Pearly Gates: Third Time Lucky Compilation (1987 95)
I was pleased to see the reactions to my previous post about my friend Pearly Gates, so here is the third volume of her records. Third Time Lucky, incidentally her third single on the Funkin Marvellous label (1987), followed by a HiNRG cover of The 5th Dimension s One Less Bell To Answer on Ian Levine s Nightmarelabel in 1989. In the mid90s Miamibased Hot Productions rereleased most of Ian Levine s immense back catalogue, and Pearly s shelved disco album from 1979 was packaged with these two 1980s singles and six new recordings (including a rerecording of Action) which Pearly had to learn and record in just one single day She has vivid memories of that long day in the studio. The new songs included Thrill In Me written by Ian Levine and former Motownartist Billy Griffin of The Miracles, who had also written Take That s hit I Found Heaven a few years before. Angel and Nothing I Can Do were written by Levine and Nightcrawlers lead singer John Reid (later a prolific songwrite
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