Your Top Ten Motown DISCO Songs:

[remicks]

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Years in the making, now it can be told ----

Here're mine, in order:

MY TOP TEN DISCO SONGS FROM MOTOWN:

1) DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY---Thelma Houston
2) FOREVER CAME TODAY ---Jackson Five
3) THE BOSS --- Diana Ross
4) ALL NIGHT LONG ---- Lionel Richie
5) BOOGIE DOWN --- Eddie Kendricks
6) GOT TO GIVE IT UP --- Marvin Gaye
7) DOWN TO LOVE TOWN --- The Originals
7) tie LOVE HANGOVER --- Diana Ross
8) SUGAR PIE HONEY BUNCH --- Bonnie Pointer
9) I'M GONNA LET MY HEART DO THE WALKING --- The Supremes
10) WALK AWAY FROM LOVE --- David Ruffin
10 ) tie LOVE POWER --- Willie Hutch


yes that was hard to do.


Yours????


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[drlove]

I'd go with:

1. Don't Leave Me This Way by Thelma Houston (1976)
2. I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking by the Supremes (1976)
3. The Boss by Diana Ross (1979)
4. Forever Came Today by the J5 (1975)
5. Let It Whip by the Dazz Band (1982)
6. I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross (1980)
7. Boogie Down by Eddie Kendricks (1974)
8. Glasshouse by the Temptations (1975)
9. Love Machine by the Miracles (1975)
10. You and I by Rick James (1978)

[markydefad]

1) GIVE IT TO ME BABY - Rick James
2) GOT TO GIVE IT UP - Marvin Gaye
3) LOVE HANGOVER - Diana Ross
4) DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - Thelma Houston
5) DOWN TO LOVE TOWN - The Originals
6) SATURDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY MORNING - Thelma Houston
7) I JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT YOU BABY - Tata Vega
8) WALK AWAY FROM LOVE - David Ruffin
9) I'M GONNA LET MY HEART DO THE WALKING - The Supremes
10) IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME - Yvonne Fair

[FranceJoliFan]

If we can count the 80s too, it'd be:

1. Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
2. I Need Your Lovin' - Teena Marie
3. High On Your Love - Rick James
4. Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer
5. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
6. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
7. He's A Pretender - High Inergy
8. Brick House - Commodores
9. In My House - Mary Jane Girls
10. Sugar Don't Bite - Sam Harris

[tmob]

Mine has my usual proto-disco slant to it...

1. Bad Weather - The Supremes
2. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
3. Forever Came Today - Jackson 5
4. Down to Love Town - The Originals
5. Love Machine - The Miracles
6. Machine Gun - The Commodores
7. He's My Man - The Supremes
8. Do I Do - Stevie Wonder
9. I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby - Tata Vega
10 (tie...hey, Remicks did it!) Theme from Big Time - Smokey Robinson
10. Free Me From My Freedom/Tie Me to a Tree (Handcuff Me) - Bonnie Pointer

[SandraDee]

1. Love Hangover - Diana
2. No One Gets the Prize - Diana
3. The Boss - Diana
4. Upside Down - Diana
5. I Need Your Lovin - Teena Marie
6. Behind the Groove - Teena Marie
7. You & I - Rick James
8. Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
9. Love Machine - The Miracles
10. Get It Up For Love - Tata Vega
10. tie Papa Was a Rolling Stone - Temptations

(Burnin Hot by Jermaine Jackson is really good too!)

[discodjinn]

Chronologically:

Hit & Run Lovers: Dynamic Superiors
It Takes All Kinds of People: David Ruffin
Machine Gun: Commodores
I Like Everything About You: Willie Hutch
Don't Leave Me This Way: Thelma Houston
High Energy: Supremes
I Was Born This Way: Carl Bean
Anger: Marvin Gaye
Behind The Groove: Teena Marie
Move It, Do It: Syreeta

[paul]

1. The Boss: Diana Ross
2. Heaven Must Have Sent You: Bonnie Pointer
3. Square Biz: Teena Marie
4: Love Machine: The Miracles
5. Don't Leave Me This Way: Thelma Houston
6. Seduction: Val Young
7. Brick House: Commodores
8. Down To Love Town: Originals
9. Got To Give It Up: Marvin Gaye
10. Do I Do: Stevie Wonder

[discodjinn]

This thread really got me reconsidering-- while I didn't think of Motown as one of the real disco purveyors, I could easily come up with a second set of 10 big ones...

