The Vandellas sono state un gruppo statunitense femminile di genere pop attivo negli anni sessanta. Sono anche celebri come Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, dal nome della cantante leader.
Il loro successo Dancing in the Street è stato inserito dalla rivista Rolling Stone nella classifica delle 500 migliori canzoni di sempre al posto nº 40.
Nel 1995 sono state incluse nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Biografia
Rosalind Ashford, studentessa quattordicenne che aveva sviluppato una passione per la musica e che cantava nel coro della scuola, nel 1957 dietro insistenza della madre rispose a un annuncio per un provino organizzato da Edward Larkins, un impresario in cerca di elementi per una formazione vocale femminile. La ragazza si fece accompagnare dall'amica Annette Beard alla quale inaspettatamente fu chiesto di partecipare all'audizione; le sue capacità vocali colpirono l'organizzatore che reclutò le due ragazze nel Del-Phi's, un nuovo gruppo vocale femminile in cui confluirono anche Gloria Williamson e Martha Reeves.Il quartetto cominciò a esibirsi in festeggiamenti scolastici e in feste private. Avendo notato le loro doti canore, una talent scout le invitò a cantare al Ferris Center di Detroit e successivamente le quattro ragazze vennero chiamate in studio di registrazione dalla Motown Records come coro femminile nelle incisioni di Marvin Gaye Stubborn Kind of Fellow e Hitch Hike.
Poco dopo, Gloria Williamson lasciò il gruppo e la Reeves divenne la cantante leader del trio. Spinte alla decisione di passare al professionismo sull'onda della popolarità che sempre più stavano acquisendo i girl group, dietro pressione del presidente della Motown Records cambiarono il loro nome in Vandellas – dalla fusione della Van Dyke Street di Detroit con Della Reese, la cantante preferita da Martha Reeves – e incisero il loro primo disco, I'll Have to Let Him Go, raggiungendo la notorietà nel 1963 con i brani Come and Get These Memories, Heat Wave e Quicksand, e inanellando nei successivi tre anni altrettanti successi: Dancing in the Street, Nowhere to Run e I'm Ready for Love.
Nel 1967, variato il nome in Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, pubblicarono gli ultimi due successi, Jimmy Mack e Honey Chile. Negli anni la line-up originale si era venuta modificando: già nel 1963 si era ritirata Annette Beard, e le era subentrata Betty Kelly, proveniente da un altro gruppo vocale femminile, the Velvelettes; la Kelly si ritirò nel 1967, sostituita da Lois Reeves, sorella di Martha. Due anni dopo, a lasciare fu la volta della Ashford, avvicendata da un'altra ex-Velvelette, Sandra Tilley.
Nel 1968 Martha Reeves andò incontro a un esaurimento nervoso dovuto alla pressione lavorativa e all'uso di stupefacenti. Questo rallentò sensibilmente l'attività artistica del trio che da quel momento iniziò a perdere mordente avviandosi verso un lento declino. Il gruppo salutò il pubblico in un concerto d'addio tenuto a Detroit a fine dicembre 1972 nel quale annunciò lo scioglimento; e dal 1974 la Reeves proseguì nella propria carriera da solista.
Oggi le tre sorelle Reeves – Martha, Lois e Delphine – talvolta si esibiscono assieme col nome Vandellas. In particolari circostanze si ricostituisce la formazione dell'epoca d'oro con Martha Reeves affiancata dalla Beard e dalla Ashford.
Discografia
Album
- 1963 – Come and Get These Memories
- 1963 – Heat Wave
- 1965 – Dance Party
- 1966 – Watchout!
- 1967 – Live!
