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Sheila Ferguson - Fool Of The Year

This utterly fabulous, joyous, sassy, up tempo throwback to Seventies Disco, is the fifth song from our album "Disco 2008" to have a finished video here on YouTube. When we first filmed Sheila Ferguson, the most well known lead singer of The Three Degrees, for "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", I was awestruck by how young and glamorous she looked, especially remembering she first recorded way back in 1965. The Three Degrees were formed in 1963 by Richard Barrett and signed to Swan records. They were originally Fayette Pinckney, Linda Turner, and Shirley Poole. In 1966 Sheila Ferguson took over as lead singer, already an accomplished solo singer, with a song on Swan that was to become a Northern Soul favourite, "Heartbroken Memories" which you can find a video for on my YouTube channel. They then signed to Warner Brothers and recorded that wonderful song, "Contact", that became one of the favourites at Blackpool Mecca's legendary Highland Room. After Warner Bros, the act was then signed by Roulette Records and in 1970 scored their first major national hit, a top 5 remake of the Chantels' "Maybe." They followed later that year with the popular "You're the One," and landed a brief appearance singing in the Gene Hackman hit movie The French Connection. A major career move for the Three Degrees was their signing by Gamble & Huff's up-and-coming Philadelphia International Records in 1972. They made an immediate splash with the disco hit "Dirty Ol' Man" before joining with MFSB (the Philadelphia International house band) to record the Soul Train theme song "TSOP," which became an across-the-board No. 1 hit. They then followed that with what would become their signature song, the sophisticated ballad "When Will I See You Again," one of the greatest songs ever to come from Philadelphia, and the group's biggest international hit. The Three Degrees continued with moderate success at PIR before moving over to Epic Records in 1975 and then to Ariola. During the next decade their success in the U.S. was limited but they became bigger than ever in the U.K, where they continued to score with hits such as "Giving Up, Giving In" and "Woman In Love". Prince Charles proclaimed them his favourite group (they were guests at his wedding to Princess Diana) and they were consequently labelled by the British Press as "Charlie's Angels." Helen Scott rejoined the group (replacing Pinckney) in 1976, and the line-up of Scott, Ferguson and Holiday continued for a decade, when Sheila Ferguson finally left the group.