Looking Back At Some Classics

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#367 - Martha And The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run - 1965

running recap for me - 3's=73, 2's=51, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Dance Party
Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland
Produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Chart action: #8 US, #26 UK

the players:
Martha Reeves - lead vocal
Rosalind Ashford - backing vocals
Betty Kelly - backing vocals
Funk Brothers - the music

Mary Wells missed a session date and Martha Reeves filled in. A Star is born. This wasn't the
first hit but that's how she broke in to the music biz. This one is from the girls third album.
Much used for sporting events and a troop favorite in the Vietnam war. On the US side I would
think. Actually the commies had all kinds of places to hide. I think we lost.

Imagine a world in which the US had honored its UN commitment to free colonial peoples. Moderate leaders (Ho Chi Minh in this case) probably would have come to rule their countries and the world would have avoided the unimaginable horror and blood-shed that ensued. BTW please explain how Martha Reeves could have had a hit before she was in the music biz. The mind boggles...