What are some great motown songs?

Aretha Franklin

Respect

Mr. Big Stuff

A Natural Woman [your make me feel like]

Give Him Something he Can Feel

Marvelettes

Mr. Post Man

When Your Young and In Love

Too Many Fish In the Sea

The Shirelles

1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow

2. Dedicated to the One I Love

3. Mama Said

4. Soldier Boy

5. Baby It's You

6. Foolish Little Girl

7. Big John

8. Everybody Loves a Lover

9. Don't Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye

10. I Met Him on a Sunday

11. Stop the Music

12. Tonight's the Night

Gladys Knight and the Pips

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

2. If I Were Your Woman Listen Listen

3. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)

4. Friendship Train

5. Midnight Train To Georgia

6. You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

7. I've Got To Use My Imagination

8. On And On

9. Letter Full Of Tears

10. Every Beat Of My Heart

Mary Wells

Bye Bye Baby

2. I Don't Want To Take A Chance

3. Strange Love

4. The One Who Really Loves You

5. You Beat Me To The Punch

6. Old Love (Let's Try Again)

7. Two Lovers

8. Operator

9. Laughing Boy

10. Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right

11. Goodbye And Good Luck

12. Your Old Stand By

13. What Love Has Joined Together

14. You Lost The Sweetest Boy

15. What's Easy For Two Is Hard For One

16. My Guy

17. Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do To Me)

18. Once Upon A Time

19. What's The Matter With You Baby

20. Whisper You Love Me Boy

Chi-Lites

Have You Seen Her

Chubby Checker

Twist

Twist Again

Pepperment Twist

Clarence Carter

Patches

Cornelius Brothers

Treat Her Like a Lady

Dobie Gray

Drift Away

The In Crowd

Fifth Dimension

Will You Marry Me Bill

One Less Bell To Answer

Up Up and Away

Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All

Luther Ingram

If Loving You is Wrong

I'll Be Your Shelter

The Five Stairsteps

Oooh Oooh Child

Oh Baby Baby

Foundations

Build Me Up Buttercup

Take a Girl Like you

I'm Gonna Be a Rich man

Four Tops

Sugar Pie Honey Bunch

Ain't No Woman Like the One I've Got

Baby I Need Your Loving

George Benson

Greatest Love of All

Chiffons

He's So Fine

Sweet Talking Guy

Stop Look and Listen

Ad Libs

Boy From New York City

Jackson Five

I'll Be There

ABC

Never Can Say Goodbye

Got to Be There

Ben E King

Stand By Me

Save the Last Dance For Me

This Magic Moment

Marvin Gaye

Sexual Healing

Ain't No Sunshine

Let's Get it On

Mercy Mercy Me

Otis Redding

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

I Can See Clearly Now

Roberta Flack

Feel Like Making Love

Killing Me Softly

First Time Ever I saw Your Face

Commodores

Three Times a Lady

Just to Be Close to You

Brick House

Stevie Wonder

The Drifters

This Magic Moment

Save the Last Dance For me

Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions

Superfly

Other Groups / singers

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Darlene Love

Supremes later to be Diana Ross and the Supremes

Patti LaBelle and the Blue Bells

Temptations

Sam Cooke

Coasters

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Sly and the Family Stone

1960s

Year Song title Performer UK chart

1961 "Please Mr. Postman" The Marvelettes

1963 "Fingertips--Pt. 2" Little Stevie Wonder

1964 "My Guy" Mary Wells

1964 "Where Did Our Love Go" The Supremes

1964 "Baby Love" The Supremes

1964 "Come See About Me" The Supremes

1965 "My Girl" The Temptations

1965 "Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes

1965 "Back in My Arms Again" The Supremes

1965 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" Four Tops

1965 "I Hear a Symphony" The Supremes

1966 "You Can't Hurry Love" The Supremes

1966 "Reach Out I'll Be There" Four Tops

1966 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes

1967 "Love is Here and Now You're Gone" The Supremes

1967 "The Happening" The Supremes

1968 "Love Child" Diana Ross & the Supremes

1968 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye

1969 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations

1969 "Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross & the Supremes

[edit] 1970s

Year Song title Performer UK chart

1970 "I Want You Back" The Jackson 5

1970 "ABC" The Jackson 5

1970 "The Love You Save" The Jackson 5

1970 "War" Edwin Starr

1970 "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Diana Ross

1970 "I'll Be There" The Jackson 5

1970 "The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

1971 "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" The Temptations

1972 "Ben" Michael Jackson

1972 "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The Temptations

1973 "Superstition" Stevie Wonder

1973 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Stevie Wonder

1973 "Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross

1973 "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye

1973 "Keep on Truckin' (Part 1)" Eddie Kendricks

1974 "You Haven't Done Nothin'" Stevie Wonder with The Jackson 5

1976 "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" Diana Ross

1976 "Love Machine (Part 1)" The Miracles

1976 "Love Hangover" Diana Ross

1977 "I Wish" Stevie Wonder

1977 "Don't Leave Me This Way" Thelma Houston

1977 "Sir Duke" Stevie Wonder

1977 "Got to Give It Up (Pt. 1)" Marvin Gaye

1978 "Three Times a Lady" The Commodores

1979 "Still" The Commodores

Soul and Motown are two different musical genres, although they have a lot in common. Soul is more rooted in gospel than Motown. Greatest soul song: Respect (Aretha Franklin version) Greatest Motown - My Girl - Temptations I can understand why some people picked I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. But, to me, that song is so powerful that it transcends genres. My Girl more eptomizes the Motown sound

Temptations : Ain't Too Proud to Beg, My Girl, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, My Girl

Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia. Neither One of Us, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Every Beat of My Heart, Letter Full of Tears, I've Got to Use My Imagination, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

Four Tops - Sugarpie Honeybunch, Reach Out

Mary Wells - My Guy, Two Lovers

Marvin Gaye's How Sweet It Is (to be loved by you) and Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Smokey Robinson's I Second that Emotion

The Temptations' Papa Was a Rolling Stone

I love motown. There's a local performer in Tulsa who I love to go see.

Martha Reaves & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Your All I Need To Get By

Pearls - Third Finger Left Hand

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

Chiffons - Sweet Talking Guy

I could go on & on!

Great Question.

All time favorite.....

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears

best Motown song ever IMO is Al Greens "Lets Stay Together" I dont even know if its considered motown but I LOVE THAT SONG

If you go to limewire.com, you can download that program and get any song you want. They even have movies and other G stuff. This is what I use. Holla!!!

Papa was a rolling stone is my favorite. My girl too!!