MOTOWN MONDAYS: MOTOWN RECORDS FLASHBACK! GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS, MARCH 1970

Released March 21, “You Need Love Like I Do (Don’t You)” peaked at #25 (charted 8 total weeks overall) on the Billboard Top Pop Singles charts in 1970. This week on Billboard (week-ending March 28; 2 weeks on the charts), climbing up to #41.

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Released April 4, “You Need Love Like I Do (Don’t You)” peaked at #3 (3 weeks; charted 10 total weeks overall) on the Billboard Top R&B Singles charts in 1970. B-side: “You’re My Everything”

SOUL 35071 Source: Billboard Top Pop Singles and Billboard Top R&B Singles

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MOTOWN MONDAYS! MOTOWN ON CBS’ ED SULLIVAN SHOW

THE MOTOWN SOUND

The Ed Sullivan Show

 

The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue has hit the streaming platforms!

On June 12, 2020 came news Universal Music Enterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performance from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Since its premiere launch on June 12 2020, more videos have been added on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, highlighting the Motown sound. As reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.

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For more on this story, go HERE.

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Note: Ed Sullivan passed away on October 13, 1974. He was 73.

 

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW . . .  CBS’ MOTOWN CLASSICS!

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NEW! For this ‘Motown’ Monday, we are featuring three classic Motown video performances from the Ed Sullivan Show:

Gladys Knight & The Pips (1968), The Temptations (1971), The Temptation and Diana Ross & The Supremes (1967)

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MORE Ed Sullivan Motown performances will be forthcoming on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

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MOTOWN MONDAYS: A 1980S ‘MOTOWN’ NEWS PRINT



Monday, August 17, 1981

A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT BACK-PAGE

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MOTOWN SNAPSHOT MEMORIES: GLADYS KNIGHT, ’67


EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE‘ became the debut album for Gladys Knight & The Pips. It was recorded in 1966 and also in 1967, prior its release in September. The group having been signed in 1966 to the Motown SOUL label, their LP made the Billboard Top 200 peaking at No. 60, late-1967. The album ranked much higher at No. 12 on the Billboard R&B LP chart. Two tracks off the LP made the singles chart. Everybody Need Love,” was also the group’s debut single. It reached No. 39 in early-1967. The second single from the LP, I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” peaked at No. 1 (R&B) and hit No. 2 (Pop) in December 1967. The album was produced by Norman Whitfield, Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, and Smokey Robinson.

GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS 1967


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