JJ Barnes - I'm Here Now That You Need Me - listen JJ never sounded more like Marvin Gaye than on this track (which probably did not help

him much at Motown)

Marvin Gaye - Tear It On Down listen

Marvelettes - I'll Keep On Holding On listen

Edwin Starr - My Weakness Is You listen

Barbara Randolph - I Got A Feeling listen

Gladys Knight & The Pips - If You Ever Get Your Hands On Love listen

Isley Brothers - My Love Is Your Love (Forever) listen

Stevie Wonder - I Want My Baby Back listen

Temptations - (Loneliness Made Me Realise) It's You That I Need listen

Kim Weston  - You Hit Me (Where It Hurt Me) listen

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - One Way Out listen

Contours - Take Him Back If It Makes You Happy listen

Bobby Taylor - Oh I've Been Bless'd listen

David Ruffin  - Rode By The Place (Where We Used To Stay) listen

Kim Weston - You Can Do It listen

Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart (It's Killing Me) listen

Undisputed Truth - You Got The Love I Need listen

Originals - Don't Stop Now listen

 

Check these out - same backing track - different songs

JJ Barnes - (Tell Me) Ain't It The Truth listen

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Show Me The Way listen

and then just to confuse you (and me) - JJ Barnes - Show Me The Way listen

 

Jimmy Ruffin - He Who Picks A Rose listen

Tammi Terrell - I Gotta Find A Way To Get You Back listen

We have got a track that mixes the two but we think enough is enough !!

 

If you like these tracks check out A Cellarful Of Motown Volumes 1-3

 

Something from the 70's -

Reuben Howell - You Can't Stop A Man In Love listen

 

Now to where it all came from - a clip from "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" where the surviving Funk Brothers

returned to Studio A - Magic !! watch

 

Now see the master and the genius - Marvin Gaye & the greatest bass player James Jamerson watch