Frances Nero: Footsteps Following Me - COMPACT DISCS

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Preorder Release Date: 11/20/2026
Title:

Footsteps Following Me

Artist:

Frances Nero

Label:

Essential Media Mod

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

894232909626

Genre:

Soul/R & B

Release Date:

2026-11-20

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

MANUFACTURED ON DEMAND

The great American jazz and soul singer Frances Nero began her career in Detroit, singing jazz in nightclubs, before entering a talent contest on WCHB, the soul radio station in Detroit, sponsored by the premier soul music label, Motown. She became the first live performance winner in Motown Records's history, emerging the winner out of 5,000 contestants in June 1965. She was awarded $500, a dozen long stemmed red roses, a recording contract for one year and the honor of being the first female artist signed to Motown's subsidiary Soul label. Her first record release was Keep On Lovin' Me, originally intended for The Marvelettes. It was produced by William Mickey Stevenson, and released by Soul in early 1966. However, it was not a major hit. She made no further recordings with Motown, and left the company after three years. After leaving Motown, Nero made more recordings with Raynoma Gordy and Gino Parks at Shrine Records, which went unreleased. In the 1970s she went on to cosmetology school and began teaching the beauty trade, and worked on fashion shows, script writing, and other businesses. In 1989, she was contacted by a British record producer and promoter of Northern Soul music and recorded Footsteps Following Me, her first recording in almost 23 years. The single reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart in 1991, and was dubbed by British disc jockeys the soul anthem of the nineties and remains to this day one of the great Northern Soul records of all time. On this exclusive release, we have taken Nero's superb vocal from that session and have completely reconstructed and recreated the music and arrangement into something entirely brand new, with a decided tip of the hat to the great disco records of the late 1970s. The new single features four exclusive mixes, including an instrumental version.

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