Well, I especially love The Supremes, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder. Some of my favorites are: Where Did Our Love Go, My Girl, I Was Made to Love Here and Baby Love, as well as Signed, Sealed, Delivered and The Way You Do the Things You Do! :)
I've been a fan of the Motown sound since my childhood in the the 1960s, and have uncovered so many more of its gems thanks to RU-vid. Perhaps my all-time Motown top ten, in no particular order, would be "Stop! In the Name of Love" (Supremes), "One More Heartache" (Marvin Gaye), "Never Had a Dream Come True" (Stevie Wonder), "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Four Tops), "More Love" (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), "Dancing in the Street" (Martha & the Vandellas), "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game" (Marvelettes), "Cloud Nine" (Temptations), "Bye Bye Baby" (Mary Wells) and the overlooked "My Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Town" (Carolyn Crawford). I think some of Motown's soul left the label when it abandoned Detroit for Los Angeles...nevertheless, thank you, Berry Gordy.
You describe this video as a "doozy" in terms of length, but it was worth listening every minute. This is a fantastic complement to the Funk Brothers film ("Standing in the Shadows of Motown"). It'll require a relisten as the content is so rich and some of the musical examples/sources are worth follow-up. Excellent content: so shocking that the algorithm didn't push this to the Rick Beato-type audience.
Being a hard rock, heavy metal and classic rock listener I find it ironic that these black musicians who were marginalized and segregated throughout their careers are the very musicians, along with the neo classicists to a lesser extent, who are credited as being the very roots of rock music today. Most never got their due until long after they were gone.
@@MusicTheoriesChannel I have a friend who is a big Motown fan so I sent him a link to this video... he should enjoy it. For me, Deep Purple will always be my favorite band. I also like Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, BTO, Iron Maiden and in these times Greta Van Fleet, Monster Truck, Stone Temple Pilots and others. I'm also a big fan of Gordon Lightfoot, but that is just our little secret, OK :) As I said, this is my favorite channel. Even though I don't listen to Taylor Swift, I thoroughly enjoyed you breakdown and analysis of her song. The story behind the song, the story behind the music is something that always fascinates me.
@Bunn E. Fartz I so appreciate you being here! Our tastes overlap a little bit as well. I'm really glad you enjoyed the TS analysis. I'm actually not the biggest fan of hers, believe it or not. Still, I've listened to quite a bit of her catalogue just because and like you, I enjoy a great song and love to know the story behind it! I would choose Zeppelin any day haha.
@@MusicTheoriesChannel Ah the great debate :) I love Zeppelin, they are one of my favorites as I think Jimmy Page as an arranger and producer was second to none. But for me it will always be Deep Purple first, ( btw I met the guys in the band twice), as they had a unique and expanded sound that has never been duplicated because they had that great howling organ that coloured their sound.
Kind of sounds to me like Berry Gordy Jr. started as an activist and ended up as a greedy businessman. I see this happen a lot. But I may be misjudging him big time.
