Which Tamla Motown group had a hit in 1966 with '(I'm A) Road Runner'?
"performed the song with his own band, Crawdad, in the mid 1970s. A recording of them performing it was released on Gaines's 2001 live compilation CD, ""Okie Special"". Peter Frampton included the song on his 1977 album ""I'm in You."" (I'm a) Road Runner ""(I'm a) Road Runner"" is a hit song by Junior Walker & the Allstars, and was the title track of the successful 1966 album ""Road Runner"". Written by the team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, it was released on the Tamla (Motown) label in 1966 and reached the top twenty in the U.S. and the UK. Walker plays the"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Tamla Records (the precursor of what is now known as ""Motown"") was founded in January 1959, Sanders and Bateman were working for the label's owner Berry Gordy as backing singers. They tried to form a new vocal group of their own with Brian Holland (later to find fame as part of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting trio) and Sanders' neighbour James Ellis. When Holland was unable to attend rehearsals because of his commitments to the fledgling Motown label, the group instead recruited songwriter Chico Leverett (who recorded a solo single for Motown entitled ""Solid Sender"" in early 1959) and signed to Motown"
"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"","
"Love Go"" by the Supremes and ""My Guy"" by Mary Wells were Motown's first British top-20 hits). Eventually EMI created the Tamla Motown label (""Stop! In the Name of Love"" by the Supremes was the first Tamla Motown release in March 1965). After the songwriting trio Holland–Dozier–Holland left the label in 1967 over royalty-payment disputes, Norman Whitfield became the company's top producer, turning out hits for The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips and Rare Earth. In the meantime Berry Gordy established Motown Productions, a television subsidiary which produced TV specials for the Motown artists, including ""TCB"", with"
"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"
"backing Diddley (vocals, guitar) were Jerome Green (maracas, backing vocals), Clifton James (drums), guest pianist Otis Spann, Peggy Jones (guitar, backing vocals), and Bobby Baskerville (backing vocals). The song is often confused with (I'm a) Road Runner, an R & B song wtitten by the songwriting team of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Edward Holland, Jr.. The American garage band The Gants released ""Road Runner"" as a single in 1965 and it made #46 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and is their only Billboard charter. The early Canadian rock band The Count Victors released a cover version in 1963, Coral"
"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"
"Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ""motor"" and ""town"", has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the"
"Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ""motor"" and ""town"", has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the"
"at the time). They hired future Motown star Marvin Gaye as drummer for the label. Anna Records is most notable for issuing the first national Motown hit, ""Money (That's What I Want)"", recorded by singer-songwriter Barrett Strong, which hit number two on the R&B chart in early 1960. The label wasn't so successful afterwards and in 1961 Anna and all its artists were absorbed by Gwen and Anna's brother Berry Gordy into Motown. Gaye, in particular, became a solo artist and signed with the corporation's oldest label Tamla while still serving as a session drummer, and Ruffin later joined the"
"chief William ""Mickey"" Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Norman Whitfield, had become a major force in the music industry. From 1961 to 1971, Motown had 110 top 10 hits. Top artists on the Motown label during that period included the Supremes (initially including Diana Ross), the Four Tops, and the Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Marvelettes, and the Miracles had hits on the Tamla label. The company operated several labels in addition to the Tamla and Motown imprints. A third label, which Gordy named after himself (though it was originally called ""Miracle"") featured the Temptations, the"
"Marv Johnson Marv Earl Johnson (October 15, 1938 – May 16, 1993) was an American R&B and soul singer, notable for performing on the first record issued by Tamla Records, which later became Motown. Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938. He began his career singing with a doo-wop group, the Serenaders, in the mid-1950s. With budding talents not only as a singer but also as a songwriter and pianist, he was discovered by Berry Gordy while Johnson performed at a carnival. Gordy had already decided to form his first record label, Tamla, and Johnson's recording of their song"
