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More Motown! The perfect antidote to country music, right? Yes, indeed, I do love them both. I grew up with country music, but I grew into rock and roll, which may explain a lot of the discrepancies in my tastes....

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My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: You’re a Wonderful One

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 10 Dec 24

100 favorite rock songs

This countdown is a whole lot of nothing! And it’s going to be a whole lot of music from all over the place! To start off this collection of songs with “nothing” (the word) in the title, let’s start with a great Motown classic...

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Nothing to This Top Ten: Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 1 Oct 22

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Youre a Wonderful One (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 31 May 21

May ends, and with it the monthlong salute to Motown. Dang, I only scratched the surface, so I’ll have to do this again!! Thanks again to @Dena91 , who suggested a Motown countdown. She probably didn’t know it’d blossom into...

May is almost over, and that means that my month-long salute to Motown is about to end, too. I’m thinking about doing some bonus songs along with the next countdown. Meanwhile, here’s another song that you may know..... [b]#2:...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Little Darling (I Need You) (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 30 May 21

Memorial Day weekend is known as the “unofficial start of summer” in America. It feels more like November out there right now!!! Overcast, drizzly, and barely in the 50s?! I’ll just stay inside and listen to great music, thank...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 29 May 21

The Memorial Day weekend is here! Please do remember to take time this weekend and remember those who paid the ultimate price in defense of America (and other nations that celebrate the holiday). Freedom isn’t free. And, while...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 28 May 21

Memorial Day weekend and the “unofficial start of summer” is right on our doorsteps! Summer and good music go hand in hand, and here’s another song from the collection of great tunes by the legendary Marvin Gaye to help get you...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: It Takes Two (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 27 May 21

Well, lookie, here comes the rain. Just in time for our weekly tournament. Nothing can dampen your spirits when a great Marvin Gaye tune is playing. As part of my “Motown May” feature suggested initially by @Dena91...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Stubborn Kind of Fellow (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 26 May 21

Ooh, look, my McAlister’s is back to full capacity!! AND they have the sweetener out so I don’t have to ask for it!!!! NORMALCY! I’m still wearing a mask, though, because I’m still showing antibodies so I can’t get vaccinated...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Aint Nothing Like the Real Thing (#7)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 25 May 21

More joy from Motown during the month of May, coming now from the silky smooth voice of the late, great Marvin Gaye. Today’s song is probably the best-known tune on this list, and indicative of just WHY Marvin was so great....

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Whats Going On (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 24 May 21

Motown May rolls on with the third part of this month-long salute to the great R&B music from Detroit. This time around, it’s the great Marvin Gaye. Here’s another one of his songs that you may (or may not) remember. [b]#9:...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Pride and Joy (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 23 May 21

Hooray for Motown! I’m celebrating the great R&B label (family of labels, actually) all month long, thanks to a suggestion from @Dena91 . Part three of the salute is the great Marvin Gaye. Unlike Stevie Wonder, I do expect a...

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GAYE Old Motown May (Marvin Gaye) Top Ten: Baby Dont You Do It (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 22 May 21

I was commissioned by a myLotter to do a Motown countdown. That was tough, then it became easy. You see, I don’t use the same artist twice in a countdown. That’s my rule, and I’ve only broken it once. This time around, I was...

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Motown May!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 1 May 21

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Baby Songs Top Ten: Too Busy Thinking Bout My Baby (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 23 Oct 20

With severe weather predicted I’ll be heading home to beat it. It doesn’t matter. Yesterday was a jackpot in oh, so many ways. So, before I head for home I’ll give you another song from my list of ten favorites with “baby” in...

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April 2, 2020 - What happened on that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222726) • United States 2 Apr 20

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day National Ferret Day 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon first sights land in what is now Florida in the United States. 1956 - As the World Turns and Edge of Night premiere on CBS in the United...

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Ten Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (Vol. 5): I Heard It Through the Grapevine (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86855) • United States 19 Feb 19

It looks like semi-smooth sailing for the rest of the winter from the doctors' perspectives. I hope and pray everyone else has that good fortune. Let's celebrate with some music! Here's another song that's such a classic tune...

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Favorite 70's R&B Songs #6 - "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43655) • Denver, Colorado 27 Feb 17

A bona fide legend occupies the sixth spot in my Favorite 70's R&B Songs countdown: "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology,) by Marvin Gaye. A multi-instrumentalist blessed with one heck of a voice, Marvin Gaye entered the music business...

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