Everyone's Top Ten NON-SUPREMES Motown Songs

[thanxal]

Well, if the Supremes get the royal list treatment, why not everyone else? List your top ten single or album tracks [[no Supremes).

I'm Ready for Love
Nowhere to Run
Bernadette
Reach Out, I'll Be There
Standing in the Shadows of Love
Going to a Go Go
All I Need
Papa was a Rolling Stone
That's the Way I Feel
What's Going On
11. Bless You

[Motown Eddie]

1. Four Tops - "I Can't Help Myself [[Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
2. Stevie Wonder - "Uptight [[Everything's Alright)"
3. The Temptations - "My Girl"
4. The Miracles - "Going To A Go-Go"
5. The Isley Bros. - "This Old Heart Of Mine [[Is Weak For You)"
6. Mary Wells - "My Guy"
7. Martha & the Vandellas - "Dancing In The Street"
8. Marvin Gaye - "How Sweet It Is [[To Be Loved By You)"
9. Gladys Knight & the Pips - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
10. The Marvelettes - "Danger: Heartbreak Dead Ahead"

[TomatoTom123]

Oh my, this one is even harder...
I'll get back to you... eventually :)

[marv2]

Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving
Gladys Knight & the Pips - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye - Pride and Joy
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Heatwave
Kim Weston - Take Me In Your Arms and Rock Me
Temptations - Please Return Your Love to Me
Temptations - Can't Get Next to You
Jackson Five - I Want You Back
The Originals - Baby I'm For Real
Four Tops - I'll Turn to Stone

[woodward]

Marv Johnson - I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose
Isley Brothers - Behind a Painted Smile
Marvelettes - Forever
Contours - Just a Little Misunderstanding
Elgins - It's Been a Long Long Time
Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Martha & the Vandellas - A Love Like Yours
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Velvelettes - He Was Really Saying Something
Marvin Gaye and Valerie Simpson [[aka) Tammi Terrell - Good Loving Ain't Easy To Come By

[Roberta75]

Jimmy Mack
Dancing in the Streets
Nowwhere to Run
I'll be There
What you Gonna do When Im Gone
My Girl
Just My Imaginattion
Dont Leave Me this Way
Please Mr Postman
Whats Going On

[luke]

This ol Heart of Mine Isleys
Heaven Must Have Sent you. Elgins
Girl Why You Wanna Make Me Blue. Tempts
Neither One If Us. Gladys/Pips
When I'm Gone. Brenda
Heat Wave Matha/Vandellas
Nowhere To Run. Martha/Vandellas
Baby I Need Tour Lovin. 4 Tops
I'll Keep On Holdin In Marvelettes
These Things will Keep Me Lovin You.Velvelettes

Honorable Mention. Just a little Musunderstanding. It's a Shame. Don't Leave Me This Way. Since I Lost my Baby. I can't stop lol

[jobucats]

No Particular Order

The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage
I'm a Roadrunner
Bernadette
I'm in a Different World
Nowhere to Run
Your Precious Love
All I Need
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
Sorry is a Sorry Word
Going to a Go Go

[copley]

I can't do this! However I will say that my all time fav Motown single is:-

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Marvelettes

[daviddh]

this old heart of mine
nowhere to run
cant help myself
reach out ill be there
standing in the shadows
going to go go
all I need
get ready
tears of a clown
mickeys monkey
no time for tears

[daviddh]

darn I forgot Dancing In The Streets.

[tmd]

Reach Out
What Does it Take
I could never Love Another
More Love
For Once in My Life
Too Busy Thinking About my Baby
This Old heart of Mine
Gonna Give her All The Love I Got
Ask The Lonely
Heaven Must have Sent You

[Luciano]

1. Marvin Gaye "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
2. The Temptations "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"
3. Gladys Knight and the Pips "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
4. Stevie Wonder "Living For The City"
5. Jimmy Ruffin "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted"

[jobeterob]

My baby loves me Martha
Gladys' Grapevine
Tell Her Love Has Felt the need - Eddie
Playboy Marvelettes
With You I'm Born Again Syreeta & billy
Since I lost my Baby Temptations
It's Growing Temptations
Endless Love Diana and Lionel
Sinner Man Valerie Simpson
Love Woke Me Up This Morning Valerie Simpson

[biggestfourtops fan]

1. FOUR TOPS- TEAHOUSE IN CHINATOWN
2. JIMMY RUFFIN- LOVE GIVES LOVE TAKES AWAY
3. DAVID RUFFIN and TEMPTATIONS version of KNOW SHE'S NOT A MANNEQUIN
4. IVY JO HUNTER- DON'T STOP LOVING ME and I REMEMBER WHEN
5. THE FOUR TOPS- YESTERDAY'S DREAMS and I'M IN A DIFFERENT WORLD
6. DENNIS EDWARDS- I FEEL LIKE I'M FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
7. THE FANTASTIC FOUR- DON'T TELL ME I'M CRAZY and TAKE HIM BACK IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY
8. CHUCK JACKSON- TO SEE THE SUN AGAIN and ROSALIND and THANKS BUT NO THANKS
9. FRANCIS NERO- KEEP ON LOVING ME
10. BLINKY- IT'S GONNA BE ALWAYS

