One of your favorite bands, and you never even knew it

If you have some time to watch a documentary featuring some of the best music ever written, watch Standing In The Shadows of Motown. 

It is about The Funk Brothers. They played on the following number one hits (thanks, wikipedia) :

• "Please Mr Postman" The Marvelettes
• "Fingertips Pt. 2" Little Stevie Wonder
• "My Guy" Mary Wells
• "Where Did Our Love Go" The Supremes
• "Baby Love" The Supremes
• "Come See About Me" The Supremes
• "My Girl" The Temptations
• "Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes
• "Back in My Arms Again" The Supremes
• "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" The Four Tops
• "I Hear a Symphony" The Supremes
• "You Can't Hurry Love" The Supremes
• "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops
• "You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes
• "The Happening" The Supremes

• "Love Child" Diana Ross and the Supremes
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
• "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
• "Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross and the Supremes
• "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Diana Ross
• "The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
• "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" The Temptations
• "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The Temptations
• "Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross
• "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Night and the Pips
• "Keep on Truckin' (Part 1)" Eddie Kendricks
• "Just a Little Misunderstanding"
• "Shop Around"
• "Shotgun"
• "How Sweet it Is"
• "The One who Really Loves You"
• "The Way you Do the Things you Do" The Temptations
• "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
• "Road Runner"
• "Ain't too Proud to Beg" The Temptations
• "I Wish it would Rain" The Temptations
• "Heat Wave"
• "Hitch Hike"
• "What's so Good about Goodbye"
• "I Was Made to Love Her"
• "It's the Same Old Song" Four Tops
• "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
• "Standing in the Shadows of Love" Four Tops
• "If I Were your Woman"
• "Going to a Go-Go"
• "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
• "Dancing in the Street" Martha & The Vandellas
• "Mercy Mercy Me" Marvin Gaye
• "Cloud Nine" The Temptations
• "What's Goin' On" Marvin Gaye
• "Do You Love Me"
• "Get Ready"
• "Function at the Junction"
• "My Arms are Empty Without You"
• "The Tracks of my Tears"
• "Can I Get a Witness"
• "Nowhere To Run"
• "Here Comes The Judge"
• "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours"
• "Beachwood 4-5789" The Marvelettes
• "Bernadette" Four Tops
• "Two Lovers"
• "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"
• "My Cherie Amour"
• "I Second That Emotion"
• "Losing You"
• "First I Look at the Purse"
• "Ooo Baby Baby"
• "I'll Be Doggone"
• "Pride and Joy"
• "Ball of Confusion"
• "It Takes Two"
• "This Old Heart Of Mine"
• "Uptight"
• "Devil With a Blue Dress"
• "Jimmy Mack"
• "Since I Lost My Baby" The Temptations
• "War"
• "Stubborn Kind Of Fellow"
• "Don't Mess With Bill" The Marvelettes
• "You Beat Me to the Punch"
• "Shake Me, Wake Me" The Four Tops
• "Mickey's Monkey"
• "Ain't That Peculiar"
• "Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day"

Doesn't reading that list make you want to go search for and listen to every single song on it? Me, too. It blew my mind that I had never heard of The Funk Brothers. Lucky for me, some handsome guy insisted I watch the documentary with him. 

Here's a link to Joan Osborne singing with them.