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Hello.
My name is Ian Levine.
This is the official Ian Levine YouTube page.
I shall be posting up many videos of recordings I own over my thirty two year career of producing records. These will be of specific interest to anyone into Motown, Disco, Soul, High-Energy, and most particularly Northern Soul.

Please also go to my four different music business pages,

www.myspace.com/ian_levine

www.myspace.com/recordshackrec ords

www.myspace.com/tropicanaprodu ctions

www.myspace.com/motorcityrecor dings

where you will hear songs, see videos, and find out about my career.
If you like Soul or Disco or Motown, I promise you a rare treat that you won't find anywhere else on the web.
All you have to do is keep visiting all four pages, Ian Levine, Record Shack, Tropicana, and Motorcity, and keep clicking on the "View My Videos" icon, below the main pic on each page.
You never know what you might get to see there.
For thirty two years I have been producing records. I have had my name on over eighty UK hits, over forty produced by me and forty mixed by me.
I started out as a Northern Soul DJ and was starring at Blackpool Mecca's legendary Highland Room at the tender age of seventeen, and I made my first record, "Reaching For The Best" by The Exciters (although in the end, it was the second to be released, as "Love You Baby" ended up being released first) because I was frustrated at the lack of new releases containing the sound I loved, and the lack of Northern Soul in the pop charts.
I have always been controversial, and, to my sorrow, have attracted as much venom as I have praise.
I like to think that I mean well, but have little patience for people with whom I have nothing in common. If I ever appear rude it's simply because time is so precious and I never seem to have enough to achieve all I want to achieve.
I often feel frustration that, despite so many hits and winning a BRIT award, that old friends and work colleagues, like Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams, Take That, Boyzone, Hans Zimmer, John Reid, and my protege and cousin, Daniel Glatman, have all gone on to be far richer than I have. I put it down to my unbridled passion about what I do, and an unwillingness to be as flexible as some people might have liked.
I started collecting every British Motown release at fourteen years old, I started collecting every D.C. Comic at ten years old, and was hooked on Doctor Who from the first episode, and was even recording the audio and transcribing the plots within the first year of the show. I think it fair to say I have always been a collector and had a collector's mentality.

The pop hits that I have enjoyed, including Take That, The Pasadenas, Boyzone, Blue, etc etc, have all still been influenced by my own personal musical tastes. It is my belief that great music never goes away, it merely cycles around. The magic of Motown and Philly and Northern Soul, those spectacular rich jazz chords laid out across a sledgehammer beat, bring a wistfulness and poignancy to a life that wouldn't be worth living without music.
As the words of my all time favourite song that I ever wrote, "Without The Music" - "I won't last a day without the music, Nothing left to say without the music, how can I ever go on".
I like to write songs and create music that make you feel good. That make you smile. Music that reminds you of a summer day and a trip down to the beach, with the sun roof down, and suddenly everything feels great in the world, and for a temporary moment in time, all your worries are forgotten

ALL I ASK IS FOR THE CHANCE TO MAKE THE MUSIC I LOVE.

And I am thrilled that so many fans of the music that I have produced over thrity two years have finally found a way to reach me on here. My number one fan in Denmark, Soren, is compiling a complete list of every record I have ever produced.

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Date degli eventi
ven 21 mar 2008 21:00:00
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Three Hour Radio Special On Good Friday



This coming Friday, I shall be on Starpoint Radio for a three hour special with Simon White, discussing my entire career, playing some real exclusives, and being open and truthful and controversial. The music will be fabulous. Please join us from 9 till 12 at night and listen in. It's online at www.starpointradio.com
or you can get it on Sky as well.
It will be well worth a listen, plus we're premiering brand new songs from Tahira Jumah and Pamela Ivonne-Cole.
Please don't miss it.

And please don't forget to buy "Yesterday And Tomorrow" from Amazon.
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orangedave7| 17 maggio 2008
ian could you please put on youtube hoagy lands the next in line its my all time fav ta.
LeatherbearPhilip| 17 maggio 2008
Ian,

My sincere congratulations on reaching 2 million views.

And best wishes for the next million.

Philip.
AWN1957| 17 maggio 2008
Ian,
What a fantastic site, sad that it has taken me so long to find it.

In 74 in the highland room you played a track "Dave Mitchell & the screamers" "The Trip" and that was it I was hooked Northern became my life.

One day you will get the recognition you deserve, (mind you do have a sharp tonge so I can see how people are upset).

With the Trip did you import this or was it an IL production.

Thank you for this insight into you world.

Andrew
IanLevine| 09 maggio 2008
David, your comments inspire me.

Did you hear my new favourite ??
Nat Augustin - Love Is My Sanctuary

It's playing on my main MySpace page.

I can't put it up on YouTube yet until I shoot the video. But it will be going up, I promise.
BarbraAlejandro| 09 maggio 2008
Ian- I've Been Listening To Your Older Stuff As Well As Loving The New Songs From "Northern Soul 2008"....I Must Say I Don't Think Any Other Producer Has Brought Me More Joy!!!! I Wake Up Everyday Looking Forward To Hearing Your Music....YOU ARE THE BEST!! A Million Thanks For All You Have Done & Will Do!!!! Take Care-David
simonplloyd| 02 maggio 2008
Ian, what a joy it is to wake up on Saturday morning (Australian time) and have new songs of yours to listen to. The years just drop away and I'm making that Saturday morning pilgrimage to Record Shack to pick up your latest release. You must have hard-wired my brain back then - the craving never really went away. Keep spreading the joy.
tafsc| 01 maggio 2008
Hi Ian, just subscribed to you and I am now ploughing my way through your three hundred videos and what a pleasure!

John Reid And The Nightcrawlers - All Over The World just added this to my faves, The United Four - She's Putting You On, William Bell -- Happy, Rebecca Chandler - Second Hand Guy it's a feast!!!!

Just keep doing what you do mate and try not to listen to those who insist on knocking you, the music you have been responsible for brings pleasure to all.

Thank you.

Yours Simon Cuerden
barnsleyboy514| 26 aprile 2008
I remember you from the Mecca. Long time ago. Where have the years gone?
Keep up the good work Ian. I believe you mean well but I understand quite a few people blamed you for popularizing the northern scene back then.
It was an absolute joy to have been around in the early seventies and to have experienced the Mecca, the Casino and other great nighters.
I thought nothing lasted forever but the northern scene is still alive and vibrant. I moved on but many of my friends are still doing their thing every week up and down the country.

Anyway mate all the best, thanks for the memories and as Mr N.F Porter once sang......Keep on Keeping On.

Tom Brown
Barnsley.
nickyjukebox43| 21 aprile 2008
I listen to everything you have posted it's great, keep it going
IanLevine| 16 aprile 2008
Thanks Guy. But there was never any form of film or video of The Exciters singing "Reaching For The Best". In fact, until Tahira Jumah performed it for our video, there was no video ever made of that song.