Joe Smooth feat. Anthony Thomas - Promised Land
1987
DJ International's gospel-house sermon, and the record that proved house could carry an explicitly utopian message without embarrassment. Written out of the same Black church tradition the genre's vocalists came from, it became a closing record on both sides of the Atlantic and the Style Council covered it within a year.
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