The Best Motown Song Ever Has To Be....

[trixiefirecracker]

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles....Tears of A Clown

 

[wizbit9]

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles....Tears of A Clown

excellent track. there is in all fairness a great cover of it by The flying Picketts

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"What are you going to do when I'm gone?"

 

[Private Vasquez]

uh oh...you discount a whole buncha damn good songs when you go that route. All the Little Stevie Wonder hits, any of the Holland, Dozier, Holland joints....it's just too tough.

 

[bluespoke]

Oh I don't know.....

Dancing in the Streets is quite something too.

 

[Mistress]

I love 'em all

 

[trixiefirecracker]

Re: Re: The Best Motown Song Ever Has To Be....

excellent track. there is in all fairness a great cover of it by The flying Picketts

There is?? I didn't know that....must look for it on Audio Galaxy....

 

[trixiefirecracker]

Actaully my fiance got me a box set of 3 CDs called 'Tamla Motown The Sound Of Young America' which has everything on it.....its fantastic...

 

[CarolineOh]

Oh I don't know.....

Dancing in the Streets is quite something too.

~~can't forget the Motor City~~

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[Rick DeVille]

'Can I Get a Witness' Marvin Gaye
'Heatwave' Martha Reeves
'I Heard it Through the Grapevine' Gladys Knight or Marvin Gaye

 

[Ebonyfire]

I like

OOh Baby, Baby by The Miracles.

And please, please do not mention Linda Ronstadt's cover of it! Not while I am eating!

Ebony

 

[badasschick]

You're all I need to get by - Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell (sp)?

 

[Ebonyfire]

You're all I need to get by - Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell (sp)?

You got it right! All of the Tammi Terrell songs with Marvin Gaye were awesome. She died of a brain tumor and Marvin Gaye turned UGLY!

Ebony

 

[redrider4u]

The best is "If you don't know me by now......" by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes.

 

[Blues]

I love this one

MY GIRL
(Robinson-White)

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
And when it's cold outside I've got the month of May

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, I'm talkin' 'bout my girl

I've got so much honey the bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the tree

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, I'm talkin' 'bout my girl

Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

I don't need money, fortune or fame
I got all the riches, baby, that one man can claim

I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, talkin' 'bout my girl

I've got so much honey the bees envy me
I got a sweeter song than the birds in the tree
Don't need no fortune, no money or fame
'cause when I got my girl, I got all the riches one man can claim
Talkin' 'bout my girl, yeah my girl

 

[navarre]

"Baby I Need Your Lovin"
Four Tops
Live at the Roostertail

 

[Ginny]

<huge smile>......i just popped in my Four Tops cd.......does it get any better than Sugar Pie Honey Bunch?.....mmmmmmmmm happy....weeeeeee......dancing in my chair.....playing it loud...

motown.....just FUN music

 

[Avery_Chisholm]

ummmmmmmmm

the LOVE I LOST harold melvin and the bluenotes
I got to use my imagination gladys' knight
Love train the O Jays'
and the list just goes on and on!!!!

 

[Saint Peter]

Son of a Preacher Man by Aretha Franklin without a doubt.

 

[GuyJD]

Re: ummmmmmmmm

the LOVE I LOST harold melvin and the bluenotes
I got to use my imagination gladys' knight
Love train the O Jays'
and the list just goes on and on!!!!

The O'Jays were not part of Motown.

Basically, there were no best songs in MOTOWN. They were all good. From Marvin Gaye and Tammie Tarrell to Rick James.

 

[miles]

uh oh...you discount a whole buncha damn good songs when you go that route. All the Little Stevie Wonder hits, any of the Holland, Dozier, Holland joints....it's just too tough.

Will you marry me?

Stevland Morris

When Stevie Wonder was a teenager he was writing some of the best music of all time. I think he'll go down as one of the greatest American songwriters. How many seventeen year olds wrote songs so good that Sinatra sang them?

A Place in the Sun is my favorite. He couldn't have been more than 15 when he wrote it, in the middle of the Civil Rights struggle. The lyrics give me the chills.

Like a long lonely stream
I keep runnin' towards a dream
Movin' on, movin' on
Like a branch on a tree
I keep reachin' to be free
Movin' on, movin' on.

'Cause there's a place in the sun
Where there's hope for ev'ryone
Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
There's a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun.

Like an old dusty road
I get weary from the load.
Movin' on, movin' on
Like this tired troubled earth
I've been rollin' since my birth
Movin' on, movin' on

'Cause there's a place in the sun
Where there's hope for ev'ryone
Where my poor restless heart's gotta run.
There's a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun

 

[Private Vasquez]

I don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment....

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

 

[tigerjen]

There are lots of songs from Motown that can be
considered "best"......but I have to pick:

"Smiling Faces Sometimes" by The Undisputed Truth

 

[miles]

I don't know if I'm ready for that kind of commitment....

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Okay, then.

How about a cookie?

Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Hmmmmm. Tough to beat.

This one gives me goosebumps, too. Nobody alive writes lyrics like this. "As" (one of the verses)

Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky
Until the ocean covers every mountain high
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream
Until the day is night and night becomes the day
Until the trees and sea just up and fly away
Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4
Until the day that is the day that are no more
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through
Until the day that you are me and I am you


Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4


Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.