Louise Thomas - I Can Fly

This is one of the seminal high energy classics of the 1980s. It was also the biggest seller by far, out of the entire output of the Nightmare Records label. The song was first cut as a three minute track by Rainey, as part of an obscure film soundtrack. It got played at The Saint, in New York, and became a cult favourite. So we cut it with Louise and made a much longer extended version, which became a massive seller for us. It was also, by far and away, the biggest record for Louise Thomas, surpassing "Reflex Action", and was one of the most remembered High Energy classics of the Eighties. Louise was a young British black singer with a sweet but ballsy voice, who was discovered by Anne Plaxton at Passion, and had an early High Energy hit with "Feels Like Love". Then I got her signed to Red Bus and we had two big twelve inch singles, "Reflex Action", and "Cast Aside My Stubborn Pride". Then she signed to Nightmare Records with several singles, the biggest of which was "I Can Fly". After that, we did a "Best Of Louise Thomas" album with Hot Records in Miami. Possibly her best song, "I'll Be There To Love You" was written for her by me and Pamela Sheyne, before she became famous for writing Christine Aguilera's hits. Her earlier song, "Reflex Action", was an anthem during the peak of the whole High Energy boom. But it was this song that became her true floorfiller.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• High-Energy
• Disco
• Eighties
• Eurobeat
• Girl-Groups
• Diva
• Gay-Disco
• Record-Shack
• Nightmare

[mmckeefery]

I loved dancing to this song at the Saint. Isn't there a longer version? Thanks a million for posting this for us!

xxx,ooo

[ysindlaohm]

Louise Thomas has an exquisite voice. xxxx

[thomdancer]

superb :-) lifts the soul

[th3techhelper]

Wow, i cant believe she works at our school... GO MISS!

[Aaron4021]

nice one miss

[cherrymama1000]

Hi i love this song so much can anybody send me the videoclip and the mp3 version please would mean alot to me,im from the Netherlands and here we don't have it so if somebody can help me out please thank you

Cherry

[shreve99]

No kidding! I miss music that was happy and just fun to listen and dance to!

[pokahotness]

shes well nice in class she gives u sweets lol

[Sxcxtc4]

OMG!!! Miss Thomas!! She works at my school...woo!

i never knew she did stuff like this

suprized much?..yh!

[jackiedaniels]

lol this is good but cracks me up

[rawiswar55]

omg she taught me today at tmcs(8m1 rulez)

ps Blake loves Katy-this is from the gman

[RaWrZzZz]

its my favorite movie. :D gjwthf is the greatest!

[eyesoo7]

This takes me back to all those great aerobic classes - fab hi-nrg.

[bittch1234]

she works in my skl aswell!!!!!!!

[SiNGERCHi]

shes my supply teacherr

[gaylawyer32835]

Ok so the video is a bit dated, but the song is still cool. A more recent and much more peppy remix is on a gay pride CD and it just lifts me up every time I hear it!

[Jason1966]

Happy music - we meed more of this in 2008 !!! (this is from 1988)

[IanLevine]

Well said Maya - thankyou - I'm proud of you. The video is fun and far fetched.

[Maya1192]

by the way this song isnt in a film..and the whole point of the video is not to be real

[nrgfan105]

Since Ian posted all these great videos I have been playing all the classic Nightmare & Motorcity recordings.

[hot1996x]

BRILLIANT i love this song cause it's out of the film girls just want to have fun wich my mum bout in tesco 4 £1 and i realy injoyed it i would love to be in a musical of the film cause i love to dance and every time i here this song all i can do is dance !!!!!!!!! but i think that you should redo the vidio cause it doesent look real lol but i love the song :)

[nrgfan105]

One of my all time favourite HI-NRG records. It always reminds me of a great party I went to on New Years eve way back in 1988!

Great to finally see a video for this gem!

[Discoboy1974]

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[tony1uk2000]

NOT BAD,ALWAYS LIKED THIS TUNE,NICE!

[ianhow2478]

What a "Fabulous" start to a New Year with this "Classic" song and "Excellent" video! The excitement is building once again!