Carol Jiani - Hit And Run Lover

This is the grand diva herself, with our version of her biggest ever gay anthem from 1981, "Hit And Run Lover", which was so popular when I was DJ'ing at heaven, and which we remade with her for our 1990s album on Record Shack. In 2007, Carol sang one of the key songs from our album, "Northern Soul 2007", which we released in September of that year, on Centre City Records and is still available to buy. And it reunited me with the dazzling and outrageous Carol Jiani, who I first produced for Record Shack Records. For anyone who doesn't know, Carol is an outrageous, larger than life, African singer, who moved to Montreal and had a huge hit with "Hit And Run Lover". For those who love facts her real name is Uchena Ikejiani. She then moved to England and signed to Record Shack to record "Vanity". After that I got her a deal with MCA records, and we released "Such A Joy Honey". Then came the song, "Turning My Back And Walking Away", which was to have been her second single for MCA, and was indeed recorded for them. But my old friend there, Dave Ambrose, left the company and Carol was dropped, and rather than be forced to release this single, they gave it back to us, so I rushed it out on the Nightmare Records label. After that, we ended up doing a whole album, "The Best Of Carol Jiani" for Hot Records in Miami, and we re-recorded "Hit And Run Lover" as well as a great version of the Dells' old soul classic, "Make Sure You Have Someone Who Loves You". Carol is a true Diva, she is still performing to this day, and in 2006 we made a brand new recording together, a version of France Joli's "Come To Me". But to this day, she is best known for this song.