Motowniest Non Motown Song?

[Philles/Motown Gary]

HONEY CONE - "It's Better To Have Loved And Lost"
https://youtu.be/6uNv3zn1e-E?si=onzVT0tVgQSSNUhc

[tjl]

How about Tina Britt's "The Real Thing"? Always wondered how H-D-H felt about this song, which is a dance floor stomper to this day?

[Optimal Saint]

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So would a lot of other people. And I'd offer to supply 300 dpi scans of the labels, and write the liner notes/for a gratis set!

Maybe I should run this idea past Ace/Kent? Or would gathering all the rights to the most obscure of them be too difficult, and cost more than they could get back in sales? :[[

I imagine that getting the rights for everything would be a bit of a nightmare but it would be a great and unique box set

[motony]

How about Tina Britt's "The Real Thing"? Always wondered how H-D-H felt about this song, which is a dance floor stomper to this day?

Love that record...it was featured in a 1980's "dance" movie that starred the folk singer Donovans son.I can not think of the name of the movie but it was real good.

[motony]

I must be getting old, I dug out my 45 of "The Real Thing" the song was written by Ashford & Simpson along with Joshie Armstrong on Eastern Records which was a SUE Records subsiderairy. The movie in 1988 is called "The In Crowd" & was pretty good.

[arr&bee]

Dear lover-mary wells

[Thatkliqkid]

"Shut up and kiss me" by Marianas Trench is in the vein of "I want you back" and "ABC"
The ad-libs at the end "Don't sound like Mike did, no but it's alright for a white kid"

[Optimal Saint]

[SatansBlues]

How about Tina Britt's "The Real Thing"? Always wondered how H-D-H felt about this song, which is a dance floor stomper to this day?

Here's Betty Everett's version. It feels like they're going for a HDH/Heatwave/M&TVs vibe to it.

[SatansBlues]

Shouldn't Smokey Robinson be getting royalties from this song?

[Optimal Saint]

If you ever wanted to know what Barry White singing a 60s Motown style song sounded like

[Claudia]

Texas - Black Eyed Boy.

[YourOldStandBy]

Some of my picks:

Rescue Me by Fontella Bass

Selfish One by Jackie Ross [[that song was written for Mary Wells originally, after all)

It's Gonna Take a Miracle by the Royalettes