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"Jimmy Mack" is a pop/soul song that in 1967 became a hit single by Martha and the Vandellas for Motown's Gordy imprint. Written and produced by Motown's main creative team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, "Jimmy Mack" was the final Top 10 pop hit for the Vandellas in the United States, peaking at No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 and at No.1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. [3]
The album included the top 10 hit singles, "I'm Ready for Love" and "Jimmy Mack" and the ballad single, "What Am I Gonna Do Without Your Love?". This was one of the last albums by the group with songs by Holland–Dozier–Holland who, the following year, left Motown, and with William "Mickey" Stevenson, who helped put the group on the musical map.
By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits. [1] Over the next few years, several more compilations were released, including six in the series 16 Original Big Hits. [2] In 1967, the label issued the first of the Motown Chartbusters series. Although the ...
"Baby I Need Your Loving" is a 1964 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, [2] the song was the group's first Motown single and their first pop Top 20 hit, making it to number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four in Canada in the fall of 1964.
Louis Armstrong had the longest-running number one of the year with "Hello, Dolly!". In 1964, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States which were considered to be "middle of the road". The chart has undergone various name changes and since 1996 has been published under the title Adult Contemporary. Until 1965, the listing was compiled simply by ...
Mack Gordon, Jimmy Van Heusen: You Never Had It So Good: 1964: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen: You Really Fill the Bill: 1940: Warren Hull You Turned My World Around: 1974: Kim Carnes, Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, David Ellingson You Walk By: 1940 (radio) unknown You Will Be My Music: 1973: Joe Raposo: You'd Be So Easy to Love: 1960: Cole Porter
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The album was Nyro's last for over four years as she turned her back on the music industry to get married and live a rural life away from the spotlight. Her work with Patti LaBelle on the album formed a lifelong friendship. In 2005, music magazine The Word voted Gonna Take a Miracle among the 60 Best Underrated Albums of All Time.