"Calling out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat..."

This classic lyric, always synonymous with good times and the incredible soulful, inspiring songs of the Motown genre, and couldn't be a more perfect way to launch the second part of our musical trip to Hitsville.

Recording this album is practically a dream come true. By the time we finished making the first record, Reach Out, we kind of knew we had created something really special. The four of us looked at each other and said that if we had the chance to do this again, we'd do it in a heartbeat. So with the same producer Paul Wiltshire, the same incredible musicians and the addition of a 20-piece string section, we tapped back into the magic of this amazing catalogue of songs - and we've made what we think are some of the absolute finest recordings we've ever done as a group: Dancing In The Street - The Songs Of Motown II.

Based once again around our love for The Tops, The Tempts and The Jackson 5, the key to this record was the tracks we didn't get to record first time around. 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)', 'Ain't Too Proud To Beg', 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', (which The Temptations also covered with the Supremes) and 'A.B.C.' have always been huge favourites of ours. 'Midnight Train To Georgia' - recorded by one of Motown's greats, Gladys Knight and The Pips - is a song we've sung a capella now for over 10 years. Funnily enough, 'Dancing In The Street' (like 'Reach Out I'll Be There' on the first album) was a song we'd always wanted to do but never felt we had the vocal authority to own. Now, both live and here opening this set, we feel it totally captures the essence of the Human Nature take on Motown's finest.

This record was an absolute joy to sing and the songs a joy to be inspired by. We can only hope to have this much fun making albums again.

Human Nature.


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Dancing In The Street: The Songs Of Motown II Tracklisting

1. Dancing In The Street
2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
3. ABC
4. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
5. You Can't Hurry Love
6. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
7. What's Going On
8. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
9. Please Mr. Postman
10. I Can't Get Next To You
11. Midnight Train To Georgia
12. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
13. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
14. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (Acapella)