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Even if there might already be a thread like this,
It wasnt visible when I, and those joining CD since January came onboard.
So now here is OUR chance to post and share our love for MOTOWN, via
comments, photos or video...
Repeatedly mistaken for 'The Dells' or 'The Temptations', 'The Originals' made their short-lived mark on the Pop-soul
charts with this song, which might account for
their obscurity...
Shame that wasn't a Motown recording. (The Spinners were birthed at Motown but they had their greatest success when they married to the Philadelphia sound via Thom Bell.)
This one was, though . . . (V.I.P. was a barely-used Motown subsidiary label when the Spinners---with a little help from Stevie Wonder, who wrote it---delivered that subsidiary's biggest hit . . . )
Now, just listen to the band by itself . . . (with background singers here and there) . . . without this magnificent band there was no Motown Sound . . .
I've always liked that song, but I don't pretend that it's Motown music. This came from their 1970s period, when they changed labels (they were hardly the only Motowners who did so and abandoned the Motown sound and style in the process) and adopted a sound and style very different from their Motown music. Some of this music is wonderful, but it's a very far cry from the days when they were probably the best soul singers as a group that the Motown Sound ever yielded up.
I've always liked that song, but I don't pretend that it's Motown music. This came from their 1970s period, when they changed labels (they were hardly the only Motowners who did so and abandoned the Motown sound and style in the process) and adopted a sound and style very different from their Motown music. Some of this music is wonderful, but it's a very far cry from the days when they were probably the best soul singers as a group that the Motown Sound ever yielded up.
True enough and good point. But again, this is a MOTOWN thread.
And I never said groups had to be currently on the label to qualify.
That would be irrevelant, in case anyone may want to post something
featuring Michael Jackson, or any other former Motown Stars, for example.
But thank you.
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