Muzik Detention

Girl Groups have been with us since the beginning of popular music, and in my 60-plus years, just two have stood above everyone else: The Supremes and Destiny's Child.The Supremes are the greatest singing group of all time and the template for all girl groups. Movies, plays and books can be found explaining the rise and no fall Supremes — there are at least a dozen albums without Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.Destiny's Child is the greatest girl group since The Supremes but, a trio created after years of drama, and destined to be hit makers. And once they arrived they suddenly called it quits…Are these groups alike?To answer that question, press play.

The Chitlin Circuit along with The Great Migration gave especially “black people,” the ability to move away from “Sharecropping,” just another form of slavery, to chase their dreams. The 1920s were roaring, and people forgot that “what goes up must come down.” And after ten years of awesomeness, came ten years of hardship and suffering. And because of Jim Crow, black people suffered hardest. America is the Land of Opportunity!” Still, the wheels of change rolled slowly for black people. From 1870 to 1970 black people were forced to endure, and life as a black entertainer was as dangerous as it was expensive. The Chitlin Circuit wasn't just black people singing and dancing for ‘Soul Food,' the Chitlin Circuit created entrepreneurs during the height of suppression and oppression for blacks in general, while at the same time, offering black entertainers safety, security and opportunity. And I would love to tell you about it.Tonight in Muzik Detention, we will discuss and maybe debate The Chitlin Circuit, and black life during the years of Jim Crow. Open your ‘muzik' history books and press play.

The Blues is more than just American music, it is an outlet, an art form, a feeling and spoken words when the right words cannot be found. Robert Johnson wanted to the best delta blues guitarist ever and he sold his soul to make it happen. Ray Charles reshaped ‘the Blues' and made it ‘the Devil's music when he took gospel arrangements and made them worldly.The blues isn't alway sad, sometimes it's happy. The blues isn't always hopeless, it is also hopeful. And people have come from all over the world to learn this American art form. Lastly, as the world changed, so The Blues.Tonight we will talk about and maybe debate “The Blues.” Open your music history books and press play.

There is an old saying that “Money Only Makes You More,” and a great example of this are the founding members of Guns & Roses. More drugs and alcohol use, more attitude and inner band squabbling with more fights is what you got as the members of G&R grew richer. Albums: Appetite For Destruction and the Use Your Illusion I & II brought fans from everywhere, but fans often times got more than what they paid for. Getting into more confrontations with leader Axel Rose, which led to more show cancellations, more altercations, more riots and more destruction.  In 1988, Guns & Roses was labeled as The Most Dangerous Band in the World after some fans were trampled and crushed to death at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Donington England. This title was never removed. Axel Rose was a Diva in the worst way, Slash and Drummer Steven Adler had near life ending drug addictions. Most Dangerous Band was just one way to define Guns & Roses, but not only way. To learn more, press play.

From spring to fall 1981, I looked at the world through a wide angled lens. And what I saw scared me! The world wasn't just changing, it was going coo coo! I was eighteen, and a high school grad, how was I going to manage myself in it? Inflation, war, man-made disasters, serial murders and the first cases of “AIDs” Every day something bad was reported in the news, and then our “most trusted” news source left! Tonight in Muzik Detention, we will discuss both sides of 1981, and look for balance in a world filled with turmoil, and an ocean of chaos. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Slow and steady wins the race, and that is New Edition. The group of friends was created by 11-year old Bobby Brown in 1978 and since then, the friends fussed, fought got ripped off by their management and production company. They separated, had highs and lows… and somehow, they guys landed together and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. New Edition isn't the greatest vocal band, but they are the example of what could happen if you and your friends hang in there. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Good or bad, the Mafia has played a significant part in the music business. In this episode we learn about Morris Levy. Mr Morris is said to be The Godfather of the Music Business.  This episode also explain terminology like “payola,” and we also discuss Fred Bonadona, a local business man and the owner of the restaurant “Poor Freddie's”, and his fight with “the Civella's,” Kansas City's organized crime family and how Mr Bonadonna fought to keep boss Nick Civella and his friends out of The River Quay. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Singer and songwriter Jani Lane, front man of Warrant had it all, but he was unhappy. He wrote a song that went double-platinum, and it redefined him. It didn't matter what he did, he couldn't escape Cherry Pie. Or was that the problem? Years before Warrant and Cherry Pie, Mr Jani was sexually assaulted and never told anyone. He lock that horrible event away in his mind and for years the memories haunted him. He tried alcohol and at first that worked, but it slowly stopped. And Jani Lane tried consuming more to smother his pain. But his memories wouldn't go away. When Jani Lane felt he could get no lower, he shared what happened with the love of his life, but it was too late. And Mr Jani was found dead a short time later with nothing but his name on a piece of paper. His body couldn't accept another drink.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

