Tammi Lavette - No Frills Love

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Here is Tammi's fabulous version of the Jennifer Holiday, Disco High Energy classic from 1985, "No Frills Love". It came out on Rumour Records, Anne Plaxton's label. This video was filmed at the famous Syon House, so prominent in the history of King Henry VIII, five hundred years ago. I discovered Tammi 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 comes from New York but 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". You can find the video for that here on my YouTube channel. We also cut a song called "Too Much Too Late" with 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. I snatched up the song and did it with Tammi. That video can also be found here on my channel. We cut a whole album on Tammi, but it's never yet been released on CD although it is on iTunes.