- 1968 – Ridin' High
- 1968 – Dancing in the Street
- 1969 – Sugar 'n' Spice
- 1970 – Natural Resources
- 1972 – Black Magic
- 1974 – Greatest Hits
Singoli ed EP
- 1963 – Come and Get These Memories/Jealous Lovers
- 1963 – Heat Wave/A Love Like Yours
- 1963 – Quicksand/Darling, I Hum Your Song
- 1964 – Wild One/ Dancing Slow
- 1964 – In My Lonely Room/A Tear for the Girl
- 1964 – Live Wire/Old Love (Let's Try It Again)
- 1964 – You've Been in Love Too Long/Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)
- 1964 – Dancing in the Street/There He Is (At My Door)
- 1965 – Nowhere to Run/Motoring
- 1966 – I'm Ready for Love/He Doesn't Love Her Anymore
- 1966 – Jimmy Mack/Third Finger, Left Hand
- 1966 – What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love/Go Ahead and Laugh
- 1966 – My Baby Loves Me/Never Leave Tour Baby's Side
- 1967 – Honey Chile/Show Me the Way
- 1967 – Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone/One Way Out
- 1967 – Jimmy Mack/Third Finger, Left Hand
- 1968 – I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing/I Tried
- 1968 – I Promise to Wait My Love/Forget Me Not
- 1968 – Heartless/Taking My Love (And Leaving Me)
- 1968 – Without You/Sweet Darlin'
- 1969 – (We've Got) Honey Love/I'm in Love (And I Know It)
- 1970 – I Should Be Proud/Love, Guess Who
- 1971 – Bless You/Hope I Don't Get My Heart Broke
- 1971 – Forget Me Not/Won't It Be So Wonderful
- 1971 - I Gotta Let You Go/You're the Loser Now
- 1971 – In and Out of My Life/Your Love Makes It All Worthwhile
- 1972 – I Want You Back/Tear It Down
- 1973 – Quicksand/ Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)
- 1976 – Jimmy Mack/Dancing in the Street
- 1977 – Heatwave/Dancing in the Street
- 1977 – Jimmy Mack/I'm Ready for Love
- 1988 – I Got You (I Feel Good)/Nowhere to Run
- 1989 – Step into My Shoes/Step into My Shoes (instrumental)
- 1992 – Angel in Disguise/ Angel in Disguise (original)
- 1993 – Dancing in the Street/I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin'/My Baby Loves Me/Motoring
Raccolte
- 1966 – Greatest Hits
- 1968 – Dancing in the Street
- 1974 – Dancing in the Streets!
- 1974 – Anthology
- 1980 – Motown Superstar Series – Volume 11
- 1986 – Heat Wave
- 1987 – Compact Command Performance: 24 Greatest Hits
- 1988 – Greatest Hits
- 1989 – Heat Wave
- 1993 – Motown Legends
- 1994 – Dancing in the Street (Their Greatest Hits)
- 1996 – Early Classics
- 2000 – Classics
- 2001 – The Very Best of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
- 2002 – Natural Resources/Black Magic
- 2002 – Ridin' High/Sugar N' Spice
- 2002 – Dance Party/Watchout
- 2002 – Come and Get These Memories
- 2005 – Spellbound: Motown Lost & Found (1962-1972)
- 2006 - Gold
- 2008 – The Definite Collection
Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were an American all-female vocal group formed in 1957. The group achieved fame in the 1960s with Motown. Selected members of the group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Formed in 1957 by friends Annette Beard, Rosalind Ashford and Gloria Williams, the group eventually included Martha Reeves, who moved up in ranks as lead vocalist of the group after Williams' departure in 1962. The group signed with and eventually recorded all of their singles for Motown's Gordy imprint.
