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Studio album by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Released September 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Soul
Length mm:ss
Label Gordy
G 952
Producer Henry Cosby; Clarence Paul
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas chronology
Sugar 'N' Spice
(1969)		Natural Resources
(1970)		Black Magic
(1972)
This article is about the album. For other uses, see Natural resource.
Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy (Motown) label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who". The album marked a return from lead singer Martha Reeves, recovering from a time in a mental institution after an addiction to painkillers nearly wrecked her (though it still took her until 1977 to beat her addiction). This was the next-to-last album for the Vandellas, whose success had peaked in the late-1960s.

Track listing

  1. "Something"
  2. "Easily Persuaded"
  3. "Didn't We"
  4. "I'm In Love (And I Know It)"
  5. "Love, Guess Who"
  6. "Everybody's Talkin'"
  7. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
  8. "The Hurt Is Over (Since I Found You)"
  9. "Take a Look Around"
  10. "Won't It Be So Wonderful?"
  11. "I Should Be Proud"

Credits

A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist.

It usually does not contain live recordings or remixes, and if it does, those tracks do not make up a majority of the album and are often called "bonus tracks".
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Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were one of the most successful groups in the Motown roster during the 1960s and was one of the label's most signature acts.
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A music genre is a term that describes the process of dividing popular music into categories. Some treat the terms genre and style as the same, and state that genre should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language.
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Soul Music is the sixteenth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, first published in 1994. Like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Disc, in this case Rock and Roll
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In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. In everyday usage, a record label is also a company that manages such brands and trademarks; coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution,
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Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor City", hence mo(tor)town), from where it achieved widespread international success.
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In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering
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Clarence Paul was a songwriter and record producer for Detroit's Motown label. Born Clarence Pauling, he was the brother of legendary "5" Royales guitarist Lowman Pauling. Their father was a coal miner in Bluefield, West Virginia, where the brothers listened to country music on the
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Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were one of the most successful groups in the Motown roster during the 1960s and was one of the label's most signature acts.
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"Sugar 'N' Spice" is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas on the Gordy (Motown) label in 1969. The album was released during a troubling and downward time for the lead singer, Martha Reeves, who was now heavily addicted to painkillers.
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Black Magic is a soul album released by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on the Gordy (Motown) label in 1972. It is the last studio album issued by the group after ten years with the label.
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Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A natural resource's value rests in the amount of the material available and the demand for it. The latter is determined by its usefulness to production.
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The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. In these traditions the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living being, and to be the true basis for sapience.
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Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor City", hence mo(tor)town), from where it achieved widespread international success.
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Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were one of the most successful groups in the Motown roster during the 1960s and was one of the label's most signature acts.
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Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor City", hence mo(tor)town), from where it achieved widespread international success.
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Total dead: ~314,000
Total wounded: ~1,490,000 North Vietnam and NLF
dead and missing: ~1,100,000 [1] [2] [3] [4]
wounded: ~600,000+ [5]
People's Republic of China
dead: 1,446
wounded: 4,200

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"I Should Be Proud" is a 1970 protest song written by Henry Cosby, Pam Sawyer and Joe Hinton and recorded by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Though not a big hit (peaking at #80 pop and #45 R&B), the song was noted for being the first released Motown protest song
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Martha Rose Reeves (born July 18, 1941) is an African-American Grammy Award winning R&B and soul singer and was the lead singer of the legendary Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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An analgesic (colloquially known as a painkiller) is any member of the diverse group of drugs used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia). The word analgesic derives from Greek an- ("without") and -algia ("pain").
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"I Should Be Proud" is a 1970 protest song written by Henry Cosby, Pam Sawyer and Joe Hinton and recorded by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Though not a big hit (peaking at #80 pop and #45 R&B), the song was noted for being the first released Motown protest song
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Martha Rose Reeves (born July 18, 1941) is an African-American Grammy Award winning R&B and soul singer and was the lead singer of the legendary Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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Sandra Delores Reeves (born April 12, 1948), better known as Lois Reeves, is an American singer, most notable for being the youngest sister of Motown legend Martha Reeves, for having replaced popular Martha and the Vandellas member Betty Kelly as member of her sister's group
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Sandra Tilley (May 6, 1946 - September 9, 1981) was an American R&B and soul singer, most known for being the member of legendary Motown girl groups The Velvelettes and Martha and the Vandellas. She was also a brief member in the soul group called The Orlons.
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The Andantes were a prolific female session singing group for the Motown record label during the 1960s. Comprised of Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps, the group sang background vocals on over ten thousand Motown recordings, including songs by Martha Reeves & the
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The Funk Brothers was the nickname given to a group of Detroit, Michigan session musicians who performed on the backing tracks to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles.
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