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"Bernadette" is a 1967 hit song recorded by the #FourTops for the #Motown label. The song was written and composed by #HollandDozierHolland, Motown's main songwriting team, and produced by #BrianHolland and #LamontDozier. #Billboard described the song as a "hard-driving rocker" with an "outstanding performance by the group." #CashBox called the single a "pulsating Detroit lid underscored by that steady, danceable rhythm." The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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"Standing in the Shadows of Love" is a 1966 hit single recorded by the #FourTops for the #Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team #HollandDozierHolland, the song is one of the best-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. A direct follow-up to the #1 hit "#ReachOutIllBeThere" (even featuring a similar musical arrangement), "Standing in the Shadows of Love" reached #2 on the soul chart and #6 on the #Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.
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#ThursdayFiveList is #SongsAboutMusic

1/ Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Sweet Soul Music (1968, 🇺🇸) : song.link/fr/i/1446492178

"Do you like good music?
That Motown music
And we keep right on swingin'
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah"

2/ The Professionals - Mods, Skins, Punks (1980, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) : song.link/fr/i/724579524

"Now everybody’s dancing to the motor city beat
You got to look real sharp, boy; you got to move your feet
Are you mod?
Are you a skin?
Are you punk?
Or are you just faking??"

3/ Sexy Sushi - Rien à foutre (2008, 🇫🇷) : song.link/fr/i/274422275

"Y'en a ras le cul de cracher sur les gens connus, puis moi Madonna je l'aime
et pareil pour les Fugees j'trouve ça bien 🎶 Lalalalaaaa 🎶
Par contre j'aime pas Jean-Jacques Goldman mais c'est pas le sujet"

4/ MF Doom - Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik) (on MM..Food album, 2004, 🇺🇸) : song.link/fr/i/1516751193

"Rap snitches, telling all their business
Sit in the court and be their own star witness"

5/ Phyllis Dillon - It's rocking time (1967, 🇯🇲) : song.link/fr/i/1612437848

"Just Rock away to that steady beat
Shake your hips and those clumsy feet
Do just thosе and you find you could do it Rocksteady"

Songlink/OdesliSweet Soul Music by Martha Reeves & The VandellasListen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded by the Supremes for the #Motown label. Written and composed by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, it became the second consecutive number-one pop single from the Supremes' album #TheSupremesSingHollandDozierHolland and the group's ninth overall chart-topper in the United States on #Billboard Hot 100, peaking March 1967.
youtube.com/watch?v=X4z2iubQPgo

"Please Mr. Postman" is a song written by #GeorgiaDobbins, William Garrett, #FreddieGorman, #BrianHolland and #RobertBateman. It is the debut single by #theMarvelettes for the #Tamla (#Motown) label, notable as the first Motown song to reach the number-one position on the #Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The single achieved this position in late 1961; it hit number one on the #RAndBChart as well.
youtube.com/watch?v=fyGWEq8IXlQ

"Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "#ReachOut (I'll Be There)") is a song recorded by the American vocal #quartet #FourTops from their fourth studio album, Reach Out (1967). Written and produced by #Motown's main production team, #HollandDozierHolland, the song is one of the most widely-known Motown hits of the 1960s and is today considered the Four Tops' signature song. It was the number one song on the #RhythmAndBluesChart for two weeks.
youtube.com/watch?v=AUZ3INx3-KA