The group's string of hits included "Come and Get These Memories", "Heat Wave", "Quicksand", "Nowhere to Run", "Jimmy Mack", "Bless You" and "Dancing in the Street", the latter song becoming their signature single. During their nine-year run on the charts from 1963 to 1972, Martha and the Vandellas charted over twenty-six hits and recorded in the styles of doo-wop, R&B, pop, blues, rock and roll and soul. Ten Vandellas songs reached the top ten of the Billboard R&B singles chart, including two R&B number ones, and six Top Ten Pop Hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
History
Early years (1957–1962)
Teenagers Rosalind Ashford and Annette Beard first became acquainted after a local music manager hired them to be members of a girl group he named The Del-Phis. Ashford & Beard, along with then-lead vocalist Gloria Williams, performed at local clubs, private events, church benefits, YMCA events and school functions. They were also being coached by Maxine Powell at Detroit's Ferris Center. One of the group's first professional engagements was singing background for singer Mike Hanks.The group originally had up to six members, shortened to four. After another member left the group, she was replaced by Alabama-born vocalist Martha Reeves, who had been a member of a rival group, the Fascinations and had also been a member of another group, the Sabre-Ettes. In 1960, the group signed their first recording contract with Checker Records, releasing the Reeves-led "I'll Let You Know". The record flopped. The group then recorded for Checkmate Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, recording their first take of "There He Is (At My Door)". That record, featuring Williams on lead vocals, also flopped.[citation needed]
Briefly separated, Reeves returned to a solo career performing under the name Martha LaVaille, in hopes of getting a contract with emerging Detroit label Motown. After Motown staffer Mickey Stevenson noticed Reeves singing at a prominent Detroit club, he offered her his business card for an audition. Reeves showed up at Motown on a wrong date (Motown auditions were held at Thursdays, while Reeves showed up to Motown's Hitsville USA studios on a Tuesday). Stevenson, initially upset, told Reeves to look out for clients and other matters. Soon Reeves became Stevenson's secretary and later was responsible for helping acts audition for the label. By 1961, the group, now known as The Vels, were recording background vocals for Motown acts. Prior to her success as lead singer of The Elgins, Sandra Edwards (then going by her surname Maulett) recorded the song "Camel Walk", in 1962, which featured the Vels in background vocals. That year, the quartet began applying background vocals for emerging Motown star Marvin Gaye, singing on Gaye's first hit single, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" After Mary Wells failed to make a scheduled recording session feigning a short illness, the Vels recorded what was initially a demo recording of "I'll Have to Let Him Go". Motown was so impressed by the group's vocals – and Martha's lead vocals in the song – that the label CEO Berry Gordy offered to give the group a contract. Figuring that being in show business was too rigorous, Williams opted out of the group. With Williams out, the remaining trio of Ashford, Beard and Reeves renamed themselves The Vandellas, after Detroit's Van Dyke Street and Reeves' favorite singer, Della Reese.
Motown major hit years (1962–1968)
Following their signing to Motown's Gordy imprint in 1962, the Vandellas struck gold with their second release, the first composition and production from the famed writing team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, titled "Come and Get These Memories". It became the Vandellas' first Top 40 recording, reaching number twenty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at number six on the R&B chart. Their second hit, "Heat Wave", became a phenomenal record for the group, reaching number four on the Hot 100 and hitting number one on the R&B singles chart for five weeks. It became their first million-seller and eventually got the group their only Grammy Award nomination for Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance. (On the single and album, the song was titled "Heat Wave". It was sometime later that the song was retitled to avoid confusion with the Irving Berlin song.)[citation needed]The group's success continued with their second Top Ten single and third Top 40 single, "Quicksand", which was another composition with Holland-Dozier-Holland and reached number eight pop in the late fall of 1963. Around that time, Annette, who was pregnant with her first child and set to get married, chose to leave her singing career behind by 1964. Betty Kelley, formerly of the Velvelettes, was brought in shortly afterward to continue the Vandellas' rise.
The next two singles, "Live Wire" and "In My Lonely Room" (#6 R&B Cashbox) were less successful singles, failing to reach the Pop Top 40. However, their next single, "Dancing in the Street", rose up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also found global success, peaking at #21 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964. In 1969, "Dancing in the Street" was re-issued and it was plugged heavily on radio stations. It did not take long for the song to peak at #4 in the UK, thus making the song one of the all-time favourite Motown single releases ever. The song became a million-seller, and one of the most played singles in history.
Between 1964 and 1967, singles like "Wild One" (US #34), "Nowhere to Run" (US #8; UK #26), "Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" (US #70; R&B #22), "You've Been in Love Too Long" (US #36), "My Baby Loves Me" (US #22; R&B #3), "I'm Ready for Love" (US #9; R&B #2; UK #29) and "Jimmy Mack" (US #10; R&B #1; UK #21) kept the Vandellas on the map as one of the label's top acts. The Vandellas' popularity helped the group get spots on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Mike Douglas Show, American Bandstand and Shindig!. Throughout this period, the Vandellas had also become one of the label's most popular performing acts.