[robb_k]

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I've got to mention that this poll is ridiculous, because I could fit over 100 Motown songs into my Top 10. To me there are over 100 Motown recordings that are absolutely perfect, and I can't choose between them. These are the first 10 I thought of now:

1)My Girl -Temptations
2)Ask The Lonely - Four Tops
3)All I Do[[Is Think About You) - Tammi Terrell
4)Truly Yours - Spinners
5)Crying In The Night - Monitors
6)I'll Come Running - Carolyn Crawford
7)A Tear From A Woman's Eye - Temptations
8)This Old Heart Of Mine [[Is Weak For You) - Isley Brothers
9)Since I Lost My Baby - Temptations
10)Love Woke Me Up This Morning - Brenda Holloway

[Ngroove]

The Fantastic Four - "I Feel Like I'm Falling In Love Again"
Edwin Starr - "Pretty Little Angel"
Terry Johnson - "My Springtime"
The Temptations - "My Girl"
Mary Wells - "My Guy"
Marvin Gaye - "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - "My Baby Loves Me"
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - "I'm Ready For Love"
Junior Walker & the All-Stars - "What Does It Take [[To Win Your Love)"

QUESTION: Can Edwin Starr's "Headline News" count? Yes, I know, first recorded Ric-Tic, first 45 form would likely say so, but probable first full album appearance in Gordy's "Soul Master".

[arr&bee]

No supremes? [hehe]...girl why you wanna make me blue[temps]..there's no love left[isley bros.]..i'll try something new[the miracles]..pretty little baby[marvin gaye]..malinda[bobby taylor]..all i do is think of you[the jacksons]..wild one[martha reeves and the vandellas]..hey love[stevie wonder]..can i[eddie kendricks]..two lovers[mary wells].

[TomatoTom123]

I really can't do this, lol

I can say that The Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" is my all-time FAVE Motown song!!

[sophisticated_soul]

Nowhere To Run - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Take Me in Your Arms [[Rock Me a Little While) - Kim Weston
You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Just Look What You've Done - Brenda Holloway
Don't Look Back - The Temptations
One Block From Heaven - Mary Wells
Something About You - The Four Tops
Love's Gone Bad - Chris Clark
All I Do [[Is Think About You) - Tammi Terrell
Truly Yours - The Spinners

[floyjoy678]

Baby I need your loving-four tops
Love is like a heatwave-martha and the vandellas
It's a good feeling-the miracles
Don't mess with Bill-the marvelettes
My baby loves me-martha and the vandellas
You're a wonderful one-marvin gaye
You lost the sweetest boy-mary wells
It's all in the game-four tops
Ain't that peculiar-marvin gaye
Jimmy mack-vandellas

[destruction]

Three immediately come to mind:

1. I Was Made to Love Her
2. Function at the Junction
3. The Temptations.

More later.

[motownjohnny]

Here in no particular order are my favourites:

1. Sweet Thing - Marvin Gaye
2. Looking Back - Mary Wells
3. Too Many Fish In The Sea - The Marvelettes
4. First I Look At The Purse - The Contours
5. Sad Song - Brenda Holloway
6. These Eyes - Jr. Walker and The All Stars
7. Baby, I'm For Real - The Originals
8. Nobody'll Care - Martha and The Vandellas
9. Can I - Eddie Kendricks
10. If You Don't Want My Love - Four Tops

[mowsville]

This so hard...as a few have said before it would prob change if i was asked again tomorrow but heres todays.

1...Without The One You Love...Four Tops
2...I'll Be Alright...Brenda Holloway
3...All I Do...Tammi Terrell
4...Suspicion...Originals
5...Spellbound...Martha And The Vandellas
6...Come Round Here...Smokey & The Miracles
7...Girl Why You Wanna Make Me Blue...Temptations
8...My Smile Is Just A Frown...Carolyn Crawford
9...Honey Boy...Mary Wells
10...Put yourself in My Place...Elgins

[Tamla Junkie]

In no particular order:

Shop Around [[-A1 matrix version) by the Miracles

Going to a Go-Go by the Miracles

Snake Walk [[both parts) by the Swinging Tigers [[The Funk Bros)

Money by Barrett Strong

Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye

Strange Love by Mary Wells

Who's The Fool by Singin' Sammy Ward

I Know How It Feels by the Satintones

The Day Will Come by Freddie Gorman

Please Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes

There are only four sides on this list I would consider "perfect" recordings, but I love each of them just the same, warts and all.

[Thornton]

Yikes! This was harder than The Supremes thread. Here goes...

1. Take Me In Your Arms [[Rock Me A Little While)-Kim Weston
2. Too Many Fish In the Sea-The Marvelettes
3. Needle In A Haystack-The Velvelettes
4. I Second That Emotion-The Miracles
5. Nowhere to Run-Martha and the Vandellas
6. Dancing In the Street-Martha and the Vandellas
7. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing-Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
8. If You Really Love Me-Stevie Wonder
9. Walk Away Renee-Four Tops
10. I Want You Back-Jackson 5

[destruction]

Three immediately come to mind:

1. I Was Made to Love Her
2. Function at the Junction
3. The Temptations.

More later.

Does Your Mama Know About Me....b/w I Am Your Man.

6 to go.