Motown Songs That Should Have Movies

[Koach]

Can you think of Motown songs that could have inspired the plot line of a movie? I can picture for I'm Living' in Shame a movie about a woman with a husband/small son whose mother died. We get glimpses of hers and her mother's ups and downs as she struggles with her own guilt and forgiving stages.

[arr&bee]

If you listen to[i'm living in shame]the story is closer to[imitation of life]..the smokey gem[i can't find]could be the told in flashback-a youngman loses his true love through his own selfishness and realises too late that true love sometimes only comes once.

[kenneth]

Perhaps not the song by itself, but I always thought the cover of the album "If I Were Your Woman" was really clever...showing Gladys picturing herself with each of the three Pips. At least, it was cute and clever if you could forget the fact that they were related to her, including one who was her brother! But it was clearly inspired by kind of a movie plot idea.

[skooldem1]

Pappa was a rolling stone

[captainjames]

"Who's Gonna Take The Blame" by Smokey and The Miracles
" Needle In he Haystack" by The Velvelettes
" My Baby Must Be A Magician" - The Marvelettes

[thomas96]

I Wish It Would Rain

[mysterysinger]

Shorty Long "Function At The Junction" - A Bit of a Do.
Four Tops "It's The Same Old Song" - Casablanca [[play it again Sam).
Ron & Bill "It" - cute alien or monster
Marvelettes "Little Girls Grow Up" teen anxst movie
Jr Walker "Shoot Your Shot" - Phil Spector's life story
Jr Walker "Hot Cha" - film about canteen ladies
Shorty Long "Stranded In The Jungle" - plane disaster
Martha Reeves "Forget Me Not" - he's off to war
Chuck Jackson "Girls, Girls, Girls" romantic comedy [[probably starring Doris Day).
R Dean Taylor "There's a Ghost in my House" - Hitchcock thriller

[kenneth]

Chuck Jackson "Girls, Girls, Girls" romantic comedy [[probably starring Doris Day).

Actually "Girls Girls Girls" was an Elvis movie!

[mysterysinger]

Elvis would have been good in my movie "Hot Cha" as one of the factory lads.

[captainjames]

I forgot

"Love Child" ------ so many stories behind that one
"Jimmy Mack"--------Pam Grier would have to be in that one

[kenneth]

I always thought "Benjamin" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas sounded like a movie theme, and it told a great story.

Another Reeves tune, "Nowhere to Run," would have been a great theme to a stalking film similar to "Fatal Attraction."

[thomas96]

Fatherless Son - Four Tops

[skooldem1]

Super Freak

[Ngroove]

the Miracles' "City of Angels"

[144man]

Destination: Anywhere - The Marvelettes

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a young girl roams the world looking to find true love. It could even become a TV series with a different location every week.

[144man]

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

A biography of the life of Mick Jagger, narrated by daughter Georgia May.

Reflections

The horror story of a group of teenagers trapped forever in a fairground Hall of Mirrors, each mirror reflecting their own personal hell.

Where Did Our Love Go?

The story of three girls who became the Supremes. [[What!? It's been done before?)

[kenneth]

Destination: Anywhere - The Marvelettes

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a young girl roams the world looking to find true love. It could even become a TV series with a different location every week.

Perfect! Love the song and always thought it sounded like a movie theme!

[marybrewster]

"Keep an Eye" - DRATS
"How Long Has that Evening Train Been Gone" - DRATS
"Last Time I Saw Him" - Diana Ross
"Bill, When are You Coming Back" - The Supremes

[[all sort of have similar, depressing themes, LOL)

[arr&bee]

Wild one-a girl follows her boyfriend all over on his bike knowing that he'll never stay in one place.

[kenneth]

"Keep an Eye" - DRATS
"How Long Has that Evening Train Been Gone" - DRATS
"Last Time I Saw Him" - Diana Ross
"Bill, When are You Coming Back" - The Supremes

[[all sort of have similar, depressing themes, LOL)

You are so right, but you left out "Sleepin'" by Diane.

[Methuselah2]

I always thought "Benjamin" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas sounded like a movie theme, and it told a great story.

Another Reeves tune, "Nowhere to Run," would have been a great theme to a stalking film similar to "Fatal Attraction."

Kenneth - You might be interested to know that in the new movie LOVE AND MERCY about The Beach Boys, a scene turns up with NOWHERE TO RUN playing in the background and it was a real rush to hear it. Sounded so good. Totally agree with you--that recording is ready-made for its close-up on the silver screen.

[kenneth]

Kenneth - You might be interested to know that in the new movie LOVE AND MERCY about The Beach Boys, a scene turns up with NOWHERE TO RUN playing in the background and it was a real rush to hear it. Sounded so good. Totally agree with you--that recording is ready-made for its close-up on the silver screen.

Wow, that is so funny! I think that was the first "Motown song" I was really aware of. though it was already an oldie when I heard it. However, back then they used to sell oldies in the record stores for quite a while after their time on the charts. I remember the record store where I shopped having a huge wall of 45s, probably 200 or so in all. Anyway, it seemed like a huge number. That's where I bought "Nowhere to Run."

[Ngroove]

"Seven Rooms of Gloom" - what's in those seven rooms exactly? Each one something spookier than the last, I bet.

[robb_k]

"First I Look At The Purse"
"Sugar Cane Curtain"
"Randy The Newspaper Boy"
"Linda Sue Dixon" [[LSD)
"Don't Be A Fool - Stay In School"
"I Care About Detroit"
"In The Neighborhood"
"Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [[it had a few films-but not dedicated to the plot line of The Versatones' song) to wit: "I'm gay...Doo Da Day....I'm Doctor Je-e-eckyll, At Night, I'm not right.... I'm Mister Hyde.... Change....Change...Change... is all I do-ooo, for you all the changes I go through-ooo

[alexstassi]

"What's going on?"

[arr&bee]

Roadrunner-about a guy who loves em and leaves em.

[144man]

You Keep Running Away [[Four Tops)

Fantasy/ Thriller about what you get up to during your long disappearances. Do you have a secret identity? Are you a spy, an assassin or a superhero?

I've Passed This Way Before [[Jimmy Ruffin)

Documentary about the symptoms of an ulcerative colitis sufferer.

[144man]

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [[Jimmy Ruffin, The Supremes)

A melodrama about a sad and lonely group of ageing music fans who spend their wasted lives interminably arguing and antagonising on social media about the merits and minutiae of a famous 60s girl group Any resemblance to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental

[arr&bee]

what becomes of the brokenhearted [[jimmy ruffin, the supremes)

a melodrama about a sad and lonely group of ageing music fans who spend their wasted lives interminably arguing and antagonising on social media about the merits and minutiae of a famous 60s girl group any resemblance to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental

144man..you ain't right..haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

[kenneth]

Maybe a better title for 144man's movie would be "Living in a World I Created For Myself!"

[arr&bee]

Run,run,run-the supremes-a lonely spinster can't get a date because she suffers the heartache of.....diarrea!!!

[144man]

Maybe a better title for 144man's movie would be "Living in a World I Created For Myself!"

Very good!

[144man]

He was Really Saying Something [[Velvelettes)

The story of Willie Tyler, as told by Lester.

[Hotspurman]

Living For The City - Stevie Wonder
Just My Imagination - The Temptations