Yet another album that I own purely for just one track, the Northern Soul classic and title track. A 7” of “Home Is Where The Heart Is” will cost you anything starting from £50 and upward these days, this album is a much more manageable option. The song itself is a tuff bit of 70’s Southern soul, aimed at the dancefloor and with Bobby growling “You can take the boy out of the country, But you can’t take the country out of the boy” in the intro. It was played as a new release on the Northern Soul scene back in 1976 and is still a regular spin at “oldies” nights today (Oldies on the Northern Soul scene meaning records that were played back in the 70’s, cos they’re all old ! At Newies nights they play newly discovered, but still old records, confused ?).

In all honesty I’ve no reason to listen to the rest of it ever again. Bobby is a legend in Soul music and I do like some of his 60’s output, particularly 1966 single “What Is This ?” and of course the quite wonderful “Across 110th Street” from 1972 movie of the same name (some of you may know it as it was also used in Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown”), but there is nothing else on this 1976 album to touch the title song, in fact it’s all a bit “Chocolate Salty Balls” if you get the reference.

Home Is Where The Heart Is - https://youtu.be/FlPr_0NQirs?si=zOA_u5bZwzHGQlIt