The Contours
The Contours. Motown's gutter crew. While the Temptations were wearing matching suits and choreographing every step, the Contours were sweating through their shirts and sounding like a bar fight about to break into song. Do You Love Me hit #3 in 1962, and then -- nothing. Seventeen singles, no follow-up hit. But Dirty Dancing put it back on the charts in 1988, and suddenly the roughest band in Motown's stable was teaching a new generation how to do the twist.
Played With
MotownBerry Gordy
Essential Listening
1Do You Love Me