This was an album cut from the Temptations Lp, "Gettin' Ready" but I use to play it years ago. The Temptations Not Now I'll Tell You Later [[featuring the Original Supremes):
This one is actually Martha Reeves and the Vandellas backed by the Four Tops.
"My Baby Loves Me"- Martha Reeves and The Vandellas - 1966
Now although this next cut was extremely popular back when it was released in the Fall of 1969, I have not heard it in public since 2009 when they played it for my birthday at a club in New York. Jackson Five and "I Want You Back"
This was a big hit for Tavares in 1974-75, but the Four Tops do a great job with it also. "Remember What I Told You to Forget"
One of their greatest recordings of the 80s that you just don't hear anymore, anywhere.......The Four Tops-"Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over"
Eddie Kendricks "He's A Friend"
I wish I could do this sometimes
Eddie Kendricks at his best
One of the Commodores best songs........."Sweet Love' from late 1975:
How about this one showcasing the great Paul Williams
Or this one featuring Eddie
Yes I always have liked this recording. To me, Paul Williams was the sharpest and perhaps the most versatile of the early Temptations. "Mr. Entertainment" would have been a perfect nickname for him. He knew how to work the stage as well as he could sing. He emotes with the best of them when putting a song across.
Susaye Greene & Ray Charles with "Luv Bug" from 1979:
One of the most fun of the Motown people I ever met. MARV JOHNSON - "I LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE" from 1960:
Now I love Paul Williams on this lead
Getting to be a Temptations fest! here's another
Yvonne sho got the funk
Whilst this fantastic song and performance was a moderate hit in the UK it does seem to have been largely overlooked. This is such a shame as the lead singers put in such a strong performance. I also wonder why it was not an A-side in the USA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfN4Kxbm9wI
I never saw him live either [[too young at the time.) I saw that performance for the first time when they did it on television. A bit of trivia. Eddie Kendricks youngest son is good friends with my nephew. Eddie loved Paul so much that he named his son Paul in honor of his friend.
My then GFs' favorite way back then 1966
Don't know why I loved this so much then ,but still do now
This was one of the last SR and the Ms wasn't it?
More good choices RichyP! I know we'd never hear those songs anywhere now except here and when listening to our own collections.
And another, from 1990 [[the Album)
And one with Levi
But here is the BEST cut........ This could have been the last recording made by mankind and I would have been satisfied! LOL!!!
Theirs was a match made in vocal Heaven! Can you just imagine how great a full album of Aretha and the Tops would have been? Record companies, contracts and all types of assorted issues have rob us of something so potentially wonderful. Two of the greatest voices in Pop/Soul music came from the same neighborhood the North End of Detroit. I am still in awe.
Staying with the ladies, here's one my father loved, it's in the genes
Some Gladys?? not the original, but a better production I think ?
No intro necessary Smokey does it!!!
Edwin Starr - Stop The War
JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS - GOTTA HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING 1970
Gladys Knight & the Pips "You Need Love Like I Do [[Don't You)1970
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