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Pop U.S. R&B Canada Norway Switzerland, 3. Assertive, powerful, and groovy, this 1966 smash is beautifully delivered by the great Eddie Kendricks. Set to a lilting waltz arrangement, this bittersweet tale of anxiety is never resolved appropriately, as couples still face the same problem. When Holland, Dozier, and Holland left Motown for financial reasons, songwriter-producers Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield stepped into the breach and took the label in a whole new direction. The upbeat tempo contrasts to the cringeworthy moment as her heels slide up and down the marble tile to the euphoric horns very rock & roll. , that warn a flirtatious partner to take it slow/or someday youll be all, alone, the Jackson 5s third straight Number One was a step in a more adult. What a single. I mean, she delivered a vocal performance that folks are gonna be listening to as long as human beings are capable of love., had James Brown. Sublabel Apollo Theatre Records Parent Label: UMG Recordings, Inc. Label [l61002] Edit Label After Diana Ross went solo, most people assumed the Supremes would just vanish. Pop U.S. R&B U.K. Australia Canada Ireland, 15. 371. Adult Contemporary Canada, 26. Devil In The Bottle T.G. Smokey replied to his own song for Mary Wells with this wonderful record, Robert Whites simple but effective guitar figure contrasting beautifully with David Ruffins powerful vocal. Shes built like a brick shithouse means that shes strong. Like Kool and the Gangs Celebration, the song outhouse references and all has been so culturally ubiquitous for so long, its transcended mere funk to seep into the worlds cross-generational musical DNA. Happy People The Temptations / U.S. R&B, 12. The last Number One hit of the Sixties, it was afitting send-off for the group and the decade that birthed them. A wild version supplied a much-needed UK hit for The Fall in 1987. Papa Was A Rollin Stone The Temptations / U.S. Stay The Temptations / U.S. K.H. Move on Up (Extended Version) in Motown Dinner Buffering Motown Dinner no one 1 year ago 7 80 2 Hear the full playlist Hear every second of every track with SoundCloud Go+. Drawn from a decades-long catalogue thats a gift that keeps giving and giving, the best Motown songs not only defined their era, they remain timeless examples of classic pop. [C# Fm B D# G#m] Chords for Diana Ross Supremes Motown "Forever Came Today" My Extended Version! Super Freak Rick James / U.S. Dance/Disco, 9. Officials say they're aiming to create a welcoming. An ode to staying positive during difficult times a very vogue-ish song subject matter during the Vietnam era I Just Want to Celebrate fused a beefy funk groove, a wild rock-style wah-wah guitar solo, and a midsong breakdown. The result was this arresting story of ghetto love. Mama knows best: dont fall for the first lover you meet. The newly-expanded Motown: The Complete No. Between the Detroit Symphony Orchestras tremulous, swooping strings and the Tempts honey-dripping harmonies, singer Eddie Kendricks daydreams about dating a neighbor girl who is way out of his league. I've never gone hunting for them online, just found them by chance on my travels. With My Guy, she also became Motowns first major star, topping the pop charts while the label was still in its early days. I was so happy whenever I got a hit record on one of the artists, said Smokey Robinson, the labels greatest songwriting genius. Today, Forever - Extended Version (DVD, 2016, 6-Disc Set) $49.99. R.S. Ow! Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, the track is a fluttering, soft, ultra-feminine tale of fidelity, with Wells coyly rejecting the advances of other men. Pop U.S. R&B, 15. 19 Songs, 1 hour, 31 minutes Motowns classic period may have long ended by the time the Nineties rolled around, but the labels biggest hit was yet to come. Adult Contemporary, 10. Marvin Gaye made his big score with Trouble Man, the 1972 thriller about a ghetto kingpin named Mister T. (The poster called him One Cat Who Plays Like an Army!) It was his only film soundtrack, but it was a smash he went Top 10 with his bluesy theme song. MOTOWN (extended) Jim Magoc 90 videos 341 views Last updated on Jan 6, 2023 Play all Shuffle 4:07 The Miracles "Mickey's Monkey" My Extended Version!!! A dance-floor filler to this day, Girl You Need a Change of Mind builds for several minutes before reaching an ecstatic, wordless peak. End Of The Road spent a quarter of a year at US No.1, and Boyz II Men went on to beat that performance, twice! Incredibly passionate music from 1970, with a highly romantic pulse. Dueling funk riffs slide over proto-boom bap drums as frontman G.C. Adult Contemporary, 6. Rockin Robin Michael Jackson / U.S. Aint No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross / U.S. Pop* U.S. R&B*, 10. It made US No.50 in 1966 and had to wait until 1971 to become a UK No.3. At one point, Kendricks holds his quavering falsetto for around 10 straight seconds before the track goes full instrumental and pushes toward the lead-footed, four-on-the-floor pulse that would later define disco. Adult Contemporary, 3. Never Can Say Goodbye The Jackson 5 / U.S. R&B, 5. Rick James wrote this ballad about a torrid affair with an Ethiopian princess. I Cant Get Next To You The Temptations / U.S. D.B. Adult Contemporary U.S. Dance/Disco Canada Ireland, 2. 