HOW MUSIC CHANGED, PART 137-34 – EVERY SINGLE MOTOWN ‘A’ SIDE, PART 34

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From just about any perspective, 1967 was a volatile year. Ever since 1962, when Motown first broke on pop radio, a whole new world market opened up for them, and the label grew and grew. 1967,though, posed a few interesting challenges for ‘the little label that could’. Sociologically, times were changing, and as a result, so was the music. Detroit was in the thick of it, and the Summer riots of 1967 proved just how volatile the sociopolitical environment had become. Motown would survive, but not without some volatility of its own, as the upcoming shows will portray.

            Songs included in today’s program include;

1)    Love’s Gone Bad – The Underdogs

2)    Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone – The Supremes

3)    Pucker Up Buttercup – Jr. Walker & the All Stars

4)    Chantilly Lace – Shorty Long

5)    Till Johnny Comes – Brenda Hollloway

6)    The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

7)    Jimmy Mack – Martha & the Vandellas

8)    Travlin’ Man – Stevie Wonder

9) Hey Love - Stevie Wonder

10)    Bernadette – The Four Tops

11) Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got – Jimmy Ruffin

12) I Want to Go Back There Again – Chris Clark

13) It’s So Hard Being a Loser – The Contours