Barbara Pennington - All Time Loser

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Usually, I co-write my songs, but "All Time Loser" was one of a very small handful of songs which I wrote on my own, without any help or assistance from anyone else, and I wrote it exclusively for Barbara Pennington. I first discovered Barbara in 1975, and we were both so very young, while holding auditions in Chicago, arranged by Danny Leake, who I'd met the year before, in England, with his group, 100% Pure Poison. I CAN'T ERASE THE THOUGHTS OF YOU was one of our first two recordings. The following year, we had a number one for seven weeks on the US Disco Charts with "Twenty Four Hours A Day". My first record to cross over in America. Barbara had first signed to Island but our two releases didn't take off like Evelyn Thomas and L.J. Johnson's did, and I was determined to give her a showcase record for her talent. "Twenty Four Hours A Day" started off breaking on the Northern Soul scene, and resulted in Richard Searling being forbidden to play it any more at Wigan. But my mentor Martin Davis signed it to United Artists, and it came out in America and topped the US Disco Charts in Billboard in 1977 for a staggering seven weeks, and people today still tell me it was one of the biggest and most beloved records of the entire Disco era. Then in the Eighties, I got her signed to Record Shack. We did FAN THE FLAME and ON A CROWDED STREET. The latter song was one of the most beloved of the Record Shack classics, and Barbara's biggest pop hit in the UK. After the success of "Twenty Four Hours A Day", and her being known as one of the Queens of Disco, now she wanted to go smooth and sultry. This became a Soul Anthem in London along with "Fan the Flame" in the 1980s, especially plugged to death by Tony Blackburn on Radio London. It gave Record Shack a new direction in 1984, moving away from High Energy into more traditional soul, and people still remember the song to this day, thirty eight years later. This song was recorded in 1977 for her United Artists album, and was the A side of a 45 in 1978, which is now quite hard to find.