Talk:Heat Wave (1963 song)/Archive 1

Irrelevant details
The fact that this song has "been covered four times on American Idol, by Kimberley Locke, Jennifer Hudson, Vonzell Solomon, and Lil Rounds," could be considered informative. However, the added detail that "Lil Rounds and Vonzell Solomon were safe that week singing that song, while Kimberly Locke and Jennifer Hudson ended up in the Bottom 3," surely says nothing relevant about this song, and I propose to remove it. 84.198.246.199 (talk) 00:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Agreed.91.105.171.67 (talk) 19:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

The title of this song with brackets

 * (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave

The words "Love Is Like a" are enclosed in brackets, but according to BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.), the offical (legal Title) to this song has never used brackets and is titled as:

Love Is Like A Heat Wave

Other alternate Titles to this song on the BMI site:


 * Heat Wave
 * Love Is Like A Heatwave
 * Heatwave

Broadcast Music, Inc.

On the 45 (single) of this song by Martha And The Vandellas - both in the USA and Internationally - the song title is actually printed on the label as Heat Wave. The back cover of their LP (Heat Wave) lists the song titled also the same way for this track: "Heat Wave". I have never seen this song titled with brackets. Only on "Martha And The Vandellas Greatest Hits" LP is the song titled: Love Is Like A Heat Wave. I think the title for this article should be named as the original title: Heat Wave

Sylvester8294 (talk) 03:48, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


 * As printed on albums and singles as "Heat Wave", and with the legal title as "Love Is Like A Heatwave", a blend of the two titles into one another was made, showing emphases on the printed title, "Heat Wave", rather than the legal one, "Love Is Like A Heatwave", while retaining "Love Is Like a" for brackets (whilst lower-casing the "a" per Wikipedia standards), thus keeping the song's title intact and in its entire presented form. The parantheses surrounding "Love Is Like a" is to put emphases on the main part of the song title, "Heat Wave". Best, --Discographer (talk) 04:59, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Should be moved to "Heat Wave", as per WP:common name. Rothorpe (talk) 01:31, 11 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Or rather, since there are other songs of that name, "Heat Wave (Motown song)". Rothorpe (talk) 21:36, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm going to request a move to this title. Any objections? Rothorpe (talk) 01:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Xoloz (talk) 17:50, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Heat Wave (Motown song) → Heat Wave (Martha and the Vandellas song) – WP:NCM (specifically WP:SONGDAB) suggests that songs, when disambiguated should be done by the artist. I also note that the record label is Gordy, rather than "Motown" which is in the present title and makes it misleading for those unfamiliar with Motown/Gordy/Tamla. There are several other Heat Wave song articles. Richhoncho (talk) 22:05, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Yes, this is a more precise disambiguation for just those reasons. Rothorpe (talk) 23:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, yes, per NCM. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:16, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, even though it was a "Motown umbrella" song, it is first a Gordy Records release, not a Motown Records release. Best, --Discographer (talk) 23:23, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * (In those days we called them all Tamla anyway. Rothorpe (talk) 02:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC))


 * Support, despite the fact that it was covered later by The Supremes, this song has more in connection with one group (Martha and the Vandellas) than it does Motown itself. BrothaTimothy (talk · contribs) 19:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've put in the request. Rothorpe (talk) 02:16, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Original version
In addition to the electric piano sound, the sound of a Hammond organ is audible on the recording also, albeit very subtle in the mix. So I added that. Also, the electric piano part is (based on the date when the song was recorded) a Wurlitzer electric piano, as the Rhodes piano didn't begin production until 1965 (the song was recorded in 1963) so I'm gonna WP:BOLDLY make that change. The whole list is already unsourced, so no point in reverting these changes.--2601:153:800:8308:3813:9EF8:FA5A:C703 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

No mention of The Who version
I think The Who's version should be mentioned here.Sicmu (talk) 20:19, 13 June 2018 (UTC)