Underrated Motown songs?

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  1. JohnnyQuest

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    Not only one of the most underrated Motown songs but easily one of the greatest ever produced!

    By and by and by
    I know my day will dawn
    That day when I will know before it's gone :love:

     
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  2. MikeP5877

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    "Last One Out Is Brokenhearted" by the Temptations. So underrated that it sat unreleased until 1999. Heartbreaking vocal by Paul Williams:

     
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  3. Muggles

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    Supremes "Remove This Doubt"



    Not your typical Motown sound, but I like it.
     
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  4. Maseman66

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    Always dug this tune, All The Love I've Got, flipside of the hit Playboy by The Marvelettes.

     
  5. Tamla Junkie

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    One of my absolute favorite records, from my favorite artist :love: That little chuckle in the first verse is so sexy.

    I can't understand why this failed to chart on initial release; it's easily among the best of Wells' recordings.
     
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  6. CliffL

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    I remember being stunned on first hearing this song on a syndicated Wolfman Jack show in 1979, "I'll Try Something New" by the Miracles:

     
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  7. Tamla Junkie

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    This was technically a hit (it barely scraped up to #39) but it's definitely underrated. I prefer it to Shop Around or Tears of a Clown. Definitely ahead of its time; doesn't sound like Motown circa 1962.
     
  8. CliffL

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    Just listened to this because I remembered the song with the same title by Gene Chandler and now know that the Tempts had the original version. Awesome tune!
     
  9. CliffL

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    Exactly, it sounds really advanced for 1962. I went out and got a copy the moment I heard it.
     
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  10. g.z.

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    Beauty.

    "If This World Were Mine" - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
     
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  11. OldSoul

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    Run, Run, Run -- The Supremes
     
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  12. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    We preferred this b-side "Starting The Hurt All Over Again" - Brenda Holloway (our 45 had the newer Tamla logo)

     
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  13. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I was going to post a video of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' You Must Be Love" but the one on YouTube by Oldies Singer sounds horrid!
     
  14. dlemaudit

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    i love this song
     
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  15. B. Bu Po

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    I prefer The Supremes' version (on Supremes A Go Go).
     
  16. B. Bu Po

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    I played this on my radio show yesterday!
     
  17. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    I played this on my radio show yesterday!
     
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  18. B. Bu Po

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    This has become, I think, my favorite Supremes recording. A Smokey song, it appeared for the first time on The Supremes 25th Anniversary three record set.
     
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  19. steelydanguy

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    I've always liked Marvin Gaye's soulful version of "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever." The song was originally a hit for the Four Tops in 1966, but I think I prefer Gaye's version from his "In the Groove" (later renamed "I Heard it Through the Grapevine") LP from 1968. The song was written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Stevie Wonder.

     
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  20. g.z.

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    "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" - Four Tops

    1970
     
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  21. Mr. D

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    We're not too far off the holiday season, so I'll offer up Purple Snowflakes by Marvin Gaye. It really should be a Christmas standard.

     
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  22. jmj190

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    You Got Me Worried - Hattie Littles


     
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  23. John54

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    So that's the one that Spyder Turner copied when he name-checked Smokey in his cover of Stand By Me!
     
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  24. Bob J

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    Smokey & the Miracles - "Much Better Off" - Man, that bass work......
     
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  25. Bob J

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    Jr. Walker and the All Stars - "Do You See My Love (For You Growing)" - Love the groove on this track.

     
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