Motown is celebrating it's 50th anniversary today. Tons of great music to plow through over the years and many musicians and rockers have been influenced and payed homage to Motown by covering the classics...like The Rolling Stones doing The Temptations, "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", Bruce Springsteen covering Edwin Starr's "War", The Beatles and their version of Barrett Strong's "Money That's What I Want", C.C.R...with Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine.. the list is exhaustive and goes on and on.
Here's more on the celebrations which kick in today.
http://www.classic.motown.com/news.aspx?bid=32
And check out The Temptations with "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qUZHIpJAw
and The Stones with Amy Winehouse and their version of the same song.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_zPJVj-0lnQ
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