FAVORITE MOTOWN....?
haze25
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it can be tamala, motown, gordy or any other affiliated labeles. what/who is your favorite....?album: "whats going on" ( i have "people.... hold on" at a very close second)song: "bernadette" (this song is the reason i made this thread, i have been playing the shit out of this recently. i remember loving it as a little kid when i heard it on the radio, i love it even more now.)group: The 4 topsartist: marvin gayesongwriter: holland dozier hollandproducer:frank wilsonslept on song: "the marvelettes-after all"slept on album: "smokey robinson and the miracles-pocket full of miracles"add on.peace,xavier
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my favorite LP on the label
"Love Hangover"
"Come Live With Me Angel"
"Never Can Say Goodbye"
"War"
"Mother Nature"
"Higher Ground"
"I Was Made To Love Her"
yeah i got that, "ain't no sunshine" is the joint.
peace,xavier
fave song: a love like yours
for me, nothing touches these ladies.
other fave song: nowhere to run
close 2nds:
stevie, diana and the supremes 'come see about me,' and marvin's all of what's going on.
Other random Motown faves:
- "St. Louis," Easybeats (this Australian beat group gets a final fling with this 1969 single on Rare Earth - catchy as the Hong Kong flu, and could have been a hit)
- Jr. Walker & the All-Stars (for some reason, their name never comes up when we have these Motown threads, so I gotta show some genuine love...these guys were like Berry Gordy's gift to the chitlin' circuit...total roadhouse R&B, and even after they smoothed out Jr.'s sound around '69, there was no way you could hide that barwalking sax)
- the Originals (studio pros who made some fine Motown records of their own)
- the Contours (before Motown got so damned slick!)
- the Temptations (most slept-on record: 1975's A Song For You, from the tail end of their golden era, IMO)
- Switched-On Blues (1969 comp of Motown's blues-oriented singles)
- "Somebody's Watching Me," Rockwell (no, I am not kidding!)
- Kagny & the Dirty Rats (they were a year or two before Rockwell, but had that same punk-funk sound...one Motown album)
- Higher Than High, Undisputed Truth ("Smiling Faces Sometimes," too!)
- "Oh How Happy," Jackson Five (listen closely, you can hear this drunk-sounding bass voice in the background singing along with the chorus...none other than Berry Gordy himself! true story)
- "Someday We'll Be Together," Diana Ross & the Supremes (another case of the producer being heard singing on the record...that's Johnny Bristol with the "ohh yes I am"s...and for a Motown record, that's some LOUD gospel vocals bringing up the rear!)
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Ozone: Gigolette
Syreeta: Move It Do It
Rick James: Ghetto Life (+other classics)
Marvin Gaye: I Want You
Marvin Gaye: Heavy Love Affair
Jackson 5: I Want You Back Extended Version
Willie Hutch: Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Teena Marie: I Need Your Lovin
Finis Henderson: Skip To My Lou
Eddie Kendricks: Going Up In Smoke
i found in a dollar bin yesterday. I quite enjoyed it.
Highlights are great cuts of Spinning Wheel and Hi Heel Sneakers,
but all in all a nice record.
Great cover too.
Is he slipping a tab acid into that girls' mouth on
the inside of the gatefold??
Anyone, anyone...
Favorites would have to include...
Sisters Love- Give Me Your Love
The Originals- Supernatural Voodoo Woman Pt 2
Stevie Wonder- Music Of My Mind
Most of Syreeta S/T lp
Four Tops- Now
Mavin Gaye Live
The Elgins- Heaven Must Have Sent You
De Barge- All This Love
and so many more...
I love "Standing"...did Levi Stubbs' woman run off with another man the day before he recorded that? Because that kind of anger cannot be faked! ("NOW DON'T YOUR CONSCIENCE KINDA BOTHER YOU? HOW CAN YOU WATCH ME CRY AFTER ALL I DONE FOR YOU?[/b] NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE!") Stubbs and David Ruffin were two of the most intense vocalists Motown had, but Stubbs sounded older and angrier, which is a plus in my book.
when he hits the "loving me" part he is yelling and it sounds so true and passionate.i get chills on the part everytime.
peace,xavier
Those are good.
I'll add these to the list:
Jean Carn and Bobby M "How Does It Feel Tonight"
Koko Pop "I'm in Love with You"
Mandre "Solar Flight"
Marvelettes - I'll Keep On Holding On
Tammi Terrell - I Can't Believe You Love Me
R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost In My House
Spinners - It's a Shame
Brenda Holloway - You've Made Me So Very Happy
and...one of my top 5 all time by anyone, anywhere...
Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
But of course!
I second that emotion.
(Well, technically, I'm thirding it, but Smokey & the Miracles never recorded a song called "I Third That Emotion" so that ruins my pun, but still, you know what I mean, rite?)
How is Chisa related to Motown??
It was a subsidiary of Motown.
Owned by Hugh Masekela, distributed by Motown.
In the beginning or later on? What about Uni?
Are u talkin about the Japanese remixes or is there some extended version OG that I missed?
I believe Chisa's Motown-distributed recordings (1970-71) were after Hugh left Uni.
Check out some of them Motown innersleeves from around that time, there are quite a few Chisa albums advertised.
I never noticed that. Consider me schooled.
I thought Crusaders producer Stewart Levine owned Chisa.
As for slept-on figures in the Motown canon, I always thought Norman Whitfield never got as much shine as he deserved in comparison with some others. I remember he got a lot of criticism in the 70's for reducing the Temps to the level of supporting players on their own records, but listening back to those records and the ones he did with Undisputed Truth (and, later on, Rose Royce, too) the sheer breadth and scale of his musical ambition was incredible.
I based my claim that HM owned it on info from
the BSN website, which is admittedly not always the
most accurate source.
I know it was distributed by Motown because it says so
on every Chisa release.
This is my shit.
Plus
Sisters Love - Give me your Love. I never thought anyone could do a take on a Curtis song that I would like as much damn this is good.
smokey robinson - Come round here I'm the one you need - Tamla. Classic Northern Soul track that should be filed under "dollar bin face melter."