Deanne Keanne - I Feel The Earth Moving

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Deanne Keanne looks and sounds like Diana Ross, and used to make a living as a Diana Ross tribute act, just perfect for the music of Ian Levine. 1n 2008, Deanne had made a fabulous new version of my 1989 Motorcity classic, which finally became a pop hit in 1991, originally sung by an obscure early Motown artist called Frances Nero, who hadn't recorded for twenty three years, a wonderful song called "Footsteps Following Me", which came out on Motorcity Records before it was picked up by my best friend Ralph Tee for Debut Records. I first found Deanne in 2007, to record a song which I wrote with Damon Rochefort back in 1993 called "Right Place Wrong Time", which Soren Jensen kept telling me I should redo, and which ended up becoming the most outrageous video we have ever made. Deanne made her living as a Diana Ross impersonator, and had toured America and won awards. That song was written for an artist called Dee Jacobee, who was signed to Mercury. Dee was a wonderful Disco Diva but her records never came out. Fourteen years later, and Soren Jensen, when learning we were doing "Disco 2008", said we simply had to use that song and re-record it from scratch. I always pictured Diana Ross singing it, and the great lady has always been the artist I have most wanted to produce all my life. Well I might not be getting my wish, but Deanne came pretty damn close. So here's our third recording with her, "I Feel The Earth Moving". Her version of "Footsteps Following Me" reinvented the song with a new approach. Her version takes what was basically a great soul song that appealed to both Northern Soul and Disco audiences, and gives it new life. Deanne redid this particular song for the iconic album, "Yesterday And Tomorrow", which is probably the most dear to my heart project that I have ever undertaken. I decided after thirty three years since I made my very first record, "Reaching For The Best" by The Exciters, to take a trip back down memory lane and recut thirty of my classics on artists who I am currently working with, reinterpreting them in 2008 without losing the magic that made them special in the first place. It was a totally self indulgent project, but one which already had my fans salivating with delight. I first got the idea when I recut Evelyn Thomas's wonderful classic "Have A Little Faith In Me" with Ebony Alleyne, for Northern Soul 2007. These were new interpretations of the classics, by Centre City's current roster of artists, built up over what was then a thirty three year career of making records. And now it is almost forty eight years.