Motown Songs for Turbulent Times

[zani57]

https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/50-year-old-motown-protest-songs-still-relevant-15315865

[DWSheffer]

Even less than a year ago when I was talking with Cal Street we agreed "Ball of Confusion" was as poignant of a song for current times as it was in 1970, and obviously that was before the recent events.

[marv2]

What's interesting, to me is that I lived through all of that and when all of those songs were originally released. So it goes........

[Motown Eddie]

This is one list of songs that I can really get behind during these troubled times.

[grapevine]

...here's another

Power To Motown People! - Civil Rights Anthems and Political Soul 1968-1975

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Grape :)

[midnightman]

Love these lists.

[arr&bee]

Good songs,and if i may add-power[the temps]...you haven't done nothin[stevie]...message from a blackman[temps].

[Motown Eddie]

In addition to all of great songs that came out of Motown in the late '60s & '70s that addressed social issues, here's an article about the company's spoken word label, Black Forum.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/black-forum-motown-spoken-word-imprint/

[Edgar]

And they left out quite a few:
You Haven't Done Nothing
Stoned Love
Pastime Paradise
What It Is
Forget Me Not
The Onion Song
Reach Out and Touch [[Somebody's Hand)
Mercy, Mercy Me [[The Ecology)
Law of the Land
One More Baby Child Born
The Boy from Crosstown
Runaway Child, Running Wild
Love Child
The Loving Country
Child of Love
Let There Be Love
I'll Let My Light in My Window
Stone Liberty
Save the Children
Hurry Tomorrow
Take a Look Around
Village Ghetto Land
Genius I
Genius II
Now the Bitter, Now the Sweet
Sleepin'

[TomatoTom123]

Good list Edgar! :)