Motown girl group gems

Week commencing 28th March I'm having an hour long Motown girl-group special on my radio show. I'd like to include some great tracks that might have passed me by [[because back in the day I was so obsessed with the Jean & Scherrie-led Supremes) so can anyone enlighten me? I know there's Three Ounces Of Love [[Star Love) but I'd like to go further back [[Clark sisters?) and find some good stuff that didn't quite make it to the charts - but should have.

All contributions will be gratefully received.
Stoned Love,
Steve.

The Velvelettes - "Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I"
Sister's Love - "Learning To Trust My Man"
Lollipops - "Cheating Is Telling On You"
Marvelettes - "The Truth's Outside Your Door"
Marvelettes - "That's How Heartached Are Made"
The Supremes - "I'm In Love Again"
The Supremes 70s - "Touch"
Pretty In Pink - "Wake Up Everybody"

Marvelettes “The Stranger” a dark tale about a one night stand leaving Wanda in the lurch!

Vandellas - No More Tearstained Makeup
Elgins - I Understand My Man [[only a female lead in a mixed group)
Marvelettes - No Time for Tears
Kim Weston - Just Loving You, Stop In the Name of Love
Brenda Holloway - Hurt a Little Everday
Supremes 70s - Time to Break Down, A Heart Like Mine
Supremes 60s - Mother Dear [[Original), Going Down For the Third Time

T.L.C. [[Tender Loving Care)-PJ

It's not a girl group per se but this is Patti Jerome with killer backing by the Andantes on what is one of the last tracks to be recorded with the Funk Bros. in Detroit

Also,

Wrong Man, Right Touch-High Inergy
First Impressions-High Inergy
Don't Park Your Loving-High Inergy

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Originally Posted by ivyfield

Week commencing 28th March I'm having an hour long Motown girl-group special on my radio show. I'd like to include some great tracks that might have passed me by [[because back in the day I was so obsessed with the Jean & Scherrie-led Supremes) so can anyone enlighten me? I know there's Three Ounces Of Love [[Star Love) but I'd like to go further back [[Clark sisters?) and find some good stuff that didn't quite make it to the charts - but should have.

All contributions will be gratefully received.
Stoned Love,
Steve.

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Here's five rarely played
Carolyn Crawford "My Heart"
Tammi Terrell "What A Good Man He Is"
Hattie Littles "Here You Come"
Liz Lands "Midnight Johnny"
Rita Wright [aka Syreeta] "I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You"

How about these:
"Knock On My Door"-The Marvelettes
"Go Ahead And Laugh"-Martha & The Vandellas
"Throw A Farewell Kiss"-The Velevettes
"Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I"-The Velvelettes
"Need Your Love"-The Lollypops
"Never Leave Your Baby's Side"-Martha & The Vandellas
"I Know Better"-The Marvelettes
"I Can't Turn Around"-The Marvelettes
"I'll Keep Holding On"-The Marvelettes

Tom Moulton's extended mix of "Keep On Loving Me" from Frances Nero [[sounds like Andantes and Originals in the backing vocals to me)

Love Is All You Need, Devotion, Save it For a Rainy Day, Hold Onto My Love, I Just Can't Help Myself--basically anything by High Inergy.

Oooh! Gonna check that one out. So she had the same experience as me - Ha!

Well, thank God for Spotify! Great list and I'll be using some of those recommendations for sure.

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Originally Posted by ivyfield

week commencing 28th march i'm having an hour long motown girl-group special on my radio show. I'd like to include some great tracks that might have passed me by [[because back in the day i was so obsessed with the jean & scherrie-led supremes) so can anyone enlighten me? I know there's three ounces of love [[star love) but i'd like to go further back [[clark sisters?) and find some good stuff that didn't quite make it to the charts - but should have.

All contributions will be gratefully received.
Stoned love,
steve.

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Sisters Love

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Originally Posted by brother_love

Sisters Love

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FQH7HxIuM78

It’s kinda like…
being married to the meat man,
And him only bringing home the bones!
:D

My Love Is Yours is my favorite song by the group. The song was produced by Willie Hutch and Gloria Jones. https://youtu.be/0hTZvQFssEc

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Originally Posted by SatansBlues

My Love Is Yours is my favorite song by the group. The song was produced by Willie Hutch and Gloria Jones. https://youtu.be/0hTZvQFssEc

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Another great track SatansB!! Willie Hutch really did some great work with Sisters Love.

Here’s one of my other favourites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KO5n77Tkj8I

Not quite as good Willie's own version, but still entirely awesome. :)

Hey ivyfield...wishing you a great radio show!

A few of my favourites...

Soul Appeal - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
No One There - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
I Want You Back - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
Leave It In The Hands Of Love - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
Reaching For Something I Can't Have - The Marvelettes
That's How Heartaches Are Made - The Marvelettes
The Day You Take One, You Have To Take The Other - The Marvelettes
Everybody Knows But You - The Marvelettes
Marionette - The Marvelettes
Misery Makes Its Home In My Heart - Diana Ross & the Supremes
Discover Me And You'll Discover Love - Diana Ross & The Supremes
I'll Set You Free - Diana Ross & The Supremes
Long Gone Lover - The Supremes
Remove This Doubt - The Supremes
He's All I Got - The Supremes

One that didn't quite make it to the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 was Live Wire by Martha and the Vandellas...should have been a bigger hit for sure!

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Originally Posted by SatansBlues

My Love Is Yours is my favorite song by the group. The song was produced by Willie Hutch and Gloria Jones. https://youtu.be/0hTZvQFssEc

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The late great Gwen Barry takes lead on this song, she also sang lead on their unreleased track His Honey Is Sweet.

For me this is a very interesting thread. I am very curious about the atmospheric between the groups Marvelettes Martha and The Vandellas, The Supremes and The Andantes, were there friends or more fighting between they. In my opinion The Marvelettes use the Andantes because of their voices, make better harmonies and a smoother sound. But for a lot of Vandellas albums they use only Martha Reeves and The Andantes without The Vandellas. And in the DRATS time we had a lot Andantes voices in the backround. And why made it not in the same way for the male groups? Well I think that The Marvelettes are one of the female groups which made not the total replacing like Martha and The Vandellas! What others think about these facts?