Evelyn Thomas - Weak Spot

This was Evelyn's first ever recording at the tender age of just eighteen years old. It was recorded in the summer of 1975. I discovered Evelyn while holding auditions in Chicago, arranged by Danny Leake, who I'd met the year before, in England, with his group, 100% Pure Poison. In February 1976, this record, "Weak Spot" and a song by a young Chicago postman, L.J. Johnson, both charted in the same week, and both acts were flown over to appear on Top Of The Pops, both on the same show. The entire music business was flummoxed as to how two completely unknown young black singers from Chicago, who had never even recorded before, both had hits on entirely different labels in the same week as each other. It was a further eight years before Evelyn went on to record her classic, the seven million selling "High Energy"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Northern-Soul
• Chicago
• Blackpool-Mecca
• Diva
• Seventies

[rictic114]

i remember evelyn on totp oh wish i was that age again but i cant i am in my brain though

ian you havent got the exciters reaching for the best have you ?????

[IanLevine]

Oh how I wish. My greatest regret footage-wise is that it was never filmed. And it's way too late now.

[iGuy101]

Great classic soul track and for someone who was only 18 at the time she sang it with such confidence

[7DDuncan]

mecca classic.........

[mitchking2006]

Great song with a very classy vocal. Read an interview with Evelyn in Black Echoes in 1976 & bought this on the strength of the review. Saw her on TOTPs too. If only records/artists like this could chart today!

[soulfortoday]

bus to wigan lol ktf

[Azone01]

Evelyn Thomas wuz soooo fyne!!

[keepingthefaith72]

great sound always liked this track .. reminds me of The Ritz alldayers in Manchester

along with . Your magic put a spell on me ...both great tunes ..

KTF....

[dwilpower]

remeber buying this in 76- and watching her on totps!

[adrianfisher]

Great record!

The instrumental flip side "Dancing Is My Weak Spot" is a cracker too!

[rictic114]

shame that ian this stuff got me into the scene as a spotty young kid have a soft spot for it also evelyn & lj johnson from that time.

its the tunes i grew up i was only little then though still am :0)