Pearly Gates - Letting Go Of The Pain

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This is Track 2 of our fabulous new album by Pearly Gates, "On A Winning Streak". My intention was to come up with a track that captured all the joy and spirit of a classic Motown-track in the vein of The Supremes and all those wonderful girl groups - dare I say, I think we succeeded really well. We recorded this on April 1, 2009, never knowing it was to be one of the last tracks we ever recorded with Clive Scott before his tragic passing. Our last sessions, however, were filled with joy and excitement like never before. I remember Pearly and I driving back to her house after that day's session - we couldn't stop playing this track over and over in the car.

On November 21, whilst completing everything for the album, we were finally able to make a little videoclip at Shepherd's Bush Studios in London, with special thanks to Alex Kemp who directed and edited the video. I hope you will all enjoy and treasure this track which I consider one of my very best songs - and as always, IF YOU LIKE THE MUSIC, PLEASE SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE.

"On A Winning Streak" is a beautifully packaged CD + DVD album which comes with a 16-page booklet with liner notes and photos and includes the bouncy title track, "Broken Bottles" (a never-before released song, written by the Bee Gees, and produced by Alias 1 & Doc B); The Flirtations' "Roulette" (#10 in Music Week's Commercial Pop Club Chart, Dec. 09); "Stop For Love" (incl. our Youtube hit video with gay icon Zeb Atlas - more than 110,000 views); 4 previously unreleased 1977 recordings (produced in Los Angeles by H. B. Barnum); Pearly's Centre City Recordings with kind permission by Ian Levine; and a medley of Pearly's greatest singles, revisiting - of course - Pearly's Hi-NRG club hit "Action", a brandnew dancetrack with French duo The Soundcarvers, and much more!

Track listing:
1. On A Winning Streak *
2. Letting Go Of The Pain *
3. Whirlpool
4. Broken Bottles *
5. Days In New York *
6. No Holds Barred
7. One Time Too Many *
8. Stop For Love *
9. Once Bitten, Twice Shy *
10. For Crying Out Loud *
11. Ain't That Peculiar
12. Don't Take Away Your Love
13. Do What You've A Mind To
14. You've Got It
15. Dancing Jones
16. A Day Without You
17. You Gave Me Hope
18. I Got A Right (With The Soundcarvers)
19. Pearly In The Jukebox (Medley)
Johnny In The Jukebox - Fandango Dancing - Burning Love - Third Time Lucky - Action
20. Roulette (With The Flirtations) *

+ 12-tracks DVD (incl. titles marked with *) + Fading Into The Night, Thrill In Me, Action, and a 16-minutes interview.

PEARLY GATES - LETTING GO OF THE PAIN
Music & Lyrics: Soren Jensen,
Clive Scott, Viola Billups
(c) Koda / Belsize Music / Copyright Control
Produced by Soren Jensen and Clive Scott
For Night Dance Records (p) 2010

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The-Flirtations
• Motown
• girl-groups
• r&b
• soul
• northern-soul
• divas
• gay
• 1960s
• 1970s

[albgardis]

This is a hit! I can't help playing it over and over again!

Northern Soul at its best, you want to dance, and I would bet that a certain Diana R. might be very envious right now, because she would have liked this song for herself! Huh? This song actually made me order the album yesterday.

[Nightdancerecords]

@albgardis Thank you very much for those kind words, Albgardis, it is most appreciated.

[1300david]

fabulous track :)

[LeatherbearPhilip]

A superb toe-tapper, almost guaranteed to get you dancing. Also one of my favourites from the album.

[BarbraAlejandro]

One Of My Most Favs Off This Great Album....Great Job Everyone!! Love It!!