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Standing in the Shadows of Motown - great documentary

Posted on 2/12/12 at 9:42 pm
Posted by charles357
Shreveport
Member since Feb 2012
613 posts
Posted on 2/12/12 at 9:42 pm
The story of the Funk Brothers, Motown's studio musicians during Motown's heyday. What a great documentary with some great music.

The Funk Brothers played on the following no. 1 songs:

"Please Mr Postman" The Marvelettes
"Fingertips Pt. 2" Stevie Wonder
"My Guy" Mary Wells
"Where Did Our Love Go" The Supremes
"Baby Love" The Supremes
"Come See About Me" The Supremes
"My Girl" The Temptations
"Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes
"Back in My Arms Again" The Supremes
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" The Four Tops
"I Hear a Symphony" The Supremes
"You Can't Hurry Love" The Supremes
"Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes
"The Happening" The Supremes
"Love Child" Diana Ross and the Supremes
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
"I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
"Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross and the Supremes
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Diana Ross
"The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" The Temptations
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The Temptations
"Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross
"Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
"Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Night and the Pips
"Keep on Truckin' (Part 1)" Eddie Kendricks
"Just a Little Misunderstanding" The Contours
"Shop Around" The Miracles
"Shotgun" Junior Walker & the All Stars
"How Sweet it Is (To Be Loved by You)" Marvin Gaye
"The One Who Really Loves You" Mary Wells
"The Way you Do the Things you Do" The Temptations
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
"(I'm a) Road Runner" Junior Walker & the All Stars
"Ain't too Proud to Beg" The Temptations
"I Wish it would Rain" The Temptations
"(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" Martha & the Vandellas
"Hitch Hike" Marvin Gaye
"What's so Good about Goodbye" The Miracles
"I Was Made to Love Her" Stevie Wonder
"It's the Same Old Song" Four Tops
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" The Miracles
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" Four Tops
"If I Were your Woman" Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Going to a Go-Go" The Miracles
"Heaven Must Have Sent You" Bonnie Pointer
"Dancing in the Street" Martha & The Vandellas
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye
"Cloud Nine" The Temptations
"What's Goin' On" Marvin Gaye
"Do You Love Me" The Contours
"Get Ready" The Temptations
"Function at the Junction" B.T. Express
"My World Is Empty Without You" The Supremes
"The Tracks of My Tears" The Miracles
"Can I Get a Witness" Marvin Gaye
"Nowhere To Run" Martha & the Vandellas
"Here Comes The Judge" Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" Stevie Wonder
"Beachwood 4-5789" The Marvelettes
"Bernadette" The Four Tops
"Two Lovers" Mary Wells
"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" Jimmy Ruffin
"My Cherie Amour" Stevie Wonder
"I Second That Emotion" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
"Losing You" Brenda Lee
"First I Look at the Purse" The Contours
"Ooo Baby Baby" The Miracles
"I'll Be Doggone" Marvin Gaye
"Pride and Joy" Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" The Temptations
"It Takes Two" Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" The Isley Brothers
"Uptight" Stevie Wonder
"Devil With a Blue Dress On" Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
"Jimmy Mack" Martha & the Vandellas
"Since I Lost My Baby" The Temptations
"War" Edwin Starr
"Stubborn Kind Of Fellow" Marvin Gaye
"Don't Mess With Bill" The Marvelettes
"You Beat Me to the Punch" Mary Wells
"Shake Me, Wake Me" The Four Tops
"Mickey's Monkey" The Miracles
"Ain't That Peculiar" Marvin Gaye
"Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day" Stevie Wonder
Posted by Joe Joe Joe
Givin' Him the Business
Member since Oct 2007
5745 posts
Posted on 2/12/12 at 9:47 pm to
One of my favorites
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