Song of the Day 6/7: Chuck Wood, “Seven Days Too Long”

I like soul music on Fridays as much as the next guy, but sometimes I get tired of the same old songs. So I turn to Northern Soul, the British movement born in the ’70s that kept alive obscure ’60s singles that never made the charts in the U.S. when they were released. A lot of them are almost as good as the hits you know without sounding overplayed.

Chuck Wood was a soul singer from Tyler, Texas, who recorded several singles for various labels after moving to Los Angeles in the early ’60s. He recorded this energetic dance number for Roulette in 1967. Northern Soul DJs popularized it a decade later, and it shows up often in rankings of the genre’s best songs.