Stevie Woods was born in Virginia, 1951, and met German producer Jack White in 1980. They finished his debut album Letters From The Road and the single Holiday in February 1981, none of which were off to a promising start at the time. Cotillion Records in the US, however, liked the cut Steal The Night and released it as a single. It hit #25 on the Billboard Charts, and an LP was needed to follow up. Cotillion thought half of Letters .... sounded too European and asked White & Woods to cut four new tracks that were more R&B, and the revised album Take Me To Your Heaven was released November 1981. Just Can't Win 'Em All landed Woods a second Top 40-hit in the US. Gotcha was belatedly released as a promo in October 1982 when Woods toured Germany to promote his second album The Woman In My Life, and mysteriously Take Me To Your Heaven followed in June 1983, nearly two years after it was recorded.
