\"If you've seen the Showtime special, Hitsville: The Making Of Motown, you only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg. For certain, it would have required a multiple-episode special to showcase most if not all of the talent that passed through Motown's Detroit studios; and that would be just the 60's... Time to dig a bit deeper into the groups and hits that made (and continue to make) Motown so famous.
Featured here is the Uber Motown Classic, \"It Takes Two\" by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston. This would prove to be Kim Weston's swan song at Motown; a hit record just as she was walking away from the company with her then-husband Motown writer, producer and A&R director, William Mickey Stevenson. Stevenson felt Motown wasn't giving him the props due to him as he had been at the company in the early years and was responsible for building Motown's roster of artists. He also was the man behind the selection of the musicians who became The Funk Brothers. Stevenson wore many hats at Motown and was an essential element to its incredible and otherworldly success.
Kim Weston had been recording at Motown almost from the beginning, yet the company never could seem to get a handle on how to present her best. Listening to unreleased jazz standard Weston recorded at Motown suggest a singer who was far beyond her young, early 20's age. An alternate version of Kim's biggest Motown hit, \"Take Me In Your Arms\" also suggest that on much of her Motown recordings, she was actually holding back quite a bit on what she really could do. Kim Weston may have been almost too much talent for Motown to come to grips with- especially for a company that became a huge success with material aimed at Young America.
Kim Weston recorded many excellent songs while at Motown and here is an Ultra Motown Classic, from an album of duets with Marvin Gaye, \"It Takes Two\".