Personnel changes
Motown struggled to find good material for many of their acts after the exit of Motown contributor and Reeves' mentor William "Mickey" Stevenson in 1967 and Holland–Dozier–Holland in early 1968, but after their former collaborators left the label, the Vandellas initially continued to find success with the Richard Morris-produced singles "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" (US #25; R&B #14) and "Honey Chile" (US #11; UK #30; R&B #5) added to their already extended list of charted singles. In the summer of 1968, the group joined The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye in performing at the Copacabana though much like albums from the Four Tops and Gaye, a live album of their performance there was shelved indefinitely.That same year, label changes had started to take effect, and Gordy focused much of his attention on building the Supremes' as well as Diana Ross' burgeoning upcoming solo career that would follow in 1970. The Vandellas' chart performance (and the chart performance of many Motown acts with the exception of Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder) suffered as a result.
However it was the infighting among the members of the Vandellas that led to their problems. Kelley was the first to be let go after reportedly missing shows, as well as getting into altercations with Reeves. There were many instances where these "fights" happened on stage. Kelley was fired in 1967 and was replaced by Martha Reeves' sister Lois. Simultaneously, the group's name was officially changed to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, to conform with the company's recent changes of The Supremes' and The Miracles' names to reflect their featured lead singers. During this time, Vandellas records including "(We've Got) Honey Love", "Sweet Darlin'" and "Taking My Love and Leaving Me" were issued as singles with diminishing success. "Nowhere to Run" was one of the first "music videos to be ever made. In one scene all three girls are sitting on the back deck of a Mustang in a Ford factory while the vehicle is being constructed.
"Bless You" (1969–1972)
Reeves, out of the group temporarily due to illness, recovered and returned; Ashford was replaced by another former member of the Velvelettes, Sandra Tilley, and the group continued to release albums and singles into the early 1970s. Although they could not reignite the fire they had made in America they continued to have successful records the UK and abroad. Among their late 1960s hits was "I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing", which featured singer Syreeta Wright singing the chorus, and peaked at number forty-two. Reeves reportedly hated singing the song sensing it "close to home". In 1969 a reissue of "Nowhere To Run" reached the top 40 in the UK. In 1970, the group issued Motown's first protest single, the controversial anti-war song, "I Should Be Proud", which peaked at a modest forty-five on the R&B singles chart. The song was uncharacteristic of the Vandellas and did nothing to promote the group. On some stations, the flip-side "Love, Guess Who" was played instead,however the group reached the top 20 that year in the UK with a reissue of "Jimmy Mack".In 1971, the group scored a top 11 hit in the UK with "Forget Me Not". later that year they scored an international hit with "Bless You" (produced by the Jackson 5's producers The Corporation). The song peaked at number fifty-three on the American pop singles chart (the biggest peak of Vandellas' seventies singles in the US), and number twenty-nine on the R&B singles chart. "Bless You" reached number thirty-three in the UK giving the group two big hits that year in England. . "Bless You" reached number 16 in Canada and went all the way to number 2 in Puerto Rico . It was to be the last Billboard Hot 100 hit single for the group. After two successive Top 40 R&B singles, the ballad "In and Out of My Life" (#22 US R&B) and the Marvin Gaye cover, "Tear It On Down" (#37 US R&B), the group disbanded following a farewell concert, held at Detroit's Cobo Hall on December 21, 1972, but Martha Reeves is still often billed as ‘Martha Reeves& The Vandellas’.
The next year, Reeves announced plans of starting a solo career. At the same time, Motown Records moved its operations to Los Angeles. When Reeves did not want to move, she negotiated out of her contract with Motown, signing with MCA in 1974, and releasing the critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, Martha Reeves. Despite rave reviews of her work, neither of Reeves' post-Vandellas/Motown recordings produced the same success as they had the decade before. After living what she called "a rock & roll lifestyle" of prescription pills, cocaine and alcohol, Reeves sobered up in 1977, overcoming her addictions and becoming a born-again Christian.
