"""My girl"", ""Just my imagination"" and ""Papa was a rolling stone"" were No1 hits in the 60's and 70's for which Tamla-Motown group?"
"Gordy label on January 14, 1971, with the up-tempo psychedelic soul song ""You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth"", from the 1970 ""Psychedelic Shack"" LP, as the B-side. The Temptations performed ""Just My Imagination"" and ""Get Ready"" for their final appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"", broadcast live on January 31. On-screen, Kendricks stood several feet away from the other Temptations, and made little eye contact with them; Otis Williams later remarked that one could see the group was no longer a complete unit: But there was such a bittersweet feeling. Eddie had really changed. Paul"
"R&B and Tamla Motown covers, but more and more original material appeared as the year wore on, particularly by the release of the ""My Generation"" album in December. The instrument destruction that marked the band's early years was at its height at this stage. As no audience recordings from 1965 have surfaced to date, the group's television and radio appearances provide the only glimpses into their act, along with media accounts. Live material from 1965 (excluding TV appearances where the band mimed to pre-recorded material) has appeared on a number of different releases: The band promoted their debut single, the"
"was on his last legs. Watch the clip of us doing the song on ""Ed Sullivan"" we're not together. Eddie is off by himself. There was no more group. Sure enough, when we played the Copa that week, Eddie left between shows. He didn't come back. On February 7, 1971, ""Just My Imagination"" entered the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at number 71 and later number one on both the Hot 100 and the U.S. ""Billboard"" R&B Singles charts. It also became the group's first entry on the Adult Contemporary chart, reaching number 33; the group would not return to"
"Tamla subsidiary of Motown. While the album itself didn't chart (the R&B album chart wouldn't be created until 1965), several of the songs released off the album did chart. The first single was actually the Stevenson composition ""Soldier's Plea"", which had been issued initially as a non-album single and didn't chart but was included on the album as a filler track. The second single, ""Stubborn Kind of Fellow"", was the first charted single for Gaye, reaching #8 R&B and peaking at #46 pop in late 1962. The two other singles released from the album, ""Hitch Hike"" and ""Pride and Joy"","
"450 employees and had a gross income of $20 million by the end of 1966. Early Tamla/Motown artists included Mable John, Eddie Holland and Mary Wells. ""Shop Around"", the Miracles' first number 1 R&B hit, peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1960. It was Tamla's first million-selling record. On April 14, 1960, Motown and Tamla Records merged into a new company called Motown Record Corporation. A year later, the Marvelettes scored Tamla's first US number-one pop hit, ""Please Mr. Postman"". By the mid-1960s, the company, with the help of songwriters and producers such as Robinson, A&R"
"My Girl Has Gone ""My Girl Has Gone"" is a 1965 R&B single recorded by The Miracles for Motown's Tamla label. Included on their 1965 album ""Going to a Go-Go"", ""My Girl Has Gone"" was the follow-up to the group's number 16 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 million-selling hit ""The Tracks Of My Tears"". Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin, the single was a Top 20 Pop hit, peaking at number 14 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the United States, and was also a Top 5 R&B hit, peaking at number three on ""Billboard's"""
"also included later Motown musicians James Jamerson on bass and Clifford Mack on drums. The band performed at local venues, where Wylie would front the band wearing a homemade Mohawk headdress. In 1960, he released a solo single, ""Pretty Girl"", on the local Northern label. He also performed at a Detroit club, Twenty Grand, where he met fellow musician Robert Bateman who was working as an engineer at Berry Gordy's fledgling Motown label. Wylie then began recording for Motown, releasing three unsuccessful singles as Popcorn and the Mohawks: ""Custer's Last Man"" / ""Shimmy Gully"", followed by a cover of Barrett"
"established for him and formed Tamla Records in January of that year. The label didn't become national until later that year after the success of Barrett Strong's ""Money (That's What I Want)"", and the label changed its name to Motown Records in December. Its first national release was The Miracles' ""Way Over There"". After 1964, Motown became one of the most successful recording labels in the business and ""The Motown Sound"", partially cultivated by Gordy, began to dominate popular music and pop culture. Gordy soon developed Motown Industries in 1968, which developed television specials and variety shows. By 1973, Motown"
