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- Marvin Gaye. WHAT’S GOING ON. (Motown, 1971) Marvin Gaye dedicated this LP to the man who killed him – his preacher dad Marvin Gay Senior. Profane though such thinking might be, What’s Going On is the kind of album to make you imagine parallels between its narrator and Christ: both driven to spread a message of brotherhood and suffering for the sins of the world, only for their Fathers to have other plans.
- Stevie Wonder. INNERVISIONS. (Tamla Motown, 1973) If 1972’s Talking Book saw Stevie Wonder merely hinting at the socio-political unrest of early-’70s America, then the following year’s Innervisions faced the darkness head on.
- Four Tops. REACH OUT. (Motown, 1967) Of all the many memorable transformations wrought by Motown’s Hitsville hothouse in the 1960s, perhaps none was more remarkable than that of The Four Tops: four men in their thirties, comfortable in their supper club routine of standards, jazz phrasing and easily crooned harmonies, metamorphosed into million-selling pop stars at the forefront of the label’s international expansion.
- Stevie Wonder. TALKING BOOK. (Tamla Motown, 1972) The two greatest melodists of the rock era are Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. Neither seems to have full control over their melodic “gush”; they almost never let anything get in the way of the vocal and sometimes their songs seem built for the sheer joy of singing.
Feb 9, 2013 · Title - Artist (Release Year - Motown subsidiary label) 1. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (1971 - Tamla) 2. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (1973 - Tamla) 3. Reach Out - Four Tops (1967 - Motown) 4. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (1976 - Tamla)
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- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “Shop Around” (1960) If you want to hear how Berry Gordy fine-tuned Detroit R&B for wider (and whiter) pop appeal without watering it down, compare the two versions the Miracles recorded of this 1960 Smokey Robinson classic.
- Martha and the Vandellas, “Jimmy Mack” (1966) Few hits in the Motown canon have as many backstories and multiple meanings as the Vandellas’ last Top 10 hit.
- Dennis Edwards feat. Siedah Garrett, “Don’t Look Any Further” (1984) Here lies yet another of the earth-shaking rhythm sections in Motown’s massive discography: an unchanging snare drum cruelly punching holes in a four-part bass riff stuffed with chubby notes.
- The Velvelettes, “He Was Really Sayin’ Somethin'” (1964) Formed at Western Michigan University, the Velvelettes never found the success of the Marvelettes, Vandellas, or Supremes (their one attempt at an album was never finished), but they had two wonderful singles in 1964: “Needle in a Haystack” and the lyrically sharp, musically sophisticated “He Was Really Saying Something.”
Motown albums discography. This is a discography for albums released by the American rhythm and blues record label Motown as well as its subsidiaries and imprints.
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- “Songs in the Key of Life” – Stevie Wonder (1976) From 1971 to 1976, Stevie Wonder had arguably the most outstanding creative runs in American music history.
- “What’s Going On” – Marvin Gaye (1971) There are two kinds of albums: before Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and after. By the start of the 1970s, Gaye earned a distinction as the Prince of Motown, but he decided he wanted to make music that went beyond just the typical pop music fare of love and relationships.
- “Street Songs” – Rick James (1981) Rick James reached a breaking point by 1981. After riding the tremendous momentum of his first three albums on Motown, the king of punk funk 1980 release, “Garden of Love,” failed to reach commercial expectations.
- “Mama’s Gun” – Erykah Badu (2000) Erykah Badu became the first lady of the so-called Neo-Soul movement with her 1997 debut album, “Baduizm.” She retained the smoky-voice lounger singing style for her next album but expanded from “Baduizm’s” slick fusion of R&B and hip-hop into more eclectic territories.
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