Come and Get These Memories
Martha & the VandellasReported release: 1963Date needs verification
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The song portrayed a woman returning her ex-lover's gifts and memories.
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1963
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The hit comes from the live performance released on The 12 Year Old Genius. Its onstage energy, rather than a conventional studio ballad arrangement, was central to the young performer's breakthrough.
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Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote this song comparing the intensity of love to a heat wave.
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Mickey's Monkey was first released as a Miracles single in 1963, before the following album. Motown's label history and the licensed mono-single listing establish that sequence. The album's later 1964 chart...
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Gaye wrote this song about his wife, Anna Gordy Gaye.
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The official Motown biography describes this early hit as autobiographical. It helped establish Gaye after his initial attempts at a more traditional vocal career.
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Smokey Robinson wrote this song about a complicated, consuming love.
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