1. It was the beginning of a new era for Michael, appearing on an album where he also covered Carole King and Bill Withers. And so he did, with aid from his fellow Miracles, particularly Marv Tarplin, who provided the guitar riff at the songs center. 17. Was it about dancing or riots? It made her sound different from the rest in the best way possible. After the Temptations shifted course toward funkier, harder-hitting fare like Psychedelic Shack and Ball of Confusion, Just My Imagination was a sweet nod to the groups classic sound. Please Mr. Postman The Marvelettes / U.S. A Motown Records Release; This Compilation 2019 UMG Recordings, Inc. I was so taken with the mother and her little speech that stayed with me, so I came up with the song, Lamont Dozier said. Aint Too Proud To Beg The Temptations / U.S. R&B, 2. Soul with ambition, soaked in passion. The Mary Jane Girls find a topic far more exciting than the Yellow Pages, stringing together lusty lines about a rooftop booty call. The strutting foundation of All Night Long is unimpeachable, a squirt of bass notes scattered around a dry, echoey snare drum. But its a buried treasure that can give any Motown connoisseur the shivers, from the Vandellas superb LP Watchout! She is reveling in her passion-jaded condition, delivering a trophy-grabbing disco masterpiece, showing the likes of Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor whos The Boss. A fair question, Marvin, as the skinny 60s soul romantic grows into a man aware that the world around him is full of exploitation, fear, and loathing. Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday Stevie Wonder / Norway, 9. As Wells told biographer Peter Benjaminson, she thought it would be cute to pay tribute to Mae West during the outro, doing a bit of a sultry staccato. Marvin wasnt the first singer to record I Heard It Through The Grapevine, and wasnt the first to hit with it, that plaudit going to Gladys Knight And The Pips. Ironically, Diana Ross farewell single with the Supremes was hardly agroup effort; neither Mary Wilson nor Cindy Birdsong appeared on it,their places taken by session singers Maxine and Julia Waters. Just To See Her Smokey Robinson / U.S. Pop, 19. The Tears of A Clown Smokey Robinson & the Miracles [U.S. version] / U.S. So You Think You Know Martha And The Vandellas? When it comes to Motown, sometimes its more fun to print the legend. Within a year, Motown had its first million-selling record, with the Miracles Shop Around. By 1969, the label would place dozens of records in the Billboard Top 10 as it reshaped the sound of pop music for a generation, thanks to its somewhat contradictory mix of assembly-line consistency and individual artistic brilliance, integrationist upward mobility and black self-assertion, fierce competition and familial camaraderie. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); About Us Contributors Terms of Service Privacy Policy 2023 uDiscover Music, Jon Pardi Invited To Join Grand Ole Opry At Stagecoach By Guy Fieri And Alan Jackson, Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea Shares His Three Favorite Basslines, Killer Mike Sets 2023 North American Solo Tour, Carrie Underwood To Welcome Listeners Into Carries Country With New SiriusXM Channel, Lil Wayne Invites Fans To Welcome To Tha Carter Global Livestream Concert, LE SSERAFIM Head Up A Rebellion In Nile Rodgers Collaboration, Unforgiven, 702, Tame Impala, And Brick & Lace: Currently Trending Songs, Best Iggy Pop Songs: 20 Tracks With An Insatiable Lust For Life, Fancy: Behind Bobbie Gentrys Womens Lib Statement. K.G. Teena Marie was among those who took note, incorporating a cheerfully all-over-the-place rap interlude in her 1981 hit Square Biz: Im less than five foot one, a hundred pounds of fun/I like sophisticated funk/I live on Dom Perignon, caviar, filet mignon/And you can best believe thats bunk. The goofy bluster adds to the festive air of Square Biz, a hard-funk workout with seismic, popping bass work and intricate horn charts. One of my favourite Motown duets ever. item 4 NEW / Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (Deluxe Collectors' Edition) - Moto.. