a*** you NEED this album........the song "after all" is female soul perfection
That's wierd that u say that, im pretty sure hes the one who put me up on that exact track and album.
haha, the circle of life
yeah I got that one, and I have a lot of the other ones mentioned in this thread. The thing about later era motown is there is so much of it and I never really bothered to check for it , now I'm wondering what under the radar gems I might of missed out on
"Dancing Machine" originally appeared on Get It Together, which was from 1973. The following year, the song was such a hit that it was the title track of their next album. Motown always used to release the same song on more than one album if it was a hit (look at Jr. Walker), so it may have been the same version. (I said "MAY have...," in case I'm wrong!)
The GET IT TOGETHER version isnt isolated like the DANCIN MACHINE version.J5 were doin' the Norman Whitfield/Psychedelic Soul thang, so many/most of the tracks on GET IT TOGETHER overlapped/Flowed into one another. For about the first 10-13 seconds of Dancin'Machine you hear the spacey sound effects of the previous song YOU NEED LOVE LIKE I DO(DONT YOU). I recommend this version of DM...It's the original intention.
one of the best to kick off the timeline - from 69:
YES!!! ohhh shit, this album...
I like the way they fixed it so that side one was the psychedelic side and side two was the neo-doo-wop side, in case some of their old fans weren't ready for their newer psych-funk phase yet!
"Dancing Machine" originally appeared on Get It Together, which was from 1973. The following year, the song was such a hit that it was the title track of their next album. Motown always used to release the same song on more than one album if it was a hit (look at Jr. Walker), so it may have been the same version. (I said "MAY have...," in case I'm wrong!)
The GET IT TOGETHER version isnt isolated like the DANCIN MACHINE version.J5 were doin' the Norman Whitfield/Psychedelic Soul thang, so many/most of the tracks on GET IT TOGETHER overlapped/Flowed into one another. For about the first 10-13 seconds of Dancin'Machine you hear the spacey sound effects of the previous song YOU NEED LOVE LIKE I DO(DONT YOU).
I THOUGHT so!
When they used to play that song on Soul Train, it started off with the effects...when I bought the 45 as a kid, it started cold with the Jacksons singing "dancin', dancin', dan-cin'!". I was wondering where the effects went! I figured it had to be an "album version" kind of deal.
"Dancing Machine" originally appeared on Get It Together, which was from 1973. The following year, the song was such a hit that it was the title track of their next album. Motown always used to release the same song on more than one album if it was a hit (look at Jr. Walker), so it may have been the same version. (I said "MAY have...," in case I'm wrong!)
The GET IT TOGETHER version isnt isolated like the DANCIN MACHINE version.J5 were doin' the Norman Whitfield/Psychedelic Soul thang, so many/most of the tracks on GET IT TOGETHER overlapped/Flowed into one another. For about the first 10-13 seconds of Dancin'Machine you hear the spacey sound effects of the previous song YOU NEED LOVE LIKE I DO(DONT YOU).
I THOUGHT so!
When they used to play that song on Soul Train, it started off with the effects...when I bought the 45 as a kid, it started cold with the Jacksons singing "dancin', dancin', dan-cin'!". I was wondering where the effects went! I figured it had to be an "album version" kind of deal.
Yeah, the original has Mike singin' " Ah, baby, Do it baby..." @ the opening of the track. Also the Second version seems mixed down differently. It seems like a brighter mix. I'm gonna check tonight.
"Dancing Machine" originally appeared on Get It Together, which was from 1973. The following year, the song was such a hit that it was the title track of their next album. Motown always used to release the same song on more than one album if it was a hit (look at Jr. Walker), so it may have been the same version. (I said "MAY have...," in case I'm wrong!)
The GET IT TOGETHER version isnt isolated like the DANCIN MACHINE version.J5 were doin' the Norman Whitfield/Psychedelic Soul thang, so many/most of the tracks on GET IT TOGETHER overlapped/Flowed into one another. For about the first 10-13 seconds of Dancin'Machine you hear the spacey sound effects of the previous song YOU NEED LOVE LIKE I DO(DONT YOU).
I THOUGHT so!
When they used to play that song on Soul Train, it started off with the effects...when I bought the 45 as a kid, it started cold with the Jacksons singing "dancin', dancin', dan-cin'!". I was wondering where the effects went! I figured it had to be an "album version" kind of deal.
Yeah, the original has Mike singin' " Ah, baby, Do it baby..." @ the opening of the track. Also the Second version seems mixed down differently. It seems like a brighter mix. I'm gonna check tonight.
i need that album in my life....i've been obsessivly listening to the deluxe edition of "i want you" yet i've never even heard that leon ware album
If I was at home I'd post the 'your balls would sweat like nothing else' graemlin... finally got this recently and it is damn good. doesn't seem to go for much money but I just don't see it around.
Been wanting to hear their Rare Earth album for a while (although a few people have told me that it's not exactly a lost classic).
I'm not sure anything on the label could be deemed 'classic', but its probably the best non-Rare Earth title that I've heard... oof I just remembered the Pretty Things are on there too, lets just say its a good one...
Been wanting to hear (the Messengers') Rare Earth album for a while (although a few people have told me that it's not exactly a lost classic).
I'm not sure anything on the label could be deemed 'classic', but its probably the best non-Rare Earth title that I've heard... oof I just remembered the Pretty Things are on there too, lets just say its a good one...
I'm a fan of their earlier garage recordings (as "Michael & the Messengers" on USA) and I'd like to hear how they survived the seventies. (Doing "Louie Louie" on their one and only album is a good start!)
