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the Andantes
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Motown
{{Sources|section|date=March 2024}}Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, the Andantes appeared as backing vocalists on many of Motown's recorded singles, as the Funk Brothers also had when providing instrumentation. Seven of these singles that they provided background vocals for would go on to chart at the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music chart.{{div col}}Chart-topping hits
- "My Guy" â Mary Wells
- "Stop! In the Name of Love â The Supremes
- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" â Four Tops
- "Reach Out I'll Be There" â Four Tops
- "Love Child" â Diana Ross & the Supremes
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" â Marvin Gaye
- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" â Diana Ross
Brenda Holloway
The Andantes appeared on many singles for Brenda Holloway. These include:- "When I'm Gone"
- "Operator"
- "You Can Cry on My Shoulder"
- "Together 'Til the End of Time"
- "Just Look What You've Done"
The Four Tops
The Andantes appeared as backing vocalists on 16 singles for the Four Tops. These releases include:- "Baby I Need Your Loving"
- "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)"
- "Ask the Lonely"
- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
- "It's the Same Old Song"
- "Something About You"
- "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
- "Reach Out I'll Be There"
- "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
- "Bernadette"
- "7-Rooms of Gloom"
- "You Keep Running Away"
- "I'm in a Different World"
- "Still Water (Love)"
- "Walk Away Renee"
- "If I Were a Carpenter"
The Supremes
They appeared as backing vocalists on seven singles for The Supremes. These releases include:- "Stop! In the Name of Love"
- "Children's Christmas Song"
- "In and Out of Love"
- "Forever Came Today"
- "Love Child"
- "I'm Livin' in Shame"
- "The Composer"
Martha & the Vandellas
They appeared as backing vocalists on twelve singles for Martha & the Vandellas. These releases include:- "You've Been in Love Too Long"
- "Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" (B-Side of "You've Been in Love Too Long")
- "My Baby Loves Me" (with the Four Tops)
- "I'm Ready for Love"
- "Jimmy Mack"
- "I Promise to Wait My Love"
- "Forget Me Not" (B-Side of "I Promise to Wait My Love")
- "I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin'" (with Syreeta Wright)
- "(We've Got) Honey Love"
- "Taking My Love (And Leaving Me)"
- "I Should Be Proud"
The Marvelettes
They appeared as backing vocalists on 15 singles for the Marvelettes. These releases include:- "Tie a String Around Your Finger" (B-side of "As Long as I Know He's Mine")
- "A Need For Love" (B-side of "Too Many Fish in the Sea")
- "I'll Keep Holding On"
- "Don't Mess with Bill"
- "You're The One"
- "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game"
- "When You're Young and in Love"
- "My Baby Must Be a Magician"
- "Here I Am Baby"
- "Destination: Anywhere"
- "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One"
- "I'm Gonna Hold On As Long As I Can"
- "That's How Heartaches Are Made"
- "Marionette"
- "A Breath-Taking Guy"
The Temptations
They appeared as backing vocalists on seven recordings for the Temptations.- "It's Growing"
- "Get Ready"
- "Last One Out is Broken Hearted"
- "Just Another Lonely Night"
- "All I Need"
- "That'll Be the Day"
- "Love Woke Me Up This Morning"
Marvin Gaye
They appeared as backing vocalists on (at least) 15 singles for Marvin Gaye. These releases include:- "Baby Don't You Do It"
- "What Good Am I Without You"
- "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
- "I'll Be Doggone"
- "Pretty Little Baby"
- "Ain't That Peculiar"
- "One More Heartache"
- "Take This Heart of Mine"
- "Little Darling (I Need You)"
- "Your Unchanging Love"
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
- "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
- "That's the Way Love Is"
- "The End of Our Road"
- "Save the Children"
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
They also appeared as backing vocalists on these following recordings and singles for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell:- "This Poor Heart Of Mine"
- "Give In, You Just Can't Win"
- "When Love Comes Knocking At My Heart"
- "Two Can Have A Party"
- "Come On And See Me"
- "Oh How I'd Miss You"
- "Love Woke Me Up This Morning"BOOK, Clemente, John, 2000, Girl Groups â Fabulous Females That Rocked The World, Krause Publications, 978-0873418164, Bloomington, Indiana,
Stevie Wonder
The Andantes have also appeared as backing vocalists on numerous Stevie Wonder recordings, including:- "Sunset" (B-side of "Contract on Love")
- "Kiss Me Baby"
- "Music Talk" (B-side of "Hi-Heel Sneakers")
- "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
- "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby"
- "A Place in the Sun"
- "Hey Love"
- "I Was Made to Love Her"
- "I'm Wondering"
- "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day"
- "For Once in My Life"
- "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
Non-Motown recordings
Much like the Funk Brothers, The Andantes also appear on several notable recordings produced and/or released by record companies outside of Motown, including:- "Come On" â The Distants
- "All Right" â The Distants
- "Your Love" â Billy Kent
- "He Gave Me You" â Marv Johnson
- The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker â John Lee Hooker (with Mary Wilson)
- "Prince of Players" â Betty Everett
- John Lee Hooker on Campus â John Lee Hooker
- "To Win Your Heart" â Laura Lee
- "Agent Double-O-Soul" â Edwin Starr
- "Whispers (Gettin' Louder)" â Jackie Wilson
- "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" â Jackie Wilson (Pat Lewis substitutes for group member Louvain Demps)
- The Andantes also appear on much of the accompanying Higher and Higher album
- "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" â Jackie Wilson
Motorcity Records
As part of the Ian Levine's Motorcity Records project in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Andantes were signed to the label and once again provided a service in recording backing vocals to former Motown artists. By this time, Pat Lewis had joined Jackie Hicks, Barrow and Demps (from 1989 to 1992).Levine also recorded several songs with the Andantes, issuing a new single "Lightning Never Strikes Twice", which featured Demps on lead vocals. Most other songs recorded by the group at Motorcity had Lewis on lead vocals.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}Motorcity recordings
Original recordings- "Lightning Never Strikes Twice"
- "Hurricane"
- "Throw Love Away"
- "Step Into My Shoes" â also recorded by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
- "Two Sides Of Love"
- "One Drop Of Rain"
- "Will You Always Be There"
- "Love Is A Bumpy Road"
- "All Around the Motorcity"
- "Girls Are Out To Get You"
- "Superstition"
- "Mercy, Mercy Me"
- "I Wish" â cover of the Stevie Wonder classic
- "My World Is Empty Without You"
- "The Boss"
- "Last Dance"
- "Little Darlin'"
- "Why Am I Loving You"
- "Back In My Arms Again"
- "In And Out Of Love"
- "I Wish It Would Rain"
- "Waste of Time" (Instrumental only)
- "On the Front Page"
- "Better times"
- "One Shot At Happiness"
- "Lost & Found"
- "Good Intentions"
- "Blind Love"
- "On the Beach"
- "My Heart Won't Say No"
- "No Time For Tears"
- "Reach Out & Touch Somebody's Hand"
- "On Top Of the Mountain"
- "Sight And Sound"
- "I Want You Back"
- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
- "I'll Be There"
- "Selfish One"
- "Rescue Me"
- "No Right Turn"
- "Hungry For You"
- "Something's Telling Me"
Billboard Top Ten hit songs (US pop chart){|class"wikitable"
Billboard Top Forty hit songs (US pop chart){|class"wikitable"
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- "Lighting Never Strikes Twice" re-recording on YouTube
- Biography on Billboard.com
- Biography on Answers.com
- The Andantes: The Girl Group Left Behind
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