Epilogue
After the Vandellas' split, Reeves' sister Lois sang with the group Quiet Elegance and sang background for Al Green, while Tilley retired from show business in the late 1970s, suddenly dying of a brain aneurysm in 1981 at the age of thirty-eight. Original member Gloria Williams, who retired from show business when she left the group, died in 2000. In 1978, Reeves and original Vandellas Ashford and Beard reunited at a Los Angeles benefit concert for actor Will Geer. In 1983, Reeves successfully sued for royalties from her Motown hits and the label agreed to have the songs credited as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas from then on. That year, Reeves performed solo at Motown 25, which alongside some of their songs being placed on the Big Chill soundtrack, helped Reeves and the Vandellas gain a new audience. In 1989, original members Ashford and Beard also sued Motown for royalties. During this time, the original trio were inspired to reunite both as a recording act and in performances. They were offered a recording contract with Ian Levine at Motorcity Records who issued the group's first single since the Vandellas disbanded seventeen years earlier called "Step Into My Shoes."Although they are no longer singing together full-time, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas have occasionally reunited for various concerts. Currently, Ashford, whose full name now is Rosalind Ashford-Holmes, and Beard, whose full name now is Annette Beard-Helton, continue to perform with other singers, most notably Roschelle Laughhunn, as "The Original Vandellas." Reeves, with her sisters Lois and Delphine Reeves, tour as "Martha Reeves and the Vandellas."
From 2005 to 2009, Reeves held the eighth seat of Detroit's city council. She has since lost her seat and told the press that she would continue performing.
A remake of the song "Nowhere To Run," sung by Arnold McCuller, is heard in the film "The Warriors" during the scene in which the Gramercy Riffs call a hit on the Warriors.
In a Season One episode of the television show The Golden Girls, Blanche describes her car as the "noisiest thing to come out of Detroit since Martha & The Vandellas.".
Candice Bergen, who hosted the Saturday Night Live episode on which Martha Reeves appeared in its inaugural season, made sure that Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were a presence throughout her "Murphy Brown" series. The group's picture was displayed prominently in Murphy's office. When Aretha Franklin guest starred and Murphy tried to sing with her, Franklin stopped her, saying, ". . .I'm not Martha, and you ain't no Vandella."
Awards and accolades
They won a Grammy in 1999, (they were nominated for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave", in 1964), Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. In 1993, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were awarded the Pioneer Award by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. Except for pre-Vandellas member Gloria Williamson and Vandellas member Sandra Tilley, all members of the group were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, becoming the second all-female group to be inducted. They were inducted by rock group The B-52's, whose frothy dance music was inspired by the Vandellas. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003. Two of their singles, "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street" were included in the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the group #96 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2005, Martha & The Vandellas were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.Always concert favorites, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were nominated for UK Festival Awards in 2010 and 2011 as "Best Headliner."
Martha and the Vandellas was inducted into the inaugural class of the Official Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame at Cleveland State University August 2013
Impact
Regarded for their early and mid-1960s work, some of the Vandellas' popular recordings have become part of American culture with their 1964 standard, "Dancing in the Street," being the obvious example. One of the most covered and popular songs in rock and roll history, "Dancing in the Street" was covered several times including a 1982 live recording by rock band Van Halen and a 1985 duet by rockers David Bowie and Mick Jagger. "Dancing in the Street" is considered[who?]to be the "Motown Anthem" by many. Martha and the Vandellas 1963 hit, "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave," was the first song that signified the Motown sound or the "Sound of Young America" with its backbeat and bouncing rhythms. 1965's "Nowhere to Run" has been featured during sports events. 1967's "Jimmy Mack" inspired what Reeves later said was a "virtual legend" of the name of the song "Jimmy Mack."Lineups
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Top Forty Singles
The following singles reached the Top Forty on the US or UK Pop Singles Charts:| Year | Song Title | Peak Chart Positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B | UK | ||
| 1963 | "Come and Get These Memories" | 29 | 6 | – |
| "Heatwave" | 4 | 1 | – | |
| "Quicksand" | 8 | 7 | – | |
| 1964 | "Dancing in the Street" | 2 | 8 | 28 4 (1969 reissue) |
| "Wild One" | 34 | 11 | – | |
| 1965 | "Nowhere to Run" | 8 | 5 | 26 42 (1969 reissue) |
| "You've Been in Love Too Long" | 36 | 25 | – | |
| 1966 | "My Baby Loves Me" | 22 | 3 | – |
| "I'm Ready for Love" | 9 | 2 | 22 | |
| 1967 | "Jimmy Mack" | 10 | 1 | 21 21 (1970 reissue) |
| "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" | 25 | 14 | ||
| "Honey Chile" | 11 | 5 | 30 | |
| 1968 | "Forget Me Not" | 93 | – | 11 (1971 reissue) |
| 1971 | "Bless You" | 53 | 29 | 33 |
Awards and recognition
- Martha Reeves and the Vandellas' "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street" were inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame and were both included in the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
- They were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 becoming just the second all-female group to be inducted and the fifth group in the Motown roster to be inducted.