"songs by the band (along with ""Way Back Home"" and ""Shotgun"" included in 1999's Da Capo Press publication ""The heart of rock & soul: the 1001 greatest singles ever made"". Ranking it second of the three at #467, music critic David Marsh, identifying Junior Walker as ""the one gutbucket star in Motown's heaven"", says ""even...<nowiki>[</nowiki>Robert Johnson<nowiki>]</nowiki> never saw the like of this blend of booming bass, tanked-up tambourine, and gritty guitar. Much less Walker's fractured saxophone."" Sometimes known as ""I'm a Road Runner"", the song has been covered by a number of rock bands, including Fleetwood Mac (on album ""Penguin"")"
"followed by many other hits, such as ""(I'm A) Road Runner"", ""Shake and Fingerpop"" and remakes of two Motown songs ""Come See About Me"" and ""How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"", that had previously been hits for the Supremes and Marvin Gaye respectively. In 1966, Graves left and was replaced by old cohort Billy ""Stix"" Nicks, and Walker's hits continued apace with tunes such as ""I'm a Road Runner"" and ""Pucker Up Buttercup"". In 1969, the group had another hit enter the top 5, ""What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)"". A Motown quality control meeting"
"original B-side (""You Got the Love I Love"") and ""I Miss You Baby (How I Miss You)"". It also contains several previously unissued songs, such as ""Farewell Is a Lonely Sound"" (originally recorded by Jimmy Ruffin), and mono mixes of his three Gordy singles. In 2015, Marv Johnson was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Marv Johnson Marv Earl Johnson (October 15, 1938 – May 16, 1993) was an American R&B and soul singer, notable for performing on the first record issued by Tamla Records, which later became Motown. Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan,"
"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"
"William ""Mickey"" Stevenson William ""Mickey"" Stevenson (born January 4, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former songwriter and record producer for the Motown group of labels from the early days of Berry Gordy's company until 1967, when he and his then-wife, singer Kim Weston, left for MGM. He was born William Stevenson and, after spending his formative years recording doowop and gospel music, joined Tamla/Motown in 1959, the year it was founded. He was head of the A&R department there during the company's ""glory"" years of the mid-1960s when artists such as the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Four Tops,"
"The Bo Street Runners The Bo Street Runners were an English R&B band formed in Harrow, England during 1963. The band released four singles and a extended play record. They gained prominence in the United Kingdom after winning the ""Ready Steady Win!"" band contest and included future Fleetwood Mac drummer, Mick Fleetwood and vocalist Mike Patto. The band was formed in 1963 as The Roadrunners, but changed their name to The Bo Street Runners when it was discovered that another British group was already recording with the name. The group's original line-up included Gary Thomas on lead guitar, Bob O'"
"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"
"The Mad Hatters (Annapolis band) The Mad Hatters were an American garage rock band from Annapolis, Maryland who were active in the 1960s and had a following in the Washington DC and Baltimore area. They enjoyed brief local and regional success with their first single, ""I Need Love,"" released in 1965, later recorded by the Time Stoppers. Though they failed to reach a wider audience, in the intervening years since their breakup they have become known amongst garage rock collectors and enthusiasts. Their 1966 song ""I'll Come Running"" has also become a song highly regarded amongst enthusiasts. The band formed"
"spotted by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, who promised to sign her to Motown. Terrell agreed and signed with the label on April 29, her 20th birthday. Before releasing her first single with Motown's Tamla subsidiary, ""I Can't Believe You Love Me"", Gordy suggested a name change. Figuring ""Tammy Montgomery"" was too long of a name to put on a single, Gordy changed it to ""Tammi Terrell"". He felt this name screamed ""sex appeal"". ""I Can't Believe You Love Me"" became Terrell's first R&B top forty single, followed almost immediately by ""Come On and See Me"". In 1966, Terrell recorded two"
"Mandalaband Mandalaband is a progressive rock band formed in England in 1974. The band is led by David Rohl who writes, arranges, mixes and produces their material. Rohl is also a somewhat controversial Egyptologist, once featured on the London ""Sunday Times"" front page with the caption ""the real Indiana Jones"". In 1974, Rohl had taken an interest in Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetans’ resistance to the Chinese invasion in the 1950s. In the process he had begun writing what became a 20 minute musical piece titled ""Om Mani Padme Hum"", and began to build up a team of musicians in"
