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Comments (17)
My favourite Smokey tune is "Baby, baby don't cry". And the best Junior Walker song is "What does it take (to win your love for me)". Being a Memphis girl I was always more into the Stax stuff, although who doesn't love Motown??
Posted by Lily | June 1, 2005 12:07 AM
It's good to see a couple of the Marvin/Tammi duets on there, as those are the pinnacle of the Motown Sound, in my opinion. However, I would omit "Someday We'll Be Together" in favor of the Velvettes' "Needle in a Haystack," and replace "Honey Chile" with Shorty Long's "Here Comes the Judge." Gotta' have "I Want You Back" and Gladys' version of "Grapevine," too.
Posted by Murray | June 1, 2005 8:40 AM
I thought it was "I Hoid it Through the Grapevine?"
Oh yeah, that's the CCR version ...
Posted by Gordo | June 1, 2005 8:44 AM
What about the White Stripes? They're from Motown.
Posted by bb | June 1, 2005 10:41 AM
I'm with Lily...after Motown..do a Stax compilation...
Posted by jack danger | June 1, 2005 11:40 AM
As a born-in-Motown kid, I appreciate the list. But I'd add a few artists:
Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Isley Brothers
The Temps (standing alone w/out The Supremes)
The Spinners
Billy Ekstine
A great thing about growing up in Detroit during Motown's heyday was going to the state fair (located in Detroit), and, for the price of fair admission (about $5), being able to see these groups live, on-stage, up close and personal. Smokey Robinson, Aretha, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Isleys - seemed like someone was always performing, nearly 'round-the-clock.
Posted by beardo | June 1, 2005 1:31 PM
I envy you. I have seen Stevie twice -- the first time, with "InnerVisions," the best concert I've ever witnessed. And I caught the Temps (with Edwin Starr opening) just after David Ruffin left. Pretty good, since Eddie Kendricks was still there. As for the rest of the Motown greats, I missed them, except on TV of course.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 1, 2005 1:51 PM
I missed them as well - and i have no good excuse, since I lived in Detroit at the time, grrr....
Let me know what you need re. Jackson 5 - I just might have it....
Posted by Betsy | June 1, 2005 4:46 PM
though they are kind of downers:
Temptations - "Papa was a rolling stone"
Anything from Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues"
Posted by Steve | June 1, 2005 5:51 PM
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" is a song, not an album. The song appears on the start-to-finish-excellent album "What's Goin' On."
Posted by Jack Bog | June 1, 2005 6:01 PM
Aw, how could I forget the greatest David Ruffin vocal performance ever - "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"?
Posted by Murray | June 1, 2005 10:50 PM
Here's one more great thing about growing up in Detroit way back when:
Sunday morning, you could go to the Reverend C.L. Franklin's New Bethel Baptist Church (which was actually a converted movie theater) on Linwood Avenue and hear what had to be the world's greatest gospel music. That house rocked. Reverend Franklin's daughters sang in the choir. One of them was named Aretha.
Posted by beardo | June 2, 2005 12:40 PM
How about the Temptations "The girl's alrght with me"? Oh, that amazing voice of Eddie Kendricks. I cried when I heard he died.
P.S. Jack, I have a Stax 9 cd set if you ever want to borrow it in order to compile a Stax compilation.
By the way, I don't know if any of you are hip to Daedalus. It's kind of a "remaindered" books and cd's business. They have great music selections, I have found alot of fairly obscure stuff. The average cost for a cd is $5.98 and the really great thing is that there is a flat shipping fee of $4.95, doesn't matter how much you buy, i's just the $4.95 fee. Call 1.800.395.2665 to get on their mailing list for catalogues.
Posted by Lily | June 2, 2005 1:27 PM
Multnomah County Library has several Stax box sets that I think cover most of the singles that came out from between 1959 to 1971. There's usually a wait, but not that long.
Posted by Antonio | June 2, 2005 7:55 PM
I own the priceless Stax 9-disk singles box for 1959-1968. However, there is another Stax box that picks up in '68 or '69, which I haven't heard, and I would think that a definitive Stax disk would have at least a few things from the latter.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 2, 2005 10:46 PM
I listen to Marvin's soundtrack to 'Trouble Man' a lot at work when coding. I love it, especially '"T" plays it cool', which I found because it had been sampled by Thievery Corporation. I love recognizing and learning about older works through the use and appreciation by current artists.
Posted by pdxkona | June 5, 2005 12:28 PM
Papa Was a Rolling Stone, The Temptations
Posted by Mr. Bean | June 5, 2005 10:15 PM