Posted on 01/30/2023 5:34:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes (1971)
Edwin Starr - War (Original Video - 1969)
The Temptations- "I Wish It Would Rain" [This ay be the first one released that he wrote with Whitfield]
The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (Live)
I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
The Temptations "I Can't Get Next To You" on The Ed Sullivan Show
The Temptations- "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" 1972
The Temptations "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Gladys Knight & The Pips - The End Of Our Road
Gladys Knight and The Pips "Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me" [This is the only one I know of that Whitfield isn't credited as a cowriter.]
I think this guy and Norman Whitfield may be the best songwriters of Motown, as good or better than Smokey Robinson and Holland Dozier Holland.
This was actually written by Motown founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford. I still hear DJs crediting it to the Beatles. SMH ]
I heard “Money Can’t Buy Me Love”...but it can rent it for a few hours at a time.
This song was even covered by a British alternative/Gothic band. I always thought the lyrics of this song were pretty conservative.
Creedence Clearwater Revival turned in an 11-minute version of “Grapevine” on its 1970 album Cosmo’s Factory.
I’ll take that version. Thank You.
I did not realize the Baby’s version of money was a cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnP9WrSitnQ
But you had heard the Beatles version?
Those were the days when the same song could be a hit 3 or 4 times with different artists.
Nope. And I just checked it out. No thanks. Even the old version you posted was better than the Beatles version. Tone and beat are wrong for the song.
This New Wave/Art Rock version was the one I heard a DJ credit as, "a Beatles cover."
God rest his soulful soul.
Think of it, the man who wrote this was an ex-boxer, who wrote some song for Jackie Wilson. He recorded this for the record label he founded, and it was the label's first hit in the summer of 1960. That label would go on to have more hits than any other record label in the 1960s. Amazing.
Yeah CCR didn’t just sing it. They made it into a timeless classic. A masterpiece.
The California Raisins had fun with it too.
CCRs version was like 11 minutes long. The DJs would put it on, and then go outside and smoke a J, while it played.
WOW, just one of the greatest popular song writers ever! His credits are soundtrack of my life from the early 60’s to the present day. Rest in peace, sir, and thanks for the hundreds of memories.
The Barrett version isn’t bad at all.
Hard to believe the record companies didn’t want it. I have heard of many songs they rejected that became huge hits.
When music was music
The groups often got it wrong too.
A piano ballad not typical of Kiss’ sound, this was released as the B-side of “Detroit Rock City,” which was the third single from the album, following “Shout It Out Loud” and “Flaming Youth.”
These three first single releases were hard-driving anthems in the style of Kiss’ previous hit “Rock And Roll All Nite,” but the song that got the most attention was “Beth.”
Radio stations began playing the song, and the record company responded by flipping the sides of the single, with “Beth” becoming the A-side about six weeks later. It became the biggest hit for Kiss, and their only song to get significant airplay on Top 40 radio and even - gasp - Adult Contemporary formats.
Edwin Starr - War (Original Video - 1969)
I wonder how that song would have done if Starr has stuck with his original title, “War and Peace”?
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