Tammi Lavette - Dear Lover

2018-05-01 12

This is Tammi singing that oh so wonderful Mary Wells song. My dear friend Sonny Sanders, one of the original Satintones, wrote for her. It had such a dreamy, timeless, fingersnapping lilt, that I always planned to cut it with someone one day. 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". She also sang the actual theme song for my massive documentary "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", a song called "Seven Days". The video can be found 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 seen on here too. We cut a whole album on Tammi, but it's never yet been released on CD although it is on iTunes.