What a gem, and a current video posted by legendary Producer,Ian Levine. A while ago I posted about the period during the early 70's when Northern Soul was at its height, and companies like Pye were reissuing songs on its "Disco Demand" series, that led to many singers who had taken up ordinary jobs, finding that all of a sudden they were topping the charts in England.
Robert Knight was one of those singers. I remember first hearing "Love On A Mountain Top" probably in the late 60's, or 1970. It was one of those records that everybody had to have after it started being played, and I duly went up to Bews in Burslem to get my copy. It was several years later before it got into the Top 10 in the UK Pop Charts, and a rather bemused Robert Knight came over to perform it. In fact, he had been better known, to the extent he was known at all in the UK, for another record, which I'm also posting, and which was in turn better known for its cover version by the "Love Affair" - "Everlasting Love", which was a big Mod sound in the 1960's.
I'd also suggest checking out the extended version of the latter on Youtube.
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