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    5 Motown singles you are sick of hearing

    I Wish It Would Rain-Tempts
    Jimmy Mack-Martha and Vandellas
    Baby Love-Supremes
    Do You Love Me-Contours

    I could only come up with 4!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by luke View Post
    I Wish It Would Rain-Tempts
    Jimmy Mack-Martha and Vandellas
    Baby Love-Supremes
    Do You Love Me-Contours

    I could only come up with 4!!

    My Girl, Temptations
    Dancing In the Street, Martha & the Vandellas
    I Want You Back, Jackson 5
    Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Temptations
    He's My Man, Supremes

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    Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations
    Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes
    Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
    I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
    Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
    Let It Whip - Dazz Band
    Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
    Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations
    ABC - Jackson 5

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    kam....he's my man is an odd one,i've only ever heard my copy!

    as for my choices
    baby love
    stop! in the name of love
    i cant help myself
    i hear a symphony......isleys
    your kiss is sweet....syreeta
    any stevie wonder from hotter than july to date
    sexual healing
    actually the more i think about it there could be 30 easy,i think i'll stop there!

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    Not that they're bad songs, but I find these ones just so overexposed and tiresome to me:

    Baby Love
    My Girl
    Isn't She Lovely
    I Can't Help Myself
    Please Mr. Postman

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    Not bad songs, just over heard.

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
    Baby Love - Supremes
    Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas
    Reach Out [[I'll Be There) - Four Tops
    My Girl - Temptations

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    Lionel Ritchie All of em
    Stevie Wonder POST Hotter Than July
    ............And Im still counting, but BABY LOVE by THE SUPREMES, I have on 45 U.S/ U.K Plus on countless albums, cassettes, CDs .. etc..NOT my fav tune. Drives me crazy! But, what do I know, a million bought it first time round. And I cant buy a Supremes or Motown collection where this damn tune is not included. Even when I watch them perform it on one of the many clips that have appeared on You Tube and DVD, I still cringe...SORRYa..Paulo XXXX

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    I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
    Dancing in the Street - Vandellas
    I Cant Help Myself - 4 Tops
    Baby Love - Supremes
    ABC - Jackson 5

    Tamla! For shame..........Sexual Healing is not Motown!

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    Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes [but not Baby Love]
    My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
    Three Times a Lady - Commodores
    Hello - Lionel Richie
    My Guy - Mary Wells

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    jobeterob
    my head is hanging!
    i dont know what came over me
    d'ya think ralph saw it?will i be kicked off??
    my wife has hid the razors,the samaritians were engaged tho'!

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    forgot to mention i still dont like it!

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    Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes [[especially the Soft Cell remake!)
    I'll Be There - Jackson 5
    Let It Whip / Let It All Blow - Dazz Band
    It's the Same Old Song - The Four Tops
    Anything by Rick James!

    Most of the songs on this thread are, sadly, the only ones my generation [[Gen Xers / Gen Y) knows when they hear the word "Motown." On the bright side, at least they can name *something*, so I have hope that the Motown / Tamla heritage won't be lost to time [[can't say as much for Stax / Volt). Thank you HW, Classic Motown and Hip-O Select for lavishing love and attention on rereleases of the lesser-known gems...
    Last edited by vcq; 11-12-2010 at 07:24 PM.

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    LOL........I don't like Sexual Healing either; but one of my favorite Supremes songs ever is Where Did Our Love Go and it is high on this list.

    Ralph!.........I'm sure he appreciated the light moment and the fact he didn't have to throw any chairs for once.

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    I love these songs, but I think I've heard them enough for one lifetime. lol.

    1. My Girl
    2. My Guy
    3. Stop! In The Name Of Love
    4. Baby Love
    5. I Can't Help Myself

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    ..just "baby Love"

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    Quote Originally Posted by jobeterob View Post
    LOL........I don't like Sexual Healing either; but one of my favorite Supremes songs ever is Where Did Our Love Go and it is high on this list.

    Ralph!.........I'm sure he appreciated the light moment and the fact he didn't have to throw any chairs for once.
    I forgot about Grapevine, Got To Give It Up & Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye, who I like. But I'd be content never to hear those three songs again.
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    I never liked Marvin's "Grapevine" in the first place... every time it comes on the radio I turn the station. i'm sick of Baby Love, too. However, I NEVER get tired of Gladys' version of Grapevine. I never liked "My girl" either. the song bores me. But I never ever get tired of Stoned Love, it's just goodness after goodness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jillfoster View Post
    I never liked Marvin's "Grapevine" in the first place... every time it comes on the radio I turn the station.
    Ever since the California Raisins commercial from the 80s...

    i'm sick of Baby Love, too.
    I never liked it. Too simple. Probably why it shot to #1.

    However, I NEVER get tired of Gladys' version of Grapevine.
    Especially the MONO single mix!

    never liked "My girl" either. the song bores me.
    Aw girl! You just lost me. I *never* get tired of "My Girl". It's one of the first Motown 45s I ever heard. I hope you're talking about hating the stereo mix, because the MONO single mix is vastly superior.

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    without a doubt, baby love. Sometimes I think the radio stations consider that this was the only record from the Supremes! It's vile, over played, over rated, and I just won't play it.

    Perhaps we ought to do what they did with the disco records 20-30 years ago. Go to a stadium and burn all our baby love records!

    I'm not keen on Marvin's 'grapevine' but I can just tolerate that one.

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    i agree with the gladys "grapevine" and what about bobby taylors version thats great too

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    "Baby Love" is my choice, and looks to be the clear "winner" [[or loser?). It's not that I can't stand it, but like others, think it's well overexposed.

