Good Good Feeling! More Motown Girls - VA - Ace Records CD CDTOP 1597

Good Good Feeling! More Motown Girls 

Various Artists  

CDTOP 1597 

AceRecords  

Format: Audio CD 

Release Date 27th August 2021 

Latest Motown connected cd release from Ace Records. As the tile says, the focus being firmly on the female side of all things Motown. A preview of the release notes from Ace Records follow below...

Our latest collection of 60s Motown magic from the company’s stable of fabulous female talent features many tracks previously available only as digital downloads, and six unreleased in any format. Here’s series mastermind Keith Hughes with some background on those six exclusive unissued titles... 
We lead off with ‘This Love I’ve Got’, a great belter originally assigned to Ivy Jo Hunter. His version hasn’t survived (if it was ever cut) but Martha & the Vandellas’ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­recording is sensational. The key changes are all “apparent”, edging the song upwards to keep the dance floor lively: the track fades in the same key in which it...

...‘In The Neighborhood’, here by Connie Haines, was recorded by numerous Motown artists (sometimes with the alternate ‘On The Avenue’ lyrics) although not released by any of them at the time. Connie joined the company in 1965; she stayed for less than a year, releasing only one single, but did have the distinction of being the first to record ‘For Once In My Life’, one of the company’s most covered songs.

01 This Love I've Got - Martha & The Vandellas
02 Nothing But A Fool - Gladys Knight & The Pips
03 I'm In Love (And I Know It) (alternate lead vocal) - The Velvelettes
04 Good Good Feeling - Brenda Holloway
05 I'm So Helpless (When I'm With You) - Debbie Dean
06 Can't Figure It Out - The Lewis Sisters
07 A Love So Deep Inside - The Velvelettes
08 Show Me The Way - Gladys Knight & The Pips
09 Hold Me Oh My Darling - Ann Bogan
10 I Don't Want Your Promises - LaBrenda Ben
11 Drop In The Bucket - Kim Weston
12 Don't Be Too Long - Anita Knorl
13 It's Hard To Walk Away - Martha & The Vandellas
14 Stuck Up - Oma Heard
15 My Daddy Knows Best - Little Lisa
16 In Twenty Words Or Less - LaBrenda Ben
17 When I Was In School - Hattie Littles
18 Keep Me - Brenda Holloway
19 Never Trust A Man - Chris Clark
20 Watching A Plane In The Sky - Barbara McNair
21 In The Neighborhood - Connie Haines
22 My World Is Crumbling - The Lewis Sisters
23 Send Him To Me - Debbie Dean
24 Can't We Be Strangers Again - Blinky
25 All I Could Do Was Cry - Yvonne Fair

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