Skiing in the Snow

The song was then re-recorded a year later by American group The Invitations in a Black soul style, and released on Dynovoice Records (an alias of Dynovox) a year later. This version also failed to chart. The song was then forgotten and became 'rarer than a green dog', according to one source 'no one had actually seen a copy or heard it', and it was only 'rumoured to exist'. It is unclear whether it ever obtained any radio play at the time of its release. In the 1970s, this song was rediscovered by Ian Levine while in Miami and became an extremely popular dance track in Northern soul clubs in England, and was subsequently re-pressed in the UK unofficially. Even though the song was nominally about skiing, many of those in the clubs interpreted some of the lyrics as drug references, perhaps a reason for its popularity. The Invitations (at the time of the song's release) consisted of Roy Jolly (lead singer), Billy Morris, Robert Rivers, and Wilson 'Gary' Gant. The group also recorded 'What's Wrong With Me Baby', 'Written On The Wall', and 'Hallelujah', and was also used in the Northern soul subculture in the UK later on. == Wigan's Ovation version ==

In an attempt to capitalise on the song's popularity in the Northern soul subculture and 'put Northern soul on the music map for the industry', '[an] embarrassing novelty single', 'horrible', 'even worse than Footsee', 'annoying', 'our Vietnam flashback moment', and 'a fucking travesty'. as for many people this performance was their first encounter with the subculture which had previously been kept underground, many of those attending only recently becoming aware of the subculture through the television broadcast. The band had later hits with "Per-so-nal-ly" and "Super Love", reaching 38 and 41 in the UK chart respectively, however this did not stop the band splitting up in 1976. The band then reformed in 1977 and continued performing until the suicide of their manager in 1984. Chart performance == References ==