"Songs of The Original STONEWALL Club Jukebox"©
"S.O.T.S." compiled
by original STONEWALL Club Patron, Stonewall Rebellion Participant
and STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association Founder Willson
L. Henderson
Motown / Stonewall Legends:
Martha Reeves &
The Vandellas
Songs of
The STONEWALL Club | Stonewall
Various Artists | Singers - Part 2 | Diana Ross
& The Supremes
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | The
Marvelettes of Motown | Post-Stonewall
Songs | Diana Ross
STONEWALL Veterans' Association: 'Go Fund Us'!
As Martha Reeves & The Vandellas's hit song "Come And Get These Memories" conveys, come
and get these memories! That's likely why you are here! There are many reasons why you should
"H-E-L-P" the STONEWALL Veterans' Association ("S.V.A.") -- the folks who have been
bringing you all these memories with our unique knowledge and know-how, free of charge at our
expense for more than a quarter-of-a-century! The help is finally needed during the recent difficult,
sickening and killer worldwide health epidemic and the dire economic consequences it has caused
especially for educational and non-profit groups! The Gay boys and Gay girls and their straight friends
of the original STONEWALL Bar & Dance Club in Manhattan, NYC, are 'the ones' who started the
brave
resistance and uprising -- not the current, rented,
misrepresented and rip-off commercial store!
Therefore, the most important point is preserving the real history of the actual participants in the
launching of the modern G.L.B.T. rights movement known as the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion!
In other words, respect and support the people as represented exclusively for a half-century
by the voluntary, non-profit National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association --
not the leased, self-serving, for-profit, greedy, non-GLBT owned "Stonewall" storefront!
The 'Go Fund Us' site includes a rarified slideshow of fascinating vintage photographs of
members of the STONEWALL Veterans' Association, all of whom were victims of the
anti-Gay New York City Police Department raids on the original STONEWALL Club or the
historic seven-night 1969 Stonewall Rebellion! As an authentic treat, you will hear background
music of an actual #1 hit song from the original STONEWALL Bar & Dance Club Jukebox!
Supporting the S.V.A. ensures our educational programs, our outreach services and our existence!
https://www.GoFundMe.com/f/support-gay-veterans-1969-stonewall-rebellion
STONEWALL Veterans' Association * Current + Upcoming Events
2019
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Concert in Staten Island, New York
The "Leading Ladies of Motown" concert tour arrives at the historic St. George Theatre in Staten Island, New York City! The show stars Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Lois and Delphine ("MRV"), and Mary Wilson of The Supremes! MRV opened their show with their pulsating hit "I'm Ready For Love" and concluded their exciting show with their international #1 smash and the Motown anthem "Dancing In The Street"! Legendary members of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association proudly attended front row and center -- happily surprising Miss Reeves and her sisters! Willson Henderson, the SVA's director, was also a longtime president of the M.R.V. Fan Club! Leticia Remauro is a luminary of Staten Island. Baron Morris, Jr. was reunited with The Reeves Sisters after a decade since the Westbury Music Fair! Showtime on one-night-only was Saturday, May 11th @ 8 p.m. For more 411 about the venue, visit the St. George Theatre at: www.SGTR.org.2018
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2017
Motown Concert: The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Four Tops
and Mary Wilson of The Supremes in Brooklyn, New York
Concert by four of the greatest Motown acts -- then and now: The Temptations featuring Dennis Edwards, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (Lois and Delphine), The Four Tops, and Mary Wilson of The Supremes! This is a great show especially for the milestone Summer of 2017 at famous Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York! The Ford -- quite an appropriate automotive name for Detroit-based musical artists -- Amphitheatre is brand-new and state-of-the-art! The solid gold Motown concert is on Thursday, August 24th, 2017 @ 8 p.m.
Musical Note: There is only one artist who had a song entitled "Coney Island"! It is Martha Reeves & The Vs! "C.I." was written by the popular Frank Wilson, et al. While MRV was with Motown Records for a dozen years, the song was surprisingly never included on a record album. Decades later, the lively song is featured on Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' outstanding "Lost And Found: Spellbound" album!
FordAmphitheaterConeyIsland.com/2017/events/temptations-four-tops
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Stonewall Veterans Reunion with Miss Martha Reeves and Concert
Join many members of the National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") at a hit songs concert performance of the legendary Martha Reeeves & The Vandellas (Lois and Delphine) at B.B. King's Nightclub on West 42nd Street near Times Square in Manhattan on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Doors open @ 6 p.m. for dinner and drinks. "We're Ready (Right Now) For Love!"
