Martha Reeves &the Vandellas.
https://youtu.be/jIi72Q62cL0

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:54 pm

I saw Stevie Wonder live about 50 years ago. Incredible performance from him.

His early stuff was brilliant,after Songs in the key of life.....he started to lose his coolness by doing collaboration's with Jackson & McCartney but I can well imagine seeing him 50 years ago he was around about at his best.

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:46 pm

His early stuff was brilliant,after Songs in the key of life.....he started to lose his coolness by doing collaboration's with Jackson & McCartney but I can well imagine seeing him 50 years ago he was around about at his best.

I think it was 1972

Tracks of my tears, the opening chords really draw you in, brilliant.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNS6D4hSQdA

So many great songs from Motown, still have lots of original albums and singles stored away. One my favourites is Diand Ross and the Supremes join the Temptations. One track in particular always sticks in my mind because it was so different to anything else they'd done.

The Impossible Dream. Here's a link, have listen. Not your typical Motown but superb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KZk1eHfa4

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:54 pm

I saw Stevie Wonder live about 50 years ago. Incredible performance from him.

I saw him in Manchester in 72. I have seen him twice since, just a unbelievably talented guy.
This is not only my favourite Motown record, but is possibly my favourite record of all time. See what you think...
https://youtu.be/Nq-UIBPiklo

Saw stevie wonder about 10yr ago and he was one of the best soul stars i have seen,.
This is one of my fav songs o f his.
https://youtu.be/cIhd5Yc5TCY

Siddo wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 3:23 pm

I saw him in Manchester in 72. I have seen him twice since, just a unbelievably talented guy.
This is not only my favourite Motown record, but is possibly my favourite record of all time. See what you think...
https://youtu.be/Nq-UIBPiklo

That's brilliant - it's a song I like and do like this version by the Supremes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcylDkRw7dg

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:07 pm

Thanks for this thread. I needed a lift today and listening to loads of Motown has helped.

Best Wishes to you Tony, hope you had a better day.
Saw Diana Ross about 15years ago at Newcastle Arena....wow, I was blown away, what a fantastic singer and performer.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:51 pm

I think it was 1972

Songs in the key of life was around 77 I think....then the I just called to say & Happy Birthday to ya and Jackson & McCartney kicked in,he kinda lost his way then.

like the music from the soul era, plus love blues, have TM but also a lot of other labels such as Atlantic/Stax, etc. Have some of the popular ones and managed to see quite a few great artists, my records however from that era tend to be a little different from the main stream artists mention.

Brook Benton, Percy Sledge (personal favorite) Jackie Wilson (my mothers favorite lol), Al Green, Chuck Wood, Eddie Parker, etc. with Tina Turner going all the way back to Ike & Tina Turner.

Type of songs I particularly like:

Going to a Happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmy0BTKVtw

Going to a go go

Eddie Parker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lSm7uf ... 92035E910E

Chuck Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZRDeK ... 0E&index=3

So many other classic dance songs, I never considered the Jackson 5 or Michael Jackson as soul.

Ready for the "Nightshift"

Tammi Terrell
https://youtu.be/qqbvX_sYoN0

Temptations
https://youtu.be/vYHyTvD3sxg

Aclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:51 pm

Best Wishes to you Tony, hope you had a better day.
Saw Diana Ross about 15years ago at Newcastle Arena....wow, I was blown away, what a fantastic singer and performer.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

I saw Whitney Houston and Diana Ross within a week of each other, probably the same year as you. Whitney was faultless but it was almost like watching videos. Diana Ross was at the NEC in Birmingham and performed on a stage in the middle of the arena. Blown away sums it up. Unbelievable night with an absolute superstar. And when she went into the old Supremes medley the place erupted.

Supremes / Four Tops.
https://youtu.be/FV99i64ut1A

Often doesn’t get a mention but I love this one from Marv Johnson

https://youtu.be/kHcJ_057Aag

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:48 pm

This was one of my mother's favourite tracks, it got a lot of play whenever we had a party back in the day, and it also got an obvious BFC connection as well as being a great tune.

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obvSFWv ... &index=20

And this is a timeless classic by Mary Wells,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liT_YkqTSqQ I never realised she contracted TB at the tender age of 10, they had it tough in those days didn't they.

Good thread and a real anecdote to all the doom and gloom on the transfer threads.

Just a bit of trivia - My Guy is reported as being the last of the Motown hits to feature an upright bass. It does sound "softer" to me than a bass guitar.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:43 pm

Often doesn’t get a mention but I love this one from Marv Johnson

https://youtu.be/kHcJ_057Aag

Another favourite from 1970.

