Motown classics help please

[tas]

Can anynone name the tune and artist please.....female singer. I know the tune and the following lyrics...

"how gentle is the rain that falls softly on the meadow birds high up in the tree serenade the flower with their melody"

its a 60's classics sounds like Motown.chers tas

[Birchy]

"A Lover's Concerto" and Sarah Vaughan was the singer, innit? Did a Motown artist cover it?

[Birchy]

The melody was adapted from "Minuet In G," a composition written by Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.....but that's not me. I nicked that from an article about The-Toys'-version-of-the-song website...

[tas]

Thanx Birchy...thought it was Motown maybe not....either way - i won't be able to get the tune out of my head for a week i reckon!

[littleoldme]

The version that sounds like Motown would be the version by The Toys, a hit in 1965 - it was actually on the Stateside label in the UK. I know that because my mum had a copy :-)

[mcmikeymike]

The line between 60s soul and Motown seems to be blurred.

MOTOWN is a record label which recorded some of the best soul music in the 60s / 70s.  Formed by Berry Gordy Jnr.

Some people seem to think that ALL soul from the era is Motown.  There were other great labels too, like Atlantic, Stax, Brunswick, etc

Oh, sorry, I'm going off on one.

Great song that one, The Toys - A Lovers Concerto, adapted from Bach by Linzer and Randall.

[cruthinboy]

Within the Uk, tamla Motown was a kind of "umbrella" label that released records from the various US "Motown" labels : Gordy, Tamla, Soul etc.

"Lovers' Concerto" - one of my faves - really one of the sounds of the 60s in my book.