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RARE & SCRATCHY ROCK 'N ROLL_095 – "THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF MOTOWN RECORDS – 64 HIT SINGLES" –

The Motown Sound helped define the music of a generation during the company’s heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s. The Motown family of labels has been celebrated in television specials, stage musicals, and Hollywood movies. 

You may recall that “Rare & Scratchy Rock ‘N Roll” episodes #4 and #5 presented a two-part alternative history of Motown Records – with little known stories about one of the biggest hit-making studios in popular music history. Now, we’ll revisit the five-year period that encompassed its founding in 1959 through 1963 – just before its explosive growth and domination of the rock charts for more than a decade. 

Some early Motown releases featured emerging superstars. Others were performed by acts that subsequently faded into obscurity. The Beatles named one of these budding performers as their favorite female singer. 

Motown charted 64 rock and rhythm & blues singles from 1959 to 1963, and you’ll hear them all right here.

Bold Soul Sista Edition Emotions - If You Think It You May As Well Do It Odetta- Hit or Miss Salena Jones - Am I the Same Girl Shirley Brown - Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody Betty Wright - It’s Hard To Stop The Marvels - Rock Steady Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings- What if We All Stopped Paying Taxes? Lyn Collins — Take Me As I Am Vicki Barnes — Message From the Soul Sisters Keisa Brown - Five on the Black Hand Side The Three Degrees - You’re the Fool The Marvelettes - You’re The One For Me Bobby Carleen and the Groovers- The Thing Ike and Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister Betty Davis - Anti Love Song LaBelle - Something in the Air/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Lea Roberts — If You Don’t Want My Love (Give It Back)

1.Massive Attack, Mezzanine 1998, Man Next Door (Paragons 1967) 2.Massive Attack feat. Tracey Thorn, The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game 1995 (Smokey Robinson-Marvelettes, 1967) 3.Bassboosa, 2006, Wicked Game (Chris Isaak, 1989) 4.Smoke City, Flying Away, Aguas de Março (Joga Bossa) 5.Hooverphonic, Shake the disease 1998 (Depeche Mode, 1985)