Your Favorite Motown Song?

[Contrary1]

I can't name mine; but I know it had to be by the Four Tops. I won a contest many years ago, and got a limousine ride for four to a front seat at an oldies concert. Best time ever.

Loved them 40+ years ago. Love them still. Most of the original members have passed on; still love their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fADK1d0u4&feature=related

[nolabear]

1. A ridiculous question, but this one ALWAYS makes me want to get up and dance.

Mercy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBCpcSvxYeo

(Edited for a better audio version)

[elleng]

2. REALLY ridiculous question,

and if I weren't with friends this evening, I'd spend it searching and posting!

And I agree with 'Mercy!'

[Tikki]

3. "Hitch Hike"...Mr. Marvin Gaye..

1962..on the Tamla Label (aka) Motown...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjUuVtdQqk


Tikki

[nolabear]

4. Just one more. Didn't the Stones cover both of the ones I'm posting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw

*sigh*

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

7. Yep.

They did "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" in 1974, and "Just My Imagination" in 1978.

They did "Hitch Hike" in 1965 too.

Actually the Stones did a lot of Motown covers in the old days.

Can't believe they actually had the balls to do this one, in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d636ucMFEzc

Mick did a great job on the vocals, but that song just belongs to David Ruffin & the Temptations.

[Bertha Venation]

5. Papa Was a Rolling Stone

wherever he laid his hat was his home
and when he died all he left us was alone

[zen_bohemian]

6. ooh I LOVE Motown!!!

Here's one of my favorites, chosen off of a loooong list of favorite Motown songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGz8i0I2L0

Someday We'll be together

[Swede]

8. Stop! In The Name Of Love...Diana Ross & The Supremes

But there are just so many.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzcGO0qUfw

[MilesColtrane]

9. "Bernadette" - The Four Tops

The stuff James Jamerson was throwing on bass on this tune established a demarcation between everything before 1967 and after.

[Suji to Seoul]

10. Superstition - Stevie Wonder

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. "My Girl" by The Temptations.

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I used to do a medley of that and "Old McDonald Had a Farm" on the guitar.
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I remember playing it for half-an-hour or more to (and soon WITH) a cranky,
screaming little girl in an airport when our flight was delayed F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!!
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Calmed her down and she even "helped" me strum the guitar from time-to-time.
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I think her uber-harried Mom, who was dealing with an infant too -- would
have very gladly recommended that I be canonized as a saint.
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[OffWithTheirHeads]

20. +1 I have it set as my wife's ringtone.

[The Midway Rebel]

12. Marvin Gaye --- Whats Goin' On?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s&feature=related

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. "The Bells" by The Originals...written and produced by Marvin Gaye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjJsiKqkHs

I'll never hear the bells if you leave me
I'll never hear the bells
I'll never hear the bells if you leave me
I'll never hear the bells
Do you hear what I hear
When your lips are kissing mine
Do you hear the bells honey
Do you hear them ringing
When I'm kissing you baby
What do I have to do
To make you feel the tingling too

Can't you hear the bells honey
Say it's just as good to you as it is to me
I hear the bells
I hear the bells
Oh ringing in my ears
Oh saying do you love me do you love me
Do you love me, do you love me
Like I love you oh baby

True love and joy and faith
And all my strength I'll give to you darling
My love is yours exclusively to enjoy
Any way you want to
One thing I want you to remember
If you ever leave
I believe I'll go insane
Darling I'll never hear the bells again
No, no, no, no, no, no
Oh baby don't leave me, don't leave me baby

[sarge43]

14. Live performance, the originals, at the top of their game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW6zC1p0MP4&feature=related

[dbt]

15. "They" thought this band might be too funky for Motown

The Mighty Mighty Junior Walker And The All-Stars, "SHOTGUN!" (widely understood in the Entire South)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMs9NudasVI

:smoke:

[nolabear]

16. w00t! Abso-freakin'-lutely!

[pacalo]

31. Yes! But I can't get enough of "Gotta Hold On to This Feeling".

[nolabear]

17. Sam & Dave! Sam & Dave! Sam & Dave!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4DHY_9gOs

(I could have picked so many)

[dbt]

18. Stax, gentle bear...

Stax. The Southern Motown. Stax RULES.

:hi:

[nolabear]

23. Whoops. Well, I got carried away. And of course I heard Stax more than most.

Grew up listening to WTIX from New Orelans and thought that was the norm. One of the best things from my childhood.

[dbt]

24. Hell yeah! Sam And Dave carried me away, too!

The intro to "Soul Man" still lets me time-travel.

:bounce:

[Bossy Monkey]

19. I Was Made To Love Her. Or possibly Superstition. n/t

[Sugarcoated]

21. Tears of a Clown

Smoky Robinson and the Miracles

[WinkyDink]

22. I'm a Top-Head! Met them back-stage once! Fave = "Can't Help Myself (SP, HB)"

JUST saw Little Anthony and the Imperials---AWESOME!!

[livetohike]

25. Can't Get Next to You - The Temps

http://www.nutsie.com/song/I%20Can't%20Get%20Next%20To%20You/7014529?artist_id=4830105&album_id=

Chickaboom, chickaboom!

[femmocrat]

26. "It was Just My Imagination"

by the Temptations (?--can't remember now).

[njdemocrat106]

27. "Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye

My current fave; ask me what my favorite Motown song is next week or possibly tomorrow, and you might get a different answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXq0hLt5n4

[pacalo]

28. Too many good ones, but if I had to choose one

it would be "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"...

...no, "My Girl"...

...oh, but I love "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"...

...damn, what about "Hitchhike"!

I'm probably the only person in the whole wide world who wasn't as taken with the Beatles when they came along. I really, really tried to like them, but Motown ruled for me. But as for the British invasion, I was into Mick Jagger from the get-go.

[nolabear]

29. Just saw Standing in the Shadow of Motown again on Sundance.

Now my head is just FULL of Funk!

[Xipe Totec]

30. Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdtUMdXXJg

[bermudat]

32. My Girl

[Lindsey]

33. I'm not real up on Motown Music but I love Heard it through the

Grapevine and Stop in the Name of Love.