Top ten Motown favorites

[Ngroove]

Hello, ngroove here. Nicholas C Jesson's the name, Bit over a dozen-year Motown listener-nut since reaching adolescence, when songs like "My Girl" and "How Sweet It Is" finally made sense. To get aquainted with you folks here, how about a good ol' fashioned learning of our musical tastes?

At the moment:


10. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
9. Switch - Love Over and Over Again
8. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - What Does It Take [[To Win Your Love)
7. Syreeta - Spinnin' and Spinnin'
6. Monitors - Say You
5. Michael Jackson - With A Child's Heart
4. Supremes - Touch
3. Lionel Richie - Love Will Conquer All
2. Fantastic Four - Feel Like I'm Fallin' In Love Again
1. Smokey Robinson - I've Made Love To You A Thousand Times

[arrr&bee]

Hey ngroove,what's up? Now let me see top ten...10[wild one-the vandellas]9[pretty little baby-marvin gaye]8[thes eyes-jr.walker]7[the tears-the supremes]6[you're the one-the marvelettes]5[can i-eddie kendricks]4[i'll try something new-the miracles]4[hey love-stevie wonder]3[my girl-the temps]2[i can't find-smokey]...and my number one motown song is[drumroll].....girl [why you wanna make me blue]the temptations,well that's my top ten!!

[Ngroove]

Doin' great & groovy, arr&bee! Looking forward to producing great conversations on our mutual music we love!

[Motown4Ever518]

Ngroove what a great position to be in, discovering this music with one thing leading to another, and another.........My Top 10 in descending order would be the following;
#10 It's The Same Old Song-4 Tops
#9 The Girls Alright With Me-Temptations
#8 This Old Heart Of Mine- Isley Brothers
#7 I Hear A Symphony- Supremes
#6 Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye + Tammi Terrell,
#5 The Stranger - Tammi Terrell[[Previous Unreleased)
#4 Trapped - Brenda Holloway[[Previously Unreleased)
#3 Let Love Live - Velvelettes[[Previously Unreleased)
#2 First I look At The Purse - Contours.
#1 It's A Good Feeling - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

As you can see all are from the "Classic Period", and 1 was a B-Side, and 3 were not deemed ready for commercial consumption at the time they were produced, HDH wrote 4 of the songs, Smokey wrote 2, and my favorite writers Ashford and Simpson wrote 2.

[Ngroove]

Aw nuts – almost forgotten about the Originals – now they were gentlemanly true romantics from the classy soul class as the Dells,Chi-Lites, Stylistics, Bloodstone, and the Manhattans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7UitkUnc9U

[robb_k]

4599
1. "Tears From A Woman's Eyes"-Temptations
2. "I'll Come Running"-Carolyn Crawford
3. "My Beloved"-Satintones
4. "The Tracks of My Tears"-Miracles
5. "I'll Always Love You"-Spinners
6. "Someone to Call My Own"-Equadors
7. "All I Have Left Are Memories"-Sammy Turner & Serenaders
8. "This Old Heart of Mine [[Is Weak For You)"-Isley Brothers
9. "Crying In the Night"-Monitors
10. "Suspicion"-Originals

Second "Top 10"-all just as good:

"Any Girl in Love"-kim Weston
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"-Versatones
"My Girl"-Temptations
"I'll Try Something New"-Miracles
"My Guy"-Mary Wells
"Cry"-Majestics
"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"-Jimmy Ruffin
"Everybody Needs Love"-Gladys Knight & Pips
"Tears, Nobody and a Smile"-Serenaders
"Who You Gonna Run To"-Mickey McCullers

I could make up 50 more "Top 10s"-all with perfectly made and sung recordings. They'd ALL be equal in my ranking at 100 [[top rating possible. Motown has made over 100 perfect recordings, to my taste. I have different favourites to choose from each day, based on my mood. And the quality doesn't drop one iota.

[luke]

1)This Old Heart-Isleys
2)Heaven Must Have Sent U-Elgins
3)I'llKeep On Holdin On-Marvelettes
5)Heat Weave-Vandellas
6)Nowhere to Run-Vandellas
7)Where did Our Love Go-Supremes
8)You Keep Me Hangin On-Supremes
9)Baby I Need You Lovin-Tops
10)Hes My Man-Supremes

Welcome!

[thisoldheart]

this is unfair torture! but, at this millisecond in time [[and with apologies to almost every motown artist not listed), and with NO studying, here is my list:

1. [[come 'round here) i'm the one you need - miracles
1. the hunter gets captured by the game - marvelettes
2. darlin', come back home - eddie kendricks
3. trouble man - marvin gaye
4. i love every little thing about you - syreeta
5. 7 rooms of gloom - four tops
6. i'm ready for love - martha & the vandellas
7. remove this doubt - supremes
8. love starved heart - marvin gaye
9. keep on running - stevie wonder
10. girl, why you wanna make me blue - temptations
10. bad weather - supremes

plus i cheated!

[marv2]

Ok, here we go:

1. Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops
2. Please Return Your Love to Me - The Temptations
3. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the Pips
4. Come See About Me - The Supremes
5. Stoned Love - The Supremes
6. Pride and Joy - Marvin Gaye
7. Nowhere to Run - Martha & The Vandellas
8. Celebrate - Rare Earth
9. I Want You Back - The Jackson Five
10. Baby I'm For Real - The Originals

It would have been easier for me to do my Top 100.

[jobeterob]

1. I'm Losing You - TCB Version - Temptations
1. Message from a Black Man - Temptations
1. Isn't She Pretty - Temptations
2. Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
2. You Keep Me Hangin On - Supremes
3. And If You See Him - Ross
3. Remember Me - Ross
4. I'm Ready For Love - Vandellas
4. Nowhere to Run - Vandellas
5. Still Water [[Peace) - Tops
6. Grapevine - Gladys
7. I Want You - Marvin
8. Master Blaster - Stevie
8. I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie
8. Loves In Need of Love Today - Stevie
9. Nightshift - Commodores
10. With You I'm Born Again - Billy & Syreeta
11. Love It Came to Me This Time - Jean Supremes

[thisoldheart]

It would have been easier for me to do my Top 100.
oh so true!

[144man]

It would have been easier for me to do my Top 100.

I tried that once and it's not at all easier.

[Ngroove]

I tried that once and it's not at all easier.

True, true, when there are probably thousands of offerings.

Myself, I love just about almost everything; well, although Marvin Gaye-wise, I've found myself preferring to listen to his "One More Heartache", "You" and "Chained" over his "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", "What's Going On" and "Let's Get It On", and Smokey Robinson, absolutely love his "Being With You", but "Cruisin" bores me too much to figure out how that became as big as it was.

[captainjames]

Ok I am going to give this a shot:

10. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - Marvin Gaye
9. Going Down For The Third Time - The Supremes
8. I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
7. Needle in a Haystack - The Velvelettes
6. Touch Me In The Morning - Diana Ross
5. The Bells - The Originals
4. Nobody's Going To Change Me - Dynamic Superiors
3. Just My Imagination - The Temptations
2. Destination Anywhere - The Marvelettes
1. Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me - Gladys Knight and The Pips

[rovereab]

As a result of my latest purchase:

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I'll get over it next week :)

Eamonn