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James Whitney Music

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Soul-R&B singer James Whitney returns to the music scene with his
first self produced album.

Los Angeles, California, May 15th 2007. James Whitney, Soul and R&B singer, formerly of the Whitney Family and the 7 Souls and lead singer of his own review in Europe, has returned to the American music scene with an offering that features ten of his own best love songs.

Whitney (a contemporary of Marvin Gaye, Stevie wonder, and Al Green, and inspired in youth by Blues singer Bobby Blue Bland) has put his masterful writing skills to use in penning a host of highly danceable, infectious love songs to answer the demand for a musical experience that puts Love back in the music.

Russ Regan, Past President of Motown and MCA Records and discoverer of Elton John, Berry White, The Beach Boys, Olivia Newton John and many other top acts, (and one of the few people Whitney has allowed to preview his effort) has said "I LOVE this album!"

"James's mixture of romance and dance, fills the void." DJ Joe Williams, recently of Radio Station KRLA.

"Its "old school"…but it's cool…I hear the fan base for it." Pudd, Executive at Interscope Records.

"Can you feel it?" is never a question that gets asked when you're talking about a James Whitney song. You are going to feel it alright…in every song. And this album has ten of them!" Tony Newton, Musician Extraordinaire.

Album available now!

Album CD Music Review, "Let's Fall In Love" Artist - James Whitney

Two years ago, before the Hip Hop community and slipping record sales decided Hip Hop was dead or dying, I would have passed on the opportunity of reviewing this album simply because I thought the buying public had turned its collective back on romance, dance and love songs, at least of the type I grew up on. So it's with feelings of bitter sweet nostalgia and revenge that I approach his work, which harkens back to the day when music was something that made you want to dance and its lyrics something you could whisper into your dates ear as you slowly turned on the dance floor, your bodies pressed together in a "dry run" for what you hoped would be a repeat of this experience later that night, sans clothes.

Back in those days, even the shyest among us got to say things out loud, by singing along with the record, that we could never utter on our own…things like "You're once, twice, three times and lady…and I love you"…and three minutes later you would be bouncing across the dance floor together and singing out loud to lyrics like "He don't love you…like I love you…He's just trying to break your heart". Well, now everybody is saying what everybody knows…Its time to let old school and love back into our lives. And here, doing that better than most and as good as the best, is James Whitney.

Based on the quality of the ten songs on the album, any one of them could have been the title track, but appropriate to the album's theme, the title track is Let's Fall In Love. The album's offerings span the range from straight up R&B (Goodness Knows, What Are You Going To Do About Me Tonight, It's Your Time On The Dance Floor) through unabated love (Lets Fall In Love, Your Love Is Everything, Bitten By The Love Bug, Play That Song For Me, I've Got Somebody) to thought provoking. (Its Time To Save The World, Mystic Flight)

Let's take a look at them one at a time.

1. Goodness Knows When It's Right:
Written by James Whitney for Michael Jackson (but never released) and first produced by Bobby Taylor, Goodness Knows When It's Right is a bold, funky infectious tune in the tradition of Love Is Slippery When It's Wet.

2. Play That Song:
Created by James for his sister Mary Lee Whitney (a member of The Seven Souls and Wonder Love, Stevie Wonder's remarkable backup group on Songs in the Key of Life and Inner Visions) Play That Song is a head bouncing ditty that you will make you want to play it over and over.

3. Lets Fall In Love:
(Title Track) Written by Joe Williams (popular Philadelphia DJ) Lets Fall In Love was recently released as James' first single from the album and rose to number 53 in a short two weeks on the FMQB Charts out of Philly. Sultry, sensual, seductive…

4. Bitten by the Love Bug:
Written by James for the original sound track of the Disney movie The Love Bug. Due to a change in the movie's director, the song, though submitted and selected by Disney, was not included on the sound track. Causing shoulder shaking, and foot tapping, (if you can't get up and dance) Bitten by the Love Bug is a Soul rousing, funky, universal love/dance tune whose lyrics speak to the experience of anyone, anywhere, who has ever been in love.

5. Mystic Flight:
Written by James and inspired by the idea and description from the Bible of The Rapture.

6. Whatchu Gonna Do About Me Tonight:
Romantic strings punctuate this offering. This song came into form as the first Country Western song that James wrote while on tour in Europe. Returning to the States, he easily re-arranged it as an R&B song, showing the similarity of the two forms.

7. It's Your Time On The Dance Floor:
This was the first song written by James on his European Tour. Move them funky moves! Another rump shaker… It's Your Time On The Dance Floor makes you want to get off your butt and jam!

8. I Got Somebody:
Another love song written by James for his sister Mary to sing. Changing the gender to male, James made the song his own. I Got Somebody heralds the triumph of the shy over the fear that they will never find someone special…someone just for them.

9. Your Love Is Everything:
Written by James in the genre of Mexican Reggae (if such a category doesn't exist, it will someday) Your Love Is Everything was written to help bridge the gulf between Latin and Black, Old School and the new Latin Beat.

10. It's Time To Save The World:
Written as a message to the world (in the tradition of We Are The World) James' It's Time To Change The World addresses the urgent need for changes in the world…before it's too late.