This is the absolute premiere of a brand new song from our brand new album, "Northern Soul 2009". Along with the DVD, there are twenty eight stunning floorfillers on our latest and most difficult album we have ever completed. Having already released "Northern Soul 2007" and "Northern Soul 2008" on Centre City Records over the last two years, I began to record the songs for "Northern Soul 2009" in February of 2009, with my long time producing partner Clive Scott, until that awful unspeakable day of May 10th, when Clive passed away. just two weeks after suffering a terrible accident, caused by falling off a ladder, and left us all devastated. Fifteen of the songs were finished. Clive and I had started the music for six more, and now, in honour of his memory, I have compiled a further seven songs which Clive and I had written for various projects but had never been released. It seemed only right that Clive's last ever project, "Northern Soul 2009", should contain all songs that he had written with me, so with a heavy heart, we have set about the task of completing this monumentally important project to keep his skill and talent alive forever. Here, after nineteen long long years, we are reunited with the lead singer of the Monitors, Darrell Littlejohn, for the first actual Motorcity recording for a very long time. We recorded the music in London, and Darrell sang it and filmed himself in Detroit for us. Darrell sings "Glad You're My Lady", a wonderful piece of 1960s type classic Detroit soul. The original line up of the Monitors at Motown consisted of Richard Street as lead singer, with Warren Harris, Maurice Fagin, Sandra Fagin, and Hershel Hunter. When we got them reformed for Motorcity, Richard Street was with The Temptations, and Sandra Fagin had passed away, but we succeeded in getting the other three back together. They brought in Smokey Robinson's nephew, Darrell Littlejohn, as lead singer and added a girl singer called Beverly, who was a Detroit policewoman, and then another male singer who has now passed away, called Robert. One of my treasured memories was getting Wanda Rogers of The Marvelettes back to performing live, at the Pontchartrain concert in Detroit, with the Monitors backing her up, all dressed in sharp white tuxedos. Warren Harris, who has now passed away, was the comedian of the Motorcity Project, and had us all in stitches constantly... "Heyyyyyyyyyy - Come into my office". Hershel Hunter also passed away early this decade, and it's so sad to think that the bulk of this wonderful group are no more. I so so wanted to work with Darrell again, and he's still got the magic, he still looks good, and now he is the lead singer on this classic. Treasured memories of a wonderful vocal group with the best harmonies ever, as they show every time. So after seven long months work, the album is finally released on September 21st 2009. And, as with "Soul Steppers" earlier this year, our new albums are being distributed by Wienerworld, who have put out all our Northern Soul DVDs, and this time we look certain to get it sold in all the remaining major record shops around the country. A bittersweet loving tribute to the much missed Clive Scott.
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The Monitors - Going To A Go-Goby IanLevine8,324 views
Beautiful
tahira1 2 years ago
Just like you.
:-)
IanLevine 2 years ago