Frances Nero - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

Frances Nero won a talent contest in Detroit in 1965, won a year's recording contract with Motown, and released one single, "Keep On Loving Me", and then she left Motown and then recorded for Eddie Singleton's Shrine label, but those recordings never even came out, so she went twenty three years between releases. I wrote a very special song for her, which I adore, along with Ivy Jo Hunter, the man who wrote "Dancing In The Street", a song called "Footsteps Following Me". I loved her Motown classic, "Keep On Loving Me", so much that I was determined to find her, so put out a plea on a Detroit TV show and also in the Detroit papers, and she turned up because of this. Frances, amazingly, hadn't even recorded for twenty three years. "Footsteps" was the only Motorcity release to cross over to the charts. However, and much to Frances' constant annoyance to this present day, the deal for Motorcity was an exclusive one, and was frozen, with no more releases coming out, and the only way I freed up the entire catalogue was to waive all rights to royalties for Footsteps, so none of us made a penny off it. Sad. But still a wonderful record and a classic, especially thanks to Chris Hill, my mentor, who almost singlehandedly broke the record in the clubs. This is Frances' version of the Stevie Wonder classic and was filmed both in the studio in Detroit when she recorded it in March 1990, and also later that year performing it at our concert at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Motown
• Northern-Soul
• Detroit
• Motorcity
• Diva
• Girl-Groups
• Seventies
• Classic

[steveblast]

I love it.

[bobrofmad]

thank you so much for posting this wonderful

video,its really in my head now...

[stivelande]

Very beautiful voice.

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[aninapaytan66]

Thank you very much for posting it. It is a beautiful song!