Plainly 2020 has claimed its first soul casualty. Few particulars can be found, however it’s being reported on a number of music websites that Northern soul heroine LORRAINE CHANDLER has died.
Born in Detroit, a singer, songwriter and producer, Ms Chandler claimed Otis Williams of the Temptations as a detailed household good friend whereas percussionist Eddie “Bongo” Brown — a member of Motown Information’ famed studio crew the Funk Brothers — was her next-door neighbour. Inevitably due to this fact she was drawn to Motown the place Chandler finally met Jack Ashford, (recognized for his personal percussion work with the Funk Brothers) and collectively they penned ‘I am Gone,’ a 1966 single for singer Eddie Parker, earlier than Lorraine signed to Ashford’s Pied Piper manufacturing firm.
Her first single, Ashford and Mike Terry’s ‘What Can I Do,’ appeared on Jo Armstead’s Big label in 1966, turning into an area hit. Lorraine recorded lots extra materials for Pied Piper – most licensed to labels like RCA and Kapp whereas she additionally wrote quite a few songs together with her most well-known probably being Eddie Parker’s ‘Love You Child’, an enormous Northern soul favorite.
When Ashford relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles in 1976, Lorraine’s profession was placed on maintain until she was “rediscovred” by the Northern soul fraternity who took her to their collective coronary heart. A lot of her Pied Piper singles have been reissued and he or she toured continuously. Most of her work might be simply discovered on a collection of Jack Ashford/Pied Piper compilations issued by the UK’s Ace/Kent label.
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