- They were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.
- They were nominated for a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance in 1964 for their hit song "Heat Wave"
- "Dancing in the Street" was included in the United States Library of Congress' National Recording Registry for its historical, artistic and cultural significance in 2006.
COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES (1963)-Martha Reeves & The ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uYINIxRvHs
Lyrics
Lover you've gone from me and left behind
So many memories
So many memories
Here's your old friendship ring
I can't wear it no more
Here's your old love letters
I can't read 'em anymore
I can't wear it no more
Here's your old love letters
I can't read 'em anymore
Lover you've gone from me and left behind
So many memories
So many memories
Here's that old Teddy Bear (come and get 'em)
That you won for me at the State Fair
Here's some old Valentine cards (come and get 'em)
Give them to your new sweetheart
That you won for me at the State Fair
Here's some old Valentine cards (come and get 'em)
Give them to your new sweetheart
Lover you've gone from me and left behind
So many memories
So many memories
So many memories
So many memories
Lover you've gone from me and left behind
So many memories
So many memories (so many memories)
So many memories
So many memories (so many memories)
Here's your old favourite record
I can't stand to hear it no more (no more)
Here's some old lingering love (come and get 'em)
It's in my heart and it's tearing it apart
Because of these memories
I never thought of anybody but you
So come on and get 'em
'Cause I found me somebody new
And I love him
I can't stand to hear it no more (no more)
Here's some old lingering love (come and get 'em)
It's in my heart and it's tearing it apart
Because of these memories
I never thought of anybody but you
So come on and get 'em
'Cause I found me somebody new
And I love him
So come on and get these memories
(come and get 'em, since you've gone out of my life)
Come and get these memories, boy
(come and get 'em, since you've gone out of my life)
Give them to your new love...
Give them to your new love...
(come and get 'em, since you've gone out of my life)
Come and get these memories, boy
(come and get 'em, since you've gone out of my life)
Give them to your new love...
Give them to your new love...
So come on and get these memories
(Come and get 'em since you've gone out of my life)
(Come and get 'em since you've gone out of my life)
Give them to your new love...
Give them to your new love...
Give them to your new love...
