Heaven Is Wherever You Are

by The Exciters

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    Tracklist
    A1 Heaven Is Wherever You Are 5:12
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine

    A2 You're Gonna Make Me Love You 3:11
    Written-By – Van McCoy

    A3 Swallow Your Pride 3:18
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine

    A4 Love You Baby 3:12
    Written-By – Lewis*, Ashford*, Coleman*

    B1 Take A Look Back Through History
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine
    4:12
    B2 Reaching For The Best 3:10
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine

    B3 It's The End Of The Storm 3:35
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine

    B4 Suffering 3:55
    Written-By – Herb Rooney

    B5 Heaven Heaven Heaven 5:12
    Written-By – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine



    Credits
    Arranged By – Denzil Miller (tracks: A2, A4, B2, B4), Paul David Wilson (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3, B5)
    Lead Vocals - Brenda Reid, Herb Rooney
    Backing Vocals – Barbra Martin, Evelyn Thomas, Herb Rooney, The Belairs, The Ellington Sisters
    Bass – Johnny Miller, Larry Brown
    Drums – Jimmy Young, Skip McPhee
    Engineer – Charlie Conrad, Jeff Kalawick
    Guitar – Stanley Lucas*, Tom Murray (6)
    Keyboards – Denzil Miller, Patrick Adams, Paul Griffin
    Album Concept By – Ian Levine
    Percussion – Patrick Adams, Stan Lucas, Steve Kroon
    Producer – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine
    Strings, Horns Contracted By – Elliott Rossoff*
    Vibes – Denzil Miller, Patrick Adams, Paul Griffin

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Heaven Is Wherever You Are 05:14
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You're Gonna Make Me Love You 03:08
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Swallow Your Pride 03:17
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Love You Baby 03:06
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Take A Look Back Through History 04:15
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Reaching For The Best 03:13
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It's The End Of The Storm 03:40
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Suffering 05:27
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Heaven Heaven Heaven 05:15
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about

Ian Levine's very first recording project. Ian Levine was a young DJ who became famous for the whole Northern Soul phenomenon in the UK in the early 70s, and it lead him wanting to record new Northern Soul-style tunes for this market. He managed to find a guy who believed enough in Ian to give him a budget to record 4 songs on US soul group The Exciters that Levine had previously met in England.

Levine flew to New York in February 1975. The first song he ever recorded was his own composition, Reaching For The Best.

Said Levine: "Bob Relf had previously recorded this hugefloor-filling record, called “Blowing My Mind to Pieces.” And so (another Northern Soul DJ) Simon Soussan put out this record sales list, containing Bob Relf and a song called “Reaching For The Best’”, declaring it to be even better than “Blowing My Mind To Pieces”, but the catch was that there was only just the one copy available, costing £35. At the bottom of the list it clearly stated the following words, “You must state alternatives because there are no refunds if your first choice is not available.” So obviously everybody wanted this Bob Relf record. But it didn’t even exist. He had totally made the entire title up. It was a cynical scam, just to get people to send their money in, and once they had done so, he would give them any old rubbish that he had lying around, as a replacement. So I thought "Destroy you,” and I called my first ever recording Reaching for the Best by the
Exciters."

While Love You Baby would be Levine's very first single to be released (May 1975), Reaching For The Best hit #31 in the UK charts in September 1975 and Levine got the green light to record another four tracks on the group. He flew back in November 1975 to record these and complete the album. Three more singles followed, You're Gonna Make Me Love You (a cover of Sandi Sheldon's Northern Soul anthem) in November 1975, Suffering February 1976, and Swallow Your Pride in June that year, but none of them could repeat the success of Reaching For The Best.

Levine re-recorded the song with original lead singer Brenda Reid for his Nightmare label in 1988, a new song Disintegrated came out on the Passion label in 1991, and an additional three new tracks in 1992. The tracks remained unreleased for another 3 years until they were released on the Hot Productions compilation The Best Of The Exciters.

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released September 1, 1976

Credits
Arranged By – Denzil Miller (tracks: A2, A4, B2, B4), Paul David Wilson (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3, B5)
Lead Vocals - Brenda Reid, Herb Rooney
Backing Vocals – Barbra Martin, Evelyn Thomas, Herb Rooney, The Belairs, The Ellington Sisters
Bass – Johnny Miller, Larry Brown
Drums – Jimmy Young, Skip McPhee
Engineer – Charlie Conrad, Jeff Kalawick
Guitar – Stanley Lucas*, Tom Murray (6)
Keyboards – Denzil Miller, Patrick Adams, Paul Griffin
Album Concept By – Ian Levine
Percussion – Patrick Adams, Stan Lucas, Steve Kroon
Producer – Herb Rooney, Ian Levine
Strings, Horns Contracted By – Elliott Rossoff*
Vibes – Denzil Miller, Patrick Adams, Paul Griffin

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Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench Blackpool, UK

Along with Fiachra Trench, his songwriting partner, Ian Levine helped develop the Hi-NRG dance sound courtesy of hits such as "High Energy" by Evelyn Thomas, "So Many Men, So Little Time" by Miquel Brown, and "(I Can't Believe It) It's a Miracle" by Moonstone. By the 1970s, he began recruiting American soul singers like Evelyn Thomas and Hazell Dean to storm Britain's charts (and America's). ... more

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