Motown artists sound a likes?

[Optimal Saint]

I know that JJ Barnes sounds very similar to Marvin

Are there other artists that have been dead ringers for other Motown stars?

Is there a singer that sounds exactly like David Ruffin or Stevie Wonder or Diana Ross?

[nativeNY63]

James Hunter [[lead on James Hunter Six) - Marvin/Al Green
At least [[2) artists sound like Stevie! Can't remember their names, though. One had Stevie do a harmonica solo on a track! [[You're The Only One That I Need)
An artist that could very well do a DRATS tribute! She was recording back in the mid-70's. Irma-something. I think.[[not Irma Thomas)

All I have for now.

[nabob]

Barry White co-wrote and produced It May Be Winter Outside on Felice Taylor in 1966. The arrangement and the coos were very much like the Supremes' records.

https://youtu.be/blZTkzPUFtE

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

I always had the feeling Ric Tic was hoping for a Diana Ross-type artist in Rose Batiste. Maybe it's just me...
https://youtu.be/tSQKlgJ9eyM

[Motown Eddie]

We can't forget Deon Jackson's classic "Love Makes The World Go Round" [[which sounds a lot like Smokey Robinson in spots).

https://youtu.be/ETkVz2M092M

[TomatoTom123]

John Valenti [[lead singer of Motown group Puzzle) sounds a lot like Stevie!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG50o_bdsJQ

[TomatoTom123]

Steve Parks is a bit of a Smokey soundalike!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABghwTfqCEU

[RanRan79]

John Valenti [[lead singer of Motown group Puzzle) sounds a lot like Stevie!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG50o_bdsJQ

Oh boy Tom, you're right! Definitely very Stevie-ish with his voice.

[RanRan79]

I always had the feeling Ric Tic was hoping for a Diana Ross-type artist in Rose Batiste. Maybe it's just me...
https://youtu.be/tSQKlgJ9eyM

No, I hear it.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Tom, you hit that nail right on the head for both Stevie AND Smokey!

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

No, I hear it.thanks for that! sometimes you don't trust your own ears...

[TomatoTom123]

Oh boy Tom, you're right! Definitely very Stevie-ish with his voice.

Definitely RanRan :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAOVQa_ouX0

[TomatoTom123]

Thanks Gary!!! :)

[nativeNY63]

One of the Stevie sound,-a-likes is PJ Morton.
Diana? Not Irma, but Suzee Keda. She was actually a Motown artist!

[JohnnyRavenATL]

Motown’s very own, the late Syreeta Wright definitely had a very Diana-ish quality to her voice. I loved her set of previously unreleased tunes on ACE and can easily see why BG wanted her to replace Ross in the group.

Also Oma Page/Hurd sounded very Mary Wells-like.

[benross]

In early 1967, a studio group sounding somewhat like Diana Ross & The Supremes did a Ban Deodorant radio commercial that seemed a bit like a mash-up of Baby Love and Love Is Here And Now You're Gone.

While the voices and the repeated "ooh-oohs" of the verse created a general impression, the specific connection came in the bridge with this:

[[vocal) "Ban gets you through the longest day; Ban has the stuff to stay and stay..."
[[spoken) "Stay and stay...[hiccup-type sound like those after the spoken passages in Love Is Here...]

[arr&bee]

Steve mancha sounded like marvin...george benson sounds like stevie.