2016
Top Five Songs from Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
The top five songs, and there are plenty to choose from, of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ("MRV") highlighted here are: "Heat Wave", "Dancing In The Street", "Nowhere To Run", "I'm Ready For Love" and "Jimmy Mack"! There is background 411, a promotional photograph taken at the time of each song and an active live link to see MRV performing each song! Visit:
www.SmoothRadio.com/best-music/1960s/top-5-songs-from-Martha-Reeves-and-The-Vandellas
2015
Martha Reeves & The Vandaellas: Concert at NYC's B.B. King's NightclubMembers of the legendary STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") annually welcoms back Martha Reeves and her Vandellas to the city where "Come And Get These Memories", "Heat Wave", "Quicksand", "Dancing In The Street", "Nowhere To Run", "My Baby Loves Me", "I'm Ready For Love", "Jimmy Mack" and "Honey Chile" were all #1 on either the pop charts or the R&B charts or both!! The SVA's contingency, including handsome S.V.A. office manager AnDre M. Christie, is gayly hosted by Willson Lee Henderson. The 'one night only' show is on the best night, Saturday, February 21st. B.B. King's Nightclub is at 237 West 42nd Street, off Times Square, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue. Doors open @ 6 p.m. The S.V.A. is having its wonderful and funderful pre-show dinner and drinks before the show at BBK's. Showtime is @ 8 p.m. Martha will open with her rousing hit single "I'm Ready For Love"! The finale is always and appropriately "Dancing In The Street". There shall be a "Live Wire" reunion get2gether with Miss Martha Reeves backstage after the show!
*Visit Miss Martha Reeves
The website of Miss Martha Reeves includes her concert tour schedule!
www.MissMarthaReeves.com
2014
Martha Reeves: Concert at B.B. King's Nightclub/NYC
"Come And Get These Memories"! Martha Reeves's annual return engagement at this legendary and great dinner and perfect show venue is on Friday, January 24th @ 8 p.m. The National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association is confirmed! Doors open @ 6 p.m. to accommodate the dinner and drinks patrons prior to the show. "Get Ready For Love"!
2013
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: MRV 50th Anniversary - The Singles Collection (1962-1972)
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This literally incredible and complete collection goes from the originally for Mary Wells song "I'll Have To Let Him Go" (A-side single) in 1962 to Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' incredible bombastic version of the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" (B-side single) in 1972!
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Martha Reeves Portaryed on Broadway: "Motown The Musical"
Yes, Miss Martha Reeves was at the premiere of "Motown" on
April 14
Pictured above: Berry Gordy, Jr., Martha Reeves and Stevie Wonder
The incredible all-American story of Motown and the colossal songbook of Motown has been considered as phenominal Broadway material for decades! Well, "MTM" finally arrived! Come and get these memories! Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' #1 international hit song and dance anthem is, of course, in the Motown musical. It is given the big Broadway production treatment that it deserves. "Dancing In The Street", especially as performed by Miss Martha Reeves, is ultimate Motown! The song is recaptured to great satisfaction and as a living tribute to Martha in the musical "Motown".
2012
B.B. King's Famous Nightclub
at Times Square
Manhattan, NYC
Sunday, December 30, 2012 @ 8 p.m.
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Event>>>>> Martha Reeves: "Dancing With The Stars"
Appropriately, Martha Reeves opened the two-hour exciting "Dancing With The Stars" show with her international #1 hit song "Dancing In The Street"! That song is the anthem of Motown Records and it was ideal for a show about dancing! Martha looked Motown royalty in a full-length gown. The opening also featured The Temptations performing "Get Ready" and Smokey Robinson singing "The Tracks Of My Tears". Tonight was "Motown Night" -- every dance was to a Motown song! Martha, later in the show, in a shimmering silver cocktail dress, performed a bouncy rendition of "Jimmy Mack" while a couple (Maria Menounos and Derek Hough) danced. Tonight, other Motown legends performing -- while a competing couple danced to the song -- were Smokey Robinson ("Cruisin'", "Ooo, Baby, Baby" and "Being With You") and The Temptations ("My Girl", "I Can't Get Next To U", "The Way You Do The Things You Do" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"). There was a surprise intro of a special front-row guest: Motown founder Mr. Berry Gordy, Jr. "DWTS" is the popular dance competition show with celebrity dance contestants paired with professional dancers. Ironically, one contestant was also a Motown legend: Gladys Knight! DWTS's "Night of Motown" concluded with a competitive dance elimination "Motown Marathon" set to Martha's "Nowhere To Run"! The show aired 'live' on ABC-TV on Monday, April 23rd with rave revues and high ratings!+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Martha Reeves & The Crystal Method: On Television
Martha Reeves performs her exciting new hit single "I'm Not Leaving" with The Crystal Method. They are backed by an all-star band comprised of horns from soul legends Tower of Power and rockers Darryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, Brain of Nine Inch Nails and Richie Fortus of Guns n' Roses. The backup singers include Louis Price, formerly of The Temptations.Don't miss it when Motown royal and rock royalty meet! The 'live' performance is on the popular "Jimmy Kimmel Show" on Friday night, March 30th at midnight EST (9 p.m. PT) on ABC-TV.
