Evelyn Thomas - My Head's In The Stars

After twenty long years, the fabulous Evelyn Thomas and I are reunited again, to record three brand new 2008 songs, but the first thing we did was to go and film one of my all time favourite songs I ever cut with her, "My Head's In The Stars". I love this song so much that I recut it last year with Gee Morris, as one of my favourite songs from our album, "Yesterday And Tomorrow", which we released last March on Centre City Records and is still available to buy. This was the first song I ever co-wrote with Evelyn, and I still love it. And now we've done a deal with Wienerworld, a major music DVD company, and the same company who originally released our classic documentary "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", and we have now released the definitive DVD box set. A five disc set of 200 performances called "Northern Soul's Greatest 200 Floorfillers". And this wonderful classic thirty two year old song is part of it. What a joy to work again with my premier diva, Evelyn Thomas. I was also lucky enough to film the legendary and beautiful Evelyn Thomas singing all her old classics, virtually every single one, and already put "Doomsday", her second release which was recorded in the summer of 1975 in Chicago, and released in 1976, up on YouTube a few weeks ago. Two more of her classics, this one, and "Have A Little Faith In Me", both have videos appearing on the Wienerworld DVD set. I first discovered Evelyn while holding auditions in 1975 in Chicago, arranged by Danny Leake, who I'd met the year before, in England, with his group, 100% Pure Poison. In February 1976, Evelyn's first 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. Evelyn's second release, "Doomday" also hit the charts, debuting its first week at number 41, which in those days was a fair sized hit. It was a further eight years before Evelyn went on to record her classic, the seven million selling "High Energy" My biggest ever hit, made in 1984 for Record Shack Records, which sold seven million worldwide. How they ever went bust after that is a mystery, but I stepped in and rescued the whole catalogue from the liquidator. What a privilege to now have a video of this heartstopping song.

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• Northern-Soul
• Chicago
• Disco
• Blackpool-Mecca
• Motorcity
• Centre-City
• Girl-Groups
• Icon
• Classic
• Seventies
• Diva
• Dance
• Female

[onltrdr]

Thank you Ian for doing a video of this song and posting it here. I will always remember my girlfriend when this song came out in 1982(I think).

Again thanks.

[IanLevine]

It was actually 1976

[BarbraAlejandro]

Fabulous Song, Singer & VIDEO!!!!!!

[ianhow2478]

The sheer volume of talent on Ians site is "Breathtaking"!! Just listen to this vocal!!

[lordoid]

Wow...that's a great voice!

[redchalk]

Evelyn IS one of the best vocal stylists around-- this lady should have been a mega star in the 70s and 80s and she should be up there with the greats thank you Ian for Finding this fantstic voice

cliffie

[boneym22]

Oh yes much better presentation of a video this is great well done :) great to see her back.

[mos277]

very good voice

[LeatherbearPhilip]

A superb vocal from Evelyn. This track has always been a firm favourite of mine and now has the added video performance - fantastic.

[bobrofmad]

So Romantic...