Every day's a school day. A massive instrumental played on Northern
Soul dancefloors in the 70s (it may have been a Cleethorpes discovery as
it was very popular there and always synonymous with the Pier/Winter Gardens all-nighters) was a song called "The Night Of The Wolf" which was billed/released in 1975 as a single on Roulette under the pseudonym The Al Foster Band.
Saint Etienne group member and music journalist, Bob Stanley's Measured Mile label has just reissued it on 45 paired
with Act 1's "It’s The Same Old Story" under it's original guise Ivano Fossati "Tema Del Lupo" which was the original single title on Italian label Cetra in 1974.
It was initially an album track on a progressive rock album "Poco Prima Dell'Aurora" in 1973 which has been reissued several times over the years.
It's a bit of a Marmite tune but there is no denying that it was
incredibly popular back in the day when instrumentals were all the rage. Quite
what many of them have to do with soul music is debatable but it was all
about the beat! It was also a big New York disco sound.
Act 1 was a Spring Records studio group from Detroit who
later became Special Delivery. Their claim to fame (in the UK) was their
1974 single "Tom The Peeper" which made it to #40 on the UK pop chart.
However, it was several of their album cuts that got attention on the rare
soul scene, one of them being "It's The Same Old Story" along with "It Takes Both Of Us", "Goodbye Love (We're Through)"and a storming NS dancer "I Never Had a Love Like Yours". They released just four singles and one album, all on Spring, before
morphing into Special Delivery.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
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