Ian Levine's Top 40 No. 10 - Venicia Wilson - This Time I'm Loving You
- 6 years ago
Venicia Wilson - This Time I'm Loving You.
I first worked with Venicia Wilson (real name Kate Jackson), when we did a group called All Points Bulletin, with her then boyfriend, Steve Brookstein. We then tried her and Steve together on a version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". That led to me cutting this record, "This Time I'm Loving You", in 2000, which truly became a floorfilling Northern Soul monster, until people realised that it, like the Four Vandals, was not thirty years old. Consequently, no matter how good Venicia's next record was, the purists had already poisoned it. So "Further Down The Road" went unnoticed. One day that little gem will get appreciated for what it is - just as Sidney Barnes "Standing On Solid Ground" was scorned when new but discovered six years later. Venica Wilson was really Kate Jackson, former girlfriend of Steve Brookstein, and in my opinion, one of the greatest girl singers in the UK. She can sing rings around Mariah and Christina, and I have nothing but boundless admiration for her talent and her beauty. One day she will really get discovered, and so, hopefully, will her other records.
I first worked with Venicia Wilson (real name Kate Jackson), when we did a group called All Points Bulletin, with her then boyfriend, Steve Brookstein. We then tried her and Steve together on a version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". That led to me cutting this record, "This Time I'm Loving You", in 2000, which truly became a floorfilling Northern Soul monster, until people realised that it, like the Four Vandals, was not thirty years old. Consequently, no matter how good Venicia's next record was, the purists had already poisoned it. So "Further Down The Road" went unnoticed. One day that little gem will get appreciated for what it is - just as Sidney Barnes "Standing On Solid Ground" was scorned when new but discovered six years later. Venica Wilson was really Kate Jackson, former girlfriend of Steve Brookstein, and in my opinion, one of the greatest girl singers in the UK. She can sing rings around Mariah and Christina, and I have nothing but boundless admiration for her talent and her beauty. One day she will really get discovered, and so, hopefully, will her other records.