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Released
  
14 October 2006

Dancing in the Street The Songs of Motown II (2006)
  
Get Ready (2007)

Release date
  
14 October 2006

Recorded
  
2006

Artist
  
Human Nature

Genre
  
Pop music

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Label
  
Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Similar
  
Human Nature albums, Pop music albums

Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II is the sixth album by Australian pop vocal group Human Nature and second Motown covers release. It was released on 14 October 2006.

Contents

A remixed version of Uptight (Everything's Alright) was released as a single in 2007.

Reception

AllMusic's brief review said that the album achieved "a nice balance between updating the classic Motown sound for contemporary dance-pop fans while still remaining faithful to the original recordings."

Track listing

  1. "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter) – 2:56
  2. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 2:44
  3. "ABC" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Alphonso Mizell, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards) – 3:02
  4. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett, Syreeta Wright, Lula Mae Hardaway) – 3:04
  5. "You Can't Hurry Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 3:04
  6. "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 2:56
  7. "What's Going On" (Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson, Marvin Gaye) – 3:52
  8. "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby) – 3:11
  9. "Please Mr. Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman) – 2:48
  10. "I Can't Get Next to You" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 2:54
  11. "Midnight Train to Georgia" (Jim Weatherly) – 4:34
  12. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:44
  13. "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" (William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, James Dean) – 3:42
  14. "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" (Whitfield, Strong) – 3:46

Personnel

  • Glenn A. Baker – Liner Notes
  • Ian Bell – Trombone
  • Jessica Bell – Violin
  • Grecco Buratto – Guitar
  • Paul Bushnell – Bass
  • David Caplice – Management
  • David Champion – Management
  • David Paul Jr. Collins – A&R
  • Kieran Conrau – Trombone
  • Jim Cox – Keyboards
  • Tom Coyne – Mastering
  • Shane Gillard – Trumpet
  • Cameron Hill – Violin
  • Hilbert Ho – Art Direction, Design
  • Rachel Homburg – Violin
  • Edwina Hookey – Violin
  • Hannah Hookey – String Coordinator
  • Helen Ireland – Viola
  • Christina Katsimbardis – Violin
  • Kylie Liang – Violin
  • Benjamin Northey – Flute, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano), String Arrangements, Brass Arrangement
  • Michael Brooks Reid – Violin
  • Forrester Savell – Bass Engineer, Drum Engineering
  • Rafael Serrano – Assistant Engineer
  • Gregg Spence – Trumpet
  • Jay Dee Springbett – A&R
  • Dave Way – Mixing
  • Paul L. Wiltshire – Keyboards, Producer
  • Jonathan Wong – Violin
  • Victoria Wu – Producer, Vocal Editing

    • Songs

    1Dancing in the Street2:57
    2Ain't No Mountain High Enough2:45
    3ABC3:03

    References

    Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II Wikipedia
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