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Marvin Gaye's epic album "What's Going On". Probably my favourite album of all time.
Oh and my favourite Motown single:
Jr Walker and the All Stars "What Does It Take" (to win your love) Goosebumps every time I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub72eylahJg |
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"Marvin Gaye's epic album "What's Going On". Probably my favourite album of all time.
Oh and my favourite Motown single:
Jr Walker and the All Stars "What Does It Take" (to win your love) Goosebumps every time I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub72eylahJg"
This is excellent:
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE |
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Motown... well, pretty much all of them.
Crikey, that's got my mind buzzin now, not been to a Motown night for ages, years, okay, decades.
Where the heck would you go nowadays to enjoy a Motown evening in North Wales or the North West? |
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"Martha reeves and the vandellas
Heatwave
Favourite all time Motown and the lyrics are perfect for us !
Cringey I know  "
Martha And The Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
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"Motown... well, pretty much all of them.
Crikey, that's got my mind buzzin now, not been to a Motown night for ages, years, okay, decades.
Where the heck would you go nowadays to enjoy a Motown evening in North Wales or the North West?"
There are regular northern soul nights all around. Blackpool Tower ballroom has huge all nighters. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Has to be Otis Redding-Cigarettes and coffee 
And a large soft spot for Curtis Mayfield .... Just too many to choose from  "
I think Otis isn't Motown, can't remember the label he was on. Still love him though. |
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"Being from Bolton and having family from Wigan, I was brought up with Northern Soul music."
Aah, but where does Northern Soul fit in? I really don't know. Is Northern Soul a genre like Motown is a genre?
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"Has to be Otis Redding-Cigarettes and coffee
And a large soft spot for Curtis Mayfield .... Just too many to choose from
I think Otis isn't Motown, can't remember the label he was on. Still love him though. "
Completely right  as wasn't Mayfield... I just think of Motown as a style of music rather than the label |
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"Marvin Gaye's epic album "What's Going On". Probably my favourite album of all time.
Oh and my favourite Motown single:
Jr Walker and the All Stars "What Does It Take" (to win your love) Goosebumps every time I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub72eylahJg
This is excellent:
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE"
Yep Joe. It sure is.
It was John Peel (yes in the days of heavy / prog rock) playing that very track on his "Sounds of the 70's" show that had the 12yr old me go out and spend the money from his paper round on the album. The lyrics are just as pertinent now as they were back in '73. Some things never seem to change. |
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"Being from Bolton and having family from Wigan, I was brought up with Northern Soul music.
Aah, but where does Northern Soul fit in? I really don't know. Is Northern Soul a genre like Motown is a genre?
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Motown was pretty much a record company - with subsidiaries. Northern Soul is a movement that encompasses the Motown sound along with other record companies. |
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Another perennial Motown favourite of mine (I'd better restrain myself or I'll be hijacking this thread  )
David Ruffin - Walk Away from Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmneugiD7Ig
More goosebumps. |
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"Has to be Otis Redding-Cigarettes and coffee
And a large soft spot for Curtis Mayfield .... Just too many to choose from
I think Otis isn't Motown, can't remember the label he was on. Still love him though.
Completely right as wasn't Mayfield... I just think of Motown as a style of music rather than the label "
I like Try a Little Tenderness from Otis. |
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Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher (not sure that's strictly Motown now I think of it?)
The Four Tops - Same old song (I'm fairly certain that one counts!)
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"Has to be Otis Redding-Cigarettes and coffee
And a large soft spot for Curtis Mayfield .... Just too many to choose from
I think Otis isn't Motown, can't remember the label he was on. Still love him though.
Completely right as wasn't Mayfield... I just think of Motown as a style of music rather than the label
I like Try a Little Tenderness from Otis. "
Just anything by Otis tickles me these arms of mine is a personal evening favourite too I must just like the slow ones |
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By *GHertsCouple
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"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin
Heaven Must Have Sent You by The Elgins"
Thank you!! You've saved me looking up who did Heaven Must Have Sent You...which I love (so much so I always forget who did it!!)...
....to add to the list though:
Love Machine by The Miracles always gets my pulse racing
Papa Was A Rolling Stone by The Temptations is a classic
Uptight by Stevie Wonder is another
....and many many more!!
Mr G
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Oh wow I like loads of Motown tracks.
Off the top of my head~
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
My Girl
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Dancing In The Street. |
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If it's northern soul....fav is ' long after tonight is all over 'one of the three at 8 from
Last years at Wigan
If it's Motown got to be tears of a clown
But def up for a soul/Motown social
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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago
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The Elgins. heaven must have sent you."
Yes, great tune!
Stoned Love is ace.
Some I don't think have been mentioned:
Marvin Gaye/Tanmi Terrell - If I Could Build Nt Whole World Around You
Diana Ross and the Supremes - He's My Sunny Boss
Chris Clark - Something's Wrong
If there's one I can't recommend highly enough that's little known, it's Tamni Terrell's version of "All I Do" the Stevie Wonder.
I don't think It every had a release until a box set some a few years back - and it's utterly gorgeous!
Sneaking a MoWest (offshoot label) tune in too
Odyssey - Our Lives are Shaped by What We Love
DJ Sock (no seriously, I am. I don't call myself that though. It's not 1993 and I'm not a house DJ in the back room of a pub in Hemel Hempstead).
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All of the above... quite possibly some of the greatest songs ever recorded fall under Motown, superstition, I want you back, I was made to love her, ain't no mountain... |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting. |
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By *ost SockMan
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting."
Yes, it's brilliant.
James Jamerson was a brilliant bass player. A lot of his isolated basslines can be found on YT.
Apparently he was so d*unk the night he recorded "What's Going On" that he had to do it lying on the floor with his guitar.....he plays beautifully |
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By *ost SockMan
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting."
Btw - "The Weight"
What do I win?  |
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting.
Yes, it's brilliant.
James Jamerson was a brilliant bass player. A lot of his isolated basslines can be found on YT.
Apparently he was so d*unk the night he recorded "What's Going On" that he had to do it lying on the floor with his guitar.....he plays beautifully "
Oh thanks for that. I love to hear these nuggets of information.  was it Jamerson that played the amazing bass line in "What Does it Take (to Win Your Love)" with Jr Walker and the All Stars? |
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By *ost SockMan
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting.
Yes, it's brilliant.
James Jamerson was a brilliant bass player. A lot of his isolated basslines can be found on YT.
Apparently he was so d*unk the night he recorded "What's Going On" that he had to do it lying on the floor with his guitar.....he plays beautifully
Oh thanks for that. I love to hear these nuggets of information. was it Jamerson that played the amazing bass line in "What Does it Take (to Win Your Love)" with Jr Walker and the All Stars?"
I'm not sure.
It's the funk brothers, so probably is, but it sounds a little different to his usual style, maybe. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting.
Btw - "The Weight"
What do I win? "
You get to go on YouTube and find the version I was listening to at the time. Which was Aretha's. Tune! |
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By *ost SockMan
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"If you love Motown and haven't watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown than I urge you to do so. The Funk Brothers were an amazing set of musicians. Whether playing on Motown records or moonlighting.
Btw - "The Weight"
What do I win?
You get to go on YouTube and find the version I was listening to at the time. Which was Aretha's. Tune!"
I duly did. She's awesome and I love her version.
The one for me is The Long and Winding Road - her cover is just fantastic.
I love the version of The Weight with the Staples Singers too. Adds a layer of soulfulness.
Also love Marion Williams's gospel version of I Shall Be Released (ok, it's a Dylan tune, but the band's version is well known). |
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