The Motown Hit List

Rip It Up, Issue 80, 1 March 1984, Page 16

The Motown Hit List

THE CONTOURS • ‘Do You Love Me?’ 29.9.62 (3) MARVELLETES • ‘Please Mr Postman’ 6.11.61 (1) • ‘Playboy’ 2.6.62 (7) OT&SsgtS • Beechwood 4-5789’. 15.9.62 (17) • ‘Don’t Mess With Bill’ 5.2.66 (7) • ‘The Hunter Gets Captured By the .Came’ 4.3.67 (13) • ‘My Baby Must Be a Magician’ 10.2.68 (17) ct/:; MARY WELLS • ‘The One Who Really Loves You’ 12.5.62 (8) 4££e|RM9BIBH • ‘You Beat Me to the Punch’ 15.9.62 V 9 )VvM¥Mni • ‘Two Lovers’ 29.12.62 (7) • ‘Laughing Boy’ 30.3.63 (15) • ‘My Guy’ 18.4.64 (1) MIRACLES • ‘Shop Around’. 9.1.61 (2) . • ‘You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me’ 26.1.63 (8) • ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ 14.9.63 (8) • ‘Ooo Baby Baby’ 1.5.65 (16) • ‘The Tracks of My Tears’ 28.8t65 - : (16) • ‘My Girl Has Gone’ ' 20.11.65 (14) • ‘Going to a Go-Go’ 12.2.66 (11) • ‘l’m the One You Need’ 3.12.66 (17) • ‘The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage’ 4.8.67 (20)npMPBB| • ‘I Second That Emotion’ 2.12.67 (4) • ‘lf You Can Want’ 30.3.68 1(11)HB0 • ‘(Baby Baby) Don’t Cry’ 15.2.69 (8) • ‘Tears of a Clown’ 15.8.70 (1) • .‘I Don’t Blame You At All’ 15.5.71 (18)

STEVIE WONDER • ‘Fingertips’ 6.8.63 (1) • ‘Uptight (Everything’s Alright)’ 5.2.66 (3) • ‘Nothing’s Too Good for My Baby’ 14.5.66 (20) • ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ 13.8.66 (9) • ‘A Place in the Sun’ . 10.12.66 - (9) • ‘I Was Made to Love Her’ 8.7.67 (2) • ‘l’m Wondering’ : 28.10.67 (12) • ‘Shoo-Be-Doo Da-Day’ 4.5.68 (9) • ‘For Once in My Life’ 16.11.68 (2) • ‘My Cherie Amour’ 5.7.69 (4) • ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered Yours’ 18.7.70 1 (3) • 'Heaven Help Us All’ 14.11.70 (9) MARVIN GAYE . • ‘Pride and Joy’ 6.7.63 : (10). • ‘You’re A Wonderful One' 4.4.64 (15) • ‘What’s the Matter With You' Baby’' (with .Mary Wells) 4.7.64 f (17) • ‘Try It Baby’ 4.7.64 (15) • ‘How Sweet It Is to Be Loved By You’ 2.1.65 (6) • ‘l’ll Be Doggone’ 17.4.65 (8) • ‘lt Takes Two’ (with Kim Weston) ■IBI2:67I(I'4)J|M|HMOM • ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ (with Tammi Terrell) 15.7.67 (19) • ‘Your Precious Love’ (with Tammi Terrell) 14.10.67 (5) • ‘lf I Could Build My Whole World Around You’ (with Tammi Terrell) ■ 21671(10) jHqpHBHpHHbpI • ‘Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing’ 18.5.68 (8) • ‘You’re All I Need to Get By’ (with Tammi Terre11)'24.8.64 (7) • ‘I i Heard it Through the Grapevi e’ :,,.v 30.11.68 (1) • ‘Too Busy Thinking About My Baby’ ■24!S!6^(4)HMVihMM • ‘That’s the Way Love Is’ 27.9.69 (7) • ‘What’s Going On’ 13.3.71 (2) • ‘Mercy, Mercy Me’ 24.7.71 (4) • ‘lnner City Blues (Just Make Me Wanna Holler)’ 30.10.71 (9)

