On tomorrow's (Friday, Jan. 16th) edition of Midnight Soulstice, we invite you to celebrate Motown's 50th birthday with us! Yes, we've heard all of Motown's greatest hits, and so have you. For that reason, we want to introduce you to a different side of what is possibly the greatest label in the history of Soul music.
We are not going to play the evergreens by Marvin, Stevie, Smokey, The Temps, The Marvelettes, etc.
Instead, we are going to dig out some of the lesser known, more experimental releases. Of course it's hard to find tracks that no one has heard before, coming from a label like Motown. But we still tried our best to surprise you and present to you .. The Other Side of Motown!

Tune in from 11 pm - 1 am on W-RIR (Radio from Richmond, Virginia) on the live stream on www.wrir.org

UPDATE: Download the show here: http://wrir.org/x/modules...oryid=8810


[Edited 1/17/09 8:59am]

MrSoulpower said:

obrigado

Some beautiful ladies heah....

funkpill said:

Tell me about it.

funkpill said:

Mary Wilson (left), Jean Terrell (middle), Cindy Birdsong (right): The early 1970s Supremes.

funkpill said:

I love both sides of Motown, and I would love a show focused on the lesser heard!

Hearts Of Stone - 'Stop The World - We Wanna Get On...'

The Undisputed Truth will likely be discussed. They had some interesting funk outside of "Smiling Faces". I caught them on Soul Train in those white Afros and stuff, lol.

I like The Miracles post-Smokey.

I wonder if "Hum Along & Dance" will be covered on this thing.

Madlib did a really good Motown mix a couple years ago with some of the acts we are anticipating to crop up here.

Timmy84 said:

You know we have a winner here.

Cinnie said:

Cinnie said:

Yeah, like I wrote above, it's impossible to do a show will all unknown material. Most likely y'all know a lot of the tracks. But I'm sure we'll be able to squeeze in some Motown artists that are completely unknown and went absolutely unrecognized. And we'll definitely focus more on the funky side of Motown, starting with the late 1960s and going into the mid- and late 1970s. I think y'all will dig it.

3 sexy's.....

No Hearts Of Stone then?

FuNkeNsteiN said:

^ INTENSE DIGGER ^

Cinnie said:

I take my male soul vocal groups seriously!

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Hey man .. you know it'll be good, with or without it.

MrSoulpower said:

On air now!! www.wrir.org Click on primary stream.

Show's over. Here's the playlist .. I'll post the link to the download this weekend.

- The Temptations - Stop the War now (Gordy)
- The Undisputed Truth - 1990 (Gordy)
- Marvin Gaye - You're the man (Tamla)
- Gloria Jones - Share My Love (Motown)
- Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations - Sing a simple Song (Motown)
- Sammy Davis Jr. - Spinning Wheel (Motown)
- The Marvelettes - Here I am Baby (Tamla)
- The Supremes - Sunny Boy (Motown)
- Eddie Kendricks - Date with the Rain (Tamla)
- Gordan Staples and The Motown Strings - Sounds Of The Zodiac (Motown)
- Chuck Jackson - (You Cant Let The Boy Overpower) The man in you (Motown)
- The Temptations - Plastic Man (Gordy)
- Marvin Gaye - The End Of Our Road (Tamla)
- Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Your Love Makes It All Worth While (Gordy)
- Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Tracks Of My Tears (Motown)
- Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - What love has joined together (Tamla)
- Diana Ross - Imagine (Motown)
- The Supremes - 5:30 Plain (Motown)
- The Undisputed Truth - Life ain't so easy (Whitfield Records)
- Willie Hutch - Give me some of that good old love (Motown)
- The Four Tops - Still Water (Love) (Motown)
- Marvin Gaye - "T" Plays It Cool (Tamla)
- The Commodores - Rapid Fire (Motown)
- Stevie Wonder - Maybe your baby
- Yvonne Fair - Let your hair down (Tamla)
- Puzzle - State of Mind (Motown)
- Riot - Put your Gun down Brother (Motown)
- The Temptations - What It Is? (Gordy)
- The Supremes and Four Tops - River Deep - Mountain High (Motown)
- Four Tops - In These Changing Times (Motown)
- The Undisputed Truth - Save my love for a rainy day (Gordy)
- David Ruffin - My whole world ended (the moment you left me) - Motown)

Well, OK. What about some white guys on Motown?



Rare Earth were pretty funky brothers who weren't brothas. I dug that cover of the Tempts Losing You. That was bad ass.

And they did a version of Hum Along and Dance.
[Edited 1/17/09 0:27am]

DakutiusMaximus said:

Rare Earth are pretty cool. I played Puzzle, which is a white group as well. There' so much good music on Motown, you can't play it all in just 2 hs.

Next time around, you should include some Flavor and Dynamic Superiors in there too

FuNkeNsteiN said:

DakutiusMaximus said:

Did they also cover the The Temps "Get Ready" too? I know its a white band that covered that song, but I don't know the name of the group (surprisingly)...I hear it on the oldies station sometimes.

MrSoulpower said: