This is one of my top favourite songs of the early supremes stuff =)
I hope you enjoy it.
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The Supremes – Long Gone Lover [mono]
Four Tops- Hey Man / We Got To Get You A Woman (vinyl)
From 1972.
Taken from the 1974 LP: Anthology (Motown M9-809A3)
Written by Todd Rundgren. They were going in a more progressive direction at this point in their career.
R.I.P. Levi Stubbs and all the rest.
Duration : 0:7:50
BRENDA HOLLOWAY I ´LL BE ALRIGHT
BRENDA HOLLOWAY I ´LL BE ALRIGHT
ALBUM THE MOTOWN ANTHOLOGY
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The Elgins – Life Can Be Beautiful
The Elgins – Life Can Be Beautiful. Available on the Motown Anthology
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J J Barnes – I’m Here Now That You Need Me – Northern Soul
Classic J. J. Barnes finally getting released after all those years locked in the Motown Vault. Looking forward to J.J.’s Motown Anthology which is set for release ?????????
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The Elgins – My Love For Your Love
The Elgins – My Love For Your Love. Available on the Motown Anthology.
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a motown classic: kim weston- take me in your arms (rock me a little while)
Kim Weston- ask any avid Motown fan, the ones REALLY additcted to the label’s music, about Kim Weston and I’ll make a bet that 100% of them will tell you Motown REALLY dropped the ball on a phenomenal talent…
Here is an alternate version of perhaps Kim’s best-known song for the company (at least, best-known to the public in general.)
Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) was a firestorm that came from the forever-astonishing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Eddie Holland actually put his vocals down first. Notes from the Kim Weston Motown Anthology state that the song was slated for Martha and the Vandellas. The song was then assigned to Kim, and Motown’s studio A caught fire and disintigrated.
How the studio didn’t burn to the ground as this woman lit fire to the already-burning H-D-H track is a mystery. The commercial version certainly was a firecracker but this alternate version recently released… fire alarms will sound, walls will crumble, speakers will explode, you’ll be turned into ashes.
I don’t know, maybe Kim decided to just give it hell, maybe H-D-H wanted one more take and Kim was tired and decided if they wanted one more take, then she would give them something they’d never forget. Whatever factored into this take, Kim takes the vocals to asonishingly explosive heights and hits notes that must have brought down any and all aircraft flying in the vicinity of Hitsville U.S.A. Notice too her lightning-fast phrasing going into the choruses (almost like those triple-time raps hip hop artists pull of so easily today.)
People must have really been paying attention to this song because the Doobie Brothers did a cover of the song that accomplished the fantastic feat of sounding thouroughly like a Doobie Brothers original and yet keeping a lot of that fantastic, classic Motown Sound at the same time.
Kim Weston was a woman who was able to shift gears easily between the Motown Sound and ballads and standards. Wonderfully, there have been recent releases on cd to showcase all of her amazing recordings as well as the ones that were kept in the vaults. Here is just one of those tracks that were kept behind, so enjoy and keep the fire extinguisher nearby!
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In The Midnight Hour ……The Elgins .
The Elgins were an American vocal group on the Motown label, active from the late 1950s to 1967. Founding members Robert Fleming, Norbert McClean, and Johnny Dawson recorded prior to their Motown days as The Sensations, The Five Emeralds, and The Downbeats before adding Saundra Edwards (Mallett) and adopting the name “The Elgins” in 1964.
With Edwards on lead vocals, the group recorded several singles for Motown from 1965 to 1967, including the hits “Darling Baby” (1965) and “Heaven Must Have Sent You” (1966) (which became a Motown hit for singer Bonnie Pointer on September 1, 1979), both written and produced by Motown’s main production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland. The group disbanded in 1968, by which time Edwards had been replaced by Yvonne Allen, although its members periodically recorded covers of its hits for Ian Levine’s Motorcity Records record label in the UK. Recordings of the group, including the album, Darling Baby, all the singles and unreleased recordings up to 1968, can be found on The Motown Anthology released in 2007, as well as a British import CD which pairs their sole album for Motown with one by The Monitors, another group that recorded for Motown with limited success that featured future Temptation, Richard Street
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The Elgins – Love Where Are You Hiding
The Elgins – Love Where Are You Hiding. Available on the Motown Anthology.
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Four Tops- I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (vinyl)
1965.
Taken from the 1974 comp LP: “Anthology”
(Motown M9-809A3)
“Anthology” is a big triple LP set. Motown put out several of these on most of their artists in the 70’s.
R.I.P Levi Stubbs.
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