Listening List for May 26, 2026

Here is the listening list for Motown, songs marked with *** are more likely to be used in class. If links are dead you should be able to find videos by searching song title and artist.

EARLY YEARS 1960-63)

Money (That's what I want)
Barret Strong (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI

***Shop around
The Miracles (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ftvr7xzS7Y

***Please Mr. Postman
The Marvelettes (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425GpjTSlS4

Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI

***Fingertips (Part 2)
Little Stevie Wonder (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCfRvcXuY0

Heat wave
Martha and the Vandellas (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo

GLORY YEARS 1964-1970)

My Guy
Mary Wells (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WT7nBGX5eU

My Girl (1964)
The Temptations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsdGo8dEoY

***Where did our love go?
The Supremes (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0wQZ7dIX5U

How sweet it is (to be loved by you)
Marvin Gaye (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0vRHUu6eI

Dancing in the streets
Martha and the Vandellas (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbM2mqhCQ

Baby, I need your loving
The Four Tops (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joqjBAJx4ZA

Baby love
The Supremes (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_y6nFjoVp4

***I can't help myself (Sugar pie honey bunch)
The Four Tops (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bksUSPB4c

Stop! In the name of love
The Supremes (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBkiBbO4_4

Ain't too proud to beg
The Temptations (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxHMHrWJ2SE

What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Jimmy Ruffin (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQywZYoGB1g

You keep me hangin' on
The Supremes (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bjMtqpGBw

Reach out! I'll be there
The Four Tops (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56Sj7kMbLk

***I heard it through the grapevine
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRcUxNJEbs

***Ain't no mountain high enough
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC5PL0XImjw

Cloud Nine
The Temptations (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdhhQayeWw

Love Child
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3oU1AlVATs

***I heard it through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnZZTVp_2A

I can't get next to you
The Temptations (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfGe6MvY84

Someday we'll be together
Diana Ross and the Supremes (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGz8i0I2L0

Ball of Confusion
The Temptations (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9poCAuYT-s

If I were your woman
Gladys Knight and the Pips (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfORYJt3OJU

The tears of a clown
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heHLbchPKk

***I want you back
The Jackson 5 (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDyAb6pePo

RELATED VIDEOS

***James Jamerson isolated bass (I can't help myself)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUFGe06Ylw

***Funk brothers instrumental track (Love is like an itching in my heart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-2kPilg5uQ

Funk brothers with the Andantes (Just ask the lonely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtbhSu0OQw

Supremes a capella track (Come see about me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSi18lwvmQ

Temptations a capella track (Just my imagination)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZze-PA7EA

Somewhere (cover by the Supremes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDFUqLgI3Rc