Deadly Sins v Shapeshifters - What About Lola? / Lola's Theme

One of the best modern soul tunes from the 80s by Johnnie Taylor's 'What About My Love' released on Otis Smith's Beverly Glen label in 1982. The label only released three albums, but what albums they were: Bobby Womack - The Poet, Johnnie Taylor - Just Ain't Good Enough and Anita Baker - Rapture.

'What About My Love' got a Deadly Sins edit in 2010 titled 'What About Lola?'.

It was also sampled on Shapeshifter's debut single 'Lola's Theme' in 2004 which topped the UK pop chart for one week and spent 25 weeks on the chart.

Deadly Sins [2010] - What About Lola? (Deady Sins Edit) [Giant Cuts #GC003]

Shapeshifters [2003] - Lola's Theme [Nocturnal]

Shapeshifters at this time consisted of UK producer Simon Marlin and Swedish produer Max Reich who recruited London gospel singer Janet 'Cookie' Ramus to provide the vocals.  The song 'Lola's Theme' was originally recorded as a promo instrumental in 2003 and was named after Marlin's wife (Lola).

Lola's Theme samples Taylor's 'What About My Love' and Anthony White's track from 2003 'Love Me Tonight', which in turn 'borrows' the line 'I'm a different person' (heard first at 1:42 in White's song) from Imarri 'Let Me Love You (acapella)' from 1993 (25 seconds in).

Shapeshifters [2004] - Lola's Theme (Extended Vocal Mix) [Positiva #12TIV-207l]

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