Bobby Taylor
https://youtu.be/nLjE2rtBMq0

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:43 pm

Often doesn’t get a mention but I love this one from Marv Johnson

https://youtu.be/kHcJ_057Aag

That's faster than the actual record .

Stevie Wonder.
https://youtu.be/GMve-7djJVQ

Great Weekend Listening to Motown Lifting the Mood......I'm Sure Hampstead Would have been a Contributor to The Thred.sadly missed on all things music.

tim_noone wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:26 pm

Great Weekend Listening to Motown Lifting the Mood......I'm Sure Hampstead Would have been a Contributor to The Thred.sadly missed on all things music.

Are you back to your fit as a fiddle days after your gout & knee problems...music is a great healer Tom...innit?

The first album I ever bought was Motown Chartbusters vol 6.

Sarum wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 31, 2021 12:34 pm

An often overlooked Motown singer from - West Yorkshire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI2NLDGcMjw

Another Yorkshire lass who does brilliant Motown and Northern Soul covers.

https://youtu.be/MebfQHEAYwU

Anyone who knows me knows that I love the Motown Sound.
After my Family and Burnley FC Motown is my biggest love

Here is the Original recording of my favourite song of all time 'My Girl' by my favourite group of all time the Temptations with David Ruffin on lead vocals
Motown the best Music of all time
Enjoy!

https://fb.watch/76qMQokPU3/

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:51 pm

Are you back to your fit as a fiddle days after your gout & knee problems...music is a great healer Tom...innit?

Fit as.... music wouldn't heal the issue I had which isn't Gout as it Happens but an infection of the right leg so all Connected to the knee and foot Pain which I wouldn't wish on anybody..well......... anyway only 6Anti biotics to go. And medication free thankfully. Thanks for asking.

I am proud to own tin can people by gloria Jones. This was on the gordy label .I believe tamla bought gordy

It was realeased in the uk in 1974 on Tamla Motown.... TMG910

Np but the original was gordy

so the subject got me playing this type of music again so I thought I'd drop this here, lot's of oldies and Northern soul if any is interested, lot here I have never heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lSm7uf ... 92035E910E

dandeclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:51 pm

Don't know if you've ever heard this - the isolated vocals of Marvin Gaye, Live, On heard it through the grapevine...... I think it's incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNVWw0gDeMY

That's impressive.

On very much a trivia level I'm sure that the single by Yvonne Fair, 'It Should Have Been Me' , was the very first one to reach No1 in the charts for Tamla Motown sung by a white artist. Not a favourite track of mine and certainly not atypical of Tamla but one for those( like me) that sometimes revel in trivia.

The late Yvonne Fair was black. Pretty sure it was never No 1 as well. Mid 70s long after the death of the ‘Traditional’ Motown sound

All good and true. Another way of appreciating the Motown sound is in the contributions by the in house band the Funk Bros, who are found on many TM hits. Earl Van Dyke the keyboards player did some instrumental stuff under his own name including the uplifting 6 by 6.

I was brought up on Motown, living next to a youth club that played nothing else when I was about seven. I could hear the Supremes and Marvin Gaye in my bedroom every Tuesday and Thursday night. This developed into a love of the edgier and harder sound of soul. A natural progression from northern soul is jazz funk which I also grew to enjoy but I don’t think many diehard soulers really went for it because it didn’t fit the dancing which, to be fair, was what it was all about. This is one of favourites which moves beyond the traditional soul sound.
https://youtu.be/ntPeHC8z1Og

Temptations
https://youtu.be/c82XRirZgh0

Stevie Wonder
https://youtu.be/uIZhb-WuXdI

Marvin Gaye
https://youtu.be/wnQn9VakfBk

This is one of my main go-to cheery up tunes

Gladys Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tF79V5 ... rt_radio=1

I've been listening to Motown for much of today.

Has this one been linked, but this from the Temps is a favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDakhsaPTE0

Holmeclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 01, 2021 2:08 pm

Another Yorkshire lass who does brilliant Motown and Northern Soul covers.

I saw a few TM stars when I was very young and I remember seeing a group over in Halifax, who were the "so called" Britain's answer to Ike & Tina Turner, so your post reminded me when you mentioned Yorkshire I also remember dancing all night into the morning sunshine when I left the place.

I give you Root & Jenny Jackson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0SzsXtGiNQ