2019 Recordings
1 A Little Bit Of Heaven
2 Warm Me Baby
3 20 Miles From Home
4 I'm Wondering
1967 Demos
5 A Little Bit Of Heaven
6 Warm Me Baby
7 20 Miles From Home
8 I'm Wondering
While going through his attic in 2018, famous guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen (composer of the
worldwide hit “Venus”), came across some unique, almost forgotten and unreleased demo
material recorded by The Motions back in 1967 in the legendary GTB studio in The Hague.
Keyboard player PP Everts suggested the original singer Rudy Bennet that something could and
should be done with these songs. After some radical re-working of the material, with
arrangements done by PP Everts, Rudy Bennet and guitarist Alan McLachlan, plus a rewriting of
the text of “Warm Me Baby” by Alan, the songswere taken into the rehearsal room with the full
band. The results wereso exciting, that it was decided that the tracks should be re-recorded and
released, 52 years on from the original sessions! Erik Kuylaars was invited onboard to produce
and oversee the whole project. Under his inspiring leadership and with the invaluable help of
engineer Iwan Pronk, all the songs, apart from a few overdubs, were recorded by the band in one
take. ‘Recorded’ contains both the 1967 demos as well as the new re-recordings. |
