Best Motown band of all time

[Piijt]

Best Motown track ever

 

[Piijt]

Smokey was brilliant as well. Wrote My Girl for the Temptations but I love this track

 

[Jacob]

Im lucky to have seen most of the Tamla headliners live from my early teens, the likes of my no 1 Marvin and Stevie more than once. Group wise its The Temptations for me with close second The Four Tops. If were bring picky, the likes of The Stylistics, The Drifters and The Chi Lites werent Tamla but nevertheless still great soul acts who I was lucky to see along with the solo likes in that category as Al Green and Aretha.

 

[AmericasToffee]

A lot of great motown music so putting them in any kind of order is tough.

Four Tops are tops for me.

 

[AmericasToffee]

If we're going to talk Soul or R&B, I'll fanboy over Sam Cooke all day long.

 

[summerisle]

Mary Weiss, what a woman.

 

[summerisle]

 

[AmericasToffee]

Hoo baby. I imagine underoos everywhere get moist as soon as this starts playing. Male and female.

 

[AmericasToffee]

Marvey boy gets my nod for best Motown artist

 

[AmericasToffee]

Honorable mention for me goes to The Spinners

 

[Jacob]

Hoo baby. I imagine underoos everywhere get moist as soon as this starts playing. Male and female.

The late great Levi Stubbs... One of the purest vocalists ever

 

[wilfjacko]

Four seasons count as Motown?

Absolutely not.

 

[degsy]

The Four Tops is a strong opening gambit

The Drifters though

My drifters LPs are on the Atlantic label, just sayin like

 

[degsy]

R Dean Taylor
Then
Stevie Wonder

 

[tommytowne]

I've stated before that because I was more into Stax and Atlantic artists that were more soulful, I considered Motown to be a bit "girlie".
Having said that my favourite vocal group was The Temptations with Losing You a song close to my heart.
Played on repeat on my record player by leaving the top arm adrift while I cried my eyes out over my two timing cowboy of a girlfriend.