Any Major Dude With Half A Heart

This is the second Motown edition in the Covered With Soul series, following that on Volume 17. One song sums up the series: Margie Joseph’s version of The Supremes’ Stop In The Name Of Love. It begins as a straight cover until halfway through Margie goes freewheeling with the song in the manner of Isaac Hayes.

Cloud Nine opened the first Motown edition in the series, in Marvin Gaye’s version, and it closes this mix, in an interpretation by the Mar-Keys which gives the appearance of having been created with the aid of certain mind-altering substances.

As far as I can tell, two of the songs here were released on Motown: The Undisputed Truth”s take on The Temptations’ Just My Imagination and The Dynamic Superiors’ version of Marvin & Tammi’s Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing. One little twist here is that For Once In My Life, the Stevie Wonder hit covered here by the magnificently named Rosetta Hightower, was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, whom we hear doing Marvin Gaye’s Hitch Hike.

And if the voice of James Gilstrap, featured here with a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Ain’t That Peculiar, sounds familiar, it might be because you hear him dueting in the first verse of Stevie Wonder’s You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.

1. Anna King – Come And Get These Memories (1964)
2. Jean DuShon – Hitch Hike (1964)
3. Calvin Scott – Can I Get A Witness (1972)
4. David Porter – The Way You Do The Things You (1970)
5. The Undisputed Truth – Just My Imagination (1973)
6. The Main Ingredient – Superwoman (1973)
7. The Dynamic Superiors – Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing (1975)
8. Aretha Franklin – Tracks Of My Tears (1969)
9. Jackie Wilson – You Keep Me Hangin’ On (1968)
10. Linda Jones – Dancing In The Street (1972)
11. James Gilstrap – Ain’t That Peculiar (1975)
12. Mike James Kirkland – Baby I Need Your Loving (1972)
13. Margie Joseph – Stop! In The Name Of Love (1971)
14. Thelma Jones – I Second That Emotion (1978)
15. The Jackson 5 – Standing In The Shadows Of Love (1968)
16. Roberta Flack – You Are Everything (1978)
17. O.C. Smith – My Cherie Amour (1969)
18. Erma Franklin – For Once In My Life (1969)
19. Rosetta Hightower – Stoned Love (1971)
20. Donnie Elbert – Heard It Thru The Grapevine (1974)
21. The Mar-Keys – Cloud Nine (1971)

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