Thelma Houston
David Nathan, Blues & Soul, February 1977
YOU'VE HEARD it before so we'll spare the space and time it takes to tell you that for as long as she's been recording, Ms Thelma Houston has been considered in the top ten most underrated talents around! There, we said it again.
At long last, Ms Houston has her second album out on Motown and it's doing very nicely thank you with airplay coming from discos ('Don't Leave Me This Way') as well as from radio stations across the States who are picking several of the cuts to air. We found a few subjects to rap with Thelma about recently...
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