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    Sorry, soulster... I don't like "My girl" in any way, shape, or form, I never did. I get sick of the temps ALOT, that never happens with Gladys or the Four Tops, though. I could listen to "Bernadette" all day long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jillfoster View Post
    Sorry, soulster... I don't like "My girl" in any way, shape, or form, I never did. I get sick of the temps ALOT,
    Wow. Just...wow. The Tempts are my absolute favorite Motown group. I can listen to virtually anything by them from the early 60s on up to about 1983.

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    "Stoned Love"
    "Nathan Jones"
    "Floy Joy"
    "Master Jammin"
    "Sir Duke"

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    Quote Originally Posted by motown4ever View Post
    "Stoned Love"
    "Nathan Jones"
    "Floy Joy"
    "Master Jammin"
    "Sir Duke"
    How can one get sick of something that is rarely played on the radio?

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    So are we all agreed? BABY LOVE?

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    paulo seconded!

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    "Happy Ghoul Tide" and "Randy The Newspaper Boy"-Ray Oddis
    "Blue Cinderella"-Joel Sebastian
    "Pushing Up Daisies"-Stylers
    Anything by Rare Earth
    "I'm Hooked"-Bunny Paul
    "Fire"-Gino Parks
    almost everything after 1972
    "They Rode Through The Valley"-Mickey Woods
    "I Comma Zimba Zio"-Abdullah
    The Chuck-A-Lucks on Mel-O-Dy
    The Headliners, Underdogs and Hornets on VIP

    Most of the above I've heard only once, but it was too much.

    I've heard "Baby Love" too much.

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    Baby Love
    I Can't Help Myself
    Please Mr. Postman
    Heatwave
    Brick House

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    robb k
    i bet your the only one with abdullah on it!

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    Nobody mentioned "Super Freak"
    Stop in The Name Of Love
    My Girl
    Dancing On The Ceiling
    Ribbon In The Sky
    You Really Got A hold On Me
    Ok thats 6

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulo View Post
    So are we all agreed? BABY LOVE?
    I hope so!

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    Baby Love
    I Want You Back
    I Just Called To Say I Love You
    Please MR. Postman
    SuperFreak

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    Here's my 5th--Rhythm of the Night-DeBarge.

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    The tally up to this point of the Motown Singles we are sick of hearing:

    1. Baby Love

    2. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

    3. My Girl - Temptations

    4. I Can't Help Myself - 4 Tops
    Stop in the Name of Love - Supremes

    6. Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes
    Dancing in the Street - Martha and Vandellas
    Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes

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    Well, i'm NOT sick of hearing "I Can't Help Myself" or "My Girl", but I don't think anyone's mentioned "I'll Be There" by Four Tops or "Ill Be There" by the Jackson 5.

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    Robb_k; I wasn't familiar with a lot of those, but I've read how legendarily bad "Custer's Last Man" by Popcorn & the Mohawks was [[it's on the Complete Motown Singles Vol. 1). I think even ONCE would be too many times based on the snippets I've heard!
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    Baby Love and Dancing in The street are two songs that are overplayed.

    Although My Girl gets overplayed to death sometimes, I'm not sick of it.

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    I accessed this thread in order to list just one recording: Baby Love. I am sorry that I can't be more original, but it truly is the one Motown single that I no longer care for due to its overplay and inclusion on nearly every Motown compilation.

    Jim

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    Wow you guys hit some of the classic's hard.

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    Yes, I should have also listed "Custer's Last Man", which I played only once after buying it, unheard. Hearing it once was "too much". All Bob Kayli's were also not worth hearing.
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    The Supremes' 12 number-one hits lol

    Just kidding, I can never get tired of hearing the Motown songs that get more play than other songs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulo View Post
    Lionel Ritchie All of em

    That type of honesty is rare. Cheers to Paulo and I agree.

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    Robb K.......how can you say that about Small Sad Sam! It even had a child like Diana Ross shadowing his vocal!

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    Good thing I never told Robert to his face that I didn't like his songs. Nothing againt him as a singer, but his material was awful.

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    Well......it was more talking and pretty weak material, but I think it has historical value for that background.

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    There are some superb chords in Jimmy Mack - I could never tire of hearing that, but Dancing In The Street [[overplayed) and Nowhere to Run [[over-rated) have boring chord progressions and would feature on my list. Much as I love Marvin and Tammi, their Ain't No Mountain High Enough I've heard too many times [[and I prefer the Diana Ross [[even Vikki Carr) treatment). Endless, pointless, compilations don't do the Motown cause any favours. Then there's Happy Birthday and Masterblaster by Stevie. My 5 I guess!

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    Well ..

    I've grown immune to "Baby Love" over the years .. I used to love it in 1964/65 then grew tired of hearing it by 1975 .. largely as any British Rock/Pop D.J. who had a limited knowledge of Soul/R&B and felt the need to play a "Motown" song to "keep the Soul fans happy" would play it .. more recently I've started to enjoy hearing it again ..

    But .. mega-hits that always make me cringe are

    "Endless Love" - DIANA ROSS AND BILLY PRESTON
    "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - STEVIE WONDER
    "Indiana Wants Me" - R DEAN TAYLOR

    And .. over the years I've gone off "Dancing In The Streets" by MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
    and "I Can't Help Myself" by THE FOUR TOPS is wearing thin on me too ..

    BUT .. I have a feeling that if I don't hear those last two for a year or so they will start to sound GREAT again!!

    Roger

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    I guess Im not alone in being tired of Baby Love but the one that trumps them all that when I hear it I cringe and switch the station and its Tamla is Superstition I am sick and tired of hearing that song! Sorry Stevie.

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    In fact this is a nonsense thread. If it were applied to non-Motown music, nobody would dive into it that deep.
    I prefer to save my own good memories for my own good music and I will not share those feelings to the core with humorless people on this forum! There, you have it.

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