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
That's recently been bootlegged on a comp of somewhat lesser-known/slept-on Motown joints. Some of the acts mentioned in this thread are on it - Gordon Staples, Barbara McNair...there's a nice OC Smith tune on there, as well as Nolen & Crossley's "Salsa Boogie", which makes me think the boot originates from the UK.
I always thought Tamla Motown was strictly a UK imprint. All the OG US stuff I have is on Motown, Tamla, Soul or Gordy, but, up until around '73/'74, all the UK releases were on the silver-on-black Tamla Motown label with that logo - never saw it on anything non-UK.
That's recently been bootlegged on a comp of somewhat lesser-known/slept-on Motown joints. Some of the acts mentioned in this thread are on it - Gordon Staples, Barbara McNair...there's a nice OC Smith tune on there, as well as Nolen & Crossley's "Salsa Boogie", which makes me think the boot originates from the UK.
I always thought Tamla Motown was strictly a UK imprint. All the OG US stuff I have is on Motown, Tamla, Soul or Gordy, but, up until around '73/'74, all the UK releases were on the silver-on-black Tamla Motown label with that logo - never saw it on anything non-UK.
Commonwealth?
K in Canada.
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
That's recently been bootlegged on a comp of somewhat lesser-known/slept-on Motown joints. Some of the acts mentioned in this thread are on it - Gordon Staples, Barbara McNair...there's a nice OC Smith tune on there, as well as Nolen & Crossley's "Salsa Boogie", which makes me think the boot originates from the UK.
I always thought Tamla Motown was strictly a UK imprint. All the OG US stuff I have is on Motown, Tamla, Soul or Gordy, but, up until around '73/'74, all the UK releases were on the silver-on-black Tamla Motown label with that logo - never saw it on anything non-UK.
Commonwealth?
K in Canada.
Could be - that never crossed my mind, to be honest.
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McNair
you batches.
"that era predates the window being discussed here."
a*** you NEED this album........the song "after all" is female soul perfection
That's wierd that u say that, im pretty sure hes the one who put me up on that exact track and album.
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nature Resources - 1970
One really good funky Soul number.
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1838
haha, the circle of life
yeah I got that one, and I have a lot of the other ones mentioned in this thread. The thing about later era motown is there is so much of it and I never really bothered to check for it , now I'm wondering what under the radar gems I might of missed out on
one track i couldn't do without from just one year before, '68, is "he's my sunny boy" by diana ross and the supremes off of LOVE CHILD
The GET IT TOGETHER version isnt isolated like the DANCIN MACHINE version.J5 were doin' the Norman Whitfield/Psychedelic Soul thang, so many/most of the tracks on GET IT TOGETHER overlapped/Flowed into one another. For about the first 10-13 seconds of Dancin'Machine you hear the spacey sound effects of the previous song YOU NEED LOVE LIKE I DO(DONT YOU). I recommend this version of DM...It's the original intention.
YES!!! ohhh shit, this album...
Mahogany SDTRK.
Surprised no one mentioned this yet. Great and an ez to find lp. "Ball of Confusion" is
I like the way they fixed it so that side one was the psychedelic side and side two was the neo-doo-wop side, in case some of their old fans weren't ready for their newer psych-funk phase yet!
I THOUGHT so!
When they used to play that song on Soul Train, it started off with the effects...when I bought the 45 as a kid, it started cold with the Jacksons singing "dancin', dancin', dan-cin'!". I was wondering where the effects went! I figured it had to be an "album version" kind of deal.
Not easy to find in my neck of the woods, or I'd have a copy by now...
I do see his 25 MILES pretty regularly though, and that one's fairly essential
Yeah, the original has Mike singin' " Ah, baby, Do it baby..." @ the opening of the track.
Also the Second version seems mixed down differently. It seems like a brighter mix. I'm gonna check tonight.
Thanks y'all
On the subject of post-Diana Supremes, I've got to give it up for:
Sorry, I'm beyond the timeline again - '76.
"Come Into My Life" is an old favorite of mine.
Funky b-boy breakdowns and a
Back to 69-75, gotta give it up a little for some of the later albums by The Four Tops,
before they moved to ABC/Dunhill:
'69, great version of "California Dreamin'.
'72, "Hey Man/We Got To Get You A Woman" medley is a nice slice of 'hip' soul ("HEY LEROY!")
i need that album in my life....i've been obsessivly listening to the deluxe edition of "i want you" yet i've never even heard that leon ware album
Been wanting to hear their Rare Earth album for a while (although a few people have told me that it's not exactly a lost classic).
If I was at home I'd post the 'your balls would sweat like nothing else' graemlin... finally got this recently and it is damn good. doesn't seem to go for much money but I just don't see it around.
I'm not sure anything on the label could be deemed 'classic', but its probably the best non-Rare Earth title that I've heard... oof I just remembered the Pretty Things are on there too, lets just say its a good one...
I'm a fan of their earlier garage recordings (as "Michael & the Messengers" on USA) and I'd like to hear how they survived the seventies. (Doing "Louie Louie" on their one and only album is a good start!)
That's recently been bootlegged on a comp of somewhat lesser-known/slept-on Motown joints. Some of the acts mentioned in this thread are on it - Gordon Staples, Barbara McNair...there's a nice OC Smith tune on there, as well as Nolen & Crossley's "Salsa Boogie", which makes me think the boot originates from the UK.
I always thought Tamla Motown was strictly a UK imprint. All the OG US stuff I have is on Motown, Tamla, Soul or Gordy, but, up until around '73/'74, all the UK releases were on the silver-on-black Tamla Motown label with that logo - never saw it on anything non-UK.
Commonwealth?
K in Canada.
Could be - that never crossed my mind, to be honest.