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Love that one thanx!
Rod had a great Motown soundalike on his new album last year!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynd_2Yjf8Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kuz6CdDBOg
guilty pleasure!!
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Barrett Strong and Sonny Sanders made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433nN9OfI58
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Yes, you are correct.
Here's one by Kim Weston:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCfjlfnmkM
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Here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9Y4eHkIDg
I've got four walls of just obscure Detroit and Chicago Soul 45s from 1959-70. But my entire collection is R&B, Blues, Jazz, Gospel and soul music from 1936-1972.
You'll like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCyOzsEzWHo
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1965. Motown's Dave Hamilton[[piano & guitar) and George McGregor[[drums) made this . Every record I put on this thread was made with ex-Motowners using current Motown
musicians, recording in Detroit.
You'll like this, too [[Motown L.A.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8CDJnIzQeI
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Probably the most Motowny of them all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4rb20reY4
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This is OUR OWN Spyder Turner, produced and arranged by OUR OWN Dennis Coffey, with Mile Theodore, recorded at Ralph's own Terra Shirma studios. And you can bet several other Motowners were involved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpvbR5Vd5f4
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Couldn't do without Jack Ashford's Pied Piper Productions[[The Cavaliers - who were David Ruffin'd back-up group when he left The Temptations):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyh-RhDSans
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How could we leave out Don Davis Productions [[Solid Hitbound):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0IU8wv5FIk
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One of Harry Balk's best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vIkzM4FQlg
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Another of Harry Balk's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4YNI5vSIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPE1rEdAdI
R.I.P. SHARON JONES :[[
Darell Banks- Open the Door To Your Heart!
Honey Cone-Want Ads
Aretha- Respect, I Can’t See Myself Leaving You
The O’jays- Lipstick Traces
JJ Barnes- Baby, Please Come Home
Johnnie Taylor-I Ain’t Particular
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The Dynamics before "Ice Cream Song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQWAWtifqXQ
Dionne Bromfield - "Ouch That Hurt"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkdW7JEv3k
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The O'Jays had much more Motowny sounding cuts than "Lipstick Traces". They had ex-Motowners, Don Davis, Jack Ashford, Mike Terry record them in Detroit, using The Funk Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4cdIvBAGzg
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Here's another, written by ex-Motowner, Don Juan Mancha, and soon-to-be Motowner, Edwin Starr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZrOfdZNxE
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Here's A Deon Jackson song written and produced by 2 ex-Motowners Popcorn Wylie & Tony Hester, and arranged by ex-Motowner, Mike Terry, that was recorded at United Sound, using The Funk Brothers, and sounds more Motownish than any of his others [[which all sounded something like Motown):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKNxG5-l4eg
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J.J. Barnes had many:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUZu_xgzr4M
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Here's one from Head Funk Brother, Joe Hunter, with Mike Terry on Bari Sax, using The Funk Brothers. This is Detroit's first Dramatics [[from 1963), before the Ron Banks group. This has Harry [[Lee) Gates on lead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvodizdx3Sc
J. J. Barnes - Baby Please Come Back Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n82CFE7Fdc
This one by Steve Winwood sounded so much like "Motown" that he got sued for it LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vkKozA8OI
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Another great Theodore-Coffey cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjALToNE0bc
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Here's one from L.A,'s Motown people - Willie Hutch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0NfadP3slo&list=RDU0NfadP3slo&sta rt_radio =1&t=44
There are a lot of great songs here, a lot I’d never heard
Bonus points: what Motown artists do you think should have sung these songs?
I think Martha & the Vandellas would have done well with the Flirtations Nothing but a Heartache
Marvin Gaye could do any JJ Barnes song
I’d have to be listening really closely to realize that Please Come Home isn’t Marvin
Good call, Motown Eddie & Midnight Man for suggesting Culture Club's "Church of the Poison Mind" and Soul Wally for Godley & Creme's "Wedding Bells". Those are not obvious choices, but I bought them at the time because I thought they sounded like Motown.
I would suggest Patrice Holloway's "Love and Desire" and "Ecstasy".
Dobie Gray - "The In-Crowd"
Mary Wells - "Use Your Head"
Mary Wells - "Everlovin' Boy"
Len Barry - "It's A Crying Shame"
[[Thanks to Len Barry -Topic for uploading to YouTube)
https://youtu.be/ej0Z6ohXv8U
Can't forget about Edwin Starr's first singles on Ric-Tic [[they sounded so much like Motown that B.G. bought the company and Edwin became a Motown artist).
https://img.discogs.com/-lTFK4WNU0hV...-5570.jpeg.jpg
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Good question OS:
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles [[or Marvin Gaye) should've sang Deon Jackson' "Love Makes The World Go Round"
The Supremes should've sang Christine Cooper's "S.O.S. [[Heart In Distress)" or "Heartaches Away My Boy" [[and they should've done The Toys' "A Lover's Concerto" first)
And just picture The Contours doing The Capitol's "Cool Jerk".
Yeah, PeaceNHarmony, and this version, too! Reminiscent of Kiki Dee's Motown recordings.
[[Thanks to Various Artists - Topic for uploading to YouTube)
https://youtu.be/Zz1EEC30WbE