Songwriters: Brian Holland / Edward Holland / Lamont Dozier
Come and Get These Memories lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Artist: Martha and the Vandellas
Album: Come and Get These Memories
Released: 1963
Genres: R&B/Soul, Pop
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ~ Heat Wave (1963) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo
Artist: Martha and the Vandellas
Album: Heat Wave
Released: 1963
Genres: R&B/Soul, Vocal/Easy Listening, Dance/Electronic
MARTHA and THE VANDELLAS quicksand - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ba69F13E0
Lyrics
Quicksand, quicksand
Pulling me closer, closer in your arms
Can't resist your loving charms
You're like quicksand sinking me deeper in love with you
Pulling me closer, closer in your arms
Can't resist your loving charms
You're like quicksand sinking me deeper in love with you
The more I fight it, the deeper in love I get
Each time you hold me
I feel nothing but happiness
It's not safe loving you this way
But from your arms I can't stay
Each time you hold me
I feel nothing but happiness
It's not safe loving you this way
But from your arms I can't stay
You're like quicksand, quicksand, yeah
Pulling me closer, closer
Making me love you, need you
Sinking me deeper, deeper in love with you
Pulling me closer, closer
Making me love you, need you
Sinking me deeper, deeper in love with you
Deeper, deeper, deeper
In love with you
In love with you
My heart is a prisoner of your warm embrace
I can't help, I can't help myself
Nothing can take your place
When you say sweet things to me
I start trembling from head to feet
I can't help, I can't help myself
Nothing can take your place
When you say sweet things to me
I start trembling from head to feet
You're like quicksand, quicksand, yeah
Pulling me closer, closer
I just can't resist you
I just want to kiss you
You're like quicksand, yeah
Pulling me closer, closer
I just can't resist you
I just want to kiss you
You're like quicksand, yeah
Quicksand, quicksand, quicksand pulling me closer
Quicksand, quicksand, quicksand pulling me closer
Deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper in love with you
Deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper in love with you
Quicksand, quicksand, quicksand pulling me closer
Quicksand, quicksand, quicksand pulling me closer
Deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper in love with you
Deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper in love with you
Quicksand, quicksand, quicksand pulling me closer
Songwriters: Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Edward Holland
Quicksand lyrics © Emi Music Publishing France, STONE AGATE MUSIC CORP
Artist: Martha and the Vandellas
Released: 1963
B-side: "Darling, I Hum Our Song"
Recorded: Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1963
Producer(s): Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Genre: R&B/Soul
Martha & The Vandellas - "Dancing In The Street" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGpgkCE41x8
Lyrics
Callin' out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancin' in the streets
They're dancin' in Chicago, down in New Orleans
Up in New York City
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancin' in the streets
They're dancin' in Chicago, down in New Orleans
Up in New York City
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin', swayin' and records playin'
And dancin' in the streets
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin', swayin' and records playin'
And dancin' in the streets
Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy grab a girl
Everywhere around the world
There'll be dancin'
They're dancin' in the street
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy grab a girl
Everywhere around the world
There'll be dancin'
They're dancin' in the street
This is an invitation across the nation
A chance for the folks to meet
There'll be laughin' and singin' and music swingin'
And dancin' in the streets
A chance for the folks to meet
There'll be laughin' and singin' and music swingin'
And dancin' in the streets
Philadelphia, PA
(Philadelphia, PA)
Baltimore and DC now
(Baltimore and DC now)
Yeah, don't forget the Motor City
(Can't forget the Motor City)
(Philadelphia, PA)
Baltimore and DC now
(Baltimore and DC now)
Yeah, don't forget the Motor City
(Can't forget the Motor City)
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin', swayin' and records playin'
And dancin' in the street, yeah
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin', swayin' and records playin'
And dancin' in the street, yeah
Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy grasp a girl
Everywhere around the world
There'll be dancin'
They're dancin' in the streets
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy grasp a girl
Everywhere around the world
There'll be dancin'
They're dancin' in the streets
Philadelphia, PA
(Philadelphia, PA)
Baltimore and DC now
(Baltimore and DC now)
Yeah, don't forget the Motor City
(Can't forget the Motor City)
(Philadelphia, PA)
Baltimore and DC now
(Baltimore and DC now)
Yeah, don't forget the Motor City
(Can't forget the Motor City)
All the way down in L.A. California
Not to mention Halifax Nova Scotia
Manchester
Alexandria, Virginia, Virginia
Not to mention Halifax Nova Scotia
Manchester
Alexandria, Virginia, Virginia
Songwriters: J. Lehmann / S. Lebowsky
Dancing in the Street lyrics © Bro 'N Sis Music Inc.