"Go"" by the Supremes, and ""My Guy"" by Mary Wells were amongst other big hits in the same year, also on Stateside. The first release on the Tamla Motown label was ""Stop In The Name Of Love"" by the Supremes, in March 1965. By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, ""A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits"". Over the next few years, several more compilations were released, including six in the series ""16 Original Big Hits"". In 1967, the label issued the first of the ""Motown Chartbusters"" series. Although the series"
"Rolling Stones, which was regarded at the time by parents as a bad influence on young males. The song would be released as a single in 1966. In 1967, Benson, Morris, and Causi left The Barbarians to form Black Pearl. One year later, having become a version of the group incorporating Denny Romans aka Demian Bell (from Maypole) as the lead guitarist and lead singer, and Walter Parks as Bass player, the Barbarians disbanded. They had evolved to combine martial arts and music by rigorously rehearsing nearly every day at a Karate dojo owned by Moulton's brother-in-law. The Ramones' song,"
"Berry and Tamla (both named after aspects of the Motown corporation). Robinson informed his groupmates Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, and best friend Ronald White that he would be retiring from the act to concentrate on his duties as vice-president of Motown Records. In 1970, to capitalize on the Miracles' success there, and due to a lack of new material from the group, Motown Britain selected ""The Tears of a Clown"" from the group's catalog for single release. The single became a #1 hit in the UK seven weeks after its July release. This newfound popularity prompted Motown to release the"
"one of the rarest issues from the Motown stable. Berry's third release was ""Bad Girl"" by the Miracles, the first release on the Motown record label. ""Bad Girl"" was a solid hit in 1959 after Chess Records picked it up. Barrett Strong's ""Money (That's What I Want)"" initially appeared on Tamla and then charted on Gordy's sister's label, Anna Records, in February 1960. It was The Miracles who gave the label its first million-selling hit single, with the 1960 ""Grammy Hall of Fame"" smash, ""Shop Around"" and this song, and its follow up hits,""You've Really Got a Hold on Me"""
"recorded her own version of the song. 18-year-old Lorraine Mazzola was soon recruited to join the group. This line-up of Reparata, Licari and Mazzola became the group's best-known and most prolific, although ironically they never released an album and none of their dozen singles ever made the US national charts. Their 1967 release ""It's Waiting There For You"" became a minor hit in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with airplay on KYSN, 1460-AM. After several unsuccessful releases in a style similar to the Shangri-Las, including Jeff Barry's ""I’m Nobody's Baby Now,"" and ""I Can Hear the Rain"" which featured the then-unknown Melba"
"and signed the act to Motown's Tamla division in July 1961. The following month, the group recorded ""Please Mr. Postman"", which was polished by Brian Holland, Robert Bateman and Freddie Gorman, another songwriting partner of Holland (before Holland became part of the Holland–Dozier–Holland team), who moonlighted as a mailman, as well as the song ""So Long Baby"", sung by Wanda. Tamla issued ""Please Mr. Postman"" on August 21, 1961. The song then climbed to the top of the singles chart, reaching #1 that December. making them the first Motown act to have a #1 hit on the Hot 100. To"
"traditional style of the group were still being recorded as B-sides and album fillers, with the lone exception being ""Just My Imagination"". Tracks such as the album version of ""Run Away Child, Running Wild"" from ""Cloud Nine"", ""Take a Stroll Thru Your Mind"" from ""Psychedelic Shack"", and ""Smiling Faces Sometimes"" from ""Sky's the Limit"", all run at least eight minutes. At Whitfield's insistence, a large portion of the additional running time for each song consisted of instrumental passages without vocals. For example, the hit version of their smash 1972 single ""Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"" was nearly seven minutes, featuring"
"Ken Parker, and Motown labelmate Bobby Taylor. The Miracles can be seen performing ""My Girl Has Gone"" on the Motown DVD release, ""Smokey Robinson & The Miracles :The Definitive Performances 1963-1987"". My Girl Has Gone ""My Girl Has Gone"" is a 1965 R&B single recorded by The Miracles for Motown's Tamla label. Included on their 1965 album ""Going to a Go-Go"", ""My Girl Has Gone"" was the follow-up to the group's number 16 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 million-selling hit ""The Tracks Of My Tears"". Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin, the single was a"
