PM me your address & I'll send you some cotton buds to clean your ears out.
Appreciate that not everyone likes Motown (Although this actually came out on the Tamla label in the States) but really, no one could better the Smokey version.
And then only released as single on Tamla, pulled from the album Make It Happen, when the single was released first on the UK Tamla-Motown label. In a similar way, Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up wasn't originally released as a single.
The Beat is a very good cover of a Smokey track that is arguably one of the best if not the best Motown tracks ever made.
The legendary Smokey Robinson by a huge margin.
Sorry Bob you are normally spot on but that's a real sweeper that argument deserves a thread of it's own For instance what about
This old heart of mine ..the isley bros
Same old song ....four tops
Anything from Stevie
Don't forget Marvin.
Diana, Martha,the temptations etc..if I had to choose my favourite Motown song I'd go for
Just ask the lonely..four tops or just my imagination ..temptations but that might change tomorrow
miss ross as she insisted on being called only got where she was/is because she was "favoured" shall we say by Berry Gordy & so received the full force of the Motown publicity machine behind her. She wasn't even the best singer in the Supremes !!! Try listening to the talents of Brenda Holloway, a far far far better singer than ross but was held back because she rejected the advances of an important person within the Corporation.
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The Beat is a very good cover of a Smokey track that is arguably one of the best if not the best Motown tracks ever made.
The legendary Smokey Robinson by a huge margin.
Should be OK now but I think the public have spoken.
”when Smokey sings, I hear violins”
For instance what about
This old heart of mine ..the isley bros
Same old song ....four tops
Anything from Stevie
Just ask the lonely..four tops or just my imagination ..temptations but that might change tomorrow
Wonder how a Stax Vs Motown competition would go doen