"Are You Ready For This" was a great classic at Blackpool Mecca, championed by the late Les Cokell back in the very early days of the Highland Room, way back in 1971 and 1972, prior to the Torch opening. It still sounds great but has been much forgotten and neglected over the years. It was a piece of Motownesque joyful exuberance on the Smash label from 1966, that golden year, and as fine a piece of Northern Soul as you could ever wish to hear. We recut it in 1998 when we were filming our DVD documentary "The Strange World Of Northern Soul". In 1999, we tracked Jay down in Florida and filmed him, with a little help from Weldon Arthur McDougall III. He was more than happy to make this one and only one-time performance especially for us, for our ground breaking Encyclopedia Britannica of Northern Soul, and I am so glad that we did.

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