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Martha Reeves: Performances this year 2012 confirmed in many countries
United States of America (CA, MI, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OR and SC, alphabetically), England, Italy, Scotland and Sweden
2011
Motown Variety Artists featuring Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Motown 50 {3-C/Ds}*
Included in this set are MRV's #1 "Heat Wave" and #1 "Dancing In The Street" and in the bonus third compact disc, the MRV cover versions, Martha performs "I Say A Little Prayer".
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Event > > > Martha
Reeves Performs at The White House
Martha Reeves and Berry Gordy, Jr.
Continuing the commemoration of the 50th anniverasary of Motown Records, the U.S. President Barack held a "Tribute to the Motown Performers" at The White House in Washington, District of Columbia (DC), on Thursday, February 24th. As a special legendary Motown guest of honor in the front row, Miss Martha was demanded on stage to sing on the tribute to her blockbuster hit "Dancing in The Street". President Barack personally thanked "Miss Martha Reeves"! The chief three original Motowners for the televised on Public Broadcasting System (PBS) event were Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Stevie Wonder.
2010
Vintage "V" Portrait: Lois Reeves, Martha Reeves
and Rosalind Ashford
[Portrait courtesy of Motown Record Co.]
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>>> Event: Martha Reeves
& The Vandellas return to New York City!!!
@ 8 p.m.
B.B. King's Nightclub
Times Square
237 West 42 Street
Manhattan, New York City
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>>> Event: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas in Ireland!
Thursday, July 22: Cork, Ireland - Opera House
Friday, July 23: Dublin, Ireland - Halix Theatre
2009
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: The Definitive Collection
Colorfully pictured: Rosalind Ashford, Betty Kelley and Martha Reeves
2008
>>>>> Event: New York City Holiday Rock & Soul Show
starring Felix Cavaliere & The Rascals, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
and Tommy James & The Shondells in Concert!!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 8 p.m.
Hammerstein Ballroom311 West 34 Street
btw. Eighth and Ninth Avenues
Manhattan, New York
=Tribute=
:Martha is dedicating her part of the show to "The Top of The Tops" -- the late and great Levi Stubbs!
2007
Motown Artists featuring Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Motown Sings Motown Treasures
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This truly timeless vault collection of crown jewel songs includes 3 MRV gem
versions namely "Forever", "Contract On Love" and "The Tracks Of My Tears".
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>>>>> Event: Martha Reeves Solo Concert
Joe's Famous Pub in New York City
located at the Papp Public Theater
Lafayette Street & Astor Place
Manhattan, New York
Special Gay Pride Week Performances
including "Songs of The Stonewall"
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Shows @ 10 p.m. and midnight
2006
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: GOLD
Gold Girls: Rosalind Ashford (top), Betty Kelley (left) and Martha Reeves
"Right-on" to Motown Records for timely issuing "GOLD", an expanded anthology of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. This double compact disc collection has over forty songs, including all of the MRV single-release songs on Motown's Gordy record label and a healthy sampling of their popular flipside songs. The "Songs of The STONEWALL Club Jukebox (1966 to 1969)" included in this set are the perennial favorite #1s "Heatwave" and "Dancing In The Street", which appeared, respectively, in The STONEWALL Club's jukebox, for a month or so each and every summer. The regular Stonewall Era songs digitally-remastered in these two C/D's include: "My Baby Loves Me" and "I'm Ready For Love" from 1966; "Jimmy Mack" and "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" from 1967; "Honey Chile" , "I Promise To Wait My Love" and "Forget Me Not" all from 1968; and "We've Got Honey Love" and "Taking My Love And Leaving Me" from 1969. The MRV flipside record songs include the finger-snapping, line-dancing, Gay-marriage themed "Third Finger, Left Hand (That's Where He Placed The Wedding Band)" and the fast-paced, hard-dancing "One Way Out" from 1967 and "Show Me The Way To Your Heart" and sweet-as-sugar "Forget Me Not" from 1968. All were flipside hits at The STONEWALL Club! The great "Songs of The STONEWALL Club Jukebox (1966 to 1969)", featuring many MRV songs, were compiled by Willson Lee Henderson. The collection is expanded with its hot handful sampling of post-MRV single songs of a solo Martha Reeves.
