Martha and the Vandellas Discography -
A Thrilling Live Wire Act

Some of the titles in the Martha and the Vandellas discography trumpet an outgoing, outreaching take on love and life. "Come and get--"! "Watch out!" "Dance party!!" Drums, bass, and horns often add to the urgency.

Arguably, they were the least girlish of the Motown girl groups--in the stereotypically passive, pining-for-my-man way. The Vandellas' voices don't just adorn Martha Reeves's leads. They punch holes through the air to announce themselves. Their R&B/gospel style is so enlivening that they could shower the punched-out bits over listeners like confetti!

Martha Reeves isn't incapable of sweetness or fear. In fact, her delivery is so intense that weeps become wails, charms become aphrodisiacs. Yet she doesn't exaggerate emotions. She simply presents them honestly so that we hear the froth or the prickles up close. Even the sugar cubes in her voice have sharp corners.

Later Martha Reeves songs didn't capitalize on her challenging vocals as much as her Motown songs had. At least she got a solo shot at all after the company moved!

This Martha and the Vandellas discography runs through the '60s and '70s, and includes Martha Reeves albums until the end of the latter decade.

Martha and the Vandellas Discography

Come and Get These Memories (Feb. 22, 1963; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

(Love is Like a) Heat Wave (July 10, 1963; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Come and Get These Memories (1963)

1. Come and Get These Memories (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

2. Can't Get Used to Losing You

3. Moments (to Remember) (Berry)

4. This is When I Need You Most (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

5. A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

6. Tears on My Pillow (Bradford/Lewis)

7. To Think You Would Hurt Me

8. There He Is (at My Door) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

9. I'll Have to Let Him Go (Stevenson)

10. Give Him Up

11. Jealous Lover

12. Old Love (Let's Try It Again) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Heat Wave (Sept. 30, 1963)

1. (Love is Like a) Heat Wave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

2. Then He Kissed Me (Barry/Greenwich/Spector)

3. Hey There Lonely Boy (Carr/Shuman)

4. More (Ciorciolini/Newell/Oliviero/Ortolani)

5. Danke Schoen (Gabler/Kaempfert/Schwabach)

6. If I Had a Hammer (Hays/Seeger)

7. Hello Stranger (Lewis)

8. Just One Look (Carrol/Payne/Payne)

9. Wait Till My Bobby Gets Home (Barry/Greenwich/Spector)

10. My Boyfriend's Back (Feldman/Goldstein/Gottehrer)

11. Mockingbird (Foxx/Foxx)

Quicksand (1963; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Dancing in the Street (July 31, 1964; a single by Gaye/Hunter/Stevenson)

Nowhere to Run (Feb. 5, 1965; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Dance Party (1965)

1. Dancing in the Street (Gaye/Hunter/Stevenson)

2. Dancing Slow (Hunter/Stevenson/Weatherspoon)

3. Wild One (Hunter/Stevenson)

4. Nowhere to Run (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

5. Nobody'll Care (Hunter/Stevenson/Wonder)

6. There He Is (at My Door) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

7. Mobile Lil the Dancing Witch (Hunter/Stevenson)

8. Dance Party (Hunter/Stevenson)

9. Motoring (Hunter/Jones/Stevenson)

10. The Jerk (Hunter/Stevenson)

11. Mickey's Monkey (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

12. Hitch Hike (Gaye/Stevenson/Whitfield)

My Baby Loves Me (1966; a single by Hunter/Moy/Stevenson)

I'm Ready for Love (1966; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Watch Out! (1966)

1. I'm Ready for Love (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

2. One Way Out (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

3. Jimmy Mack (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

4. Let This Day Be (Wilson)

5. Keep It Up (Robinson)

6. Happiness is Guaranteed (Hunter/Lewis/Kay)

7. I'll Follow You (Bristol/Fuqua)

8. No More Tearstained Make Up (Robinson)

9. Go Ahead and Laugh (Hunter/Stevenson)

10. What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love (Moy/Stevenson)

11. Tell Me I'll Never Be Alone (Dean/Weatherspoon)

12. He Doesn't Love Her Anymore (Hunter)

Greatest Hits (1966)

Jimmy Mack (Feb. 3, 1967; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Martha & the Vandellas Live! (1967)

1. You'll Never Cherish a Love So True ('Til You Lose It) (Gordy)

2. There He Is (at My Door) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

3. I'll Have to Let Him Go (Stevenson)

4. My Baby Won't Come Back (Reeves/Stevenson)

5. Come and Get These Memories (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

6. (Love is Like a) Heat Wave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

