Category: Motown

MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: KIM WESTON, 1965!

KIM WESTON, Motown artist, 1965. Her biggest hit was her fifth single released under the Tamla label. In late-1965, Weston was paired as a duet to record with Marvin Gaye a song written by (her then husband) Mickey Stevenson and Sylvia Moy, “It Takes Two.” It was also her only single (to her credit) having made Top 20 on Billboard (#14), and it also broke Top 10 (#4) on the Billboard R&B chart that year as well. “It Takes Two” was also the last single for Kim Weston with Motown Records. The single would be included in the duet’s album, ‘Take Two,’ which was released by the label in August, 1966. Weston and her husband, William “Mickey” Stevenson left Motown for M-G-M Records in 1967.

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE 4 TOPS, 1964!

RELEASED BY MOTOWN RECORDS, January 1965, the group’s self-titled ‘Four Tops‘ studio album would be their very first for the Motown label. Produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, six of the album’s 11 tracks were written by the Motown song-writing trio. Two of the H-D-H songs would become singles. The first, “Baby I Need Your Loving” (Pop; #11) would become their first million-selling single, released, July 1964. Their follow-up, “Without The One You Love (Life’s Not Worth While)“ (Pop; #43) was released by Motown in the fall of 1964. The Four Tops‘ third single was written by Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter. “Ask The Lonely“ (Pop; #24) was released in February 1965. The album peaked at #63 on the Billboard Top 200 LP chart, 1965.
THE FOUR TOPS circa 1964

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