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) The Temptations / U.S. R&B, 19. Getting down to a list of the 100 Greatest Motown Songs wasnt easy. Good investment. Such a shame the world lost her at such a young age. Gayes early Seventies albums tend to get more attention than his work later in the decade, but 1976s I Want You is wildly ambitious and recklessly groovy, maybe nowhere more than its title song. I have downloaded 3 CD's full of Supremes extended versions, as well as a volume of the Four Tops and one of various other Motown artists. I kind of got that from my own experiences that was Lionel Richie from Tuskegee, Alabama, where there is no such thing as four-in-the-morning partying.. J.D. With a moody chord sequence and haunting harmonica, The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game was one of the most original hits of 1967. Adult Contemporary, 11. Pop U.S. R&B U.K. Australia Ireland Netherlands Switzerland, 10. Gaye sings about street life in his falsetto, declaring, Theres only three things in life thats sure taxes, death, and trouble. , This breezy groove has some of Smokeys wittiest wordplay, stretching out the makeup metaphors and puns, while Martha Reeves sings about the tears pancake and powder could never cover. . For Once In My Life Stevie Wonder / U.S. Smokey Robinsons group had a nice line in hand-me-down advice songs before he became the king of emotional metaphors, as this miraculous sliver of 1960 R&B testifies. Alls fair in love and war: A reconnaissance mission turns into a romantic ambush in the Marvelettes hit The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game. Secretly I been tailing you, like a fox that preys on a rabbit, Wanda Young sings. The song is a soaring, fiery call to the floor penned by the highly-skilled Lewis sisters. That its songs still sit among the greatest and most soulful ever recorded is testament to the relentless quality of the artists and songwriters Gordy hired. Smokey Robinson And The Miracles reflect on their amorous error and beg for forgiveness. Far from the tales of carefree romance popular in Sixties Motown, the song cautions against the smiling faces that pretend to be your friend and dont tell the truth. The group wouldnt reach that level of success again, but the song earned notable covers by everyone from Rare Earth to Joan Osborne. Boogie On Reggae Woman Stevie Wonder / U.S. Wells once called her biggest hit, My Guy, the epitome of the Motown sound, and she was right. You Beat Me To the Punch Mary Wells / U.S. R&B, 6. Produced and penned by Holland-Dozier-Holland, this fabulous single was the only big hit for The Elgins, a highly-accomplished vocal outfit. Marvin and Tammi never sounded better, solo or together. Follow the Motown playlist. (The instrumental has aged far better than the politics, which seem to take issue with womens liberation: Why march in picket lines? Eddie Kendricks asks. Aint No Mountain High Enough 2017 Remix Diana Ross / U.S. Dance Club, 6. mosogotam 136K subscribers Subscribe 5.3M views 11 years ago ..a classic Motown song.and. Lets Get Serious Jermaine Jackson / U.S. R&B, 3. I Cant Help Myself Four Tops / U.S. Pop** U.S. R&B, 16. With a Number Three pop hit that was his first single to top the R&B charts, Wonder was just getting started. Adult Contemporary Canada, 2. K.H. Dont Look Any Further Dennis Edwards featuring Seidah Garrett, #1 cover version by Kane Gang: U.S. Dance/Disco, 1. Hed just say, And here they are, the the the girls! J.D. 1: 1959-1961 Various The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. And amid all the hits, there are still lesser-known gems to be discovered. Some albums have as many as 50, 100, or 150 different versions. Since Smokey Robinson wrote Marvin Gayes first Number 1 R&B hit, Ill Be Doggone, standard Motown operating procedure dictated that Robinson produce the follow-up, too. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Im Yours) Stevie Wonder / U.S. Best motown songs 1. Boogie On Reggae Woman is a synth-funk electro-skank where Stevie plays nearly everything himself, from the harmonica solo to that filthy Moog bass line. Though she possesses pipes that could blow down buildings, Gladys Knight prefers to use them subtly and, from the get-go at Motown, seemed more adult than her contemporaries. First recorded for The Temptations Psychedelic Shack album, Edwin Starr took War to a far angrier place in 1970, and it became an anthem for those who opposed the Vietnam War. Pop U.S. R&B*/** Canada. Pop* U.S. R&B, 14. The guy said, Lionel, theres 101 African dialects,' Richie explained to the New York Post. J.N. 