Favourite 60s era single B-sides

[rovereab]

There are so many great songs used as B-sides during the 60s that I thought we could have some fun in listing our personal top ten. Here's mine in no particular order:

1. I Got A Feeling - Four Tops
2. If This World Were Mine - Marvin & Tammi
3. Going Down For The Third Time - Supremes
4. There's No Love Left - Isley Brothers
5. Something On My Mind - Syreeta
6. Angie Girl - Stevie Wonder
7. Wherever I Lay My Hat - Marvin Gaye
8. Third Finger, Left Hand - Martha & Vandellas
9. Two Can Have A Party - Marvin & Tammi
10. Since You've Been Gone - Four Tops

What's your choices?

I feel a new playlist coming on!

[daviddesper]

Well you certainly started off with the absolute BEST OF THE BEST. I have stated on here multiple times that I Got a Feeling is one of the Tops' best ever songs if not one of Motown's all time greatest.

As for your others, the only ones I would feel strongly about would be Going Down for the Third Time and Third Finger Left Hand.

Some of my favorite B sides would be:

Starting the Hurt All Over Again-Brenda Holloway
Baby I've Got It- Jimmy Ruffin
Got Myself a Good Man-Gladys and the Pips

and I could probably come up with more Martha and Marvelettes B sides if I put my mind to it. But for now I will let other folks chime in.

[heikki]

Tomorrow's Tears - Jimmy Ruffin

[Motown Eddie]

1. "Never Leave Your Baby's Side"-Martha & The Vandellas
2. "Don't Know Why I Love You"-Stevie Wonder
3. "Number One In Your Heart"-The Monitors
4. "Ask Any Girl"-The Supremes
5. "A Fork In The Road"-The Miracles
6. "Third Finger, Left Hand"-Martha & The Vandellas
7. "You've Got To Earn It"-The Temptations
8. "I'll Turn To Stone"-Four Tops
9. "Everything Is Good About You"-The Supremes
10. "Anything You Wanna Do"-The Marvelettes
11. "Operator"-Mary Wells
12. "Angie Girl"-Stevie Wonder
13. "You've Been A Long Time Coming"-Marvin Gaye
14. "He's All I've Got"-The Supremes
15. "Who's Loving You"-The Jackson 5
16. "Since You've Been Gone"Four Tops
17. "Whisper You Love Me Boy"-The Supremes
18. "Go Ahead And Laugh"-Martha & The Vandellas
19. "Someday, Someway"-The Marvelettes
20. "Throw A Farewell Kiss"-The Velvelettes

[mysterysinger]

If I had to choose just one - it'd be The Isley Bros - "There's No Love Left". Personally I consider all Brenda Holloway singles as double A sides. So stickling solely to the 60s and whittling it down to just 10 [[avoiding re-releases I think) -

Kim Weston - Just Loving You
Brenda Holloway - I'll Be Available
Kim Weston - Don't Compare Me With Her
Supremes - Everything's good About You
Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding
Isley Bros - I Hear A Symphony
Temptations - You're Not An Ordinary Girl
Elgins - Stay In My Lonely Arms
Stevie Wonder - Hold Me
Isley Bros - Why When Love Is Gone

[reese]

There are too many to name but one of my favorites is Gladys Knight and the Pips' IT'S TIME TO GO NOW.

[woodward]

Five of my all time favorite "B" sides are:

Forever - Marvelettes
A Love Like Yours - Martha & the Vandellas
Don't Look Back - Temptations
You'll Lose a Precious Love - Temptations
It's Been a Long Long Time - Elgins

[Starguard4]

Tomorrow's Tears - Jimmy Ruffin

You know, I'm amazed at one or two of the B-Side choices, and this one in particular, caught my eye. To me this is the WORST-EVER Jimmy Ruffin B-Side - a real funeral dirge, that I really cannot stand to hear. Jimmy's BEST B-Side to my ears is "Baby I've Got It". Love It.

