• Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come (Limited Edition 7" Vinyl)

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  DON'T YOU WORRY BABY THE BEST IS YET TO COME
  LIMITED 7” RELEASED TODAY:
  
  First issued back in 2015, as a limited 12” vinyl run of 500 on Super Weird Substance, ‘Don’t You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come’ by The Reynolds has subsequently become a much sought after record with Modern Soul enthusiasts, copies changing hands at over £100.
  
  It was Soul legend, Colin Curtis, who suggested, at last year’s We Out Here festival, that a 7” pressing may be timely. Colin’s connection with the track goes back to Blackpool Mecca in ‘70s, where the Bessie Banks original, never issued in the UK, was a cult-classic.
  
  By playing ‘70s Soul & Disco alongside ‘60s Soul rarities, the Mecca was at the centre of the famous Northern Soul schism, putting them at odds with the Wigan Casino. The Mecca operated during normal club hours, closing at 2am, whereas the Casino was an all-nighter from 2am-8am – a number of people would leave the Mecca around 1am to get to the Casino for opening. This led to the final hour at the Mecca becoming more experimental, and compilation albums have been made, focusing purely on records that became popular there during this timeframe – ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ being one, a Colin Curtis special.
  
  It’s such an obscure track that – unless you were there in Blackpool in ’76, it’s unlikely you’d have ever have known it, having never been issued in the UK. Bessie Banks is best-known for her early ‘60s hit ‘Go Now!’ – later covered by the Moody Blues, gifting them their breakthrough hit.
  
  Written by legendary songwriter/producer, Clyde Otis, with Banks’ husband of the time, Herman Kelly – legendary in hip-hop circles for ‘Dance To The Drummer’s Beat’ and its heavily sampled break, which was released in 1978, two years after ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’.
  
  The Reynolds are Merseyside twins, Carmel & Katherine Reynolds, who worked across various projects on the label. Katherine takes the lead on this track, and handles it like a veteran, her vocal elegantly gliding the groove. The recording was made in collaboration with Wolverhampton DJ/musician Peza, who programmed and co-mixed the track.
  
  
  Listen to full 7" here:
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