The Marvelettes 1965 - "I'll Keep Holding On" MOTOWN-08

From Tamla 54116 label May 1965/ TMG 518 June 1965 in UK, this is another superb and well-known original track by The Marvelettes. Hope you like it. Please let me know? thanks. JOHN

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[simon4186]

I LOVE MOTOWN!

[MotownMagic1959]

@simon4186 That's really nice to know Simon, you'll be glad then if you listen to my other 250 rare releases mostly unreleased from Motown's vaults after all these years :-) I've a huge number of The Marvelettes 1960's original singles on here as I was once a DJ, and thanks mainly to UMG, newly released CD's of "A Cellarful of Motown" that are excellent in my opinion, well worth buying indeed, that have the unreleased tracks on. JOHN

[DoctorRadio]

Magical marvellous music this - Had almost forgotten it. A timeless classic! 

[MotownMagic1959]

@DoctorRadio They sure were brilliant, as you say, and thanks to all the other nice comments here from you Motown fans, they were very good times for me and Motown in the 1960's!! JOHN

[jbunnelle7]

Motown's most overlooked single, period. One of the best backing rhythm tracks ever put down by the Funk Brothers, and those shrill explosions of voice throughout are just incredible. They remixed this into stereo later and sucked the life out of it. This mono version--sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a cavernous stairwell--has a groove that you don't get with all of the instruments separated.

[anna41429]

I used to dance to this religiously every friday night at the bubblegum factory club in brighton aged 16. Sooooooo gooood!

[MegaMusicman09]

Almighty Motown-As good today as it ever was....

[sluggs51]

@rickribz1..... try the 100 club mate.....if ya dont know where that is google it ...

[numba8blakey]

does anyone know the song with the chorus ill be/keep holding on which is reapeated a few times cant find it anywere its a slow love song i think

[rickribz1]

I LOVE MOTOWN ! does any 1 no of any motown/soul club's or bars in London 2 go and shake a leg??????

[TheWanker52]

HEY JOHN,HEARD THIS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT, I WAS ONLY 13 YRS

WOW,STILL A COOL SONG. THANKS.

[stevesilk53]

MotownMagic1959, Thank you. This one got by me. And as a Marvelettes #1 fan I am happy to have come across this one again after 45 years. It totally has that 1965 sound. The sexy sound of the Mavelettes give me a natural high. Wow. There's "BiIl", "Hunter" "Captured" "Magician"

"Beechwood" "Postman" "Forever". Get the Point? Thanks MM1959.

[THEMRBASSPLYR]

i used to roller skate off this tune -arcadia roller rink,detroit ,michigan

[MrFasteddie65]

Carolyn Crawford -- there's an artist who didn't have much commercial success, but who had a great voice.

As for the Marvelettes, the lead singer had a very different kind of voice, very sexy, very smooth. She sounded great on all the records.

Ah, those were the days!