Battle of the Motown Girl Groups: Order You Fav!

[dzMusica]

Okay, We're big Motown fans! So, in the rules of Motown 'Friendly Competition', place in order which girl group you like the best. Be as honest as possible, listen to some of the groups songs again if you have to! But it's all in fun! The choices are of course: The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, and the Vevelettes. After much listening over the past month my order is:

1. Martha and the Vandellas
2. The Marvelettes
3. The Supremes
4. The Velvelettes

Friendly Fun,dzMusica

[motony]

Thats the exact order I have placed them in since Martha & the Vandellas started.Martha is the strongest lead.

[reese]

The Supremes
Martha and the Vandellas
The Marvelettes
The Velvelettes

[mysterysinger]

1. The Velvelettes
2. Martha & The Vandellas
3. The Supremes
4. The Marvelettes

[tomato tom]

The Marvelettes
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
The Supremes
The Velvelettes
.Paulo xxx

[carlo]

1. The Supremes
2. The Marvelettes
3. Martha & the Vandellas
4. The Velvelettes

[RossHolloway]

pointless thread. just enjoy the music

[luke]

Supremes
Vandellas
Velvelettes
Marvelettes
Lollipops

[dzMusica]

pointless thread. just enjoy the music

You could say all of the threads are pointless. You must be a guy. It's not pointless just fun! Live a little!

[jeff9nyc]

Jean Terrell and the Supremes
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
The Marvelettes
The Velvelettes

[copley]

Marvelettes
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Supremes
Velvelettes

[mr_postman]

RossHolloway, if you think it's so pointless discussing music why are you on this board in the first place? This thread is no more pointless than other threads on this forum.

My list:
The Supremes
Martha & The Vandellas
The Marvelettes
The Lollipops
The Velvelettes

[stopinthenameoflove]

for me it has to be:

1. The Marvelettes
2. The Supremes
3. Martha & The Vandellas
4. The Velvelettes

Much as I fricking LOVE The Supremes, The Marvs are top for me. I'll Keep Holding On is just the best.

[robb_k]

1.Velvelettes
2. Martha & Vandellas
3. Marvelettes
4. Ann Bogan & Andantes
5. Vells [[Gloria Williamson & Vandellas)
6. Darnells [[Gladys Horton & Andantes)
7. Lollipops
8. Labrenda Ben & Beljeans
9. Supremes
10. Joanne & Triangles

[daviddesper]

As a kid listening to Motown, I used to do this sort of thing all the time and quite often the order would change depending on how I liked whatever hit might be on the charts at the time. I also included other non-Motown groups in my survey, but it was rare for any other group to ever take a spot away from these four.

So now that all their careers are over and I would have to rank them on the basis of their entire body of work, I think I would have to go with an order that seems popular with others as well:

Martha and the Vandellas
The Marvelettes
The Supremes [[in their various forms)
The Velvelettes

[phil]

1. Marvelettes
2. Martha & Vandellas
3. Velvelettes
4. Supremes

[florence]

1. Supremes
2. Velvelettes
3. Martha & Vandellas
4. Marvelettes

You should probably have split The Supremes into before and after Diana!

[BobC]

1. Post Ross Supremes
2. High Inergy

[wedgeville]

Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Velvelettes
The Elgins
The Marvelettes
Martha & The Vandellas

[tomato tom]

Am I allowed to add High Inergy and The Sisters Love??? in 5th and 6th place...Paulo xxx

[luke]

How about the Good Girls?[[ugh)

[144man]

All of the four groups named have been my favorite Motown group at one time or another depending on what the current release was.

After taking live performances into account my order is:-
First: Velvelettes
Joint Second: Marvelettes/ Martha & Vandellas
Fourth: Supremes

I don't know if I was just unlucky, but every time I saw the Supremes live, they gave what I considered a substandard performance. Yet solo concerts I've seen by both Diana Ross and by Mary Wilson have been excellent.

[redlabs]

1 supremes
2vandellas
3marvelettes
4velvelettes

[selinasian]

1) Blackberries
2) Andantes

What? The other groups actually had 'group members' singing backparts????????

[BobC]

Who are the Lollipops?

[tomato tom]

BobC.look up Cheating is telling on you, for example..Quite nice. Paulo xxxx

[motony]

Blackberries were a real working group?Jackie, Louvain & Marlene were the original studio group of Andantes but after 1964 it seems like there were other women who came in under the umbrella name of Andantes.Everyone should know that working LIVE on-stage is alot more difficult then being a studio singer.

[selinasian]

I always thought that Jackie, Marlene and Louvain WERE the Andantes, but other singers such as Pat Lewis, Diane Lewis, Telma Hopkins etc often worked alongside them or substituted for any who was unable to make a session.
The Blackberries were Clydie, Sherlie and Venetta, but again they sometimes worked alongside or were substituted when one of the girls was unavailable by singers such as Patrice Holloway or Merry Clayton.
The Blackberries [[Sherlie, Venetta and Clydie) were still together as a group for Diana's 'Touch me in the morning' album and Jean Terrell's A&M album. Also they were still together with Billie Barnum taking Sherlie's place working with Humble Pie later on.

[motony]

Is that Sherlie Mathews, Venetta Fields & Clydie King...right.Well I know Venetta as an Ikette & ofcourse Clydie was a Raelette, Ikette & all round the LA studio scene. Ann Bogan also sang as a Andante. Just remember NOBODY would have been signed to Motown Detroit 60's that didn't have natural class & could really sing whether lead or background.

[thisoldheart]

1. wanda young and the marvelettes & andantes [[esp. the smokey stuff)
1. [[tie) diana ross and the supremes
1. [[tie) martha reeves and the vandellas & andantes
4. jean terrell, mary wilson and the supremes [[esp. the smokey album)
5. diana ross and the andantes
6. andantes [[just for all of their unappreciated effort, especially with the tops)
7. wanda young and the andantes
8. gladys horton and the marvelettes
9. the velvelettes
10. post jean terrell supremes [[what a mess that era was!)
[[the elgins would be right up there, they sound like the groups here, but aren't a girl group. but are the four tops really a male group? hmmm!)

[motown_david]

Vandellas
Velvelettes
Marvelettes
Supremes

[honest man]

1 DRATS 2 MARVELETTES 3 VANDELLAS 4 VELVELETTES 5 70S SUPREMES, cheers.

[REDHOT]

The Supremes from the 70s,Mary Wilson,Cindy Birdsong,Jean Terrell,Lynda Laurence,Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene.
Please stay positive

[carlo]

lol @ the posters who said "Diana Ross & the Andantes".

What about Shantel Baker & the Supremes?