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BOS It's a Shame
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2006, 10:30:07 AM »
one of the best guitar openings of all time!  Totally joy-inducing!  Serotonin don't fail me now!
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« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2006, 10:31:01 AM »
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Smooth Smokey! BOS5!  If you can want, you can have a hit!


The slyest rhymes, the sharpest suits.

Elegance and eloquence.  

(right Mike?)
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« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2006, 10:33:11 AM »
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I think the issue with WGO was that Marvin wanted creative (producing/writing) control, whereas "Love Child" was the usual Motown staff creation, "daring" as the lyrics may have been.


Yup, that's what I was going to say.  He was the musical equivalent to Curt Flood, except his career wasn't sacrificed.
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« Reply #33 on: May 19, 2006, 10:34:42 AM »
BOS -- Marvin by one vote (would have been two if I'd actually voted)...
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« Reply #34 on: May 19, 2006, 10:35:40 AM »
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Smooth Smokey! BOS5!  If you can want, you can have a hit!


The slyest rhymes, the sharpest suits.

Elegance and eloquence.  

(right Mike?)


LOL! Oh my yes.

Elegance in eloquence - for sale or rent or hire
Should I say "yes, I match his best"
Then I would be a liar
Symphonies that soothe the rage
When lovers' hearts catch fire

Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right - makes it outtasite
And everything's good in the world tonight!

When Smokey sings - I hear violins
When Smokey sings - I forget everything
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« Reply #35 on: May 19, 2006, 10:39:48 AM »
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BOS -- Marvin by one vote (would have been two if I'd actually voted)...

I went the Gladys route.
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« Reply #36 on: May 19, 2006, 10:48:06 AM »
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BOS -- Marvin by one vote (would have been two if I'd actually voted)...

I went the Gladys route.


While we're discussing Motown... on the rack at Starbucks this morning was the "new" Diana Ross CD, Blue, a jazz/standards collection recorded in '73 (in the wake of Lady Sings the Blues) and then shelved -- until now.
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Re: Love Child
« Reply #37 on: May 19, 2006, 11:18:08 AM »
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How close is this in terms of "What's Going On?"  This was definitely progressive at the time.
"Love Child": late '68
"What's Goin On": early '71

Late '68 is when Motown "discovered" social realism -- Temps did "Cloud Nine" and "Runaway Child" then too.
Makes me wonder why Marvin had so much trouble getting WGO recorded, which is why I was asking.


I think the issue with WGO was that Marvin wanted creative (producing/writing) control, whereas "Love Child" was the usual Motown staff creation, "daring" as the lyrics may have been.


That's exactly what it was.  The songs for WGO were much looser in structure and Marvin wanted to record them at his own pace -- both anathema to Gordy's bottom-line ways of thinking.  I wonder if WGO would ever have been released had Stevie Wonder not won emancipation at age 21 the year prior.
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« Reply #38 on: May 19, 2006, 10:20:42 PM »
5/19/2006 - FRIDAY!!! Today is a...Motortown Review!!
 
1.  Stevie Wonder - I'm Wonderin'  
2.  Martha & the Vandellas - Dancin' in the Street  
3.  Tammi Terrell - I Can't Believe You Love Me  
4.  Supremes - Love Child  
5.  Four Tops - Something About You  
6.  Gladys Knight & the Pips - I Heard it Through the Grapevine  
7.  Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine (BEST OF SET!!)  
8.  Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack  
9.  Smokey & the Miracles - If You Can Want  
10.  Spinners - It's a Shame  
 
BONUS TRACK:  Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
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« Reply #39 on: May 19, 2006, 10:23:19 PM »
Any of you have a comprehensive Motown collection I could burn from? I used to have a multi-album set, like 5 or 6. From the '70s, came in a blue box, can still picture it. Got rid of it early on and totally regret it now.
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« Reply #40 on: May 20, 2006, 11:59:35 AM »
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Any of you have a comprehensive Motown collection I could burn from? I used to have a multi-album set, like 5 or 6. From the '70s, came in a blue box, can still picture it. Got rid of it early on and totally regret it now.

Most of my old Motown is vinyl!
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Re: vinyl
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2006, 12:33:32 PM »
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Any of you have a comprehensive Motown collection I could burn from? I used to have a multi-album set, like 5 or 6. From the '70s, came in a blue box, can still picture it. Got rid of it early on and totally regret it now.

Most of my old Motown is vinyl!


LOL! Me too -- in the '80s during "Big Chill"-mania, I bought all the vinyl "Anthology" sets... Tempts, Supes, Marvin, Martha & the Vandellas. Have yet to replace 'em with CDs, tho' I do have What's Goin' On? in that format.

Ali, was that "The Motown Story", with narration between the songs?
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