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  Brian T. (mrclemma) 3-Pundit Username: mrclemma Post Number: 44 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.164.145.198 |
Could the SD members tell me their favorite songs by Detroit groups/artists from the years 1969-74? No major label stuff, though Motown is fair game. | ||
Kev-Lo (7273747576) 4-Laureate Username: 7273747576 Post Number: 162 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.236.117.118 |
Hi this is Kev-lo hi Brian what's up I like the Detroit Emeralds had some great songs like Do Me Right Feel The Need In Me You Want It You Got It Also I believe The Counts were a Detroit group from those years and the Flaming Embers were had some songs from those years they were Westbound #9 Mind Body and Soul and several other songs | ||
marv (marv) 3-Pundit Username: marv Post Number: 54 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
From 1969-74 some of my favorite Detroit classics: My Whole World Ended - David Ruffin I Won't Let That Chump Break Your Heart -Carl Carlton Band of Gold - Freda Payne Stoned Love - The Supremes Feel The Need - Detroit Emeralds In The Rain - The Dramatics Dangling On A String- Chairmen of The Board/Gen.Johnson 25 Miles - Edwin Starr Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed- 100 Proof Aged in Soul If I Were Your Woman- Gladys Knight and The Pips Engine # 9 - Wilson Pickett Surrender -Diana Ross Ball of Confusion - The Temptations Do You See My Love - Jr. Walker \ | ||
Soulaholic (soulaholic) 5-Doyen Username: soulaholic Post Number: 358 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.41.40.105 |
Hey Brian T: Are you looking for that rare little known stuff by lesser known artist on smaller lables?? | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 6-Zenith Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 849 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.20.145 |
Marv, Engine #9 was recorded with us in Philly in 1970. I played the "wild" guitar stuff on it. | ||
marv (marv) 3-Pundit Username: marv Post Number: 55 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
Hey Eli, I'm sorry. I misunderstood the question maybe. Any way I loved Engine#9 by Wilson Pickett you guys were cooking and did a great job!!!! By the way, although I am originally from the Detroit area. I lived for a time in Philly and it is a great city. | ||
Brian T. (mrclemma) 3-Pundit Username: mrclemma Post Number: 45 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.164.145.198 |
Just a few guidelines, friends: No major label stuff It could have been recorded in Philly, Nepal or Berlin and it's okay as long as the artist/group: lived/was born/was based out of the state of Michigan. Bonus points for tiny local labels like Tri-Phi, Happy Hearts or HOB. Most important of all: It's gotta be a GREAT song. Thanks people! You're making a difficult project a heckuva lot easier! -Brian T. | ||
Brian T. (mrclemma) 3-Pundit Username: mrclemma Post Number: 46 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.164.145.198 |
Soulaholic, Oh yeah. That's what I strive for. The more obscure, the better...as long as it's great. Better-known artists are fine, too. If it's REAL obscure, though, don't be surprised if I try to hit you up for a cd burn. This doggone project just hit the one year mark a week or two ago. I think I'm up to 18 cds and well over 300 songs. The toughest eras to fill have been the depression and WWII years and 1969-74(because so many of the musicians were either on: a)a major label or b)heroin I've got more than two cds worth of selections for 1965-68 and only 14 songs for '69-'74(and, of course, Spyder Turner is in there with "Ride in My 225"!). Whew! Sorry for running on. | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 244 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
Eli, when I read that Engine #9 was done in Philly, the song started running through my mind & I started imitating that sound and at the same time, I read that it was you!!!! Isn't that funny, I have not heard that song in a long time and when I think of it, that weird guitar sound is what I always remember. Don't get me wrong, I hear Wilson and the other instruments as well, but in some songs certain elements come to mind more than others and all the time it was you  I just got through watching SITSOM and that was a HISTORY LESSON!!!!! As I watched it I thought about all those times, when I was child listening that music, how as I just stated to you, I would listen to whole song as a song, but then I would listen to the drums or the way the bass would come in, the tamborine shaking, just AWESOME!!!! Listening to the FUNK Bros tell the stories, I felt like I was there! I love to here stories like these. To see them at Hitsville and then to see the old footage and how it looks basically the same. I am glad that this story was done while some of the band is still here, because I finally, (although I had seen pictures of them early on) got to put the face with the instrument and hear their voices. I always had an appreciation for the music, but now I have a greater and educated appreciation for it and when I hear these songs now, the smile is this much BIGGER | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 245 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
I'm sorry I kinda got away from the main thread, but I got caught up in the moment!!! | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 5-Doyen Username: robb_k Post Number: 387 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.232.153.126 |
I'd love to list my favourites on HOB or Tri-Phi, as 99.999999999 % of the songs I know and love are from before 1969, - but the thread asked for 1969-74. I like Westbound Number Nine by The Flaming Embers (although, I'd rather have had The Leaping Flames on the vocal!) I like "Green Grow The Lilacs" by The Originals -but using Motown is really cheating. "By My Side" by J.E. Morgan from 1971 . I have a nice Dee Edwards ballad on a small dark blue label from 1969 or 1970, but can't remember it. Could it have been a sister label of Lau-Reen, which had also had a Cody Black single on it? I can't remember the titles of songs after 1966 or so, as I didn't grow up with them. Her Bump Shop single was also pretty good. After 35 years, information that wasn't picked up during my wondrous youthful years dissipates like ashes in the wind. When I'm with my 45s, I can go look up the labels and find the records. But, having to remember from my head things from the '70s is nigh on to impossible. I still remember even cut numbers from the '50s. But I can't even remember where I was living, or what I was doing, in the '70s! | ||
Brian T. (mrclemma) 3-Pundit Username: mrclemma Post Number: 53 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.164.145.198 |
Thanks, all. You're a lot of help. Robb: Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't have used Tri-Phi and HOB as examples when discussing '69-'74. It's really a bad era for Michigan music(at least in rock), especially when compared to the '50s and '60s. Thanks again, SD folks. You're the best! | ||
Milli Vanilli (millie) 3-Pundit Username: millie Post Number: 34 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 68.62.7.219 |
"Float On" by the Floaters | ||
Keith Herschell (keith_herschell) 1-Arriviste Username: keith_herschell Post Number: 10 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 81.134.207.166 |
Two brilliant non-Motown Detroit records. Who am I (without you Baby) - Will Hatcher (Wand) One for the road - Greg Perry. (Casablanca). Both around 73-74 I think Keith Herschell - London | ||
StingBeeLee (stingbeelee) 2-Debutant Username: stingbeelee Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 155.139.50.14 |
The Detroit Emeralds were red-hot during the time; not only did they have "feel the need", but also "wear this ring", "you want it, you got it", "i'll never sail the sea", "do me right", "baby let me take you", "if I lose your love". All were big, big hits in the Detroit area. |