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More Smokey magic, this time as a tunesmith alongside fellow Miracle Pete Moore. And heres a more rolling groover: a US solo No.1 for the former high tenor of The Temptations. This lighter-than-air party anthem hit Number One in 1983, helping make Richie one of the most famous pop stars on the planet. The Happening The Supremes / U.S. Originally cut in 1964, it was shelved until 1967, when it became a belated hit just in time for the Vietnam War, when the songs yearning for a loved one to return lent it yet another context. The second phase of Stevies career saw him creating some of the most life-affirming Motown songs of the 60s, and this hymn to Ms. Ultimately, though, its an invigorating tribute to the unifying spirit of music itself, the equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands, and, frankly, Wonder deserves his own Sir Duke tribute just for writing it. For as scary as Stubbs sounds at some points (like when the music turns overcast the second he says her name and proclaims You belong to me) but theres also something endearing about it all, and like every great Four Tops single, its impossible not to get swept away by the chorus. (That Playboy knew he was never getting their digits.) I Hear A Symphony The Supremes / U.S. Pop U.S. R&B, 8. The songs vibe is consciously international, fitting in Caribbean, Spanish, and Swahili phrases. In terms of sound, it heralded what was to come on Marvin Gayes classic Whats Going On album. is wildly ambitious and recklessly groovy, maybe nowhere more than its title song. Heat Wave Martha & the Vandellas / U.S. R&B, 9. Rub You The Right Way Johnny Gill / U.S. R&B, 4. Please Mr. Postman The Marvelettes / U.S. Such a brilliant song, and Marvin & Tammi were so adorable together. Pop U.S. R&B Australia Canada, 11. I do like the Motown extended versions that are on You Tube by mosogotam. (That initial bang is the sound of guitarist Eddie Willis accidentally kicking his amp.) The Tears of A Clown Smokey Robinson & the Miracles [U.K. version] / U.K. 18. Baby Im For Real The Originals / U.S. R&B, 6. Can I Get a Witness had a strong impact on British soul fans too; the Rolling Stones put a version on their debut album and even wrote their own answer of sorts, an instrumental vamp called Now, Ive Got a Witness, and Dusty Springfield begged and shouted her way through her fantastic version in 1964. An early marker of success for up and coming super-producer Norman Whitfield, this irresistible single was one of just two US Hot 100 entries for a girl group signed to a record company awash with them. An anthem from the first hitmaking phase of The Temptations career, when their songs were laid on by Smokey Robinson a sure sign of soul of the highest order. 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You Havent Done Nothin Stevie Wonder / U.S. Tina Cherry Georgio / U.S. Dance/Disco, 13. Ashford and Simpson knew they had a hit Nick called it the golden egg, Simpson later recalled. Slippery When Wet The Commodores / U.S. R&B, 16. The important thing is to keep listening to and paying tribute to the greatest label and the greatest roster of stars, writers, producers, arrangers, etc., ever assembled on one label. Sam Armstrong, The Spinners would go off to record more for Atlantic Records, but you can understand why Motown wanted to get in on the ground floor of this talented vocal group. Isley Brothers Motown "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" My Extended Version! The movie for which it was written is largely forgotten today, but the song will be remembered forever. But the not-quite original is the best! PROVINCETOWN A man known for his Motown devotion has died of coronavirus, or COVID-19, his cousin has confirmed. Perhaps The Velvelettes needed more attention, or to shout louder but they surely had talent to spare. ALL FORUMS Pop U.S. Shockingly, Ooo Baby Baby was not a UK hit, though it made US No.16 in 1965. Sink into his silky gentleness and lose yourself. The song became more significant in the decades following, however, as it became a heartbroken anthem for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Released in 1969, a chart-topper in 1970, and the birth of a legend. Pop U.S. R&B Canada, 8. Pop** U.S. R&B U.K. 7. Still Water was written by Smokey Robinson and producer Frank Wilson, and released in two forms, Love and Peace. Full of the spirit of universal love pervasive in youth culture from 1967, this 1970 single should have made bigger ripples than it did. K.H. Written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Aint No Mountain High Enough melded gospel roots with heavenly soul within a musical backdrop that swooped from gentle valleys to staggering highs.

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