Posted on 04/06/2023 6:01:44 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
RE: Sources for the music: CKLW, WKNR (”Keener”) on the radio.
All easy to hear on my bedroom and car radios from the suburb outside of Detroit where I grew up.
Great days.
"I can't do what ten people tell me to"--the song is probably about a frustrated and burned-out government bureaucrat.
The Four Tops ~ I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXavZYeXEc0
Did Motown come before or after Sinatra or Como??????
The Way You Do The Things You Do- The Jerry Garcia version
Bring it on— i can take it. Im a FReeper. I’m strong.
Slight breech here because this is on the Sussex label, but these were key members of The Funk Brothers.
Dennis Coffey - Scorpio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBn_oUH8Uo0
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
This will get your blood pumping!
CC Rider - Jenny Take a Ride (1965-1966):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggaKJyx_iRU
Devil in a Blue Dress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WXhbixla0c
Sock It to Me Baby (1967):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_2mqFeGRk
Yes, it was great, starting with the guitar and piano lead in. That intro made the listener excited and curious.
Let's Talk it Over--Lamont Anthony (1960)
If you are gonna play Smokey, here we go.
Tears of a Clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heHLbchPKk
I have a four CD set of Motown songs:
Dancing in the Streets
Come See About Me
How Sweet It Is
Reach Out I’ll Be There
It Takes Two
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
I Wish It Would Rain
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Love Child
Cloud Nine
For Once in My Life
War
The Tears of a Clown
If I Were Your Woman
Thanks to one and all that made these songs.
Sinatra and Como were well-established by the time Berry Gordy & Co. established Motown around 1958.
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNr4F6Khhx4
The Jackson Five ~ Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvjGTdAssE
O’Jays were Philadelphia International.
My Girl
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