"Songs of The Stonewall" ©
Motown / Stonewall Legends:
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (MRV)
Gold Girls: Rosalind Ashford (top), Betty Kelly (left) and Martha Reeves
"Right-on" to Motown Records for timely issuing "GOLD", a new and expanded anthology of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. This double compact disc collection has over forty songs, including all of the MRV single-release songs on Motown's Gordy record label and a healthy sampling of their popular flipside songs. "Songs of The Stonewall" included is firstly the perennial favorites "Heat Wave" and "Dancing In The Street", which appeared, respectively, in The Stonewall Club's jukebox, for a month or so each, every summer. The regular Stonewall Era songs digitally-remastered in these two c/d's include: "My Baby Loves Me" and "I'm Ready For Love" from 1966; "Jimmy Mack" and "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" from 1967; "Honey Chile" and "I Promise To Wait My Love" from 1968; and "We've Got Honey Love" and "Taking My Love And Leaving Me" from 1969. The MRV flipside record songs include the finger-snapping, line-dancing "Third Finger, Left Hand" and the fast-paced, hard-dancing "One Way Out" from 1967 and "Show Me The Way To Your Heart" and "Forget Me Not" from 1968. All were flipside hits at The Stonewall. The collection is expanded with its hot handful sampling of post-MRV single songs of a solo Martha Reeves.