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The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache 7" Vinyl ***RSD 2021 Exclusive***
Sold Date:
July 20, 2021
Start Date:
July 17, 2021
Final Price:
£35.00
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The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache’ b/w ‘Need Your Loving’. The 1969 Northern Soul classic re-released as a limited edition 7" single for RSD 2021.
The Flirtations were South Carolina trio Lestine Johnson with sisters
Ernestine and Shirley Pearce. They originally recorded for the Old Town
label as The Gypsies but despite a change of name and several changes of
label success eluded them. After winning a local talent contest in 1968
they packed their bags and headed for England, where they supported Tom
Jones and signed to Deram. ‘Nothing But A Heartache’ was their second
release for the label and while it failed to chart in the UK it reached
No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. The wonderful ‘Need Your
Loving’ would have remained an album track but requests from Northern
Soul clubs saw it finally released as a single in 1972. Until now
original UK copies of that original single have been extremely hard to
come by and have been in very high demand. Both sides were written by
the Deram ‘in house’ team of Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington, who
would have considerable chart success in the mid ‘70s with The Rubettes,
for whom they wrote the No. 1 hit ‘Sugar Baby Love’.