FOUR TOPS - • ‘Baby I : Need Youri Loving’ 19.9.64 (2) • ‘I Can’t Help Myself’ .29.5.65 (1) • ‘lt’s The Same Old Song’ 7.8.65 • 'Something About You’ 27.11.65 (19) wfpap| • ‘Shake Me, Wake Me’ 19.3.66 (18) • ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ 24.9.66 (1) • 'Standing In The Shadows of Love’ 31.12.66 : (6) • ‘Bernadette’ 25.3.67 (4) . . • ‘Seven Rooms of Gloom’ 10.6.67 (14) • You Keep Running Away’ 14.10.67 i (i'9)HrfßipcjuGßn • ‘Walk Away Renee’ 24.2.68 (14) • ‘lf I Were A Carpenter’ 8.6.68 (7) • ‘Still Water (Love)’ : 3.10.70 (11) THE TEMPTATIONS . • ‘The Way You Do the Things You Do’ 28.3.64r(ll)iai|iM| • ‘My Girl’ 30.1.65 (1) • .‘lts Growing’,- 1.5.65 (18) • ‘Since I Lost My Baby’ 28.8.65 (17) • ‘My Baby’ 20.11.65 U3)pHHBi|M • ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg’ 25.6.66 " (13) • ‘Beauty is Only Skin Deep’ 10.9.66 (3) • ‘I Know I’m Losing You’ 10.12.66 (8) • ‘You’re My Everything’ : 26.8.67 C (6) • ‘lt’s You That I Needed’ 28.10.67 (14) • ‘I Wish It Would Rain’ 27.1.68 (4) • ‘I Could Never Love Another’ 1.6.68 (13) 7:12.68 (6) • ‘Cloud Nine’ 7.12.68 (6) • ‘Run Away Child, Running Wild’ 8.3.69 • ‘Don’t Let The Jones Get You Down’ 28.6.69. (20)lPHK, • 'I Can’t Get Next To You’ 6.9.69 (1) • k‘Psychedelic Shack’ 7.2.70 (7) • ‘Ball of Confusion’ 13.6.70 (13) • ‘Just My Imagination’ ' 27.2.72 (1) • ‘Superstar’ 18.12.71 ■'

THE SUPREMES • ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ 25.7.64 (1) I Baby Love’ 17.10.64 (1) • ‘Come See About Me’ 28.11.64 (1) • ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’ 6.3.65 K)hU4hMM • ‘Back In My Arms Again’ 15.5.65 0) .-. ; • ‘Nothing But Heartaches 21.8.65 (H) • ‘I Hear A Symphony’ 6.11.65 (1) • ‘My World is Empty Without You’ 5.2.66 (5) • ‘Love Is Like An Itching in My Heart’ 14.5.66 (9) Hpl • You Can’t Hurry Love’ 2.7.8.66 (1) • You Keep Me Hangin’ On’ 12.11.66 1) • ‘Love Is Here And Now You’ve Gone’ 11.2.67 (1) • ‘The Happening’ 15.4.67 (1) • ‘Reflections’ 18.8.67 (2) • ‘ln And Out of Love’ 2.12.67 (9) • ‘Love Child’ 2668 (1) • ‘l’m Gonna Make You Love Me’Js|jj 14.12.68 (2) • ‘l’m Livin’ In Shame’ 8.2.69 (10) • ‘Someday We’ll Be Together’ 29.11.69 (1) • 5 ‘Up the Ladder to the Roof 4.4.70 (10) • ‘Stoned Love’ 5.12.70 (7) • ‘Nathan Jones’ 12.6.71 (16) THE ORIGINALS • ‘Baby, I’m For Real’ 8.11.69 (14) • ‘Bells’ 11.4.70 (12)MHEH^P THE JACKSON FIVE • ‘I Want You Back’ 13.12.69 (1) • ‘ABC’ 21.3.70 (1) • ‘The Love You Save’ 6.6.70 (1) • ‘l’ll Be There’ 26.9.70 (1) • ‘Mama’s 1 Pearl’ 13.2.71 (2) • ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’ 10.4.71 (2) • ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ 21.8.71 (20)

MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS • ‘Heat Wave’ 24.8.63 (4) • Quicksand’ 21.12.63 (8) • ‘Dancing in the Street’ 19.9.64 (2) • ‘Nowhere to Run’ 27.3.65 (8) • ‘Jimmy Mack’ 1.4.67 (10) • ‘Honey Chile’ 16.12.67 (11) ’ JUNIOR WALKER • ‘Shotgun" 13.3.65 (4) • ‘l’m A Roadrunner" 11.6.66 (20) • ‘How Sweet It Is to Be Loved By You’ 24.9.66 (18)|«pH|iMH • ‘What Does It Take to Win Your Love’ 28.6.69 (4) THE ISLEY BROTHERS • : ‘This Old Heart of Mine’ 2.4.66 (12) GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS • ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’ ■2s>ii'67j(i2)BßMfliij|flßriflß!H • ‘The End of Our Road’ 9.3.68 (15) . • ‘Nitty. Gritty’ 13.9.69 (19) • ‘Friendship Train’ 13.12.69 (17) • ‘lf I Were Your Woman’ 9.1.71 (9) • ‘I Didn’t Want to Do Wrong’ 3.7.71 (17) EDWIN STARR • ‘Twenty-Five Miles’ 29.3.69 (6) • ‘War’ 1.8.70 (1) JIMMY RUFFIN • ‘What Becomes of the'Broken Y-Hearted?’ 1.10.66 (7) • ‘l’ve Passed This Way Before’ 14.1.67 (17) DAVID RUFFIN • ‘My Whole World 1 Ended the Moment You Left Me’ 8.3.69 (9) BRENDA HOLLOWAY • ‘Even- Little Bit Hurts’ , 30.5.64 (16)