"Motown's output (and Diana Ross & the Supremes' records in particular) began to falter as a result. From ""Reflections"" in 1967 to ""The Weight"" in 1969, only six out of the eleven released singles reached the Top 20, and only one of those, 1968's ""Love Child"", made it to number one. Due to the tension within the group and stringent touring schedules, neither Mary Wilson nor Cindy Birdsong appear on many of these singles; they were replaced on these recordings by session singers such as the Andantes. The changes within the group and their decreasing sales were signs of changes"
"girl, Tamla, after the Miracles' record label, Tamla (the Motown Records' subsidiary label for which The Miracles recorded). ""More Love"" peaked at number 23 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number 19 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100 in the United States, and was a Top 10 Billboard R&B hit, peaking at number five. Although not quite reaching the Pop Top 10 nationally, it was a regional smash, reaching #1 on the Cleveland Ohio Pop Charts for the week of August 11, 1967. The song's ""B"" side, ""Swept For You Baby"", was also a popular regional hit, and has inspired"
"Faces Sometimes"" by the Undisputed Truth; and the long line of ""psychedelic soul"" records by the Temptations, including ""Cloud Nine"", ""I Can't Get Next to You"", ""Psychedelic Shack"", ""Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"", and ""Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"", amongst others. Strong received a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1973 for ""Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"". Strong and Whitfield also co-wrote the ballad ""Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"", a 1971 Billboard No. 1 that also marked the last Temptations single to feature original members Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. After Motown moved"
"Motown's Gordy imprint. The group's string of hits included ""Come and Get These Memories"", ""Heat Wave"", ""Quicksand"", ""Nowhere to Run"", ""Jimmy Mack"", ""Bless You"" and ""Dancing in the Street"", the latter song becoming their signature single. During their nine-year run on the charts from 1963 to 1972, Martha and the Vandellas charted over twenty-six hits and recorded in the styles of doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues, rock and roll and soul. Ten Vandellas songs reached the top ten of the ""Billboard"" R&B singles chart, including two R&B number ones, and six Top Ten Pop Hits on the ""Billboard Hot 100"". Teenagers"
"the Tamla Motown-styled ""Micky"", backed by ""Darby and Joan"", both produced by Mike d'Abo (also among the relatively few pop musicians of a privileged background in that era) for the Immediate label. The single vanished, unpublicised. In the ensuing years, unsigned and working in music for advertising, she recorded a suite of songs inspired by her relationship with ""Micky"", the actor/model Michael Hannah, who was killed in an air-crash in 1974. These remained unreleased until they were included on CD compilations. Her later recordings appeared under the name Twinkle Ripley. She recorded a 1975 single, ""Smoochie"" with her father, Sidney"
"Girl / Little Love 1958 208 Ellis Kirk and the Town & Country Boys (b-side featuring Lyle Collins on lead guitar) Sweetie Pie / Flamingo Rock 19?? 209 - The Tennessee Harmony Boys I'm A Millionaire / A Lonesome Feeling 210 The Hunt Sisters & Mark, Roy Hall and his Boys Teardrops / Elvis Is Rocking Again 1960 211 Jim Myers & Tex Regan with Jim Myers and his Gems (a) / Jim Myers and his Gems Pretty Baby Rock / J & D Hop 1960 212 Jim Myers and his Gems with The Montclairs under direction of Devora Brown"
"stations, so often they performed outside record stores to attract audiences. The band began by cutting 78 record copies of their first collection of songs and playing their music in the street, they went on to recording hundreds of hit singles. Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens dominated South African music, notching up many recordings from their debut ""Orlando Train"" to songs like ""Uyavutha Umlilo"" (Music Inferno), ""Sengikala Ngiyabeleka"" (Crying And Running Away), ""Thoko"", ""Sithunyiwe"", ""Pitsa Tse Kgolo"", ""Ngikhala Ngiyabaleka"" and ""Izulu Liyaduduma"". Some of their more successful singles were compiled onto albums such"
"Anna's brother Berry Gordy had just established his Tamla label (soon Motown would follow) and licensed the song to the Anna label in 1960, which was distributed nationwide by Chicago-based Chess Records in order to meet demand; the Tamla record was a resounding success in the Midwest. The song has Strong curtly insisting that money is what he needs, more than anything else. In the US, the single became Motown's first hit in June 1960, making it to number 2 on the Hot R&B Sides chart and number 23 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song was listed as number"
"was entitled ""Hard to Wet, Easy to Dry"", and featured ""Flex"", a single which interpolated elements of The Temptations' ""Just My Imagination"". It was a smash hit, topping the US Rap Singles chart, hitting #7 on the R&B chart, and peaking at #13 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The success of the single propelled the album to #125 on the Billboard Top 200, but the follow-up, ""Legacy"", failed to chart, and for the next several years Cobra's hitmaking remained primarily in Jamaica with songs such as 1993's ""Mek Noise"" and ""Matti Haffie Move"". Around this time, Cobra became involved in"
