Judith Hall - My Heart's Occupation

We proudly bring you, here on You-Tube, the premiere of a totally brand new song, from our brand new album, "Soul Steppers" - released in late February 2009. A delectable new album of "Modern-Room" style Northern Soul. Classic retro soul, owing more homage to Gamble and Huff and the sound of Philadelphia and the mid 1970s rhythms, than to the usual Sixties style. Midtempo and Uptempo soulful sizzlers to warm the embers of your heart, and take your feet totally out of control. Just as the legendary Blackpool Mecca building gets pulled down, the "Soul Steppers" album shows that they can pull down the building but they can never take away our music. And in this recession, in times of darkness and uncertainty, as the opening track gloriously proclaims - "I know there's better times ahead for us". Onward to a brighter day. Music can lift us and make us forget what the world has to throw at us, and this album is designed to do just that. The new album has songs by Rosetta Hightower, Noel McKoy, Odette Adams, Tahira Jumah, Jay Harvey, Pearly Gates, The Flirtations, Janine Johnson, Michael Lloyd Pinq, Kitty Corbin, Judy Duff, The Concentrations, Jimmy James, and a few major surprises. Here, Judith Hall sings "My Heart's Occupation". This is her second song for us. The first, "Out Of The Picture" was on "Northern Soul 2008", and was a song which my dear old friend and mentor David Nathan singled out to champion. Out of all the tracks on the album, this was one of the few tracks that have become real sleepers, the ones you walk around all day singing, and just can't get the damn thing out of your head, come what may. Judith is just fabulous, so willing, so lovely, so co-operative, and such a warm hearted person, and it makes me proud to have artists of this calibre on Centre City Records. Her son, Anthony Jawahall, is one of the two lead singers of The Concentrations. And yet again, Judith was discovered by Tahira Jumah. Judith had been a jazz singer, but once she turned her hand to soul, she excelled and makes a perfect Centre City artist. This second song we've done with Judith ended up as one of the DVD bonus tracks in the end, but my fans seem to have really taken to it. Judith and I co-wrote this fabulous uplifting song with my long time producing partner Clive Scott. And the new album, for the first time, is 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. And remember the whole theme of this special album - "I know there's better times ahead for us".

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Music

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• Soul-Steppers
• Northern-Soul
• Motorcity
• Centre-City
• Motown
• Female-Soul-Singers
• Girl-Groups
• Seventies
• Classic
• 70s
• Uptempo
• Disco
• Dance
• Modern-Room
• Floorfiller
• Diva
• Girl-Singers

[ianhow2478]

"Superb"!!

[bobrofmad]

She is so great in this video.

[BarbraAlejandro]

Ian- Lovin' This Groove By Judith!!! A Great Track Off A Fabulous Album!!! Take Care-David