But I really like most people's choices - and here's a couple of goodies not yet added - "The Day You Take One" [[Marvelettes), "Motoring" [[Vandellas) - just two of my all-time favorites.

[mysterysinger]

You know, I'm amazed at one or two of the B-Side choices, and this one in particular, caught my eye. To me this is the WORST-EVER Jimmy Ruffin B-Side - a real funeral dirge, that I really cannot stand to hear. Jimmy's BEST B-Side to my ears is "Baby I've Got It". Love It.

But I really like most people's choices - and here's a couple of goodies not yet added - "The Day You Take One" [[Marvelettes), "Motoring" [[Vandellas) - just two of my all-time favorites.

I'm with Heikki on this one - "Tomorrow's Tears" is a fantastic song. Of course, I love "Baby I've Got It" as well. Both had already been chosen lol.

But it's fair to say that back in the day I tended to play a lot of b-sides as much as the a-side. The trend continued in the 70s with Invictus, for example Freda Payne's "The Easiest Way To Fall" and the Chairmen "Bless You" and "Patches".

[lockhartgary]

1. "It's Time to Go Now" - Gladys Knight and the Pips
2. "Goddess of Love" - The Marvelettes
3. "A Fork in the Road" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
4. "You're Not An Ordinary Girl" - The Temptations
5. "The Girl's Alright With Me" - The Temptations
6. "Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things" - Martha and the Vandellas
7. "Who's Lovin' You" - Jackson 5
8. "Paperboy" - Marvelettes
9. "There's No Stopping Us Now" - Supremes
10. "Sylvia" - Stevie Wonder

[jobucats]

Excellent list so far. I might add:
Since you’ve Been Gone-Four Tops
Who Could Ever Doubt My Love-Supremes
You’ve Been a Long Time Coming-Marvin Gaye
One Way Out-Martha & the Vandellas

[Nothing But Soul]

"Darling Baby" - The Elgins
"Happy Landing" - The Miracles
"You Must Be Love" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Give Her Up" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Nothing But Soul" - Jr Walker & the All Stars
"Fading Away" - The Temptations
"Since I've Lost You" - The Temptations
"Fading Away" - Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers
"Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" - Marvin Gaye

[copley]

Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding was an 'a' side

[copley]

Remove This Doubt - Supremes
Ask Any Girl - Supremes
Going Down For The Third Time - DRATS
Keep Off, No Trespassing - Marvelettes
Rainy Mourning - Marvelettes
Love [[Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha & The Vandellas
One Way Out - Martha & The Vandellas
Third Finger Left Hand - Martha & The Vandellas
Show Me The Way - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
I'll Be Available - Brenda Holloway
Where Were You - Brenda Holloway
Starting The Hurt All Over Again - Brenda Holloway
You Got Me Hurtin' All Over - Barbara Randolph
My World Is Empty Without You - Barbara McNair
Forever - Marvin Gaye/Marvelettes
Two Can Have a Party - Marvin & Tammi
California Soul - Marvin & Tammi
If This World Was Mine - Marvin & Tammi
I Hear A Symphony - Isley Brothers
Why When Love Is Gone - Isley Brothers
Another Train Coming - Kim Weston
Go Ahead And Laugh - Kim Weston
Don't Compare Me With Her - Kim Weston
A Love Like Yours [[Don't Come Knocking Everyday) - Martha & The Vandellas/Kim Weston
I'll Always Love You - Blinky
Something On My Mind - Rita Wright
Every Time I See You I Go Wild - Stevie Wonder
The Girl's Alright With Me - Temptations
My Baby - Temptations
Fading Away - Temptations
Sorry Is A Sorry Word - Temptations
Why Did She Have To Leave Me [[Why Did She Have To Go) - Temptations
I'll Turn To Stone - Four Tops
Keep An Eye - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Come Spy With Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

[mysterysinger]

Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding was an 'a' side

No it was a b-side to "Determination". UK TMG564

[woodward]

"Darling Baby" - The Elgins
"Happy Landing" - The Miracles
"You Must Be Love" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Give Her Up" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Nothing But Soul" - Jr Walker & the All Stars
"Fading Away" - The Temptations
"Since I've Lost You" - The Temptations
"Fading Away" - Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers
"Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" - Marvin Gaye

Darling Baby - wasn't that a "B" side?

