Tammi Lavette - Time Marches On

Tammi takes the old Northern Soul classic by Lainie Hill, and totally makes it her own. This was one one of the earliest songs I recorded with Tammi Lavette, way back in 1998, when she was a teenager. We called her Tamla Tyrell initially. My fabulous Tammi performed at the Blackpool Mecca Reunion in 1998 and wowed everyone, and we filmed her there singing "You Tore Apart My Broken Heart", and the video of that song captures it for posterity. Although Tammi was so very young when I first discovered her, I have watched her blossom into the most fabulous soul diva.. Her version of "No Way Out" is my favourite track off my album "Yesterday And Tomorrow". Tammi also sang that huge 1970s 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. And also she tackled Barbara Acklin's timeless classic "Am I The Same Girl", all of which can be seen here on YouTube. Tammi Lavette's real name was Tamla Dhani, and when I first met her in 1993, we cut a wonderful 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. But I discovered her 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 was actually born in Africa, but from the age of four, she spent most of her life in New York, but now 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", and the video for that can also be seen on here. We also cut a song called "Too Much Too Late" on 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, so I snatched up the song and did it on Tammi. That video can also be seen on here too. We cut a whole album on Tammi, but it's never yet been released on CD although it is on iTunes.

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• Motorcity
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• Diva
• Sixties
• Classic
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• Uptempo
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[jimmy96469]

good sounds ian & tammi.

[bobrofmad]

well done Tammi !! xxxxxxxx

[brindlog]

this is a wonderful version,well done ian!!

[BarbraAlejandro]

Love This Version & You Know I Love Tammi!!! Great To See The Video After Listening To The Song So Often!!! Thanks Ian....HUGS-David