MOTOWN MEMORIES - SHOW 30 WITH AL RANDALL

  Step back inside Hitsville U.S.A. for another hour of Detroit soul, classic Motown grooves, and deep‑catalog treasures. This episode features Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, The Marvelettes, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, The Undisputed Truth, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, and more — plus spotlight moments from Michael Jackson and rare gems from Wolfe, Abdullah, and Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings. A full Motown journey packed with energy, history, and the unmistakable sound that changed American music forever. 

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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – If You Can Want

The Marvelettes – Anything You Wanna Do

Stevie Wonder – With a Child’s Heart

Wolfe – Tale of Two Cities

The Good Girls – Your Sweetness

Michael Jackson – Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – The Onion Song

The Supremes – You’re Gone (but Always in My Heart)

Diana Ross & The Supremes – No Matter What Sign You Are (mono)

Mary Wells – Bye Bye Baby

Paul Petersen – Don’t Let It Happen to Us

Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings – Sounds of the Zodiac

Bob Kayli – Toodle Loo

Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself

The Undisputed Truth – Friendship Train

Yvonne Fair – We Should Never Be Lonely My Love

Abdullah – I Comma Zimba Zio (Here I Stand the Mighty One)

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas – Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone

Martha and the Vandellas – I Gotta Let You Go

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

For the million worldwide, live from New York City, it's the Al Randall Show. And welcome back to another episode of Multi Home Memories for your truly Al Randall and the Al Randall Show. If you want to get a hold of me, you can email one word the Al Randall show and email that kind of El Randall, the L Randall show, and email that kind of multiple factory. Nobody else headed Robinson and the miracles. If you can win, you're listening to the Al Randall show Motel Memories.

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So whatever you want to be called, get a capitalist for sure.

unknown 3:08

You can get me.

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I'll be there. I'll be well. Whenever you want me.

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You can Oh baby, hold me, squeeze me, kiss me. Baby, do anything you wanna do. If you let me be a break, I will let me make you let you let you all you have to do is let me know.

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If you tell me I must be my two, no face, no worries of the day, with a child's heart turn to play. No need to worry, no need to kill Just being alive makes it also with a child heart and ever kill town with a child. You've got no reason to fly Welcome Ever Saturday, Sunny Day, no hold on to the heart's fatigue.

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As you hold your merry way, with a child with a child.

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Stevie Wonder 1966 with a child's heart.

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A reminder that the label wasn't just so everything in between I don't have many regrets all at all I can street in my fight.

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But since I came to New York, I became a man who took a body I love, baby, I like to know what my face Some joke I wander working for American city all without a face American Shepherd, New York sheep.

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I break my back to keep American Shepherd living on Watch out, man. The time has come for changes And gonna carry on working out the way Just waiting for the weekend Lining up with other shit to get my pay The times getting closer The sun is set on memory sheep of brothers Without American Shepherd, New York sheep I break my back to keep American Shepherd living on Watch out, family time has come for changes American Shepherd, New York sheep, I break my back to keep American Shepherd living on lookout, man.

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The time has come for change American Shepherd, American Shepherd, American Shepherd Night falls on London, and the river mist is hanging on street land high workers slumber, dreams are sweet beneath suburban skies, I see the unrest, and so they fly in the place, and they snur in the bow, and the quiet English homes feel the chain.

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Above the square, Lord Nelson raves the rain.

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Paul's is crumbling, symbol of an age we can't regain for the sea to the rest, and so they die in the breast, and they stir in the bow as a quiet home before.

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The Motown kept reinventing itself even into the late 80s and early 90s. And the good girls were part of that new jack swing wave. And after that, speaking of reinvention, Brian Archer is gonna hand it out to Michael Jackson. Michael's lovely here, and now you're gonna gorgeous callback with early motown freezing.

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Something something about your love. It drives me crazy. It gives me something about your charm. It makes me lazy. Wanna be your lady engine blow is not me. I can't control it.

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King of this feeling I try to break free, but I just can't leave. Just like the magnet calling me about your sweetness. It's my weakness, baby. Your love is so sweet. Your sweetness. It's my weakness.

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Something about your kiss. Any girl in her right mind wouldn't want to miss.

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Sweet as CNH. Sugar can't take your place. I can't control it. Can't put this fearless. No bad facts. I try to break free. But then I just can't leave. Just like a magnet calling me back. Your sweetness. It's my weakness, baby. Your love is so sweet. It's not making me wear. Your sweetness. It's my weakness, baby. I try to break free, but then I just can't leave us. Just like a magnet. Snow beat next.

