Motown and the Beach Party Films

Muscle Beach Party was the first in a series of low budget beach party films. It featured Little Stevie Wonder playing one of the few songs not written by surf and car writers, Happy Street. The wrecking through did play on a lot of Motown records, but with a handful of exceptions they were quickie knockoff album tracks made to tie in with film or TV work. Carol K claims to have played on almost all the classic Motown hits that James Jamison of the Funk Brothers played on - this despite evidence including no to rise statements from everyone involved in the records.