Radio show poll - your 5 favourite Motown Songs

Hi people. I've not been around for a while but I'd like to ask for your assistance once again as you've not let me down before.

For my next radio show I'm doing another poll and this time it's a Motown chart. I've selected 25 classic Motown tracks and I'm asking for your favourite 5.

https://polldaddy.com/poll/8908428/

Music aficionados will notice that Aretha Franklin is listed in error but it was spotted too late to delete it so please don't vote for that as I will look even more silly than I already do!

Poll closes on Saturday morning and will be broadcast on www.peterborough.fm from 11:00am.

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Thanks everyone - looking very interesting so far with it very close at the top and some monumental songs seemingly out of the running.

Quote: Tuumble @ 3rd June 2015, 1:57 PM BST

Thanks everyone - looking very interesting so far with it very close at the top and some monumental songs seemingly out of the running.

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So many great tracks both on your list and more broadly. I would find it difficult to choose my Top 5 of all time. It can be very much about what is meaningful to the individual rather than "the best". But the two that immediately spring to mind are Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown" and Marvin Gaye's "Abraham, Martin and John". I think I would also take the Tammi Terrell version of the Stevie Wonder penned "All I Do" which is a bit obscure, having been recorded back in the mid 1960s before it turned up on Stevie's "Hotter Than July" album as late as 1980. (Arguably his last good album).

I do have a soft spot for Martha Reeves and one of her titles on your list would have been my sixth choice if there had been a sixth choice. Plus I did like the Jackson 5 and would have selected them had it been one of their other singles, eg "I'll Be There". Actually I also love the rather schmaltzy early 1970s era of Diana Ross as a solo performer, eg "I'm Still Waiting" is just a brilliant, brilliant, record.

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Done, struggled a little over no5.

When can we start bitching about the ones you did not include?

Ha! I used the Motown 50 3 CD set as my guide and a deep discussion with my partner ensued (which I lost) over some of the choices.

Feel free to list the ones missing and I will mention them on air and give you a shout out.

Quote: Tuumble @ 3rd June 2015, 2:50 PM BST

Ha! I used the Motown 50 3 CD set as my guide and a deep discussion with my partner ensued (which I lost) over some of the choices.

Feel free to list the ones missing and I will mention them on air and give you a shout out.

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I'd forgotten the Marvin Gaye tracks from the ground breaking "What's Going On" album - the title track and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)". Both brilliant. Also, the Four Tops "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Walk Away Renee", the Temptations wonderful "Just My Imagination", Junior Walker & the Allstars' lightish but atmospheric "A Walk in the Night" and loads of early 1970s' Stevie Wonder.

Junior Walker and the Allstars - A Walk in The Night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4xGt3VjhQ

Hello Tummble 6 months you've been gone leaving us here with the kids and the mortgage while you swan around etc, etc.........

Done.

I know Will, sorry - very rude of me.

I do pop back for a nose from time to time but haven't actually posted.

I did have a look at a couple of my old skits and fancied writing some more so I'll try not to disappear for so long.

...have our kids been taken into care yet?

Shanelle has just had her third baby on her 17th birthday and Marlon gets out next week.

Quote: Will Cam @ 4th June 2015, 8:52 AM BST

Shanelle has just had her third baby on her 17th birthday and Marlon gets out next week.

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F**king Hell, I must ring somebody.