2005
Martha Reeves new single winner in 2005 on Election Day:
* "Call Me Council Woman" =b/w= "Detroit Rose" (released by City Hall Records)
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The vandalous Vandellas in 2005 (l-2-r): Lois, Martha and
Delphine Reeves
* * * * * MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS * * *
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(Lois Reeves & Delphine Reeves)
at
B.B. King's Nightclub
West 42nd Street/Times Square
Manhattan * New York * U.S.A.
Day/date/time: Monday, March 8th, 2005 @ 9 p.m.
| Special Guests: | Arlene Smith of The Chantels, original Girl Group members of The Crystals, The Exciters and The Toys, plus N.Y.C. music legend (in her own mind) Royal Jones, former M.R.V. Fan Club President Willson L. Henderson, Girl Groups promoter Thomas Ingrassia, S.M.V. Girl Groups Fan Club President Frances Baugh, N.Y.C. District Leader Eddie Baca, Eric Carter of Detroit (MRV Tour Manager), Ace Lichtenstein (MRV Manager), Dundifer Holt (MRV Assistant Manager) and officials of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association and the Imperial QUEENS & Kings of Greater New York, among many others. |
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Concert Songlist:
* "I'm Ready For Love"
* "Come And Get These Memories"
Introduction of The Vandellas: Lois & Delphine
* "Nowhere To Run"
* "Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things"
Intro of Arlene Smith of The Chantels
* "Maybe" (a cappella sample by Martha solo)
* "Jimmy Mack"
MRV 1960s Copacabana Medley:
* "The Boy From Ipanema"
* "Call Me"
* "The Look Of Love" (dedicated to Dusty Springfield)
Great Tribute to Mr. Marvin Gaye:
* "What's Going On"
Instrumental of "WGO" (MRV costume change)
Introduction of Uptown Horns Revue Band
Encore: "What's Going On"
Tribute to Mr. Jackie Wilson:
* "Higher And Higher"
* "My Baby Loves Me" (Martha's favorite MRV song)
* "Watch Your Back" (Martha Reeves solo)
* "Home To You" (Martha solo c/d title song)
Tribute to the late singer/songwriter Johnny Bristol --
Martha dedicated song to Willson Lee Henderson, Stonewall President
* "No One There" (MRV's last Motown single in 1973)
* "Dancing In The Street"
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Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Lost & Found - Spellbound (1962 - 1972)
Purple Vandellas (shown): Sandra Tilley, Martha Reeves and Lois Reeves
| A long-sought, much-anticipated collection of an overwhelming majority of never-before released gems and a handful of real rarities by Miss Martha Reeves and her vandalous Vandellas! The timeframe spans their legendary dozen golden years at Motown Records. The songlist includes: "Spellbound" (would have been a hit single), "All That Glitters Isn't Gold", "Coney Island" (as in Brooklyn), "It's Your Wedding Day", "Keep Stepping (Never Look Back)", "For Once In My Life" (the Motown standard), "Candy Man", "It Must Be Him" (a 1967 especially Gay favorite hit song by Vicki Carr), "Standing Ovation", "You Neglect Me", and the now (tsunami) ironically titled "Earthquake"! A few other M.R.V. jewels from the Motown vaults -- "Contract On Love", "Forever" and "The Tracks Of My Tears" -- which no doubt would have been included here on M.R.V.'s "Lost And Found" were rather represented on the other new 2-c/d vintage collection entitled "Motown Sings Motown Treasures". Another M.R.V. gem "(It's Easy To Fall In Love) With A Boy Like You" would also have been included; however, it found a much greener pasture as a featured song in the Will Smith blockbuster movie "Hitch!" |
2004
Martha Reeves: Home To You
Miss Martha Reeves pensively pictured "Home-2-Us"
| "The Black Rose"'s eleven songs have nine written or co-written by the singer and album producer Martha Reeves herself. The tenth song is the jazzy re-working of one of her classic Motown "Top Ten" dance songs, "Jimmy Mack", written by the legendary Holland-Dozier-Holland. So, you can say that all these years later, Martha is still looking for Jimmy at The Stonewall Club -- and a lot of other Gay clubs! Speaking of legends, the eleventh song is written by the legendary songstress Billie Holiday, who was the first to popularize the herein inspirational "God Bless The Child (Who's Got His Own)". |
Great note from Martha Reeves to Willson Henderson,
President of the STONEWALL Veterans' Association
2003
"Love, Guess Who" from Diva Reeves to the Stonewall Vetz
(Lois Reeves & Delphine Reeves)
at
B.B. King's Nightclub, NYC
West 42 Street off Times Square
New York, New York
Sunday, November 30th, 2003
@ 8 p.m.
