The Miracles “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” (1962)ĥ1. Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run” (1965)Ĥ9. Stevie Wonder “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” (1965)Ĥ8. The Supremes “Someday We’ll Be Together” (1969)Ĥ6. Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” (1973)Ĥ5. Little Stevie Wonder “ Fingertips (Part 2)” (1963)Ĥ4. The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” 1966)Ĥ2. The Temptations “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” (1966)ģ7.ğour Tops “Baby I Need Your Loving” (1964)ģ8. Martha & the Vandellas “Heat Wave” (1963)ģ2.ĝiana Ross “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (1970)ģ3. The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (1970)ģ1. The Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” (1972)Ģ8.ğour Tops “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” (1965)Ģ9. The Temptations “Just My Imagination Running Away with Me” (1971)Ģ6. Lionel Richie “Say You, Say Me” (1985)Ģ4. The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” (1966)Ģ3. Stevie Wonder “ You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1973)Ģ1. The Commodores “Three Times a Lady” (1978)Ģ0. Lionel Richie “ All Night Long (All Night)” (1983)ġ8. The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)ġ7. The Supremes “ Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)ġ5. The Miracles “ The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)ġ3. Stevie Wonder “ I Just Called to Say I Love You” (1984)ġ2. The Jackson 5 “ I Want You Back” (1969)ġ0.ěoyz II Men “ End of the Road” (1992)ġ1. Martha & the Vandellas “ Dancing in the Street” (1964)ħ.ěoyz II Men “ I’ll Make Love to You” (1994)Ĩ.ğour Tops “ Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)ĩ. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “ Endless Love” (1981)Ħ. Marvin Gaye “ I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)ģ.
Here are the results:Ĭlick here to see other genre-specific song lists.ġ. Appearances on Motown specific lists and CD compilations is figured into the mix as well. The list was generated by looking at song’s status in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by rankings on best-of lists, awards, chart appearances, sales, and airplay. In celebration of the historic event, the DMDB presents this list of the top 100 songs in the history of Motown. More than six and a half decades after they formed, Ronald and Ernie Isley continue to tour, sharing a lifetime of seduction and grace with listeners new and old.On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy launched Tamla Records after borrowing $800 from his relatives. Kelly found the Isleys sharing radio waves with artists one-third their age. As the 1990s began, the group had dropped off the charts despite continuing to make solid recordings, but a late-decade partnership with R.
After cutting a few failed singles with a young Jimi Hendrix on guitar, the group re-emerged on Motown in 1966, deftly transplanting Ronald Isley’s creamy lead vocals to the urbane soul-pop made famous by the label on the classic “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You).” In 1968, the group relaunched their T-Neck label-named after their adopted home base of Teaneck, NJ-to co-release future recordings, including the funky 1969 smash “It’s Your Thing.” After producing and releasing the 1969 concert album Live at Yankee Stadium, the group settled on a singular sound, melding slick gospel-driven soul with the psychedelic lead guitar of Ernie Isley on both original material, like the ubiquitous 1973 smash “That Lady,” and inventive hit rock covers of “Summer Breeze” and “Love the One You’re With.” The group solidified their popularity throughout the ’70s, toggling between lean funk and silky balladry that presaged the slow-jam era. The family group formed in Cincinnati, OH, in 1954, and by the end of the decade they had relocated to New York and morphed from a doo-wop-inspired outfit to a gospel-fueled rock ’n’ roll band with the 1959 hit “Shout,” later immortalized in Animal House, and “Twist and Shout” in 1962, famously covered by The Beatles. Few, if any, groups have influenced and adapted to the changes in popular music as long or as fruitfully as The Isley Brothers.
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