Love this one too. Marv Johnson from 1959 and "Come to Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns1ZCXFCIj8
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Love this one too. Marv Johnson from 1959 and "Come to Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns1ZCXFCIj8
This should have been a big hit. DeBarge - "Time Will Reveal" from late 1983:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_988-cpiG94
DeBarge's "Time Will Reveal" was a big hit [[at #1 R&B and #18 Pop) in 1983. And speaking of DeBarge, Bunny DeBarge's "Save The Best For Me [[Best Of Your Lovin')" [[from 1987) is a better example of a great but rarely heard track.
https://youtu.be/ZZnOpg1IOMw
Miss Kim Weston and "Helpless"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6s1cMS4oQ
A monster track that is one of my all time favorite records! Rare Earth and "I Just Want to Celebrate"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRVPLPFoJL0
This had "80s" written all over it. Lionel Riche and "Running With the Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PnhlXLHKAE
Mary Wilson... warm summer night
the Supremes... Nathan Jones.... very under rated
Back when Smokey and the Miracles were knocking them out of the park with every release. "Baby Baby Don't Cry "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_45gwZ7vXAg
The King of "Punk Funk".................Rick James and "Big Time" from 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApMp1ISaVLQ
A couple years ago, during one of my daily trips to my area's big local antique mall, at one point, the place was playing a virtual back-to-back-to-back Motown marathon. One of the songs played, that I truly found a positively interesting gesture at remembering it enough to play in inclusion with the top twenties, Shorty Long's "Function At The Junction".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLAXHW80xo
This Stevie Wonder 45 plug side didn't do too well in the charts in the mid 60's ... so the 45 was flipped by radio DJ's & the other side did better .. by then though it had affected the release plans of Amy Records who retitled Lou Ragland's upcoming 45 track as "I Travel Alone" ... this is a bit like PLACE IN THE SUN ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Hqx_FCNgI
This one is like the quintessential Motown recording. It has all of the elements of the "Motown Sound". The Four Tops and "I'll Turn To Stone"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u9gNkgtjTU
Tammi Terrell "Come On and See Me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOY-VTz9V4c
Another brilliant number not heard too often. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - "California Soul"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUVTnYwGqxI
DAMN I love this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PXwPzWxvM&app=desktop
Here's a few more Rarely Heard Motown tracks-
1. "Point It Out"-Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
2. "Firefly"-The Temptations
3. "Help Me Make It Through The Night"-Gladys Knight & the Pips
4. "That's How Heartaches Are Made"-The Marvelettes
5. "Satisfaction"-Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
6. "Hum Along And Dance"-Rare Earth
7. "Law Of The Land"-The Undisputed Truth
8. "There's A Ghost In My House"-R. Dean Taylor
9. "Wild One"-Martha & the Vandellas
10. "I Had A Dream"-Shorty Long
G.C. Cameron "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" 1975:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUDVj7qPqRE
Mary Jane Girls
Popular Commonly Played Hit: "In My House"
Uncommonly Rarer Rest: The rest, but I presume that's according from region to region, big city areas, and if region has a decent classic soul / urban station around such. Mine used to, but not anymore, but I still remembered when I first heard "All Night Long" on it, its groove was easily confusable with what a more nineties-like girl group would do, than being ahead of its time in the early eighties.
And, I remember the first time I listened to "Boys" on an urban mix station, its beat just as melding with the contemporaries it would play during the late nineties, I listened on a bus, brightly smiling at downtown Chicago's sights when I was thirteen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbqddHD9LY
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Popular Commonly Played Hit: If there is one, depending on region / big cities / decent urban / classic soul station, "There'll Never Be".
But, there's always the memories. Such as, first hearing "Love Over And Over Again". What captured and continues to capture the most about this one that makes it as special as it was / is, was Bobby DeBarge [[was it Bobby?) with his high falsetto pleading climax of "Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, Love Me"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnmyMefJo7Y
What more could a boy ask for-the spinners...i need a change-the miracles...i'm gonna keep on trying-edwin starr.
Here you go, arr&bee... enjoy! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kf8ydMLieM&app=desktop
Thanks tomato tom,you da man.
Hey marv,no disrespect to the great classic girl groups of motown,but the mary jane girls may have been the best motown girl group ever!!
Yeah i'd like to produce her too...[hehehehehe-wink-wink].
Don't get me started on[imitation of life]mahalia will make a stone cry,she's the best of all time!!