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Bell 🔷 12006 Germany 🔷 Reparata And The Delrons 🔷 Panic & Saturday Night Didn't Happen 🔷 1968
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Classic Northern Soul in one of it's least seen formats. A listing for those collectors who seek out, Northern Soul anthem in their least seen clothes.
Cross-checking our database, we have not stocked this variation for nearly 30 years, this comes comes complete with it super-rare BELL MALA AMY sleeve (see image) a most desirable format.
A record that will transport all of us mid-century born soulies, back to a time when not only gymnastic Northern Soul challenged our dancing abilities at the weekend but also motivated the NS record collectors to go digging through the local second-hand shops, market stalls, record store cut-out bins every chance they had. I know because I was one of those hopefuls, that thought a copy of "Panic" would come my way, as only 2 months earlier this Brooklyn girl-group trio had broken into the UK charts with "Captain Of Your Ship", but that fleeting success would never repeated itself; as all their other UK Bell releases fell into obscurity with no airplay or sales.
Oh those wonder-years when Reparata and the Delrons - Panic - hit you with that unforgettable Cynthia Payne "whiplash effect" intro, that lifted it up to become a Wigan Casino anthem, underlined when it was included as part of the club's 5th Anniversary EP on "Casino Classics" label in 1978. Unfortunately rewriting history when the label's Billboard advert for the song stated "Wigan Casino" was the place where "Northern Soul" BEGAN, oh really!
This 1968 "Panic - Bell 12000 Germany" press is actually rarer than its British counterpart. and with its "Pop-Art" mod sleeve - dare we say "Prettier?
Way off the mark of course, by a decade at least but it was "Wigan Casino" that certainly accelerated the Northern Soul scene from an underground "secret society" into a stampeding commercial movement encompassing most all British teenagers of the era. With your friends attending at least one Northern Soul club in their youth.
For most NS fansWigan Casino was that first stepping stone for so many, and Northern Soul was becoming a massive countrywide youth culture. Validated by the reportedly huge record sales for "Casino Classics" of 50,000 upon release nudging the UK top 10 in the charts.
Forgetting that commercial nonsense, before you today is a proper collectors item. That catapults you "back the Northern Soul future", that mapped your musical taste and your way of life the moment you stepped into a Northern Soul event. Life changing music, those whiplash sound effects, becoming the unforgettable prelude to dancefloor antics.
Immediately as those uniquely presented whip-lashes, uplifting dance pulses kick in; and of course the visual yearning, as that beautiful vinyl and sleeve artwork, beams back at you, a vista that always reminds us youngsters of the record hunting daydreams you had during those golden times of early 70's Northern Soul wonderment!
Condition Report
Two clean, totally unblemished rich dark-blue labels, no fade. full gloss mint minus vinyl, a beauty housed in very rare German BELL MALA AMY sleeve company sleeve, a beauty!
Detail
Artist: Reparata And The Delrons
A Side: Panic
B Side: Saturday Night Didn't Happen
Label: Bell
Format: 7"
Year: 1968
Country: Germany
Condition Grading
Vinyl Condition: M-
Label Condition: M-
Sleeve Condition: Rare German Picture/Company Sleeve
Auction Settings
Current Bid: £0.00
Reserve: £1.00
Increment: £15.00
End Date: 05/08/2026 18:00 UK TIME
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