"Motown Chartbusters Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. In total, 12 editions were released in the UK between 1967 and 1982. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters; after this the title ""Motown Chartbusters"" was used. Early Motown Records releases in Britain were not on the Motown label, but were issued on the London, Fontana, Oriole and Stateside labels. In 1964, Motown's first number 1 in Britain was ""Baby Love"" by the Supremes, released on EMI's Stateside label. ""Where Did Our Love"
"album, ""Now That's What I Call Motown"", was released on the Universal Motown label. The series was re-issued by the budget label Spectrum, starting in 1997. The clear differences between the two releases are the logos on the disc and cover: the original release has the Tamla Motown logo; the re-release has the Motown logo. After its success in the UK, Motown went on to release variants of the compilation format in other counties such as the United States and Australia. There were also various releases on the same type of platform, such as ""Motown Chartbusters"", ""150 Hits of Gold"""
"7 Volume 8 Volume 9 This version was released on the Telstar label in 1986; it is not part of the original series. Track Listing Motown Chartbusters Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. In total, 12 editions were released in the UK between 1967 and 1982. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters; after this the title ""Motown Chartbusters"" was used. Early Motown Records releases in Britain were not on the Motown label, but were issued on the London, Fontana, Oriole and"
"Tammi Terrell Tammi Terrell (born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery; April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American recording artist, best known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, most notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye. Terrell's career began as a teenager, first recording for Scepter/Wand Records, before spending nearly two years as a member of James Brown's Revue, recording for Brown's Try Me label. After a period attending college, Terrell recorded briefly for Checker Records, before signing with Motown in 1965. With Gaye, Terrell scored seven Top 40 singles on the ""Billboard"""
"and has lyrics that are almost entirely rewritten. Money (That's What I Want) ""Money (That's What I Want)"" is a song written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford that became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise. The song was recorded in 1959 by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records. It went on to be covered by many artists, including the Beatles in 1963 and the Flying Lizards in 1979. The song was originally recorded by Barrett Strong and released on Tamla in August 1959. Anna Records was operated by Gwen Gordy,"
"The album included all of the band's recordings, including the EP single version of ""I'm A Bo Street Runner"", that won ""Ready Steady Win!"" competition. The Bo Street Runners The Bo Street Runners were an English R&B band formed in Harrow, England during 1963. The band released four singles and a extended play record. They gained prominence in the United Kingdom after winning the ""Ready Steady Win!"" band contest and included future Fleetwood Mac drummer, Mick Fleetwood and vocalist Mike Patto. The band was formed in 1963 as The Roadrunners, but changed their name to The Bo Street Runners when"
"Community Outreach. She released a single on the London-based Motown revival label Motorcity Records entitled ""Time Stops"" in 1991. In 1993, John earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the south Los Angeles ministry Crenshaw Christian Center. Mable John received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994. She appeared in John Sayles' 2007 movie ""Honeydripper"" and the 2014 Oscar-winning documentary ""20 Feet from Stardom"". Mable John Mable John (born November 3, 1930) is an American blues vocalist and was the first female signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label. John was born in Bastrop, Louisiana,"
"television and film production as well as music production. In 1959, Gordy formed his first label, Tamla Records, and purchased the property that would become Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio. The photography studio located in the back of the property was modified into a small recording studio, and the Gordys moved into the second-floor living quarters. Within seven years, Motown would occupy seven additional neighboring houses: By the end of 1966, Motown had hired over 450 employees and had a gross income of $20 million. In 1967 Berry Gordy purchased what is now known as the Motown mansion, in Detroit's Boston-Edison"