| No one knows. PLEASE do a search on this, because it's a volatile topic that's fraught with unknowns, passionate opinions, murky documentation, vociferous arguments, and threatened legal action. Suffice to say it is way more than just a few, but there's a lot of tracks that well-meaning but ignorant people assume is James and ascribe to him.
Bob Babbit has told a story of him and James listening to a jukebox and a Motown song comes on. James says it's him on the track, but Babbit says it's HIM. Motown apparently did record different tracks for the same song and so the session guys knew they'd played on a session for a particular song for a group, but not know that another session also recorded a similar track that wound up getting used.
Anyway, it's commonly accepted that James played on MOST of the Detroit master sessions until towards the end of the Detroit work. I don't know how much he did for Motown in LA. Babbit did "Midnight Train To Georgia" by Gladys Knight & The Pips and Wilton Felder is definitely on "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5 for example. But I think it's safe to say that James did "My Girl", "Get Ready", "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", etc.
There are at least two records that are the source of much contention. "Bernadette" and "I Was Made To Love Her". Research is the key to this, so search the web.
John
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