As ITV are planning a special documentary this summer to find the Nation's favourite Motown song we thought it might be interesting to do a Soul Source version.
All we need is just the title & artist of one track & if you want a brief description as to why.
Know it's not an easy task to narrow it down to 1 track as there are so many to choose from but massive lists will just be a nightmare.

The thread will run for about 2 weeks & then we'll do the totting up & announce the results.

Be interesting to see how the 2 polls compare.

 

Away you go.

Originals - Suspicion.

 

Because it's a record which has it all imo. I'm not a huge Motown fan but I love this.

 

Peter

 Originals. Baby I'm for real. Just destroys me with the passion and emotion that is faultless in its delivery. Steve

Edited March 30, 201411 yr by Winsford Soul

are we allowed album only tracks

suspicion or this love starved heart

 

 

 

 

 

David, we'll take Suspicion as your first answer, in a Pop Master style.....

I think I always know the answer to it because after approaching 50 years its pull as the epitome of music ambrosia remains undiminished.

 

Stiff and serious competition from many quarters including Originals, David Ruffin, Gladys Knight, Temptations, Four Tops as to be expected but to me the best, and therefore my favourite, is.....

 

Miracles - Tracks of my tears.

 

I hope to God I never tire of hearing this.

Four Tops - Baby, I need your Loving - no need to say why..

As ITV are planning a special documentary this summer to find the Nation's favourite Motown song 

Oh no - another nine pages of bile when that is eventually screened :o(

David Ruffin - Walk Away From Love.

 

Just because.

Kim Weston - Thrill a moment 

 

Sublime.

are we allowed album only tracks

Well my favourite is an album track so yes

 

Oh no - another nine pages of bile when that is eventually screened :o(

There is another thread to discuss that. 

This is purely our thread for the poll so can ask to just keep it to title, artist & brief description.

 

My favourite. Odyssey - Battened Ships from the Odyssey album on the Mowest label.

Get Ready - The Temptations.

 

The first Motown tune I ever heard and still one of the best for me.

David Ruffin - Walk Away From Love.

 

Just because.

one top tune

A little mainstream, but;

If I had to choose just one to take on a desert island it would be the Four Tops' Reach Out. For nostalgic  reasons as well as well as it's  quality.

marvin and tammi  aint no mountain......perfection...

The Miracles - whole lot of shakin' in my heart (since I met you)

 

why?...........'cos it says "FrankWilson" on it!.......

TAMMI TERRELL

 

LONE LONE LONELY TOWN

 

BLEW ME AWAY WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT ON THE MOTOWN CONNOISSEUR'S ALBUM  AND STILL DOES TODAY

 

COULD CHOOSE AN ALBUM FULL THOUGH

 

KEV

 

Tammi terrell all I do is think about you, every time I hear it I get proper goose pimples

That David Ruffin track would be in top 5, but my top one is Smokey's Ooo Baby Baby simply cos IMO it's one of the best records ever made.

What Does it Take, Junior Walker,

 

Reason, I just love it.  

Walk in my shoes-Gladys. It moves me from the intro to the end, immense!!!!

My first second and third favorites have allready been said so Still waters - the Four tops because its brilliant

 

 

EDIT dozy sod me missed the point   Miracles - Whole lot of shaking  - and why not

Edited March 30, 201411 yr by Mark S

Tammi Terrell tears at the end of a love affair.

Marvin Gaye - I want you - Tamla

Isley Brothers, This old heart of mine. Superrrrb.

 Originals. Baby I'm for real. Just destroys me with the passion and emotion that is faultless in its delivery. Steve

 

That's my choice every time,floors me too

Smokey & The Miracles - The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage.......could just as easily sit in the "Songs that pull at your heartstrings" thread.

There arw so many but I will go with Suspicion. 

Temptations - Since I Lost My Baby

Frank Wilson - Do I Have To Keep Hearing This Song...

 

Seriously, Brenda Holloway - Reconsider would be my pick of the 30 or so really rare or unreleased tracks in the Motown Northern archives that have been on the circuit for the last decade.

Edited March 30, 201411 yr by FRANKIE CROCKER

Elgins - Heaven must have sent you,

An impossible task but this is one that will always be there or there about as it's a tune I've loved since first hearing it,it was also played at my brothers funeral.

Gladys Knight-No One Could Love You More Tamla Motown

My choice would be the B side to CLOUD NINE -TEMPTATIONS/. WHY DID SHE HAVE TO LEAVE ME, BRILLIANT, CHEAP, and not so sure that many people know it. JUST PLAY AND FALL IN LOVE. ROD

Martha Reeves- No one there

Four Tops " Ask the lonely", a superb song, often copied never bettered.

 

I can listen to this song a hundred times in a row and still find something new in it such is the power of the emotion when Levi sings !

 

Rob

Jimmy Ruffin - What becomes of the brokenhearted

I'm with Jaco - The Tracks Of My Tears. Beautiful.

 

I was gonna go for I'll Keep Holding On by the Marvelettes on Tamla, but that's cos I've just bought it.

Barbara McNair - you're gonna love my baby.

My love is your love ( forever) Isley Brothers

Two of the best for me

The Originals. Im someone who cares.

Smokie Robinson. Cruisin.

 

Two awsome tunes.

 

 

We'll just count the first one. 
Mod team...
 

You're Not an Ordinary Girl - The Temptations

 

 

Because she's not.

four tops  ask the lonely ....... reduces me to tears ...

Brenda Holloway - Just look what you've done

 

Just tells a heart wrenching story.

Four Tops " Ask the lonely", a superb song, often copied never bettered.

 

I can listen to this song a hundred times in a row and still find something new in it such is the power of the emotion when Levi sings !

 

Rob

I was just going through the posts thinking surely someone will put 'just ask the lonely' what a record! Agree with everything said above, great call.....Rob

I'm with Jaco - The Tracks Of My Tears. Beautiful.

 

I was gonna go for I'll Keep Holding On by the Marvelettes on Tamla, but that's cos I've just bought it.

Well that's the one I'm going for ....

The Marvelettes - I'll Keep Holding On

It was cool when I first heard it as a young mod, & I still think its cool as an old sod

Well my favourite is an album track so yes

 

There is another thread to discuss that. 

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This is purely our thread for the poll so can ask to just keep it to title, artist & brief description.

 

 

 

 

There is another thread to discuss that. 

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This is purely our thread for the poll so can ask to just keep it to title, artist & brief description.

 

Ooops sorry - missed that - but I was not wrong and it hasn't been screened yet :o)

Difficult innit?

 

  I have so many, narrowed it down to 2:

 

Spinners - I'll always love you

Contours - just a little misunderstanding

 

first one is just superb, fabulous vocals (of course) with a perfect arrangement

 

second one has it all,  been in my top five for well over 30 yrs, the piano intro is irresistible !

Temptations...just my imagination, faultless vocals from Eddie..

Ask The Lonely , not only Motowns finest for me also one of the greatest soul records of all time too .