Running Back & Forth: Edwin Starr
Still Water: Four Tops
Mercy Mercy Me: Marvin Gaye
Keep It Comin': Valerie Simpson
The World Can't Stop Me: Originals
I Need You: Temptations
My Mistake: Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross
As: Stevie Wonder
Big Time: Rick James
Strut Your Stuff: Stone City Band

[paul]

There are quite a few Rick James songs I like. I just couldn't decide which I preferred. Oh well his proteges, Val Young and Teena Marie, are on my list.

[Cory Ander]

I'll try to avoid repeating titles already mentioned: 1. "Love is All You Need" Hi Inergy 2. "I Ain't Been Licked" Diana Ross 3. "You Better Beware" the Temptations 4. "Machine Gun" the Commodores 5. "Anyway you Like It" Thelma Houston 6. "Pops We Love You" various Motown artists 7. "It Must Be Magic" Teena Marie 8. "Where Are You Now?" Jermaine Jackson 9. "Hard to Get" Rick James 10. "Dance Party" Martha and the Vandellas

[drlove]

ooooh ....good call, discodjinn, with 1974's "My Mistake" (duet of Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross). I've always thought that tune was highly danceable ! Glad you reminded me of how much I dig that tune.

[remicks]

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SHIRLEY,
this can't be all of those amongst us who have a thought on their choices !! ...(???)

It is HARD ! ..but give it a try ( no one's gonna print it on your facebook page ) .

most appearances thus far : DON'T LEAVE THIS WAY on 7 out of 10 lists.
Many singular appearances ....too many to enumerate ...

I find the variables fascinating ..... lots of us seem to prefer Motown's funkier tunes .... and speaking of which:

Biggest surprise so far : who amongst us would ever have guessed that Marky's favorite disco song from Motown is:

GIVE IT TO ME BABY by Rick James (wide-eyed X3) (seriously would you have put money on that horse??)

So now, maybe you've mulled it over some and are ready to commit :

YOUR TOP TEN FAVORITE MOTOWN DISCO SONGS :


go for it !!


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and yes tmob --- ties are permitted (maximum of ten)

[markydefad]

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Biggest surprise so far : who amongst us would ever have guessed that Marky's favorite disco song from Motown is:

GIVE IT TO ME BABY by Rick James (wide-eyed X3)

And why is my choice of "GIVE IT TO ME BABY" such a shocker????
It is one of the most infectious dance records EVER!!!
And I first heard it at Trocadero.

[remicks]

And why is my choice of "GIVE IT TO ME BABY" such a shocker????
It is one of the most infectious dance records EVER!!!
And I first heard it at Trocadero.

I donno ....your #1 ??? really?

I guess I'm having a hard time picturing you in the middle of the Troc floor miming along to"give it to me baby , I 'll make you holler you've had enough!" while you gyrate your leather clad hips !!! LOL !! ( hmmm..... or maybe I do have a vague memory of someone doing that ---- OMGosh ....was that you !!! )


And certainly it is a fine fine fine fine choice------------- even IF ... (thus far ) ..................yours is the only TOP TEN to include it ........ (snarky tongue out)



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[markydefad]

I always gravitated to the Soulful/Funky side of disco--not the thumping EURO stuff [except for the Moroder gang]

[discokicks]

I started to make a list a couple of days ago and got distracted...

