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Whoever said that youth is wasted on the young wasn’t paying attention when a precocious teenager named Lotti Golden was lighting off artistic fireworks from inside the bastion of the 1960s music business machine; blazing her own trail, through the gatekeepers and into the future…

Golden, a singer, songwriter, poet, and high-school honors student, was regularly making the trek from Brooklyn to the fabled Brill Building in midtown Manhattan to shop her songs. Her songwriting attracted notice, and her powerful, soulful vocals became popular with writers and publishers, landing her work as a demo and session singer.

At age 16, Golden landed a publishing deal with Saturday Music, owned by susperstar producer and hit-maker Bob Crewe. As a staff songwriter Golden wrote “Dance To The Rhythm of Love”, arranging and producing a full-band demo and singing lead – a test of her confidence and vision that she aced with flying colors. The vitality and artistry she later brought to her debut LP, Motor-Cycle, is very much alive on the recently unearthed acetate of the demo – energy and musical instincts that Patti LaBelle, the “Godmother of Soul”, recognized when she & The Bluebelles recorded their own version.

Lotti Golden’s tremendous gifts – her soul-power vocals, badass attitude, masterful songwriting and enduringly hip style – stand as a forerunner to uncompromising female artists as disparate as Joan Jett, Karen O, Madonna, and Kesha, and “Dance To The Rhythm Of Love” is a bolt of lightning from another time, continuing to spark and shine just as it did when it was written.

“DANCE TO THE RHYTHM OF LOVE” [1968 BRILL BUILDING DEMO]