Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II

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Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II
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Studio album by Human Nature
Released 14 October 2006
Recorded 2006
Genre Pop
Label Sony BMG, Columbia
Human Nature chronology
Reach Out: The Motown Record
(2005)Reach Out: The Motown Record2005
Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II
(2006)
Get Ready
(2007)Get Ready2007

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.

A remixed version of Uptight (Everything's Alright) was released as a single in 2007. [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars [2]

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."[2]

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

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[3] 1

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[4] 3× Platinum 210,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II at AllMusic
  3. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Human+Nature&titel=Dancing+In+The+Streets+%2D+The+Songs+Of+Motown+II&cat=a
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External links

Preceded by Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
23 October - 29 October 2006
6 November - 26 November 2006
Succeeded by
Rudebox by Robbie Williams