Album: Dance Party (1965)

Charted: 26 8

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• Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
  Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
  It's not love, I'm a running from,
  It's the heartbreak I know will come.
  'Cause I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me.
  Ev'rywhere I go, your face I see, ev'ry step I take, you take with me yeah
  
  Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide
  Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
  I know you're not good for me, but free of you I'll never be, no.
  Each night as I sleep, into my heart you creep.
  I wake up feelin' sorry I met you, hoping soon that I'll forget you.
  When I look in the mirror to comb my hair
  I see your face just a smiling there.
  
  Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby,
  Got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
  I know you're no good for me, but you've become a part of me,
  How can I fight a lover, that shouldn't be, when it's so deep,
  So deep, deep inside of me
  My love reaches so high I can't get over it
  It's so wide I can't get around it, no
  Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you baby
  Just can't get away from you baby, no matter how I try to
  
  I know you're no good for me, but free of you I'll never be,
  Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide, got nowhere to run to baby. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Jennifur Sun from Ramonathis is the line up for the Funks who played on this tune: Benny B.-drums , James-bass, Early Van Dyke-electic piano, Jack Ashford-percussion, vibes, tamborine, Ivy Joe Hunter-percussion, snow chains, Robert White-guitar, Eddie Willis-guitar
• Jennifur Sun from RamonaMartha's voice could realllly keep up with the Brothers. They sounded sooo good together.
  
• Jennifur Sun from RamonaIf you were a fan of Magnum PI this song was in one of the episodes. My second fav Vandellas tune and one of my fav Funk Brothers tunes (for lack of a better word) they just KILL ON THIS SONG.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 7th 1965, Martha and the Vandellas performed "Nowhere to Run" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
  At the time the song was in its first of two weeks at #8 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that was also its peak position on the chart {See next post below}...
  R.I.P. Jimmy O'Neill {Shindig's host, 1940 -2013}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 21st 1965, "Nowhere to Run" by Martha and the Vandellas entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #73; and six weeks later on April 4th, 1965 it peaked at #8 {for 2 weeks} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #5 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  Between 1963 and 1971 the group had twenty-three* songs make the Top 100; six made the Top 10 with "Dancing in the Street" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} in 1964, the two weeks it was at #2 the #1 record for both those weeks was "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann...
  * With their last eight records to make the Top 100 the group was known as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
• Elmer H from Westville, OkYeoww! That drum intro on "Nowhere To Run" really is tough & cool. Mercy - those snow chains really added some "attitude" to this hit. I'll always love it. Great to dance to. Later that year when I began college, I found it on nearly every jukebox on campus & off campus. It was originally on their "Dance Party" album which my brother bought in '65 & as I recall, the album had some really cool dance songs on it. I can even remember that back in high school one friend always liked to say that if ya didn't get up & dance to this song - you're probably dead.
• Buddah from New York, NyI think this is probably the best meshing of Martha, H-D-H and the funk brothers. Gospel rooted, extremely funky, extremely sexy. Singular.
• John from Nashville, TnThis song was a centerpiece in the classic 1978 cult film THE WARRIORS.
• Kristin from Bessemer, AlMartha and the Vandellas presented this song on a CBS special entitled "It's What's Happening, Baby" on June 28, 1965 - In what could be called the early form of the music video, they were shown singing the song at a Ford Automobile Plant, dancing and bouncing to the song while a 1965 Ford Mustang was being built around them.
• Kristin from Bessemer, AlLOVE THAT ROUSING DRUM INTRO! and the snow chains "whipping" throughout the tune - magnificient!
• Tanya from La Verne, CaA classic love obsession song! Who doesn't this song?

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