Numbers with Motown

[rovereab]

Just for some fun in this depressing world in which we live!

Which Motown songs feature numbers in their title? I'll start with:

Two Can Have A Party - Marvin and Tammi
Once, Twice, Three Times A Lady - Commodores
7 Rooms Of Gloom - Four Tops

Over to you all!

[reese]

One Love in My Lifetime - Diana Ross
What's Easy for Two is So Hard for One - Mary Wells

[marybrewster]

It Takes Two - Marvin and Kim
Beechwood 4-5789 - Marvelettes

[Motown Eddie]

"Two Lovers"-Mary Wells
"I've Made Love To You A Thousand Times"-Smokey Robinson

[Motown Eddie]

"6 By 6"-Earl Van Dyke
"2-4-6-8"-The Jackson 5
"5:30 Plane"-The Supremes
"Twenty-Five Miles"-Edwin Starr

[MIKEW-UK]

Marvin Gaye cover of The Presidents "5, 10, 15, 20 Years Of Love"

Originals Fifty Years

Eddie Kendricks /Undisputed Truth/ The Magic Disco Machine Let's Go Back To Day One

Temptations /Gladys Knight Cloud Nine

Temptations / Undisputed Truth 1990

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas Wild One


David Ruffin One More Hurt


Chuck Jackson Two Feet From Happiness


The Originals Lie No. 2


Barbara McNair Just One Teardrop [[From A Broken Heart)


The Originals Call On Your Six Million Dollar Man


Bettye Lavette You Seen One You Seen ‘Em All


Bobby Taylor Temptations Two Sides To Love


Isley Brothers Bobby Taylor One Too Many Heartaches


Bobby Taylor One Girl


Thelma Houston– No One’s Gonna Be A Fool Forever


The Originals One Life You Live


The Originals You’re The One

Marvin Gaye One More Heartache

Ronnie McNeir 2-1= Loneliness

Stevie Wonder Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away

[jobucats]

"One Day in Your Life" Michael Jackson
"Two Can Have a Party" Marvin and Tammi
"You Were the One" Diana Ross
"Just Seven Numbers" Four Tops

The number can be in word form, right?

[motony]

The ONE who Really Loves You by Mary Wells, Once Upon A Time by Marvin & Mary.

[mysterysinger]

"A Million To One" was a Jobete song [[Jimmy Charles).
"Forty Miles Of Bad Road" [[Duane Eddy - well it did get a Motown release)
"Ich-I-Bon #1" [[Nick & The Jaguars)
"My 2 Arms - U = Tears" [[Elgins)
"634-5789" [[Elgins)

[motony]

My Two Arms Minus You=Tears by MARY WELLS.

[copley]

The Marvelettes

Just One More Kiss [[Before You Leave Me)
One Kiss Led To Another
Three Months
You're The One For Me Bobby
You're The One

12 O'Clock - Spinners
24 Hours [[To Find My Baby) - Edwin Starr
Agent Double-0 Soul - Edwin Starr
Going Down For The Third Time - Supremes
[[He's) Seventeen - Supremes
Only Sixteen - Supremes
6 By 6 - Earl Van Dyke
Land Of A Thousand Boys - Brenda Holloway
My 2 Arms - U = Tears - Patrice Holloway/Elgins/Mary Wells
Eight Hour Drag - Jr Walker
Three Four Three - Jr Walker
One And One Makes Two - Mary Wells
Til Twelve O'Clock - Stevie Wonder

[Graham Jarvis]

One Girl Too Many-The Perigents, Jobete & Ed Wingate. [Berry's]
This is fun! plenty more


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88hCX2YqpG8

[Stax_of_Motown]

96 Tears - Jimmy Ruffin

[rovereab]

"One Day in Your Life" Michael Jackson
"Two Can Have a Party" Marvin and Tammi
"You Were the One" Diana Ross
"Just Seven Numbers" Four Tops

The number can be in word form, right?

Oh yes, word form or whatever, just a bit of fun for us!

[robb_k]

21353

"A Million To One" was a Jobete song [[Jimmy Charles).
"Forty Miles Of Bad Road" [[Duane Eddy - well it did get a Motown release)
"Ich-I-Bon #1" [[Nick & The Jaguars)
"My 2 Arms - U = Tears" [[Elgins)
"634-5789" [[Elgins)

That must have been a much later purchase by Jobete. I bought that record when it was first out, and no way was it first published by them. my record shows it was a new York production in early 1960 [[before Jobete Music New York was started [[spring 1963), written by Phil Medley, and published by Starflower Music. So, considering that song as a "Motown product' of any kind is stretching things a lot.

[mysterysinger]

21353


That must have been a much later purchase by Jobete. I bought that record when it was first out, and no way was it first published by them. my record shows it was a new York production in early 1960 [[before Jobete Music New York was started [[spring 1963), written by Phil Medley, and published by Starflower Music. So, considering that song as a "Motown product' of any kind is stretching things a lot.

The song was in a Jobete music book I bought in the 1970s. This was called "The Motown Era". I've associated it with Motown since then.

THE MOTOWN ERA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cookephotography/36599569274/in/photolist-2oGgAUm-2oGgAUX-2oGjEc1-2oGjEc6-2oGjEcG-2oGjEdi-2oGjEf2-2oGkoKv-2oGkoLc-2oGkoNG-2oGmBYy-2oGmBYD-2oGmBYP-2oGmBYU-2oGn1NQ-2oGn1NV-2oGn1P6-2oHmUaT-2oHmUbp-2oHmUbE-2oHqJAr-2oGfAHB-2oGfAJ8-2oGfAJJ-2oGfAKL-2oGgASh-2oGiDRP-2oGiDSv-2oGiDT2-2oGiDTn-2oGiDTN-2oGiDUE-2oGjpom-2oGjppd-2oGjprT-2oGjps4-2oGjpsp-2oGkBFS-2oGkBG3-2oGkBJ2-2oGkBJN-2oGkBKK-2oGkZRS-2oGkZTf-2oGkZVj-2oGjprh-2oGgAVo-2oGjEeL-2oGkZVp-XLbmQs


DFTMC has the following information

Million To One, A [[Phil Medley) published Starflower/Jobete
Jimmy Charles & The Revelletts; recording details unknown
1960; 45: Promo P-1002 A

However, I mostly associate the song with Donny Osmond, since in 1973 MGM issued his single "Young Love" c/w "A Million To One" and lo and behold the publisher for the latter was shown as Stone Agate Music. Jermaine Jackson also recorded the song on his "Come Into My Life" album.

DONNY OSMOND - A MILLION TO ONE

https://www.discogs.com/release/966666-Donny-Osmond-A-Million-To-One-Young-Love/image/SW1hZ2U6MjY4MTMzMzE=

[Starguard4]

Gladys & Pips - Neither One Of Us [[Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
Dazz Band - On The One For Fun
The Temptations - One Man Woman ...from the 1983 "Surface Thrills" LP
Commodores - Three Times A Lady
Rick James - 1, 2, 3 [[You Her And Me)
... and finally, just for a bit of fun LOL...
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up [[Part 1)

[mysterysinger]

Jimmy Charles re-issue shows Stone Agate too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3353470-The-Classics-4-Jimmy-Charles-And-The-Revellettes-Till-Then-A-Million-To-One/image/SW1hZ2U6NjI2MDY1MQ==