He may have written a couple of songs that did well on the Northern circuit, but the music played in the soul clubs of England comes almost exclusively from America and is usually 60's to early 70's soul, mostly from small independant labels.
Edit: Just to clear up any possible misunderstanding about the term Northern Soul.
It's not a genre as such, but an adopted name used by soulies to describe a certain type of soul.
Dave Godin, a music journalist, first coined the phrase after visiting The Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester (Northern England) and wrote an article in Blues & Soul magazine about his experience.
He noticed a marked difference in the soul preferences of Southern England, where the soul music being played was smoother, as opposed to the uptempo and raw (and much rarer) soul being played in the North.
The dancing styles were markedly different too.
Hence the term Northern Soul.
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