Motown Magic

Smokey Robinson

I second that emotion

a list of billboard 100s over the decades motown rocks!!!

Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1961 “Please Mr. Postman” The Marvelettes 1 –
1963 “Fingertips–Pt. 2” Little Stevie Wonder 3 –
1964 “My Guy” Mary Wells 2 5
1964 “Where Did Our Love Go” The Supremes 2 3
1964 “Baby Love” The Supremes 4 1
1964 “Come See About Me” The Supremes 2 27
1965 “My Girl” The Temptations 1 43*
1965 “Stop! In the Name of Love” The Supremes 2 7
1965 “Back in My Arms Again” The Supremes 1 40
1965 “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” Four Tops 2 23
1965 “I Hear a Symphony” The Supremes 2 39
1966 “You Can’t Hurry Love” The Supremes 2 3
1966 “Reach Out I’ll Be There” Four Tops 2 1
1966 “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” The Supremes 2 8
1967 “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” The Supremes 1 17
1967 “The Happening” The Supremes 1 6
1968 “Love Child” Diana Ross & the Supremes 2 15
1968 “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Marvin Gaye 7 1
1969 “I Can’t Get Next to You” The Temptations 2 13
1969 “Someday We’ll Be Together” Diana Ross & the Supremes 1 13

*Reached #2 when reissued in 1992.

[edit] 1970s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1970 “I Want You Back” The Jackson 5 1 2
1970 “ABC” The Jackson 5 2 8
1970 “The Love You Save” The Jackson 5 2 7
1970 “War” Edwin Starr 3 3
1970 “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Diana Ross 3 6
1970 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5 5 4
1970 “The Tears of a Clown” Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 2 1
1971 “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” The Temptations 2 8
1972 “Ben” Michael Jackson 1 7
1972 “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” The Temptations 1 14
1973 “Superstition” Stevie Wonder 1 11
1973 “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” Stevie Wonder 1 7
1973 “Touch Me in the Morning” Diana Ross 1 9
1973 “Let’s Get It On” Marvin Gaye 2 31
1973 “Keep on Truckin’ (Part 1)” Eddie Kendricks 2 18
1974 “You Haven’t Done Nothin'” Stevie Wonder 1 30
1976 “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” Diana Ross 1 5
1976 “Love Machine (Part 1)” The Miracles 1 3
1976 “Love Hangover” Diana Ross 2 10
1977 “I Wish” Stevie Wonder 1 5
1977 “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Thelma Houston 1 13
1977 “Sir Duke” Stevie Wonder 3 2
1977 “Got to Give It Up (Pt. 1)” Marvin Gaye 1 7
1978 “Three Times a Lady” The Commodores 2 1
1979 “Still” The Commodores 1 4

[edit] 1980s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1980 “Upside Down” Diana Ross 4 2
1981 “Endless Love” Diana Ross & Lionel Richie 9 7
1983 “Ebony and Ivory” Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder 7 1
1982 “Truly” Lionel Richie 2 6
1983 “All Night Long (All Night)” Lionel Richie 4 2
1984 “Hello” Lionel Richie 2 1
1984 “I Just Called to Say I Love You” Stevie Wonder 3 1
1985 “Part-Time Lover” Stevie Wonder 1 3
1985 “Say You, Say Me” Lionel Richie 4 8

[edit] 1990s
Year Song title Performer Weeks #1 UK chart
1992 “End of the Road” Boyz II Men 13 1
1994 “I’ll Make Love to You” Boyz II Men 14 5
1994 “On Bended Knee” Boyz II Men 6 20
1997 “4 Seasons of Loneliness” Boyz II Men 1

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Brilliant Cath =D>

Impeccable taste 8)

xx

well of course… :wink: :wink: :D