[Nothing But Soul]

Darling Baby - wasn't that a "B" side?

"Darling Baby" was the "B" Side of "Put Yourself In My Place." However, "Darling Baby" ended up being the hit--at least on the R&B chart--went all the way to Number 4. "Darling Baby" was the title track from the Elgins only album.

[Starguard4]

Five of my all time favorite "B" sides are:

Forever - Marvelettes
A Love Like Yours - Martha & the Vandellas
Don't Look Back - Temptations
You'll Lose a Precious Love - Temptations
It's Been a Long Long Time - Elgins

It's Been a Long Long Time - wasn't that an A-Side? ...with a B-side called "I Understand My Man"

[copley]

No it was a b-side to "Determination". UK TMG564

It was an 'a' side in 1970 when it became a UK hit.

https://www.officialcharts.com/songs...understanding/

[mysterysinger]

It was an 'a' side in 1970 when it became a UK hit.

https://www.officialcharts.com/songs...understanding/

But the thread is about the 60s and it was a b-side in the 60s.

Re-releases don't count - so there rofl [[otherwise "My Girl", "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Needle In A Haystack" as well as many more would also count as b-sides).

But it well deserved an a-side ranking and fully deserved to be a bigger hit than it was [[number 31 UK). The surprise is that it never made a British Motown Chartbusters release - nor even 16 Big Hits in the UK [[of course it did in the USA). They couldn't leave it off the Motown Disco Classics series though.

[motony]

"Old Love[[Lets Try it Again) by Mary Wells, "Operator" by Mary Wells "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right by Mary Wells[[actually made the Billboard Top 100. "Whats Easy For Two" made #29 on Billboard Hot 100.....Motown 45's were always the BEST buy, you knew the B side would be quality.

[Stax_of_Motown]

Most of the above but also not yet mentioned:

You Got The Love I Love - Marv Johnson
Your Love Is Amazing - Shorty Long

[paul_nixon]

Most of the above but also not yet mentioned:

You Got The Love I Love - Marv Johnson
Your Love Is Amazing - Shorty Long

I had always planned if Universal had continued releasing Motown product to put together a 2 or 3 CD set of b sides - mind you I giess we can all make one up ourselves now

[Roger Polhill]

I`d much prefer a 3 CD of alternative recordings - we`ve got all the B sides.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

1) Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - "I Tried"

2) Stevie Wonder - "Why Don't You Lead Me To Love"

3) The Temptations - "You're Not An Ordinary Girl"

4) Four Tops - "Your Love Is Wonderful" [[Should have been an A-side!)

5) Brenda Holloway - "How Many Times Did You Mean It"

6) Jr. Walker - "Right On Brothers And Sisters"

7) Jr. Walker - "Nothing But Soul"

8) The Supremes - "There's No Stopping Us Now"

9) Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - "Your Love Makes It All Worthwhile"

10) The Marvelettes - "Anything You Wanna Do"

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Fun thread, Eamonn!

[jobucats]

4) Four Tops - "Your Love Is Wonderful" [[Should have been an A-side!)

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I agree 100% about "Your Love Is Wonderful" should have been an A-side. And to think it wasn't even placed on one of their "regular albums", and we didn't see it released until later compilation albums came out.

The only drawback to this song is that it does appear to repeat the same lyrics when it appears to be moving toward a different verse. "I was lost with all my bridges burned..."

"I was lost with all my bridges burned..."
This is one those songs the talented Ivy Hunter had a part in composing and producing.