigmatic Tobi Legend herself, and getting her, just one time and one time only, to perform this true classic.
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