Ronnie Walker - Just What I Needed

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Ronnie put on his vocals in Philadelphia for this glorious Blackpool Mecca homage. This wonderful song is from my fantastic album "Northern Soul 2010". I grew very disheartened back in 2010 so I took a couple of years off. But now my videos have had well over thirty million views on YouTube and all my fans have been urging me to come back. So I did, with 48 brand new songs across two albums on Centre City Records. I pray people actually buy them, because letdowns like the ones in 2010 are very hard to overcome, and pick yourself up again. Here is where I most need and depend upon the fans. So here we have a new composition from my favorite Philadelphia legend, Ronnie Walker, one of the nicest men I have ever met in my entire career. Of course Ronnie was the early songwriting partner of Philadelphia legend Vince Montana, and my dear old friend Val Shiveley, one of Philadelphia's oldest record dealers, traced Ronnie for me, back in 1998, as, prior to that moment, no-one had ever tracked him down. He had an earlier Northern Soul smash called "You're The One", on Phillips Records, but it was "You Got To Try Harder", with its perfectly pitched, clear as a bell, falsetto, that really epitomised those mid Sixties nights in the Highland Room at the much beloved and missed Blackpool Mecca. Originally, back in Late 1998, that particular song was yet another legendary Northern Soul smash that we filmed for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". It was first recorded in 1974 and then we recut it in 1998 when we were filming our marathon six disc, twenty four hour massive documentary about the entire history of the Northern Soul scene, which contained 131 specially recorded performances of all the classics, and is still available on a six disc box set from Wienerworld. We had no lead for Ronnie for ages, but kept on looking, until, after much searching, we tracked him down to make these one and only one-time performances especially for us, for our ground breaking Encyclopedia Britannica of Northern Soul, and I am so glad that we did. Ronnie has done eight new songs across the various new albums.