"cocaine. Shortly after, Paul becomes well enough to sing again, and the Temptations record a new song written by their producer Norman Whitfield called ""Just My Imagination"". Eddie quits the group after recording the song. Later, Otis and his son Lamont visit Paul at his house. Paul asks to be back in the Temptations, while demonstrating his dancing, almost falling over. Otis tell him that he will be back when he gets better. In June 1972, Norman writes another song called ""Papa Was a Rolling Stone"", which the group are initially against recording, but eventually go along with it. In"
"Trouble""). However, producer Smokey Robinson saw potential in the ""mellow yet gruff"" voice of David Ruffin, and thought that if he could write the perfect song for his lead, then the group could have a Top 10 hit. While traveling as part of Motown's Motortown Revue later that year, Robinson and fellow Miracles member Ronnie White wrote ""My Girl"", which the Temptations recorded in the fall of 1964 with Ruffin singing his first lead vocal for the group. Released as a single on December 21, 1964, the song became the Temptations' first number-one pop hit in March 1965. Over 50"
"Ripped My Flesh"" and ""Burnt Weeny Sandwich"" (both released in 1970). Later in 1970, Zappa formed a new version of the Mothers (from then on, he mostly dropped the ""of Invention""). It included British drummer Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of the Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the stage name ""The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie"", or ""Flo & Eddie"". This version of the Mothers debuted on Zappa's next solo album ""Chunga's Revenge"" (1970),"
"Wheatley, they became one of Australia's most successful bands in the US. Mississippi (band) Mississippi were an Australian soft rock band (1972–1975), which included Graham Goble on lead vocals and guitar, Beeb Birtles on lead vocals and guitar, and Derek Pellicci on drums. The band had started as Allison Gros in Adelaide in 1970 and moved to Melbourne in 1971 where they recorded as Allison Gros, Drummond and, early in 1972, became Mississippi. As Drummond they issued a cover version of ""Daddy Cool"" (July 1971), which peaked at No. 1 on the ""Go-Set"" National Top 40 for eight weeks. As"
"(another ""Grammy Hall of Fame""-inducted hit), ""Mickey's Monkey"",""What's So Good About Goodbye"", and ""I'll Try Something New"", made The Miracles the label's first stars. The Tamla and Motown labels were then merged into a new company, Motown Record Corporation, incorporated on April 14, 1960. In 1960, Gordy signed an unknown singer, Mary Wells, who became the fledgling label's second star, with Smokey Robinson penning her hits ""You Beat Me to the Punch"", ""Two Lovers"", and ""My Guy"". The Miracles' hit ""Shop Around"" peaked at No. 1 on the national R&B charts in late 1960 and at No. 2 on the"
"and arranger/conductor Paul Riser); and Whitfield and Barrett Strong won for Best R&B Song as the song's composers. A number of notable covers of ""Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"" have been recorded: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone ""Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"" is a psychedelic soul song, written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong as a single for Motown act The Undisputed Truth in 1971. This version of ""Papa"" was released as a single in May 1972 and peaked at #63 on the Pop Charts and #24 on the R&B Charts, and was included on The Undisputed Truth's"
"Me Go"", ""I'm Not a Plaything"" and ""I Miss You Baby (How I Miss You)"". The latter was also reissued as a single by Tamla Motown and was a hit in Britain, reaching number 25 on the UK charts in November 1969. He also toured the UK with Martha Reeves & the Vandellas. Johnson remained with Motown, working on sales and promotion, in the 1970s. He also wrote songs for Tyrone Davis and Johnnie Taylor. He co-wrote the Dells’ R&B hit ""Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation"", which peaked at number 3 on the R&B chart and number 34 on"
"early 1998, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of Motown. Later that year, the Temptations released ""Phoenix Rising"", vocally arranged by 1980s producer Narada Michael Walden, Isaias Gamboa, Claytoven Richardson, Theo Peoples, Tony Lindsey and Skyler Jett, which became their first million-selling album in more than 20 years. The album was anchored by ""Stay,"" a single featuring Theo Peoples on lead and including a sample from ""My Girl,"" which became a number-one hit on the urban adult contemporary charts. Peoples was fired from the group before the release of ""Phoenix Rising"" because of issues with drug addiction, and was replaced by"