L.J. Johnson - You Keep My Temperature Rising

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L.J. Johnson was a Chicago postman who I signed in 1975, forty seven years ago. Immediately after my first hit with "Reaching For The Best", I wanted to find my own new artists, so in July 1975 I went to Chicago and stayed with Danny Leake and discovered three - Evelyn Thomas, Barbara Pennington, and L.J. Johnson. Recording brand new songs with a Northern Soul flavour, my first two attempts both entered the top 30 simultaneously, and Evelyn Thomas, with "Weak Spot", and L.J. Johnson, with this song, "Your Magic Put A Spell On Me", both appeared on Top Of The Pops in the same week, in February 1976. Imagine a twenty two year old DJ, a newcomer to record production, who tried to make some new records and had two artists on Top Of The Pops in the same week. It still amazes me. Mercury Records requested an entire album, to be recorded in Chicago in April 1976. YOU KEEP MY TEMPERATURE RISING was one of the tracks, and although not released in England, it was a very rare USA 45 in 1976. Northern Soul DJ Mark Freeman adores it. It was played cover over at Wigan Casino so nobody ever even knew that it was one of my records. Paul David Wilson's string arrangements are just stunning.