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.

Just My Imagination - Temptations
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gay
Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time - Delfonics
Stone In Love With You - Stylistics

sinisterbumfacedcat yours we’re all either on Motown Dance Party or Motown Dance Party 2, so I think you’re safe! Did anyone else have those compilation albums?

sarahmontague he would not have been more baffled if I had.

Well if it wasn’t recorded by Motown, it isn’t Motown, is it! 🤪😜

Shameless PM!

Loads - love a bit of Motown

Stoned Love - The Supremes

Walk away Renee - The Four Tops

The Onion Song - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Tyrrell (poor Tammi died far too young)

I could go on!

Oops it's Terrell, not Tyrell

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

Love this song!

My contribution:

Bernadette - The Four Tops

Do you love me by the contours (it’s in dirty dancing). I defy anyone not to dance when they hear that song.

Upside Down by Diana Ross

Anything by the Supremes

Anything by Marvin Gaye. I love, love, love Marvin Gaye. Both his and Tammi Terrells stories are so tragic

Heatwave by Martha and the Vandellas is fab

I like Laura Lee To Win your Heart too. That came out on Ric Tic though.

@Hobbes8 I sang on stage with Edwin Starr once!

You can't hurry love

Baby love

ABC

He was really saying something

Hobbes

A little known fact Edwin Starr lived (and died) with his wife in a suburb of Nottingham.

The Four Tops - "Baby I Need Your Loving"
The Isley Brothers - "Put Yourself In My Place" and "This Old Heart of Mine"
Junior Walker and the All Stars "What Does it Take"

Could have those on replay all morning!

Needle in a Haystack, by the Velvelettes. Love it!

Walk Away Renee, Four Tops. I saw them at the Albert Hall in 1967. The tickets were 7/6d! 😂

Alexa you were so lucky, they came to Manchester the same year, and I couldn't get tickets. Recently I picked up a vinyl record of theirs at a charity shop, and tucked inside was a 1970s programme for one of their concerts, signed by Levi Stubbs! Fancy parting with that.I was so thrilled.

Some of the more obscure Motown records are excellent. You Can't Stop A Man In Love by Reuben Howells is one such song; quite big on the Northern Soul circuit.

I've Never Been to Me - Charlene

What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted Jimmy Ruffin

People have named some of my favourites, so how about:
Stevie Wonder - Happier Than the Morning Sun
The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You
The Isley Brothers - Sure Is a Lotta Woman
Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts
Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness

Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye
Up The Ladder To The Roof - The Supremes
Love Hangover - Diana Ross

Can't decide which order through.