Kim Weston sang in church choirs from the age of three, and as a teenager she became a member of the gospel choir The Wright Specials. In 1963 she signed a recording deal with the Detroit record company Tamla , and in February of that year her first single , It Should Have Been Me and Love Me All The Way, was released . With the B-side title Love Me All The Way , it immediately entered the “Hot 100” hit list of the music magazine Billbord , where it reached number 88 as the best rating. In the fall of 1964 she recorded a duet single for her Tamla colleague Marvin Gaye , the title of which was What Good Am I Without You reached 61 in the "Hot 100". At the beginning of 1965 Kim Weston moved within the Motown group to Tamla's sister company Gordy Records, where she achieved two further chart successes with Take Me In Your Arms (1965, 50th) and Helpless (1966, 56th). A second duet record with Marvin Gaye was released again on Tamla in December 1966. With the title It Takes Two , the single landed at number 14 on the “Hot 100” in early 1967 and was in the charts for twelve weeks. It Takes Two was also released in Great Britain and came in 16th place in the charts there. Also in 1967 Kim Weston married her longtime producer Mickey Stevenson, with whom she moved to Los Angeles and switched to the MGM record company . There she had her last chart listing in the USA in the spring of 1967 with I Got What You Need (99th in the “Hot 100”).
The record deal with MGM ended in 1968, after which there were only a few record releases with various small labels. Banyan Tree released another bun single, this time with Johnny Nash . After 1975 Kim Weston temporarily withdrew from the record business. After separating from Stevenson, she settled in Detroit again and worked there successfully as a radio DJ . Only when the label Nightmare was founded in 1987 on Kim Weston's initiative in Great Britain to offer former Motown artists a reactivation platform did four more singles with her appear by 1989, including the new titles Signal Your Intentions and Who's Gonna Have The Last Laugh . The former made it to number one on the UK Hi-NRG charts . In the early 1990s, the Nightmare successor label Motorcity Records released two long-playing records ( Investigate, Talking Loud ) with a few new songs.
US charts on Billboard
Started
title
Hot 100
6.7.1963
Love Me All The Way
88
October 24, 1964
What Good Am I Without You (& Marvin Gaye)
61.
October 2, 1965
Take Me In Your Arms
50.
3/12/1966
Helpless
56.
7.1.1967
It Takes Two (& Marvin Gaye)
14th
29.4.1967
I got what you need
99
US discography
Vinyl singles
From page
Catalog no.
published
Tamla
It Should Have Been Me / Love Me All the Way
54076
2/1963
Just Loving You / Another Train Coming
54085
10/1963
Looking for the Right Guy / Feel Alright Tonight
54100
8/1964
What Good Am I Without You / I Want You 'Round (& Marvin Gaye)
54104
9/1964
I'm Still Loving You / Go Ahead and Laugh
54110
1/1965
It Takes Two / It's Got to Be a Miracle (& Marvin Gaye)
54141
12/1966
Gordi
A Thrill a Moment / I'll Never See My Love Again
7041
4/1965
Take Me in Your Arms / Don't Compare Me with Her
7046
9/1965
Helpless / A Love Like Yours
7050
2/1966
MGM
I Got What You Need / Someone Like You
13720
4/1967
That's Groovy / Land of Tomorrow
13804
9/1967
Nobody / You're Just The Kind of Guy
13881
1/1968
This Is America / Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
13927
4/1968
The Impossible Dream / When Johnny Comes Marching Home
