What is/are your favourite Tamla Motown record(s) ?

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There's so many good ones I can't single one out but my Top Three, in no particular order, is:

If I Were A Carpenter - The Four Tops;

I'm Still Waiting - Diana Ross;

The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles.

Mr Big Stuff, can’t remember who by though!

Rescue Me Martha and the Vandellas

Walk on by Dionne Warwick

Heard it through the grapevine by Marvin Gaye

Tracks of my tears by Smokey Robinson.

Two of my all time favourites

Practically anything by Aretha Franklin, favourite probably Say a little prayer

Reach out, I'll be there - Four Tops

Jimmy Ruffin when I see her I'm going to give her all the love I got

Band of Gold

Ditto The Supremes
I love a bit of motown

Tears of a clown smokey robinson and i heard it through the grapevine marvin gaye

Rick O Shay. Aretha Franklin recorded for Atlantic Records, not Motown. As far as I know, Martha And The Vandellas didn't record Rescue Me, but Fontella Bass had a major hit with it.

Thanks!

You don’t happen to know who sang Mr Big Stuff?

Mr big stuff is by jean knight. It's a great song

25 miles by Edwin Starr.

When he died someone at work didn’t know who he was so I demonstrated the full “War! Hurrrr! Good god, y’all” for their benefit. I think they were impressed.

Thanks Violet
I used to rewind and listen to it over and over again.

Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye

Just My Imagination - the Temtations

Love Mr big stuff but my favourite it 'ain't no mountain high enough' Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye' such chemistry singing together

Likewise, Dionne Warwick wasn't on Motown. She recorded for Scepter in the USA, with mainly Bacharach and David songs.

Hobbes did you perform the Hakka along with it?

Ooohhh so many, can I even choose?! I was brought up on Elvis and Motown.

My favourite song ever ever is You Can’t Hurry Love (supremes) - has been since I was about 4 (am 40).

Stevie - too many to choose from. Maybe Contract On Love for my favourite Motown SW track.

If I could only take one album into space, I’d take Songs in the Key of Life.

I could go on and on!

Superstition

This Old Heart of Mine and Behind a Painted Smile - The Isley Brothers

There’s a Ghost in my House - R Dean Taylor

Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

War - Edwin Starr

I’m worried someone’s going to tell me mine aren’t proper Motown

Just take it in the chin Sinister

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I'm still waiting.

Ain't no mountain high enough

Tears of a clown.

Loved Motown and listened to it all the time as a teen.