Who can't remember all the Motown hits from Berry Gordy's stable of amazing artists - Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Glaydis Knight, the list goes on.
Motown Hits of 1968 is out.
Various Artists The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 8: 1968 Link
1968 was a very tumultuous year - "James Brown's "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" essentially erased the word "negro" from polite conversation, the Beatles spent the spring at an ashram overlooking the Ganges and much of the fall riding the six-minute "Hey Jude" up the pop chart, Sly & the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music" brought funk to more ears than anything before it, and it's hard to shake the feeling that maybe silly love songs aren't always going to cut it when you're watching reports on the Tet Offensive on CBS and your brother is in Vietnam. And so it was that a few of Motown's biggest hits in 1968 pointed in new directions: The Temptations took us on a gritty funk odyssey to "Cloud Nine", Marvin Gaye's harrowing, intense version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" finally saw release after a year and a half in the can, and the Supremes topped the charts with the social commentary of "Love Child." Link
The Temptations - "Cloud Nine"
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