What makes a band awesome is harmony, it is also the key to a band's longevity. But, this the ingredient that only the Eagles half way.  The members of Eagles were four multi-talented,  creative musical geniuses, but none of them could get along with the founding member Don Henley. The group created six studio albums, each did better than the last. But, success isn't enough to keep a group together. The band's manager released a greatest hits without the band's consent, and this compilation is still selling copies. In fact, Eagles 1971 to 1975 has outsold Michael's Thriller selling 38 million copies! Hotel California, equally is one of the highest selling albums in American history selling 26 million copies! And the single has sold over 3 million copies. The Eagles were riding high, but something bad was brewing inside Glenn Frey and one night at a benefit show in 1980 for a US Senator, angers flared and Mr Glenn erupted.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

What makes a band awesome is harmony, it is also the key to a band's longevity. But, this the ingredient that only the Eagles half way. The members of Eagles were four multi-talented, creative musical geniuses, but none of them could get along with the founding member Don Henley. The group created six studio albums, each did better than the last. But, success isn't enough to keep a group together. The band's manager released a greatest hits without the band's consent, and this compilation is still selling copies. In fact, Eagles 1971 to 1975 has outsold Michael's Thriller selling 38 million copies! Hotel California, equally is one of the highest selling albums in American history selling 26 million copies! And the single has sold over 3 million copies. The Eagles were riding high, but something bad was brewing inside Glenn Frey and one night at benefit show in 1980 for a US Senator, angers flared and Mr Glenn erupted. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Madonna arrived in New York City and it was all or nothing. She ate when she could, slept where she could and did whatever it took to further her brand. Getting to the top is all that mattered and Madonna used people to get what she wanted and then, she pushed them aside. Madonna has a dozen number one hit singles and over thirty top tens, she is The Queen of Pop! In 1984 in an interview with Dick Clark on American Bandstand, Madonna said that she wants to rule the world. In this class we learn the rise of a queen, and the story of how she was snubbed by her peers and passed over when a group was selected for the biggest ever created. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

It was Spring 1978, my freshman year, when I first heard of Prince and “Soft & Wet.” Prince would be a high school senior. Different schools, in fact, I don't know him. But like a big brother, Prince was there at every event in my life back then. And like a little brother, I followed everything he did. I bought every album and learned every song. Prince, above everything else, or, if nothing else, is consistent. Like him, hate him or love him, Prince released material that earned a place someone's chart. And in 1984, Prince created the ultimate soundtrack for my perfect summer. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

A Deal With The Devil, The Fall of Milli Vanilli The dream for most music artist is a Grammy. That was the last thing “Rob,” aka Rob Pilatus and “Fab” aka Fabrice Morvan wanted. Because that would expose them. “Rob & Fab” were hired for their looks. They were two literally starving artist with a dream, and one it came true. Rob & Fab were offered a deal that gave them everything that they could ever want, and it took all of it back even more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Martha Wash has the voice, but she never had the look, and she was okay with that. God gave her the gift to create amazing sound and shared almost freely. It was one day while channel surfing that Ms Martha learned that she was being exploited, and that the world was being lied to. Ms Martha was the voice behind Black Box and C+C Music Factory, and in both of groups Ms Martha was impersonated. In Black Box by Katrin Quinol and in C+C by Zelma Davis. Rapper Freedom Williams said that he could find at least ten women to sing in place of Martha Wash, but the courts didn't thinks so. Martha sued both Black Box, C+C Music Factory and the labels behind them. And Martha Wash's wins are not only a testament, her wins also changed legislation for future artists. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Singer and songwriter Jani Lane, front man of Warrant had it all, but he was unhappy. He wrote a song that went double-platinum, and it redefined him. It didn't matter what he did, he couldn't escape Cherry Pie. Or was that the problem? Years before Warrant and Cherry Pie, Mr Jani was sexually assaulted and never told anyone. He lock that horrible event away in his mind and for years the memories haunted him. He tried alcohol and at first that worked, but it slowly stopped. And Jani Lane tried consuming more to smother his pain. But his memories wouldn't go away. When Jani Lane felt he could get no lower, he shared what happened with the love of his life, but it was too late. And Mr Jani was found dead a short time later with nothing but his name on a piece of paper. His body couldn't accept another drink. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