7. Quicksand (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

8. Darling, I Hum Our Song (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

9. Live Wire (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

10. In My Lonely Room (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

11. A Tear for the Girl (Holland)

12. Dancing in the Street (Gaye/Hunter/Stevenson)

13. Wild One (Hunter/Stevenson)

14. Nowhere to Run (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

15. Motoring (Hunter/Jones/Stevenson)

16. You've Been in Love Too Long (Hunter/Paul/Stevenson)

17. Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

18. My Baby Loves Me (Hunter/Moy/Stevenson)

19. Never Leave Your Baby's Side (Dobyne/Jones/Stanton)

20. What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love (Moy/Stevenson)

21. I'm Ready for Love (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

22. Third Finger, Left Hand (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

23. Jimmy Mack (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

24. Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone (Morris/Moy)

25. One Way Out (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

26. Honey Chile (Morris/Moy)

27. Show Me the Way (Barnes/Morris/Moy)

28. I Promise to Wait My Love (Brown/Gordy/Gordy/Story)

29. Forget Me Not (Morris/Moy)

30. I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin' (Dean/Richards)

31. I Tried (Dean/Morris/Weatherspoon)

32. Sweet Darlin' (Morris)

33. (We've Got) Honey Love (Morris/Moy)

34. Taking My Love (and Leaving Me) (Gordy/Story)

35. I Should Be Proud (Cosby/Hinton/Sawyer)

36. Love, Guess Who (Paul/Shelby)

37. I Gotta Let You Go (Whitfield)

38. Bless You (Gordy/Mizell/Perren/Richards)

39. In and Out of My Life (Brown/Gordy)

40. Your Love Makes It All Worthwhile (Gordy/Mizell/Perren/Richards)

41. Tear It on Down (Ashford/Simpson)

42. I Won't Be the Fool I've Been Again (Brown/Gordy/Stover)

43. Baby (Don't You Leave Me) (Brown/Gordy/Reeves)

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Discography

Honey Chile (1967; a single by Morris/Moy)

Live (1968)

Ridin' High (1968)

1. I Promise to Wait My Love (Brown/Gordy/Gordy/Story)

2. Honey Chile (Morris/Moy)

3. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me (Bacharach/David)

4. Leave It in the Hands of Love (DeMell/DeSanto)

5. Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone (Morris/Moy)

6. I'm in Love (and I Know It) (Cosby/Dean/Weatherspoon/Wonder)

7. To Sir With Love (Black/London)

8. Forget Me Not (Morris/Moy)

9. (We've Got) Honey Love (Morris/Moy)

10. I Say a Little Prayer (Bacharach/David)

11. Show Me the Way (Barnes/Morris/Moy)

Sugar 'n' Spice (1969)

1. Taking My Love (and Leaving Me) (Gordy/Story)

2. Shoe Leather Expressway

3. You're the Loser Now

4. I'm a Winner (Ashford/Simpson)

5. What Now, My Love (Becaud/Delanoe/Sigman)

6. Soul Appeal

7. Loneliness is a Lonely Feelin'

8. I Love the Man

9. It Ain't Like That

10. I Can't Get Along Without You

11. Heartless

12. I Hope That You Have Better Luck Than I Did

Natural Resources (1970)

1. Something

2. Easily Persuaded

3. Didn't We (Webb)

4. I'm in Love (and I Know It) (Cosby/Dean/Weatherspoon/Wonder)

5. Love, Guess Who (Paul/Shelby)

6. Everybody's Talkin' (Neil)

7. Put a Little Love in Your Heart (DeShannon/Holiday/Myers)

8. The Hurt is Over (Since I've Found You)

9. Take a Look Around (Strong/Whitfield)

10. Won't It Be So Wonderful

Black Magic (1972)

Martha Reeves Discography

Martha Reeves (1974)

1. Wild Night (Morrison)

2. You've Got Me for Company (Fisher/Preston)

3. Facsimile (Patillo/Reeves)

4. Ain't That Peculiar (Moore/Robinson/Rogers/Tarplin)

5. Dixie Highway (King)

6. Power of Love (Gamble/Huff/Simon)

7. My Man (Poneia/Webb)

8. Sweet Misery (Axton)

9. I've Got to Use My Imagination (Goffin/Goldberg)

10. Storm in My Mind (Poncia/Vastano)

11. Many Rivers to Cross (Cliff)

The Rest of My Life (1977)

1. This Time I'll Be Sweeter

2. Love Blind

3. Second Chance

4. Love Strong Enough to Move Mountains

5. Higher and Higher

6. Now That We Found Love

7. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Mann/Spector/Weil)

8. (I Want to Be With You) Rest of My Life

9. Thank You

We Meet Again (1978)

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