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Topic: Favorite Motown songs

If you're like me, you love Motown! I was just wondering what your favorite material is.

I love "My Mistake"- sung by Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross

also, "Standing in the Shadows of Love" - the Four Tops


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Re: Favorite Motown songs

Just Love Motown, Really Great Lyrical Songs
Here's My Faves

This Old Heart Of Mine – The Isley Brothers
Baby Love - Supremes
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
I Love Music – The O Jay’s
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch – The Four Tops
Ghetto Child – The Detroit Spinners
Since I Lost My Baby – The Temptations
What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson
Summer Breeze – The Isley Brothers

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Don't even get me started, until the Beatles landed I thought Motown WAS music and not much else. I'll have to skim through the library and weed out some faves. For starters I'll go with anything by Stevie Wonder or The Supremes(best female group ever).

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Me too..... love it! I grew up on it. Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine

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Berry Gordy Jr. has had the midus touch for fifty years now and his stable of artists are music royalty. From Marvin, Stevie, The Temps, The Supremes, Isley Brothers, Eddie Kendricks, Smokey and the Four Tops in the sixties, to Remy Shand and India.Arie, the soooouuuul train keeps a chugging!

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Can't Hurry Love, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, What's Going On, Heat Wave, What Becomes of the BrokenHearted? Don't Mess With Bill, I'll Be There, Inner City Blues, Let's Get it On, Don't Leave Me This Way, Signed Sealed & Delivered, Tears of a Clown, Dancing in the Streets, Super Freak, Tracks of My Tears, MY GIRL, Don't leave Me This Way, Cool Jerk, War, Ball of Confusion, Get Ready, BRICK HOUSE...

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bigjeffjones wrote:

Can't Hurry Love, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, What's Going On, Heat Wave, What Becomes of the BrokenHearted? Don't Mess With Bill, I'll Be There, Inner City Blues, Let's Get it On, Don't Leave Me This Way, Signed Sealed & Delivered, Tears of a Clown, Dancing in the Streets, Super Freak, Tracks of My Tears, MY GIRL, Don't leave Me This Way, Cool Jerk, War, Ball of Confusion, Get Ready, BRICK HOUSE...

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really showing your age there jeff. a lot of classics that I remember listening to, but never became a real fan of any. I was only into Stevie Wonder and the Isley Brothers. bought a truckload of SW through the years, just love his voice.

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Brack beat me to it, my all time favorite Motown song, hands down, is Marvin Gaye's "Heard it Through the Grapevine". 
Also loved The Supremes.  "Stop In The Name Of Love", "Baby Love", "Love Child", "My World Is Empty Without You", "Love Is Here And Now You're Gone", "I Hear A Symphony", "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me",  "You Can't Hurry Love" and on and on...    smile

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Just My Imagination - The Temptations?

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I Know (I'm Losing You) - The Temptations. EPIC  big_smile

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ohiodawg13 wrote:

Don't even get me started, until the Beatles landed I thought Motown WAS music and not much else. I'll have to skim through the library and weed out some faves. For starters I'll go with anything by Stevie Wonder or The Supremes(best female group ever).

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I'm with you Bro..Soul music! This was my genre, even after the Beatles. It's fun to read the top 10 singles from the vault in Rolling Stone..Ex..Jan 21, 1970. #4 Dianna Ross and the Supremes "Someday We'll be Together", #5 Led Zep "Whole Lotta Love"...
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'Where did our love go' by the Supremes was the first single I ever bought. It was a huge hit round about Prom time (when I suddenly found myself with three dates.....but that's another story!)  big_smile

Not only Motown, what about Phil Spector's 'wall of sound'?  cool

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Re: Favorite Motown songs

I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding

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Ike and Tina Turner, loved their stuff. They used to play at the local rec center on Saturday night hops.  cool

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I love Motown...lots of good songs already mentioned...my first love was probably the Supremes and the Temptations.  If you never watched that movie about the Temptations, its worth it, I caught it on VH1.  A couple of years ago my cousin got married in Florida, it was a really nice wedding with a fantastic 10 piece band.  My uncle (huge Motown fan) had "My Girl" played for the father-daughter dance, it was really special.

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This is good stuff!  Otis Redding was not Motown, though.  He was Stax all the way.  Memphis, baby.

Ike was a chitluns circuit, delta blues man crossed over from gospel in the beginning.  Clarksdale, MS.  Rhythm Kings!

Though it is said he was a talent scout for Motown, in the early days, his first recording with Tina I believe came out of Memphis also, then A&R.  Maybe St Louis?

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bigjeffjones wrote:

This is good stuff!  Otis Redding was not Motown, though.  He was Stax all the way.  Memphis, baby.

Ike was a chitluns circuit, delta blues man crossed over from gospel in the beginning.  Clarksdale, MS.  Rhythm Kings!

Though it is said he was a talent scout for Motown, in the early days, his first recording with Tina I believe came out of Memphis also, then A&R.  Maybe St Louis?

Tina was RAW, Nutbush city limits, Texas sex appeal.  pant

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Tina was from Nutbush, Tennessee.  A little nothing of a town near Jackson.  I used to travel in my job and remember seeing the sign for the town proudly state it was the hometown of Tina Turner.

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Yeah, we had no idea how far they would go. Every other Saturday night all summer as I remember. They sure put on a show for a $2.50 cover! The place was always jammed with at least 150 teenagers and we'd dance our booties off. No ventilation and you would be drenched in sweat after the first song. 1962 or 1963 if memory serves. No seating in the hall. SRO. River Deep Mountain High, It's Gonna Work Out Fine and many other pop tunes of the times.
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