The Contours

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  • soul
  • motown
  • rhythm and blues
  • 60s
  • oldies
Billy Gordon, Billy Hoggs, Joe Billingslea and Billy Rollins founded a singing group called The Blenders in their native Detroit, Michigan in 1959. The group soon added Leroy Fair (in place of Billy Rollins), bass singer Hubert Johnson, and guitarist Huey Davis, and auditioned for Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Gordy turned the act down, prompting Johnson to call his cousin, R&B star and Gordy associate Jackie Wilson. Wilson in turn got The Contours a second audition with Gordy, at which they sang the same songs they had at the first audition, the same way, and were signed to the company.

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Songs

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    Baby Hit and Run

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    Baby Hit and Run (alternative vocal)

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    Can You Do It

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    Can You Jerk Like Me

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    Claudia

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    Come on and Be Mine

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    Creamer (Radio Is Dead)

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    Cry to Me

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    Danger, Heartbreak Dead Ahead

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    Determination

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    Do You Love

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    Do You Love Me

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    Do You Love Me (Dirty Dancing)

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    Do You Love Me (hit version)

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    Do You Love Me?

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    Do You Love Me? (1962)

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    Don't Let Her Be Your Baby

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    First I Look at the Purse

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    Funny

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    Get Ready / Higher & Higher

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    Heaven Sent

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    I Can't Help Loving You, Baby

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    I Like Everything About You

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    I'll Stand by You

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    It Must Be Love

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    It's Growing

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    It's So Hard Being a Loser

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    Jealousy Is Creeping Up on Me

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    Just a Little Misunderstanding

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    Just a Little Misunderstanding (excerpt)

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    Move Mr. Man

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    Pa (I Need a Car)

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    Searching for a Girl

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    Shake Sherrie

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    Shake Sherrie (commercial version)

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    Shake Sherrie (radio promo version)

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    Shake Sherry

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    Shop Around

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    So Grateful

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    Take Him Back If It Makes You Happy

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    That Day When She Needed Me

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    The Old Miner

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    The Stretch

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    The Tracks of My Tears

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    This Old Heart of Mine

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    What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

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    What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

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    Whole Lotta Woman

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    Whole Lotta Woman (national version)

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    Whole Lotta Woman (regional version)

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