Tammi Lavette - One Sided Lover

"One Sided Lover" is one of the key songs from our album, "Northern Soul 2007" which was release back in September 2007. Th album consists of twenty four brand new 2007 songs by soul and disco legends, including Leee John, Gee Morris, The Flirtations, Voices With Soul, Ebony Alleyne, Noel McKoy, and lots of others. The work that we put into this project is quite staggering and I hope it will break down the barriers between the older Northern Soul stalwarts and a new generation, who need younger acts, who still produce the same vibe we all witnessed over forty years ago for Motown's glory years. Give new Northern Soul a chance this time. Tammi also sang that huge 1970's Northern Soul classic recorded by Bettye Swann on Atlantic, "Kiss My Love Goodbye", as great a Philly song as you could ever wish to hear. It had such a dreamy, timeless, smooth orchestrated feel, that I always planned to cut it on someone one day. When I first met Tammi in 1993, we cut a song called "My Heart Keeps Saying No", and I initially named her Tamla Tyrrell, which, on reflection, sounds quite nice in itself. But in the end we settled on Tammi Lavette. I discovered Tammi in time for the Blackpool Mecca Reunion in 1998, and we took her up there to perform on the Saturday night in the Highland Room in front of a thousand people. She comes from New York but lives in England, and at the Mecca, she performed "You Tore Apart My Broken Heart", and also sang the actual theme song for the massive DVD box set "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", a song called "Seven Days". You can find the video for that here on my YouTube channel. We also cut a song called "Too Much Too Late" with her, a song which was discovered by my mentor Chris Hill when he was head of Arista records. It was an obscure single in the early nineties by a group called Rufus Doors, a brother/sister act, but he left Arista before ever signing them. I snatched up the song and did it with Tammi. That video can also be found here on my channel. We cut a whole album on Tammi, but it's never yet been released on CD although it is on iTunes.