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Please Return Your Love To Me - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Barbara Neely) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: Eddie. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7074, 7/16/68: R&B #4 Pop #26.From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1968
Added: October 11, 2008
"THIS OLD HEART OF MINE (IS WEAK FOR YOU)" - Recorded 1989 - Released on the short lived Charly Records distributed Motorcity label 'Flashback Album'. THE CONTOURS were one of the early soul singing groups signed to Motown Records. The group is best known for its singular Billboard Top 40 hit, "Do You Love Me." Joe Billingslea, Billy Gordon, Billy Hoggs, and Billy Rollins founded a singing group called The Blenders in their native Detroit, Michigan in 1959. The group soon added Leroy Fair (in place of Billy Rollins) and bass singer Hubert Johnson and changed the name to The Contours. In the fall of 1960, the group auditioned for Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Gordy turned the act down, prompting the group to pay a visit to the home of Johnson's cousin, R&B star and Gordy associate Jackie Wilson. Wilson in turn got The Contours a second audition with Gordy, at which they sang the same songs they had at the first audition, the same way, and were signed to a seven-year contract. The group's first single, "Whole Lotta Woman," was released in January 1961 and failed to chart. Within months of its release, Leroy Fair was replaced by Benny Reeves, brother of Martha Reeves. Shortly thereafter, Benny Reeves left to serve in the United States Navy and he was replaced by Sylvester Potts. In 1961 the group's second single, "The Stretch", was released and it also failed to chart. In early 1962, Gordy had The Contours record "Do You Love Me," a composition originally meant for The Temptations. The resulting record, with its shouted lead vocals from Billy Gordon, became a #2 hit in 1962. Although The Contours never quite repeated the extraordinary success of "Do You Love Me," they returned to the charts three times during 1963 and 1964 with "Shake Sherry," "Can You Do It" and "Can You Jerk Like Me." In 1964, Billy Hoggs, Joe Billingslea, Hubert Johnson, and Sylvester Potts all left Motown. Berry Gordy hired Council Gay, Jerry Green and Alvin English to back Billy Gordon, making the Contours a quartet. Within a year, Sylvester Potts returned to the group (replacing Alvin English), and Billy Gordon departed shortly thereafter. Gordon was replaced by Joe Stubbs, brother of Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs. Stubbs soon quit the act and was replaced by Dennis Edwards. With all of the original members gone by the mid-1960s, The Contours recorded several records which received R&B radio play (notably "First I Look at the Purse" and "Just a Little Misunderstanding"), but were considered secondary to Motown's major male vocal groups: The Temptations, the Four Tops, and The Miracles. The group's seven-year contract with Motown expired in 1967 and when lead singer Dennis Edwards was recruited to replace the departed David Ruffin as lead singer of The Temptations in early 1968, The Contours disbanded. Edwards later became a solo hits maker as well.Although they charted up a hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1970 with a re-release of "Just A Little Misunderstanding," The Contours' real claim to fame lies with "Do You Love Me." Both these tracks and others Contours work can be found on various Motown compilation albums.
Author: MusicMeanMachine
Keywords: R&B SOUL NORTHERN-SOUL
Added: October 11, 2008
I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: David. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7072, 4/18/68: R&B #1 Pop #13. From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1968
Added: October 11, 2008
I Wish It Would Rain - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: David. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7068, 12/21/67: R&B #1 Pop #4. From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1967
Added: October 11, 2008
I Wish It Would Rain - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: David. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7068, 12/21/67: R&B #1 Pop #4. From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1967
Added: October 11, 2008
I Wish It Would Rain - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: David. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7068, 12/21/67: R&B #1 Pop #4. From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1967
Added: October 11, 2008
I Wish It Would Rain - (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene) Stone Agate Music (BMI) LEAD: David. PRODUCED BY Norman Whitfield. Gordy 7068, 12/21/67: R&B #1 Pop #4. From The Temptations Wish It Would Rain.*THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IF IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, IT WILL BE PROMPTLY DELETED.
Author: Skyeler95
Keywords: The Temptations David Ruffin Paul Williams Melvin Franklin Eddie Kendricks Otis Motown Gordy 1967
Added: October 11, 2008
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Personal remembrances of a a giant among the greatest songwriting/production talents Motown Records, and the world of music has ever known. Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, David Ruffin, owe much of their success to him!
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Why are Obama’s numbers dropping? Why is Hillary’s support holding steady? How are Giuliani, Fred Thompson and the rest of Republicans doing? Why is Congress approval rates so low, even more than President Bush’s? This week, Democratic strategist Joe Louis Ruffin sits in for David Corn -who is on vacation- and joins Richard Miniter to discuss this
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