"Helpless" is one of those true iconic Motown classics, and it was simply inevitable that once I got to work with Kim, that I would HAVE to re-record it. As I have said before, I had known Kim since 1969, when I met Motown songwriting legend and head of A&R, Mickey Stevenson on a plane while on vacation with my parents. Needless to say, I spent the whole journey chatting to him, and at the airport his wife, Kim Weston, met him off the plane, and then she arranged to pick me up at the hotel next day, and took me shopping all over Los Angeles, and Mickey arranged for me to go to Motown's West Coast warehouse, and buy singles for my collection at wholesale prices. Eighteen years later, my friend Henry Sellars was in touch with Kim, and brought her over for me to record - the very very first former Motown artist to start the Motorcity project. We first recorded a new Motownesque song, although with a High Energy flavour, called "Signal Your Intention", and Motorcity was born. This video of "Helpless" was filmed for the documentary, "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", and was literally filmed outside Kim's house at the last minute, because my assistant Adi had been staying with her to do all the filming, and was about to leave for the airport before he realised he hadn't actually gotten round to filming Kim herself, and frantic phone calls from England were insisting it got done before he left for the airport. As they say, the STRANGE world of Northern Soul.
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