When 20 year old Nancy Laura Spungen was found dead in her New York City Hotel bathroom, The Police looked no further than her lover John Simon Richie, a.k.a. Sid Vicious. Bass player of the Sex Pistols. Nancy had been dead maybe four hours. When her body was found. A witness said, that Sid had taken 30 sleeping pills seven or eight hours sooner. There was a knife, Actually, there were two. But the blades didn't match the wound and nether knife had any prints. Nancy Spungen's death is Punk's Whodunnit? And I would love to tell you about it. No one liked Nancy Spungen. The groupie, dealer, addict and prostitute was rude, crude and controlling. Someone beat and then stabbed her, Sid was beaten also. And their money was gone. Just like Romeo and keeping to his deal. Sid Vicious kills himself also. The police closed the case, leaving us all with an unanswered question. Who done it? Who killed Nancy Spungen? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

The Villain Behind The Runaways The Runaways were five talented teen-aged girls lured together by songwriter and promoter Kim Fowley to be rock n roll's answer to Grand Funk Railroad. Along with their dreams of fame and fortune, came repeated abuse and exploitation. Kim Fowley held all of the cards and used his power to bend the rules. The young teen women eventually walked away from their manager, with only “hate” to take with them, there was no money and no record deal. Each member started over from scratch. It has been almost fifty years since “Cherry Bomb” and the four surviving women who performed this Billboard hit not only hate the man who created them, they also hate each other. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Bernadette Cooper walked away from “Klymaxx,” the band she created in 1979, because she didn't like what the once all-girl funk band had become. A crossover “Pop” band. So Ms Bernadette walked away leaving her band to move forward without her. But there was soon a struggle with the remaining five members creating a wedge just wide enough for a villain to come in and take the band's name from Bernadette Cooper and the royalties from the writers of the band's biggest hit songs. Today, no one gets along, and “Klymaxx” isn't one band, it's three. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

An Old Fashion Radio Christmas In the old days, people gathered in their living rooms and sat around the radio. They listened to music, the news, and narrated stories that kept their attention. Tonight's class will be like that. Two classic Christmas stories made for radio and one extra created as a gift to you! Radio offers a soundtrack for your mind. Relive the night Charlie Brown learned the meaning of Christmas, when Jim and Della exchanged their greatest gift, a Solder's Blessing, and the how Clarence helped George Bailey see that he has A Wonderful Life! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Saying that you an considered an “Elitist,” you are saying that you are above everyone and maybe everything else. The members of Queen never admitted it vocally, they did that with actions and usually the result was a negative one. Getting booted from Mtv, America's largest music viewing platform. Getting blacklisted by the United Nations for playing venues currently boycotted by most of the world. Queen did both these in elite form. Still, Queen is “The World's Greatest Arena Band,” and they show the world who they are at the biggest charity concert during the 1980s. Reaganomics, Apartheid, and quick disastrous endings of the two biggest rappers of the 80s era. And the death of Freddie Mercury. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Queen is one of greatest rock bands of all time, but not in the United States. This band cranked out hit after hit and millions of albums around the world. Still, many Americans do not know them. Likewise, many Americans , especially young Americans do not know, and/or cannot explain the actions that molded and shaped our American history. Race Equality, ending Vietnam, Watergate, and Women's Rights are examples of what people fought for. The seventies opened the doors to much of life as we know it. And Queen was there. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

