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"Quicksand" was built around a similar gospel-inspired delivery of the Martha and the Vandellas' breakout hit "Heat Wave", but with a slightly slower tempo and a harder edge. Like "Heat Wave", it features an analogy to a natural phenomenon, with the narrator comparing falling in love to sinking in quicksand. [1]
Martha and the Vandellas ... "Quicksand", which was another composition with Holland-Dozier-Holland [9] and reached number eight pop in the late fall of 1963.
"Quicksand / Darling, I Hum Our Song" Released: November 4, 1963 ... Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Martha and the Vandellas, ...
Come and Get These Memories is the debut album by the American girl group Martha and the Vandellas, released in 1963. [4] Put out by Gordy after the success of the trio's hit of the same name, the album also contains the group's debut single, "I'll Have to Let Him Go", which was originally intended for Mary Wells, and "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)".
The song was produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland under the same gospel-pop confection of their earlier hit singles "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" and "Quicksand".The song explained why the narrator can't come up with words to tell her lover that she was through with him because when she looks at him, she feels that he is "like a bolt of lightning" and that he's a "live wire".
In their work for Martha and the Vandellas, the Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and especially the Supremes, for whom they wrote and produced no fewer than 10 No. 1 hits, Holland-Dozier-Holland ...
Martha and the Vandellas Live! is a 1967 live album by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas, recorded live at Detroit's Twenty Grand Club, ...
Dance Party is a 1965 studio album released by American Motown and soul girl group Martha and the Vandellas on the Gordy label.The album was the group's third and, much like The Miracles' Mickey's Monkey album, mainly consisted of dance tunes.