Holly Harrison - Double Dealing

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, Holly Harrison sings "Double Dealing". It makes the perfect showpiece for the new album, "Northern Soul 2009", and is one of the album's only two slices of blue-eyed soul, the other being Jay Harvey. We first worked with this girl on a wonderful late-60s-London sounding stomper, "Bright Lights Of The City", with a young, exciting new talent, seventeen year old Holly Harrison in front of the mike. That fabulous track, with its overtones of Petula Clark's "Downtown" (although quite different as a song) was originally cut for Venicia Wilson. Venicia (real name Kate Jackson) was the former girlfriend of Steve Brookstein, and it was he who recommended Holly for the track as being just the right look and voice for something Venicia Wilson would have recorded. Holly not only sounded the part, but turned up to film in a Sixties mini-dress and bobbed Mary Quant style hairdo, looking like she arrived to film "Ready Steady Go" in 1965, complete with two inch eyelashes! Holly's manager, Alan Sheppard, has been a miracle worker, and delivered to us the consummate artist, who could knock Duffy and Amy straight off their perch. We then recorded "Getting It Back Again", and now for our third song together, Holly and I co-wrote this wonderful song, "Double Dealing", along with the late Clive Scott, a song which sounds like a classic 1960s Dusty Springfield masterpiece. 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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• Northern-Soul-2009
• Northern-Soul
• Sixties
• Motorcity
• Centre-City
• Soul
• Diva
• Female-Singers
• Footstomper
• Blue-Eyed-Soul
• Motown
• Female
• Uptempo
• Disco
• Dance
• Retro
• Classic
• Girl-Groups

[BarbraAlejandro]

Ian- You Know I Love HOLLY!!! This Is Such A Great FUN Track....Thanks & Hugs To You Both-David

[nolanmilligan]

Just the best. A true star. What a voice.

[BeachMusicDJ]

Thanks for the repost Ian, a fabulous track !!!

[Soulanddisco]

Thank heavens you got rid of the previous posting of this song, with a 28 second blank intro, and reposted it back up properly.