Evelyn Thomas - Thanks For Being There

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This is Evelyn's only 45 on the Casablanca label. I wrote the lyrics of the song for my Mother who had supported me through thick and thin. I signed Evelyn in 1975 and her first release was "Weak Spot",which charted at number 26 in the UK Top 40. That was Evelyn's first ever recording at the tender age of just eighteen years old. It was recorded in the summer of 1975. I discovered Evelyn while holding auditions in Chicago, arranged by Danny Leake, who I'd met the year before, in England, with his group, 100% Pure Poison. In February 1976, that 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. It was a further eight years before Evelyn went on to record her classic, the seven million selling "High Energy". But in 1977 she released an album "I WANNA MAKE IT ON MY OWN" on the Casablanca label, the first of her four albums. Her Casablanca album was premiered at the legendary Flamingo Club in Manhattan.