Evelyn Thomas - A Million To One

The fabulous Evelyn Thomas and I are reunited again, with "A Million To One". What a joy to work again with my premier diva. I was also lucky enough to film the legendary and beautiful Evelyn Thomas singing all her old classics, virtually every single one. Two more of her classics, "My Head's In The Stars" and "Have A Little Faith In Me", both have videos appearing on my YouTube channel. 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, "Doomsday" also hit the charts, debuting its first week at No. 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. Evelyn and I recently teamed up again for the first time in twenty long years to write and record three brand new songs, and this is the second which was released, on "Northern Soul 2009".