The Flirtations - Run For The Exit

This is one of the key songs from our album, "Disco 2008", which we released last December on Centre City Records and is still available to buy. These are the original Flirtations, Earnestine Pearce, Shirley Pearce, and Pearly Gates, who originally were the Gypsies. They have been together recording for forty four years and look just fabulous still, right up to this day. Pearly Gates, real name Vi Billups, has been a friend of mine for thirty years. The girls started out as the Gypsies on Old Town Records, a classic teenage girl group from New York, with the early sixties classics, "Jerk It", and the Northern Soul legendary classic "It's A Woman's World", before becoming The Flirtations, and emigrating to England. They had many hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including "Nothing But A Heartache", and another Northern Soul classic, "Need Your Love", on the Deram label. In the late seventies they disbanded, and I got to produce a whole album on Pearly, called "No Two Ways About It", during the classic disco era, an album for Music Business legend, Artie Mogul ,once he had left United Artists in 1979. But he reneged on the deal, and I never got paid, and the album never came out, till years later, when I started using the tracks on my Nightmare Gold series in 1986, and then eventually the tracks were all used on Hot Records 1995 CD release, "The Best Of Pearly Gates". In the meantime, the Flirtations, without Pearly, had reformed for Proto Records, for Barry Evangeli, with the high energy anthem, "Earthquake", which Ian Anthony Stephens produced. This lineup of The Flirtations then went to Passion Records, under Anne Plaxton, and I got to produce them on "Read All About It". And at the same time, Pearly herself did a solo track for a label called Funkin Marvellous, called "Action", which George Hargreaves produced, and this was a huge floorfilling classic, and one of the most popular High Energy records of the 1980s. Next, I myself produced her next single for that label, called "Third Time Lucky". Then Pearly rejoined the Flirtations, and all three original girls, Earnestine, Shirley, and Pearly, were back together once again. We then did a Flirtations single for Nightmare Records, called "Back On My Feet Again", and also a solo track with Pearly called "One Less Bell To Answer" . Finally we had so many tracks with Pearly that we completed the "Best Of Pearly Gates" album for Hot Productions. I have now known Pearly for thirty years, and yet she still looks thirty years old. Very few 1960s girl groups are still together, and ever fewer look like these fabulous three. My girls.

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Music

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• Disco-2008
• Disco
• Soul
• Motorcity
• Centre-City
• High-Energy
• Diva
• Girl-Groups
• Northern-Soul
• Female-Singers

[IanLevine]

Just WAIT till you see and hear their fabulous new version of "He's A Saint He's A Sinner".

Amazing !!!!!!!!!

[welder541]

Love their harmony, They still got it that's for sure:):):) Aging gracefully, Their all as Gorgeous today as they were in the 70's. Thanx really enjoyed this:):):):)

[groovechaser]

Bringing back the old Disco sound! I hope other producers and groups take notice. This sound is HOT!!!

[bfmsgv]

i fall in love over and over each time i see this

[000266617]

I belive they are back because people are crazy about Tina Turner and others who are bigger now than before. They still can give you a charge with their talented singing and choreography at a time when talented new comers aren't seen too much--if at all

[anaklai2]

Its so good to see these ladies still groovin' it. I've been listening to your collection and I think they're all so very very good. They lift me up and I can't help it but to get up and dance! Thank you for the music.

[mattagogo]

You go Flirtations!!

[IngerAnna]

Wow, they're back!

I bought a Flirtations LP in 1971, but unfortunately I have lost it.

[Didireallysaythat]

Who are these lady's? I have never ever heard of them before but they do have a very classy look about them. Were they out as a group around the same time as the Supremes?

[bfmsgv]

SWEET. TY Ian.

[BarbraAlejandro]

Proof That Talent & Great Voices Are Timeless & Ageless!!!!! A Great Track Off A Terrific Cd!!!!