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Rock and roll Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Jackson, inducted 2001. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, Michael Jackson became one of the most influential artists in music history. His Motown years laid the foundation. Pure talent, pure charisma, and a voice that connected instantly. Rock Hall legend, Michael Jackson.

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And all but the lila goop was waiting to love you and I'm dead. Into your heart, you're so unaware of the loneliness that was winning there. Close the door to your heart, girl, and turn the key. Lock your love away from me. And oh my god, and now you're gone.

unknown 19:48

You made me love you.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

And oh my god, and now you're gone. You said that you've made a made beautiful with this present day. But it's so ever love. Get into my heart, you turn and you walk, just walk away. You stripped me of my dreams, you gave me faith and you took my home. Look at me now. Look at me. See what love has done to me. Look at my face. See how you slept its face. After you made me all your own. Then you left me all alone. You made your words, so sweet. No way. Then you love a good key. My heart cries out for your touch. But baby, you're not there, and the lonely crap fades in love.

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And hate and fear all the spices that make it fry.

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Oh later, and the only way to get A misericun Used to play and love seeds until it now. Hey world, we gotta break the jumping through. Yeah, we need you and everybody pull us through. Whoa! We got to clean up this place and read why Oh yeah we do now.

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We gotta be headstrong about winding the road and make a man more happy so with the world of rape, big on yard And I don't care if the place people like to wear And the only way to get free of is the rape big on yard single souls gotta do that share Tell about it Oh come on Let's not on every door Tell them love is the answer Whether they're redo for Oh yeah Now we don't care what you do How you look or you start as brain No Because both is a system From now on It's gonna be everyone's name Oh it's just a great big ungod And pain that fear All the spices that make you cry Yes And the only way to get rid of it to Great Big Ungun is the plant Love C everybody got the plan of sea Come home and play the love seeds until it dies The wool is just a great mix on your boys in the hottest mixes on the planet Yep you're rocking with the bears Al Randall Randall Randall Randall Rand Randall Randall Randall Al Randall is Moton Memories but you're truly Al Randall You're gone but always in my heart comes from the transitional arrow in the room by the way baby United sound in Detroit before Moldown even had a tone studio baby's the Supremes It's just my ugly face you're not around anymore But the sound of your left hand still feels this empty face your own ways is the tender way you used to whisper how much you came but the sound of your whisper still echoes without leaving a day Cause your all went I remove your picture from the wall no things change for your immin in my heart from you it can't seem to come the gold is your warming brain but your memory I can erase Cause you're all aways in my cause Cause you're all aways in my double shot again but the chopsticle is not that eating up my gut you would say there's no need to look at you the time and to see the sun shining my eyes I'm just up to both I've been in love No matter what side you can be mad I dunno what side beat up the heart mad y'all wanna find just with my style I've done the matter with you gonna be like I need you to be like you guys I don't care about the rise and all that you move you don't you know you took my broken apart a lot be back yeah yeah I could have started you know you took my life to away you go on my life something will back back to bed well the thought show love will hold so true that can you make me baby yeah start loving you know you took my life to it away you call them one my life soon will look back but your life was sweet I think it is I know so don't come back running or knocking on my front where you stand better I'll tell us yeah you know you took my life to away do you want my life so then we'll go back happy with your life one sweet I didn't I love so I do come back to running I'm knocking on my front door where you said that I was on me with no other yeah so I know you took my life full out of the way you gonna walk my love well look black big baby I don't want to baby Mary Wells on Motel Memories with Al Randall and bye bye baby Paul Peterson Idol and Mother before we get to that broken hearts and lonely dreamers searching for someone to call their own hearts are filled with sadness Oh if only the love had lasted but carelessly they let it let it live away from them and I know that inside finally they try to hide the tears Don't stand up my love Keep us together no matter what may come I'll never leave And don't you ever look I realize that things won't always be everything I want for you and me there'll be times when we may disagree But there's nothing that we can overcome we together the battle is really won understanding and travel is all that we need in a world of empathy we can live in ecstasy you and be so let an event up Keep us together no matter what you think we'll never leave and don't you ever go we work together no matter what make home I'll never leave and don't ever go because I love you because I care I'll do all you want to care to keep you here don't let it happen to my Toom I've got to let you go now I can forget the hand when place for show now this kiss will be the last is our honey sweet you had me hanging all around your feet but to come and I can't stand thinking about your kissing on some forever sound it sounds too bumbles to my eyes and gonna check on blue mum backin' all around your feet but got to time and I can't stand thinking about your keys and I'll handle my listening to Motown Memories with Al Randall on the Al Randall show that was Bob Cayley better known as Robert Gordy Gordy's younger brother from 1958 Mercy Mercy from 1971 All things and what they used to be now where in all the blue skies but the motion something One person All things and what they used to be lost all wasted off the oceans out the seas fish for a mercy free

