<P> Released on the Disco Demand label in late 1974, the remixed and overdubbed record reached the UK chart in January 1975 . The B - side was a true Northern soul favourite, "Seven Days Too Long" by Chuck Wood . When "Footsee" was featured on BBC Television's Top of the Pops, dancers from the Wigan Casino gave a demonstration of the Northern Soul style of dancing, in the absence of a real group to promote the record . </P> <P> Music journalist, Stuart Maconie, described the record as an "embarrassing novelty" and "execrable" in his autobiography, Cider With Roadies . </P>

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