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This is the absolute premiere of a brand new song from our brand new album, "Northern Soul 2009". Along with the DVD, there are twenty eight stunning floorfillers on our latest and most difficult album we have ever completed. Having already released "Northern Soul 2007" and "Northern Soul 2008" on Centre City Records over the last two years, I began to record the songs for "Northern Soul 2009" in February of 2009, with my long time producing partner Clive Scott, until that awful unspeakable day of May 10th, when Clive passed away. just two weeks after suffering a terrible accident, caused by falling off a ladder, and left us all devastated. Fifteen of the songs were finished. Clive and I had started the music for six more, and now, in honour of his memory, I have compiled a further seven songs which Clive and I had written for various projects but had never been released. It seemed only right that Clive's last ever project, "Northern Soul 2009", should contain all songs that he had written with me, so with a heavy heart, we have set about the task of completing this monumentally important project to keep his skill and talent alive forever. Here, Jay Harvey sings "Making All The Right Moves", a wonderful lilting fingersnapper which is the follow up to our earlier song together, "Walking In The Dark", which was another song bursting with hope for the future. This boy is going to go far. He almost made it through to the finals of the last series of the X-Factor till Louis Walsh intervened. But if Jay's classic good looks and appearance suggest some kind of boyband type pop singer, think again. The boy has black blood running through his veins. His father, Gary, manages Kenny Thomas, and also brought us a most amazing new artist, Delroy G. Pinnock, for this new album, and Jay himself was brought up with soul music all his life, and has made quite a name for himself already on the London R&B circuit. I first met him through Holly Harrison, and Jay sang with her on the backing vocals for "Bright Lights Of The City" and there and then I vowed to use him on my next album. He sounds amazingly like Michael Jackson, but with a new freshness all his own. Our first song together, recorded late last year, "Walking In The Dark", was a stunning classic soul song, and Jay has also performed a duet with our wonderful diva Tahira Jumah, called "My Oh My", a Marvin Gaye type, seventies type, classic protest song. Jay is just so 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. He and I co-wrote this fabulous smooth uplifting future soul classic with my long time producing partner Clive Scott, and it was the last day I was actually ever in the studio with Clive together. So after seven long months work, the album is finally released on September 21st 2009. And, as with "Soul Steppers" earlier this year, our new albums are 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. A bittersweet loving tribute to the much missed Clive Scott.