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Mercy mercy Jesus All face and what they used to use our small Radiation underground in the sky animals and spiritual live nearby All things and what they choose to be heard about this proudest How much more can use from safety and should stay on the eye?

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You know that I don't love you I can't get up myself I love you ain't nobody else I'm gonna go I'm gonna go give me just your nature And I just did it as a time Play Only to you on the screen and there's nothing I can do that is that you start to make the cell to make a body must be must be a little bit more than we got one I just got to tell me to get on board and shake the four We got a starting day to make tomorrow but I want to be a bad out only if I hold on Chain Everybody shake ahead and make a friend It don't matter what you like let us look like people for whom you are If your heart is in the right place Don't give up on my special welcome aboard This train stands for justice This train stands for freedom This train stands for harmony and peace This train stands for no get on board ship Everybody should go ahead and make a free round sisters and brothers the key Harmony is the key my sisters and brothers Harmony is the key my sisters and brothers Harmony is the key my sisters and brothers From nineteen seventy the Undisputed Truth friendship train.

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Stick with nineteen seventy for this little segment. All the town was splitting time between Detroit and LA at this moment, and the sound was shifting as well. Yvonne Ferrars, we should never be lonely, my love, is one of those powerhouse vocals multiple never promoted enough in Randall's opinion, anyway.

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And as strong as yours and mine Cause we possess true faith and trust that puts joy in our We shall never be only out of the law We shall never be only out of Together we got the pot of flow The waves that we fold in We've got the strength to overcome our ups and downs we can forget And as long as our hearts and trouble minds Work together surely as long as we shouldn't have We show them up in the way We have found the blow that only come to it Come from the land I'm a beautiful I come from the land of a beautiful soul I'm from the land of the look I'm from the land I'm a brascal beautiful beautiful look on the line that's a beautiful beautiful look in it for my Africa living for my Africa Living giving for my Africa was Abdullah's comma Zimba Zio Motown Memories on Al Randall Abdullah only recorded a handful of songs I think three or four anyways ring of firewall random show and you know that one random show and you mean what's in the memory on the L Randall show until next time, baby Oh yeah leave my heart alone my heart alone spring is here and life away with trees The love that left me came back talk to me like the ever changing sun that warms my heart and leaves The love tries to bite again Ooh, I'm falling the same old highlights coming Oh yeah I love him Beyond each single word he speaks love you hide it my tender feelings worth upon me You wake the sleep and love I'm buried deep inside love you'll love and leave me sobbing inside you'll leave me crying Oh yeah leave my heart alone I tell you my way you're a wheel on my heart and I was I don't want to love again truly don't love me I don't want the heart and I have a moment that I never ever feel sick I do love to sleep this night without me and turn it my heart will be burning Oh yes I love me I know I love you now you know that I don't love you my heart don't give me the fever double shot you heard before the very last time you can bet it won't have an again it's all over town you've been playing around this time with my best friend explaining but you just waste your time boy I want to let you I better let you go ahead I'm kind of fella that loves me those words I used to proudly say what you make this all blue by being on true tell me what makes a love go asking I was gonna do you even true that I was a myself so I want to let you I want you accept this the back no longer belong to me the same boy on your way that said that you're suffering Oh baby I real want me to stay I want to let you oh let you go I want to let you go I know that we don't mind I thought to let you go I never met a girl who makes me feel the way that you do you're alright I never asked who makes my brain real I say that you do you're outside so be big cause it come I'm bringing up this too so get away so get away I'm gonna try to make a love with you so get away so get away because you like come all my way cause you like home if you wanna play how to see love let me remind you it's all right the love and you gonna miss them the time it takes a fan you saw so pretty look at baby back to get away to get away with my baby consular