Great stuff:



Sidenote: James Jamerson was a genius.

And here's the instrumental to the Marvin & Tammi original:

When did they start releaseing these? I have 2 others from a 'site'.

paisleypark4 said:

It's on the Standing in the Shadows of Motown soundtrack.

I'm not about to edit the thread title to "Michael something" just to get views but come on at least y'all can try to pretend to listen by replying.

Timmy84 said:

WEll the Rhianna and Chris thing is kinda taking voer anything now. I cant even try to put any funk stuff up on here with that drama going on

paisleypark4 said:

You can try. I'm trying to avoid that one too believe it or not.

my loved song...I love version with The Temptetions

Do you know how much I LOVE that "Standing in the shadows of Motown" documentary???

Of course you wouldn't know

but damn...that was tha shizznit.

I went out & copped the DVD & the soundtrack, too of course, but I never play it.

Gerald LeVert tore sh*t up in that flick. RIP.

carlcranshaw said:

Thanks. I thought Uriel Jones, lol. Motown had like seven drummers INCLUDING Marvin.

anc282 said:

The documentary was nice but some of the performances were Gerald's was the highlight tho I agree. RIP indeed.

Yeah, Ben Harper's performance was pretty bad.

anc282 said:

Ben was screaming on his versions of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine" so badly I wanted the ghosts of David & Marvin to haunt him for the rest of his natural life.

Nah, my problem with Ben in that flick was that he sounded like Bob Dylan...or Bullwinkle or sumthin like that I dunno which one. It made me feel like, "This guy can't sing for shit."

Now I own a couple of his albums.

Oh well, at least one of them's not too bad.....I think.

anc282 said:

Because he's a rock singer, of course he can't sing the soulful material. He sounds like a heavy metal singer singing Motown music, lol.

I love hearing these Motown instrumentals. We should probably have a thread just devoted to instrumentals.

midnightmover said:

Speaking of, I heard a bunch of Funk Brothers instrumentals in the last week, I may just post them later on this week.

I catch major flack here for this, but I don't care; I prefer Diana's version of this tune. Marvin and Tammi outsing her (without question), but I've always thought the production on that one always just sounded like standard, by-the-numbers Motown. This instrumental just solidifies why I prefer it. It's more dynamic.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Musical wise, I'd prefer Diana's. Voice-wise, Marvin's and Tammi's. I love Diana's take on it tho. Both versions are the bomb joints to me.

Timmy84 said:

same here. shame about the tempo differing so much between both versions, woulda made a good mashup.

Marrk said:

I have to be honest when I first heard the long version of Diana's, the beginning sounded like a funeral service, lol. We have to remember Tammi Terrell had passed away the time this was recorded.