Artist: Martha Reeves
Album: The Boat That Rocked
Released: 2009
Genres: Rock, Pop
Martha and The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run (Ready Steady Go ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9m-6dVKRI
Lyrics
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
It's not love, I'm a running from
It's the heartbreak I know will come
'Cause I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me
Ev'rywhere I go, your face I see, ev'ry step I take, you take with me yeah
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
I know you're not good for me, but free of you I'll never be, no
Each night as I sleep, into my heart you creep
I wake up feelin' sorry I met you, hoping soon that I'll forget you
When I look in the mirror to comb my hair
I see your face just a smiling there
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me
How can I fight a lover, that shouldn't be, when it's so deep
So deep, deep inside of me
My love reaches so high I can't get over it
It's so wide I can't get around it, no
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby
Just can't get away from you baby, no matter how I try to
I know you're no good for me, but free of you I'll never be
Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide, got nowhere to run to baby
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
It's not love, I'm a running from
It's the heartbreak I know will come
'Cause I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me
Ev'rywhere I go, your face I see, ev'ry step I take, you take with me yeah
Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
I know you're not good for me, but free of you I'll never be, no
Each night as I sleep, into my heart you creep
I wake up feelin' sorry I met you, hoping soon that I'll forget you
When I look in the mirror to comb my hair
I see your face just a smiling there
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby
Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me
How can I fight a lover, that shouldn't be, when it's so deep
So deep, deep inside of me
My love reaches so high I can't get over it
It's so wide I can't get around it, no
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby
Just can't get away from you baby, no matter how I try to
I know you're no good for me, but free of you I'll never be
Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide, got nowhere to run to baby
Songwriters: Edward Jr. Holland / Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland
Nowhere to Run lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Artist: Martha and the Vandellas
Album: Mafia III Soundtrack
Released: 2016
Recorded: Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); October 21, 1964
Producer(s): Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland
Lyrics
As I stand alone on this moonful night
for the first time I feel alone in life.
As I watched the moon kiss the starlit sky
I feel the need for your lips to press close to mine.
For so long I been afraid to love,
but right now I feel the need for love
and you, you have the love the love I need
to comfort me oo and I'm ready for love
truly ready for love your wonderful
sweet sweet love right now I'm ready for love.
I've tried to shield my heart from love's tender touch
'cause to lose in love would hurt so much;
but as I softly walk in my solitude
I searched my heart and found there's a need for you.
And for the first time I feel alone,
'cause I need a love to call my own;
and only you, you have the love the love I need
to comfort me oo and I'm ready for love
I'm truly ready for love you know I'm ready for love
your wonderful sweet sweet love
I'm ready right now I'm ready right now.
Something wonderful has come over me
and filled this heart of mine with ecstasy
I'm glad I finally opened up my eyes
and pushed the fear of love, the fear of love aside;
and for the first time I feel alive
I have the touch of love deep down inside.
And just as soon as I see your smiling face
I'll rush into your warm embrace.
Right now I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
you wonderful sweet, sweet love
right now I'm ready for love
you know I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
your wonderful sweet, sweet love
right now I'm ready for love
you know I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
your wonderful sweet, sweet love
for the first time I feel alone in life.
As I watched the moon kiss the starlit sky
I feel the need for your lips to press close to mine.
For so long I been afraid to love,
but right now I feel the need for love
and you, you have the love the love I need
to comfort me oo and I'm ready for love
truly ready for love your wonderful
sweet sweet love right now I'm ready for love.
I've tried to shield my heart from love's tender touch
'cause to lose in love would hurt so much;
but as I softly walk in my solitude
I searched my heart and found there's a need for you.
And for the first time I feel alone,
'cause I need a love to call my own;
and only you, you have the love the love I need
to comfort me oo and I'm ready for love
I'm truly ready for love you know I'm ready for love
your wonderful sweet sweet love
I'm ready right now I'm ready right now.
Something wonderful has come over me
and filled this heart of mine with ecstasy
I'm glad I finally opened up my eyes
and pushed the fear of love, the fear of love aside;
and for the first time I feel alive
I have the touch of love deep down inside.
And just as soon as I see your smiling face
I'll rush into your warm embrace.
Right now I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
you wonderful sweet, sweet love
right now I'm ready for love
you know I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
your wonderful sweet, sweet love
right now I'm ready for love
you know I'm ready for love,
I'm truly ready for love,
your wonderful sweet, sweet love
Songwriters: Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Edward Holland
I'm Ready for Love lyrics © Emi Music Publishing France, STONE AGATE MUSIC CORP
Artist: Martha and the Vandellas
Album: Watchout!
Released: 1966
B-side: "He Doesn't Love Her Anymore" (Hunter)
Genre: R&B/Soul
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