1/ DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - Thelma Houston
2/ THE BOSS - Diana Ross
3/ HEAVEN MUST HAVE SENT YOU - Bonnie Pointer
4/ POWER - The Temptations
5/ SATURDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY MORNING - Thelma Houston
6/ I WAS BORN THIS WAY - Carl Bean
7/ SHOULDA GONE DANCING - High Inergy
8/ I'M GONNA LET MY HEART DO THE WALKING - Supremes
9/ CANDY MAN - Mary Jane Girls
10/ SUPREMES MEDLEY - Diana Ross and the Supremes

[remicks]

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Well of course it is a classic ... and.... as you well know Mr. Chartman...... GIVE IT TO ME BABY went all the way to the top of the disco chart ... #1 -- for three weeks.
Still I'm a little surprised that LOVE HANGOVER or DLMTW ((( from the Buzzby days ))) didn't reserve a higher place in your heart than it .

And hey i totally expected you to counter with .....and what about your #4 song , Mr remicks ... ALL NIGHT LONG (tongue out) I don't see that making any other lists (tongue out again) .

And I was honestly surprised that as I comprised my list that one kept working its way so high. I liked it then and still do now. Well I had a wonderful brief and much needed romance right about that time ... and I'll never forget that person , knowing i liked that song, had taken the time to transcribe the lyrics on a piece of paper. I can still picture that paper , kind of crinkled from his having kept it in his pocket , and the painstakingly crooked lettering printed on it in blue. Certain memories like that impact our favorites.

all night ...... all night


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ah there's discokicks list !!nice one!!

still no GIVE IT TO ME BABY though


but no ALL NIGHT LONG either .... (sad eyes w/ tongue out)


and yet still more first timers !!!

[SandraDee]

Many singular appearances ....too many to enumerate ...

This shows how many great tracks came out of Motown after its 60s 'heyday'. I get so fed up with music journalists & the like saying Motown sucked after the 60s - so not true; in fact I think it was just getting into its stride in 1970! I found it extremely difficult to get it down to 10 -there were dozens of others that i love.

[remicks]

This shows how many great tracks came out of Motown after its 60s 'heyday'. I get so fed up with music journalists & the like saying Motown sucked after the 60s - so not true; in fact I think it was just getting into its stride in 1970! I found it extremely difficult to get it down to 10 -there were dozens of others that i love.

I agree 100 percent.


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[musiquelover]

My top 10:

1. Stevie Wonder: Another Star
2. Diana Ross: The Boss
3. The Originals: Down To Love Town
4. Stevie Wonder: Do I Do
5. The Supremes: High Energy
6. Tata Vega: Get It Up For Love
7. Diana Ross: Love Hangover
8. Marvin Gaye: Got To Give It Up
9. 21st Creation: Tailgate
10. Diana Ross: Upside Down

[Disco Funk]

In no particular order:

1. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
2. Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
3. Eddie Kendricks - Goin' Up In Smoke
4. Magic Disco Machine - Scratchin
5. David Ruffin - Love Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
6. Dynamic Superiors - Once Is Just Not Enough
7. Originals - Hurry Up And Wait
8. Thelma Houston - Saturday Night Sunday Morning (12in mix)
9. Jerry Butler - Chalk It Up
10. Motown Sounds - Bad Mouthin'

Honorable mentions to High Inergy's Should Have Gone Dancing and The Supremes Let Yourself Go.

Disco Funk

[FranceJoliFan]

4/ POWER - The Temptations

You don't hear that one mentioned much anymore. Still sounds great.

[RobbaDobba]

The lack of "Date With The Rain" on this survey is staggering to me! So...

1. Eddie Kendricks - "Date With The Rain"
2. Bonnie Pointer - "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
3. Diana Ross - "The Boss"
4. Carl Bean - "I Was Born This Way"
5. Rick James - "Give It To Me Baby"
6. Jermaine Jackson - "Let's Get Serious"

And you can fill in the rest with any Eddie Kendricks Philly stuff of your choice.

[NickNack]

Here's my Motown faves back when I was the turntable addict:

1. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
2. Law of The Land - The Temptations
3. Down to Love Town - The Originals
4. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
5. Give Me Your Love - Sisters Love
6. It Should Have Been Me - Yvonne Fair
7. Erucu - Jermaine Jackson
8. Bad Weather - The Supremes
9. Deception - The Dynamic Superiors
10. Big John - The Undisputed Truth

And now that I see the list I can't believe "Girl, You Need a Change of Mind" is missing! Well, you pick one, tear it out and put Eddie up there for me.