"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" is a hit single recorded by #JimmyRuffin and released on #MotownRecords' Soul label in the summer of 1966. It is a #ballad, with lead singer Jimmy Ruffin recalling the pain that befalls those who were jilted by romantic partners. The tune was written by #WilliamWeatherspoon, #PaulRiser, and #JamesDean, and the recording was produced by Weatherspoon and #WilliamMickeyStevenson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vf3ZE7CLg0

https://www.wacoca.com/media/603302/ ダイアナ・ロス「Ain’t No Mountain High Enough」解説 #Ashford&Simpson #BerryGordy #DianaRoss #DianaRoss&TheSupremes #DISCO #EdwinStarr #MarvinGaye #MotownRecords #music #OnThisDay #R&B #SOUL #TammiTerrell #音楽

"Still" is a 1979 song by the #soulMusic group the #Commodores. It was released as a #single on #MotownRecords with "Such a Woman" as the #Bside. The song appears on their 1979 hit album #MidnightMagic. This was their last No. 1 hit in the United States. #CashBox said it was a "tender, lilting #ballad" with "a soft, building piano figure" and "expressive, plaintive lead vocal." #Billboard praised the " poignant lyric and slow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjXXvb0AKk

"Shotgun" is a song written and performed by American #soulMusician #JuniorWalker that the #singersongwriter recorded with his group the All Stars. Called a "dance tune", it was produced by #BerryGordyJr and #LawrenceHorn. Gordy's #SoulRecords, a #MotownRecords subsidiary, issued it as a single in 1965. It reached number 1 on the U.S. #RAndBSingles chart for four non-consecutive weeks and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7I9NLPt9A

"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a song most famously performed by #GladysKnightAndThePips, their second release after departing #MotownRecords for #BuddahRecords. Written by #JimWeatherly and included on the Pips' 1973 LP #Imagination, "Midnight Train to Georgia" became the group's first single to top the #Billboard #Hot100. It also won the 1974 #GrammyAwardForBestRAndBVocalPerformanceByADuoGroupOrChorus and has become Knight's #signatureSong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVAxJB3DkDE

"Cruisin'" is a song co-written, produced, and performed by the American singer-songwriter #SmokeyRobinson for #MotownRecords' Tamla label. It was released in August 1979 as a single from his eighth album, #WhereTheresSmoke (1979). One of Robinson's most successful singles outside of his work with #theMiracles, "Cruisin'" hit number one on the US Cash Box Top 100 and was also a US #Billboard #Hot100 hit, peaking at number four the week of February 2, 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlzY6cWpoMQ

"Don't Mess with Bill" is a song recorded by #theMarvelettes for #MotownRecords' Tamla label. Written and produced by #SmokeyRobinson, "Don't Mess with Bill" features a lead vocal by #WandaYoung. The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966, and at number three on Billboard's #RAndBSinglesChart. "Don't Mess with Bill" was the Marvelettes' final top 10 single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABWW58dR6U

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by #theTemptations for #MotownRecords' Gordy label, written by #NormanWhitfield and #EdwardHollandJr and produced by Whitfield. It peaked at number 13 on the #Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts for eight non-consecutive weeks. The song's success, in the wake of the relative underperformance of the previous Temptations' single, "#GetReady".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0TkufXA38

My big night out: I went to a White Stripes gig with a colleague – and she became my best friend https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/25/my-big-night-out-white-stripes-gig-colleague-best-friend #TheWhiteStripes #Motownrecords #Lifeandstyle #Friendship #Detroit #Culture #Music

"Don't Mess with Bill" is a song recorded by #theMarvelettes for #MotownRecords' Tamla label. Written and produced by #SmokeyRobinson, "Don't Mess with Bill" features a lead vocal by #WandaYoung. The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966, and at number three on Billboard's #RAndBSinglesChart. "Don't Mess with Bill" was the Marvelettes' final top 10 single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABWW58dR6U