Favourite "runs" of singles

[psychedelic jacques]

Listening to a Marvelettes Greatest Hits cd today led me to thinking about what I consider to be great runs of consecutive singles by any Motown artist - I'm thinking not just a group of singles I like, but REALLY like in a 'tip-top, class A+, top of their game at that time, desert island disc' type way.

I'll start the bidding with 5 - [[obviously) the Marvelettes "as long as i know he's mine' through 'he's a good guy', 'you're my remedy' 'too many fish in the sea' to 'i'll keep holding on'. Raise me, anyone?

[mysterysinger]

Jackson 5:
I Want You Back
ABC
The Love You Save
I'll Be There
Mama's Pearl
[[ignoring the Xmas stuff in between - is that allowed?)

[Ngroove]

Johnny Gill

Where Do We Go From Here
Rub You the Right Way
My, My, My
Fairweather Friend
Wrap My Body Tight
I'm Still Waiting

[luke]

Supremes-WDOLG, BL, CSAM,SITNOL,BIMAA.

[thisoldheart]

reach out
standing in the shadows of love
bernadette
7 rooms of gloom

[johnjeb]

Some of my favorites which kept me broke but very happy back then:

Supremes/Tops/HDH:
7/66 You Can't Hurry Love
8/66 Reach Out I'll Be There
10/66 You Keep Me Hangin' On
11/66 Standing In The Shadows Of Love
1/67 Love Is Here And Now You're Gone/There's No Stopping Us Now
2/67 Bernadette
3/67 The Happening
5/67 7 Rooms Of Gloom/I'll Turn To Stone
7/67 Reflections/Going Down For The Third Time

Smokey & The Miracles:
5/67 More Love/Swept For You Baby
10/67 I Second That Emotion/You Must Be Love
2/68 If You Can Want
5/68 Yester Love
7/68 Special Occasion
12/68 Baby Baby Don't Cry

Marvin & Tammi:
4/67 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
8/67 Your Precious Love
11/67 If I Could Build My World Around You/If This World Were Mine
3/68 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
7/68 You're All I Need To Get By

[soulster]

I don't even need to list the songs by The Temptations from "The Way You Do the Things You Do" all the way up to "I Truly, Truly Believe". They had a fantastic run of singles three years!

[144man]

Marvin Gaye: 11 singles from "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" to "Ain't That Peculiar".

[davidh]

the supremes run from 1864=1967

[marv2]

This Temptations "run" is most memorable to me:

1968: "Cloud Nine"
1968: "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
[[Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations)
1969: "Run Away Child, Running Wild"
1969: "I Can't Get Next to You"
1970: "Psychedelic Shack"
1970: "Ball of Confusion

[arrr&bee]

Ok,here we go...ain't too proud to beg-beauty's only skin deep-i know i'm losing you-all i need-you're my everything!!

[diktatorship]

The Marvin & Tammi run mentioned above by johnjeb stands head and shoulders above any other, that gets my vote.

[robb_k]

the supremes run from 1864=1967

Were The Supremes THAT old? From the covered wagon days???

[copley]

Supremes/DRATS - 'Lovelight' to 'Reflections' - 15 [[Back in the day I didn't like 'In & Out Of Love' but I do now.)

'70's Supremes - 'Up The Ladder To The Roof' to 'He's My Man' - 11

Martha - 'I'll Have To Let Him Go' to 'Honey Chile - 16

Marvelettes - All 17 of their UK singles!

Four Tops - 'Baby I Need Your Loving' to 'Walk Away Rene' - 14

Temptations - 'It's Growing' to 'Law Of The Land' - 26

Stevie - 'Uptight' to 'You Met Your Match' - 9

Marvin - 'Stubborn Kind Of Fellow' to 'That's The Way Love Is' - 18

Marvin & Tammi - 'Mountain' to 'Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By' - 7

Gladys - 'Just Walk In My Shoes' to 'Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To' - 12

Brenda - All 8 of her UK singles.

Isleys - All 9 UK singles.

Jimmy - All 10 UK singles.

Mary - All 6 UK singles.

[marv2]

Supremes/DRATS - 'Lovelight' to 'Reflections' - 15 [[Back in the day I didn't like 'In & Out Of Love' but I do now.)

'70's Supremes - 'Up The Ladder To The Roof' to 'He's My Man' - 11

Martha - 'I'll Have To Let Him Go' to 'Honey Chile - 16

Marvelettes - All 17 of their UK singles!

Four Tops - 'Baby I Need Your Loving' to 'Walk Away Rene' - 14

Temptations - 'It's Growing' to 'Law Of The Land' - 26

Stevie - 'Uptight' to 'You Met Your Match' - 9

Marvin - 'Stubborn Kind Of Fellow' to 'That's The Way Love Is' - 18

Marvin & Tammi - 'Mountain' to 'Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By' - 7

Gladys - 'Just Walk In My Shoes' to 'Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To' - 12

Brenda - All 8 of her UK singles.

Isleys - All 9 UK singles.

Jimmy - All 10 UK singles.

Mary - All 6 UK singles.

Nice list Copley.

[diktatorship]

Yes nice list but the thread title says pick a favourite, don't list them all!

[lakedistrictlad1]

For me it has to be the 'new' Supremes run of first 5 singles -

Up The Ladder To The Roof
Everybody's Got The Right To Love
Stoned Love
River Deep, Mountain High
Nathan Jones

For me, this run of singles are an absolute joy.

[Hotspurman]

"Were The Supremes THAT old? From the covered wagon days???"

I thought it was well known that HDH re-worked their material on a constant basis. Surely you realise Baby Love came from When You And I Were Young, Maggie. And that I Cannot Sing The Old Songs would eventually become It's The Same Old Song?