Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II

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

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]

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[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

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External links

• Human Nature web page