The Flirtations - Resist The Temptation

This is one of the key songs from my album "Northern Soul 2007", sung by the fabulous Flirtations! These are the original line up of this amazing girl group, Earnestine Pearce, Shirley Pearce, and Pearly Gates. They were originally known as The Gypsies. They have been together recording for forty four years and look just fabulous still, right up to this day. The girls started out as the Gypsies on Old Town Records, a classic teenage girl group from New York, with the early sixties classics, "Jerk It", and the Northern Soul legendary classic "It's A Woman's World", before becoming The Flirtations, and emigrating to England. They had many hits in the late 1960's and early 1970's, including "Nothing But A Heartache", and another Northern Soul classic, "Need Your Love", on the Deram label. In the late seventies they disbanded, and I got to produce a whole album on Pearly, called "No Two Ways About It". In the meantime, the Flirtations, without Pearly, had reformed for Proto Records with the high energy anthem, "Earthquake". This line up of The Flirtations then went to Passion Records and I got to produce them on "Read All About It". And at the same time, Pearly herself did a solo track for a label called Funkin Marvellous, called "Action", which George Hargreaves produced, and this was a huge floorfilling classic, and one of the most popular High Energy records of the 1980's. Then Pearly rejoined the Flirtations, and all three original girls, Earnestine, Shirley, and Pearly, were back together once again. We then did a Flirtations single for Nightmare Records, called "Back On My Feet Again", and also a solo track with Pearly called "One Less Bell To Answer". Very few 1960's girl groups are still together, and ever fewer look like these fabulous three. My girls have redone this beautiful and poignant song - a truly beautiful song for a beautiful group. These three ladies will have you dancing off the ceiling. I have now known Pearly for thirty years, and yet she still looks thirty years old.