"I'm Living My Own Life" finally makes it to video and to YouTube. This is THE classic by Earlene Bentley, the Record Shack anthem that epitomised the entire 1980s High Energy movement, both musically and lyrically. Earlene was simply an utterly outrageous New York Diva, and best friend of Miquel Brown. Earlene's first song for Record Shack, "The Boys Come To Town" was featured in the movie "Police Academy". Three more classic twelve inches followed, "I'm Living My Own Life", "Caught In The Act" and "Stargazing" which was a duet with the late great Sylvester. Then, "Point Of No Return" saw her in much more mellow soulful form, and very unlike the big Record Shack high energy classics. I was pestered for months, by all the High Energy fans, to put up videos of her big four twelve inch songs from the Record Shack days, but as "Caught In The Act" was the only one ever filmed, and all that footage is lost forever, and Earlene always refused to revisit her old songs, that always seemed impossible. Now thankfully, the grand diva herself had a change of mind, and we put a video of it here on YouTube, and just think - it only took twenty three years for us to bring it to you. We shot this classic as well, Good things ARE worth waiting for. Earlene recorded two songs for our "Northern Soul 2007" album, and we already posted up the song, "Water Under The Bridge", which has to be her best recording ever, we think. But "Ashes To Ashes" has also grown and grown on us all, till we all now like it just as much. Out of all of them, her most beloved song is this one, "I'm Living My Own Life" and all the fans of 1980s High Energy music will be queueing up to watch this over and over again for the first time in history.
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