Forgot this one by Kimberly Briggs aka Kim Tolliver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePxKjv1-dU
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Forgot this one by Kimberly Briggs aka Kim Tolliver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePxKjv1-dU
I Wish It Would Rain - Johnny Adams
Ooh Baby Baby - The Escorts
You Can Depend On Me - Barbara Mason
Baby I'm For Real - The Ballads, Esther Phillips
"my world is empty without you" by diamanda galas ... a shivering version
"7 rooms of gloom" by blondie
Shake Me, Wake Me [[When It's Over) - Al Wilson
Come See About Me - Nella Dodds
Everybody Needs Love [Live] - Maxine Brown
You're My Everything - Freddie Hughes
I Wish It Would Rain - Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon
I Could Never Love Another - Four Tees
Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got - Benny Gordon
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Chi-lites
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - Was [Not Was]
Cloud Nine - Rod Stewart
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - Gene Latter
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Karen Hernandez
Just My Imagination [[Running Away with Me) - Dave Barker
Come and Get These Memories - Anna King
You Keep Me Hangin' On [#][Outtake] - Aretha Franklin
Leaving Here - Birds
Take Me in Your Arms - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Reach Out [[I'll Be There) - Chris Farlowe
Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Barry White
Remove This Doubt - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
There's a Ghost in My House - The Fall
A Love Like Yours [Don't Come Knocking Every Day] - Ike & Tina Turner
It's the Same Old Song - Lamont Dozier
Function at the Junction - Little Richard
Baby I Need Your Loving - O C Smith
Baby Don't You Do It - Small Faces
I Can't Help Myself [[Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Taj Mahal
How Sweet It Is [[To Be Loved by You) - Tyrone Davis
Of course I like all the originals these just make a change.
Thanks for posting. A very interesting take. A really nice arrangement. I would have loved to hear more from the guitar - kind of reminded me of Kenny Burrell. Ella is more straightforward and less jazzy vocally than I would have expected. Of course, Wanda is my all time favorite Motown singer so I can't say it surpasses her version, but a lovely interpretation nonetheless!
Kenneth, interesting thread. It's much too early for me on a weekend to come up with anything to add. But go ahead Jobete, most of these covers were good, some were artistically challenged, but the root is that they are all published by Jobete.
Also, in the sixties music was more banded together, so while I may have been a big fan of Johnny Rivers, I would have heard the 4 Tops version when it came out on the same radio station previously. As we move into the 70's there were more distinct categories on radio, so Please Mr. Postman by the Carpenters would have been heard by perhaps those who were nostalgic of the Marvelettes version, but also the next generation, who would have no idea who the Marvellettes were. By the 80's folks who enjoyed Rod Stewarts, This Old Heart Of Mine, probably had no connection to who Ronnie Isley was, even if he was in the video and singing along with Rod. If I was of a generation that grew up loving Ella Fitzgerald, I might have thought, "there was Ella doing her thing", but I doubt that I would have regarded the originals as anything other than "young peoples music". The point being that the music is truly enjoyed by people all over the world regardless, of culture, age, financial station or location.
I am awake now, I submit, The J Geils Band, First I Look At The Purse, which was who I first heard do the song in 1981 - ish, some 16 years after the Contours version was released, it rocked with a capital R.
You've Been In Love Too Long - Bonnie Raitt. That woman rocks that song!
And let's not forget the non-Motown covers by Motown artists...some of my faves include Martha and the Vandella's cover of Hello Stranger, Stevie Wonder's cover of Bobby Bland's I Pity The Fool, and the Elgins covering Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour and 634-5789.
my punk rock past leans me toward the cover of "Do You Love Me" by ex New York Doll Johnny Thunders and his band The Heartbreakers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6Ixv5xKl8
Gosh, near fifty posts, can't believe this obvious Motown cover[[s) has been forgotten mentioning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiyhJ_1ao_E
Another cover that slipped my memory.
A Love Like Yours - Dusty Springfield [[she recorded it twice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBmdDPdrR4
"Get Ready" - Delroy Wilson [[+ numerous other Motown covers that he cut).
I likws the entire Smith Connection album, but I guess this is the one that I played the most
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XHEpBL_zwU
How about this version of You Can't Hurry Love by a performer on X Factor Australia and actually judged by Berry Gordy's son Stefan [[aka Redfoo).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_igk1iDV4
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Since I've Lost You - Clay Hunt
Angel Baby - Darrell Banks
More, More, More of Your Love - Bob Brady & Con Chords
I Need Your Lovin' - Mary Holmes
How about a little rock with a groove by The Doobie Brothers - Take Me In Your Arms [[Rock Me)
https://youtu.be/MCJHHoYm5zE
"You Keep Running Away" by the Buttshakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXtzpZ1co5o
Lulu: HEAVEN MUST HAVE SENT YOU
https://youtu.be/QM8NemH0OTc
The Dazz Band did a very respectful version of "Bad Girl" that I love to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbzK0zKrxU
And A Taste Of Honey did a great job with another Smokey song, "I'll Try Something New".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFKw0gsjiQE
Stop! In the name of Love - Margie Joseph
California Soul - Marlena Shaw
Get ready - Ella Fitzgerald
Every little bit hurts - Arteha Franklin
Tony Bennett- For Once In My Life
Ike & Tina- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
and 2 just for fun....
Flying Lizzards - Money
Afghan Wigs - My World is Empty
Don’t Wonder Why- The Main Ingredient
You Keep Me Hanging On- Vanilla Fudge
Lately- Jodeci
Absolutely Love this version by Bettye !...…….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL7mjcv4Yd8
My three stand outs are
You keep me hanging on - Vanilla Fudge
California Soul - Marlena Shaw
Ribbon in the sky - Intro
How about Tom Jones!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWF2NfeD8Y
Ella could sing anything.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2Y9IKUTIU
Technically he was briefly a Motown artist . Technically this is not a Motown song,but so what? LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bh_bU6KOwg
I always enjoyed Kim Carnes cover of this Smokey song......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJm-kG922PI
Tower of Power covering Stevie Wonder is an immediate "win" for me - the studio version from their "American Soul Book" album is incredible, but it's fun to see them do it live too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_vsCmjyAE
One more from the late 70s, co-produced by none other than McKinley Jackson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwUm--jKoI