The 1980s were a different animal for Kiss. Their decade began plagued with bad music, in house troubles, and Rock & Roll not returning to what it was before disco.Peter Criss and Ace Frehley walked away leaving Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons to pick up the pieces and start new.Paul had an idea and talked Gene into taking a chance. They took off the face paint on MTV, and in a genre filled with very capable new players, Kiss worked to reestablished themselves as a formidable rock band. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Please, Please Me…This was the first album by The Beatles. The album was a mixture of mostly cover songs and originals released in 1964. I mostly give the history of the covers. You might be surprised when you learn the origins of over half of this album. My favorite song was “Twist & Shout,” when I was 4 years old, and man was I surprised when I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and learned that John, Paul, George and Ringo weren't black! For this to make sense please press the ‘play' button. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Robert Johnson was terrible! People thought so, and he wanted to change that and quickly! So he traveled to northern Mississippi from Hazlehurst where he was told he could make strike a deal from the low-low price of his soul to become the greatest there was at the time. I believe that Elvis Presley did the same thing.Why?Because he and Robert Johnson died on the same date. Lastly, Bob Dylan admitted in an interview with Ed Bradley that he made a deal to get where he is with the Chief Commander of The World, and the one that we cannot see. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Long before Michael, Whitney & Prince there was Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Frankie Lymon. These were the first black entertainers to cross over the color barrier onto the whiter side of the Billboard Pop Charts. Sadly, each of these men met wrong doing and lost their lives. One is still a mystery. This story has a hooker, a hotel manager and an unarmed naked man who was shot several times, the mysterious part is that no one prosecuted for the obvious murder. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

It takes two to make a thing right, and in this episode we talk about the actions that led to the endings of three award-winning couples. Cher wanted to matter, Tammy wanted to love her man, I believe that only wanted more time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

The Music Business & The Mob!Good or bad, the Mafia has played a significant part in the music business. In this episode we learn about Morris Levy. Mr Morris is said to be The Godfather of the Music Business. This episode also explain terminology like “payola,” and we also discuss Fred Bonadona, a local business man and the owner of the restaurant “Poor Freddie's”, and his fight with “the Civella's,” Kansas City's organized crime family and how Mr Bonadonna fought to keep boss Nick Civella and his friends out of The River Quay. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

I nominated four songwriters as the best there is! One wrote songs for the King! One has song that have been re-recorded by over a thousand students singers. The next gets a bunch of boo's. And lastly, the number one spot is for the songwriter who wrote the most recognize song in US history. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Amy was a rider on a roller coaster ride named Blake Fielder-Civil. When she finally got off the ride, she was a drunk and a junkie.Jim Morrison was the receiver of more than he wanted. And that life killed him. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Kurt Cobain lost his happiness at seven years old and never found it. After 20 years he gave up looking for it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

We were all led to believe a lie. Jimi Hendrix didn't die from an overdose of heroin. In fact, he never used heroin. Jimi's death was murder. Moreover his death was an execution. The circumstances of Jimi Hendrix's death are a mystery, and what's funny (but not funny ha ha) is, everyone who could explain Jimi Hendrix's death also died mysteriously. To learn who's who, tap the play button. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Janis Joplin believed 2 two things.1 Southern Comfort made a perfect companion. 2 Creativity was not possible when sober. Ms Janis wanted to show the world what she had. She got her chance and she brought down the house. Janis Joplin was an accident, the question is, who's to blame? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

A story where nearly everyone dies. The heroin that killed Janis Joplin also killed eight other people. The dude who sold it later supplied a lethal dose to The Doors lead man Jim Morrison, and the wife of the tycoon of Getty Oil. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

The Mafia Family That Wasn't My mother used to say that “you cannot stand in the rain and not get wet.” And older brothers O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald could not spend years around organized crime and not learn to act like gangsters. It took help from the mob to get out of their Motown contract. Groups with value did not simply walk away from labels “Scott Free.” Just saying… Mr Barry owed his success to a mob associate. The brothers were a family so they misused each other. The older brothers stole royalties from their younger brothers and withheld money and assets. Jimi Hendrix was once a member of the band, he left. Little brothers Ernie, Marvin and Chris finally grew tired of their mistreatment so in the early 1980s they left, and the world saw O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald for what they weren't, and that was hitmakers. The Isley Brothers are America's oldest working band. But they are not what you think. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

The Thing” is, relevance is the key to longevity and Ronald Isley worked tirelessly to keep The Isley Brothers name in the airwaves. In this episode, I explain what I call “The Thing,” and what happens when you lose it. Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé is my best examples of The Thing. Ronald Isley was not The Thing, he lost it in the 1983, and he has struggled ever since. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message

Where attention goes, energy flows! And when Stanley Eisen and Gene Klein formed “Kiss,” they created “the band that they wanted to see.” But, not “the band capable of creating a #1 hit song.” And when they got close in 1979, they killed Disco. And records burned!  The Sugar Hill Gang, with support from mob associate Morris Levy, steal Chic's music and take Rap mainstream.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strickland-media-group-in/message