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Posted on 02/07/2020 12:52:32 PM PST by rktman
It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy, not only has the label — originally a small independent out of Detroit — spawned more classics in the 60 years since its launch than many corporate-giant-owned major record companies, who’s to say whether the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” is “better” than such drastically different songs as Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me,” Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination,” the Commodores’ “Brick House” or Motown-affiliated Migos’ “Bad and Boujee”?
Despite it all, in honor of the label’s 60th anniversary in 2019, Variety‘s music staff dug deep into its collective hearts and minds — because like much of America, all of us grew up on Motown songs — and after some good-natured arguing, assembled a list that includes most of the label’s classic artists and many of its distributed or subsidiary labels (a category that ranges from early imprints including Tamla, Anna and Gordy to the present-day, with Atlanta-based Quality Control). While this list may not be definitive — what could be? — we’re confident that it hits the mark more often than not. There’s a certain Motown magic that all of these songs have: Like Stevie sings in “Sir Duke,” “Just because a record has a groove/ Don’t make it in the groove… ”
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When I was 18 I was a security guard at CKLW on Ouellette Ave. in Windsor Ont.
Classic - my all time favorite bumper.
To tell the truth the only thing that ever happened there was Harry Chappin came in a couple hours early for an interview and I got to talk to him for some time, very nice guy.
That night a drunk Haole from Detroit harassed you... It wasn’t me...
Yikes! It played for me before I posted. Sorry.
1982
Charlene “I’ve Never Been to Me”
In 1982, an unknown singer named Charlene scored Motown’s biggest hit by a white solo singer with a flop from five years earlier. Originally released in 1977 on Motown’s Prodigal subsidiary, “I’ve Never Been to Me” merely nicked the charts during its first run. It wasn’t until it was revived in 1982 as a proper Motown single after becoming a local radio hit in Tampa that it flew up Billboard’s Hot 100 all the way to No. 3. Althoughit’s basically a three-minute-and-47-second soap opera set to music, Charlene’s first and only hit was like nothing else on the radio at the time and remains an anomaly of ’80s pop. A second resurgence in the 1994film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” turned it into apop-culture staple, and it later seemed to pop up everywhere, from “Absolutely Fabulous” to “Saturday Night Live” to “Will and Grace.”
I HATE THAT SONG!
Every song on Stevie Wonder’s “Innervisions”.
Hey Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn rock for white boys
I went and listened to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZgIk2b68gQ
Never heard of it before.
Hated it.
Cropper is one of my heroes.
A lot of people don’t realize that Rare Earth was a Motown Act.
I Just Wanna Celebrate, Hey Big Brother, Get Ready.
That’s some good stuff right there. Not to forget Average White Band either.
Mine too
Funk brothers WERE Motowna bunch of session musicials that came up with the greatests riffs of all time.
Search out the Funk Brothers instrumental tracks on YouTube. Familiar yet like you’ve never heard them before.
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