Dancing In The Street — Martha And The Vandellas

No Words, No Song
5 min readJun 2, 2022
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“Dancing In The Street” is a Motown classic. Written by Motown songwriting royalty and performed by Martha And The Vandellas (later known as Martha Reeves And The Vandellas), for whom it would become a signature song.

The songwriters of “Dancing In The Street” were Marvin Gaye, William “Mickey” Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter.

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.