Teri DeSario - Moonlight Madness (1979/2017)

Singer/songwriter and harpist Teri Lynn DeSario, born in Miami on November 27, 1951, spent 1970 to 1977 with The Early Music Consort, a group headed by Arnold Grayson that featured medieval/renaissance music. To her early love for the Folk genre she would add Jazz, and she and husband Bill Purse, a noted horn player, would form the group called Abacus. And it was while performing with this aggregation that her act was caught by Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees. So taken with her performance, he later offered her a song he had penned with her in mind titled Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You, and then was not only instrumental in her landing a recording deal with Casablanca Records, first launched in 1973 by Neil Bogart, Larry Harris, Cecil Holmes and Buck Reingold, he also produced the side. In July-August 1978 it just missed the Billboard Pop Hot 100 Top 40 at # 43 b/w Sometime Kind Of Thing as Casablanca 929.