FabSwingers.com forum: Motown tracks you love

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Having a Motown night.

Stop in the name of Love : The Supremes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

stoned love the supremes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smokey Robinson - tears of a clown

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"stoned love the supremes

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I love motown to many to mention first one that comes to mind is jimmy mack

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aint no mountain high enough & Marvin & Tammi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tainted Love, though not strictly Motown it was highly influenced by the motown sound.

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By *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

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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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"stoned love the supremes

Love this!

the supremes. stoned love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGabuGle1A

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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

Can't beat a bit of Smokey ..my girl..

Motown at 50: My Girl: http://youtu.be/k7HBmLFlI6E

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"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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By *ladecarpalMan
over a year ago

Lincs/Wilts/HANTS/Dev

'Sexual healing' - Marvin Gaye, simply love the rawness and deep sensuality of the vocals!

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By *cotsguyyMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Juuust...allll of them!

A soul social is what we need!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heat Wave (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) one of my favourites

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Keep going, only just paying attention to this genre, having a music discovery night by the looks of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be Otis Redding-Cigarettes and coffee

And a large soft spot for Curtis Mayfield .... Just too many to choose from

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Martha reeves and the vandellas

Heatwave

Favourite all time Motown and the lyrics are perfect for us !

Cringey I know

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

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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By *hich1isleftMan
over a year ago

Staffordshire

Where did our love go-The Supremes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being from Bolton and having family from Wigan, I was brought up with Northern Soul music.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Jackson 5 - ABC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbc-O_3_Ac

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 *ust Share xWoman
over a year ago

stockport

Let's get it on, Marvin Gaye

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

baby I need your lovin' the four tops

uptight (everything is alright stevie wonder

you cant hurry love Supremes (again)

all fab tuuuuuuuuunes

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

"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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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425GpjTSlS4

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Tracks of my Tears : Smokey Robinson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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?

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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By *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

Another perennial Motown favourite of mine (I'd better restrain myself or I'll be hijacking this thread

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David Ruffin - Walk Away from Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmneugiD7Ig

More goosebumps.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" What Does It Take" Absolute Classic.

Marvin Gaye and Tammy......Two Can Have A Party!

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By *aughty_amazonWoman
over a year ago

BRISTOL

Endless love......makes me cry

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By *osedwifeCouple
over a year ago

Harrogate

Motown nights in birstal and you hear them all, played from records! Yes!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin

Heaven Must Have Sent You by The Elgins

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By *aughty_amazonWoman
over a year ago

BRISTOL

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farewell is a lonely sound.Jimmy Ruffin.

Rocking Robin.Jackson five.

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By *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

"" What Does It Take" Absolute Classic.

Marvin Gaye and Tammy......Two Can Have A Party!"

Oh yes. I love Marvin's duets with Tammy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh you fuckers !!!

These Motown threads always end the same way for us....... dancing round the living room to the worlds lowest volume Motown session in case we wake the kids

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Elgins. heaven must have sent you.

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jimmy James a man like me did get played a little in the soul scene

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Endless love......makes me cry"

Good choice, even I like that and I'm no Soul Boy.

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

https://youtu.be/-lXj4QBew-I linda ronstadt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You keep me hangin'on - The Supremes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Frank Wilson, Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

https://youtu.be/zkpenzFNbpk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Edwin Starr, 25 Miles.

http://dai.ly/x2t2xpa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

James Fountain, Seven day Lover.

https://youtu.be/jEdzddS1l2k

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jimmy Cliff..Many rivers to cross.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

Bristol

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You keep me hangin'on - The Supremes "

Oh yes!! How did I forget this one!!

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"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
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Btw - "The Weight"

What do I win?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm still waiting

Diana Ross

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By *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

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 *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

Stevie wonder.... just stevie wonder!

Once in my life,

Superstition,

Signed sealed delivered

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

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 *ogerNesszonesMan
over a year ago

Northern England

"Stevie wonder.... just stevie wonder!

Once in my life,

Superstition,

Signed sealed delivered "

Got to love Stevie. My party piece is whistling the harmonica solo from "For Once in my Life"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still - The Commodores. Lovely to slow dance to.

Many of the tracks above are on my playlists.

Sarah

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"Stevie wonder.... just stevie wonder!

Once in my life,

Superstition,

Signed sealed delivered "

Jamerson/Wonder.....

Awesomeness right here:

http://youtu.be/At3OP5CvIRY

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By *atie ShayTV/TS
over a year ago

"There's a ghost in my house"

By R. Dean Taylor

Awesome! Miss doing Motown and northern soul nights back when I was a dj

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

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
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

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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