What are your favourite Northern Soul and Motown tracks

Wondering if there are any other Northern Soul and Motown fans on the forum. Do you go to any Northern Soul/Motwon nights, if so, where? And what are your favourite tracks?

Wondering if there are any other Northern Soul and Motown fans on the forum. Do you go to any Northern Soul/Motwon nights, if so, where? And what are your favourite tracks?

Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie..Jay & The Techniques,

Do I Love You..Frank Wilson

What's Wrong With Me...The Invitations

Love Love Love..Bobby Hebb

Out On The Floor..Dobie Gray

Looking For You..Garnet Mimms

These Things Will Keep Me Loving You..Velvellettes/Diana Ross.

Time Will Pass You By ..Toby Legend

Turn To Me..Chris Towns

Too Late..Johnny Watson & Larry Williams.

Don't know of any nights in S10.

Songs I've grown up loving, I'll admit I copied the list and left in my favourites, as could not name them all at once.

Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

My Girl - Temptations

Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops

Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas

My Guy - Mary Wells

Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Baby Love - Supremes

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops

The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (Love it

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes

Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas

It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

War - Edwin Starr

I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Bernadette - Four Tops

It's the Same Old Song - Four Tops

Three Times a Lady - Commodores

Heaven must have sent you Elgins

Give me just a little more time COTB

Gotta see Jane R.D.Taylor

many many more but can't remember.

It will never be over for me ........ Timi Yuro

Long after tonight is all over....... Jimmy Radcliffe

Heartaches away my boy........ Christine Cooper

I can't help loving you ........ Paul Anka

Stop and you will become aware... Helen Shapiro

Real Humdinger ........ JJ Barnes

Please let me in ...... JJ Barnes

Our love is in the pocket ...... J Barnes

Festival Time ............... San Remo Strings

Songs I've grown up loving, I'll admit I copied the list and left in my favourites, as could not name them all at once.

 

Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

My Girl - Temptations

Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops

Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas

My Guy - Mary Wells

Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Baby Love - Supremes

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops

The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (Love it

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes

Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas

It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

War - Edwin Starr

I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Bernadette - Four Tops

It's the Same Old Song - Four Tops

Three Times a Lady - Commodores

id say i like most of those a lot too, maybe add a few more supremes songs in tho

im not really a soul head its a new thing to me, its something ive grown into as ive got older (coming from a punk/SKINHEAD background it was bound to happen )

id say i like most of those a lot too, maybe add a few more supremes songs in tho

im not really a soul head its a new thing to me, its something ive grown into as ive got older (coming from a punk/SKINHEAD background it was bound to happen )

I have hosted many a northern soul Motown night and the popular songs have already been mentioned, too many favorites to mention them all but i do have every single ever issued my Motown to pick from.

Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie..Jay & The Techniques...

Ooh yes! I like that one. The problem I have with Northern Soul is finding tracks I don't like. That, and trying to remember track titles and performer's names. Just for starters:

I'm the one who loves you - Darrell Banks

I surrender - Eddie Holman

I can take care of myself - Gene Chandler

A little bit hurt - Julian Covay

Just say you're wanted - Gwen Owens

Seven days is too long - Chuck Wood

Monkey time - Major Lance

That driving beat - Willie Mitchell

Out on the floor - Dobie Gray

Do I love you - Frank Wilson

Needle in a haystack - the Velvettes

She blew a good thing - The Poets

Tighten up - Archie Bell and the Drells

I won't go on.

I have hosted many a northern soul Motown night and the popular songs have already been mentioned, too many favorites to mention them all but i do have every single ever issued my Motown to pick from.

funnily enough i have quite a few of the more weirder motown records (mostly lp)

i love Mandre (have most of his stuff on lp and one on 12")

I love most of the (60's) girl groups, (though my faves are the Phil Spector wall of sound artistes) and bands like the Temptations etc.

WRT Northern soul tracks:-

"A Touch Of Velvet A Sting Of Brass" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuVSRvTHjN8. (wah-wah! do do do do do dooom)

"Out On The Floor", by Dobie Gray

and "Ski-ing in the Snow" by Wigan's Ovation (dreadful group fab song!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIPdnXbpfVQ

I also like a bit of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love", and Judy Street's "What", (Both of which were excellently covered by Soft Cell!)

A few of the ones i like have been mentioned,but for me the it has to be Aretha Franklin singing- I say a little prayer,and Respect, in fact most of her songs i like to hear because i just love her voice.

Another great favourite is Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye-You are everything.

Al Wilson- the snake has always been one of my favourites.