Podcast appearances and mentions of Joe Messina

CNN is shocked to report that the MAGA movement has doubled in size. That’s because Americans are sick and tired of the woke policies of the left.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The anti-Tesla terrorists who are staging protests outside dealerships represent a clear and present danger to the nation. Dealerships have been firebombed, riddled with bullets, and vandalized. Tesla owners have had their personal information made public. This is unacceptable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A teacher in Texas is under investigation after he urged ICE to pay a visit to the local high school. He says most of his students can’t even speak English.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tens of thousands of people have evacuated as a raging wildfire burns across Los Angeles - and it could have all been prevented. Turns out the fire chief is a DEI hire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One thing is very clear — Mike Johnson is not a MAGA speaker. But he does respond to pressure from President Trump. So, that’s a good thing. Do you have confidence that Johnson will advance the Trump agenda?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we go to Alberta, Canada to speak to top territory manager Joe Messina who works for ⁠Noble Equipment⁠: https://www.nobleequipment.ca/. Joe typifies what a great territory manager looks like: disciplined, self-motivated, driven and focussed. Listen to how he plans his weeks, manages his time, segments his customer base and bounces back from knock backs or rejections. If you're a machinery sales rep – or any rural sales rep for that matter – you can learn a lot from the likes of Joe. Enjoy this one. To connect with Joe do it here ⁠LinkedIn⁠: www.linkedin.com/in/joe-messina-963055191/ +++ Want to make more rural sales? Get your FREE copy of “How To Succeed In Rural Sales” Ebook here: www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/ebook Connect with or Follow me on LinkedIn: nz.linkedin.com/in/stjohncraner Subscribe to my weekly rural sales email (which goes out to 3500+ rural sales professionals worldwide) here: bit.ly/3voaPS7 To join our private Facebook Group where we share a ton of free rural sales and lead generation tools almost daily join here: www.facebook.com/groups/285326399207141/ For details on our training programmes you can check out what we do for sales teams with our Rural Sales Success™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) or for managers with our Rural Sales Manager Mastery™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) For more on us, what we do and who we work with: www.ruralsalessuccess.com / www.agrarian.co.nz

Hundreds if not thousands of educators around the nation are dealing with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Teachers are threatening Trump supporters and targeting students.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a riveting conversation with the enlightened Joe Messina. Join us as we peel back the layers of leadership, exploring the intertwined roles of authenticity and humility. With Joe's fresh perspective, you'll get to understand the leader as a constant learner, someone always on the quest to understand the broader scheme of things. We simplify the complex, reduce friction, and make things effortless - all in the name of leadership.Have you ever considered the impact of humility in the workplace? We did, alongside Joe. Leadership isn't about ego—it's about service, and humility plays a significant role in serving others well. But it isn't just about the leaders; we also discuss the importance of a people-centered organization. A place that promotes skill development, encourages a healthier work-life balance, and cultivates joy. But what's a leader without a coach? Joe Messina sheds some much-needed light on this crucial aspect of leadership. Discover the power in understanding each team member's skills, weaknesses, and strengths. Find out how these attributes inspire trust, and ultimately, translate to success. So, are you ready to redefine your concept of leadership? Tune in and let's start the journey together.

When trying to put together a Deeper Roots episode that covered the great session masters from the past one hundred years it became exceedingly clear that the show would need to be broken up into multiple parts. Percussion, keyboards, brass, bass and all the rest will follow but this week we're going to focus on the string masters; those guitar stars who account for the bulk of Top 30 hits that graced our lives over the second half of the 20th century. They include Hank Garland, Grady Martin, James Burton, Joe Messina, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Johnson and, of course, Tommy Tedesco. There are many others who deserve the recognition but our show is only a two hour show and, even at that, picking only three or four examples per performer doesn't do it justice. We're going to give credit where it's due…those who stood in the shadows.

I'm calling it now - Republicans are going to win in huge numbers on Election Day. What say you? Gov. Scott Walker, Kris Kobach, Mary Walter & Joe Messina join the conversation!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An entire girls volleyball team is being forced to change in a single-stall bathroom, while their transgender teammate is given exclusive access to their locker room. Matt Sharp, Ray Richardson, Scott Perry, and Joe Messina join the conversation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's UP everyone? On today's episode, we have an inspiring conversation with conservative powerhouse Joe Messina. He is the host of The Joe Messina Show where he can be heard on 50+ radio stations, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. He has sat on the school board for Santa Clarita governing board for 14 years. Listen in as Joe shares some of the horror stories he's dealt with regarding parental concerns about the direction the school board and teachers have taken over the years, changes he's working to make within the education system, his thoughts on CV19, and the role of parents in these areas. Joe Messina Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJoeMessinaShow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joemessinashow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeMessina/ Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/4q7Ka18uvSc0ASow8bj9Gm?si=_obGZiRDTLKrAteD_nA5jQ&nd=1 Website: https://therealside.com/ Links for The Unity Project: The Unity Project is a 501c3 non-profit organization that relies on the contributions of our generous supporters to fuel the work we do in this movement. If you value our efforts, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution today by visiting our website at www.theunityproject.org and clicking the “donate” button. Follow us on social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theunityprojectonline/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theunityprojectonline Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnityProjectUSA Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/theunityproject Truth: https://truthsocial.com/@theunityprojectonline Telegram: UnityProjectUSA Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1310104 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunityprojectusa Substack: https://theunityproject.substack.com

On this week's episode we turn the clock waaaaaaaaay back. 1. €œA Trip to Jurassic World €˜22€ by Chris Wolvie 2. €œIf My Uterus Were a Gun€ by Lauren Mayer 3. News of the Stupid 4. €œWe Can Afford It€ by Joe Messina Chris Wolvie is at wolvieprods.com, Lauren Mayer is at YouTube.com/psychosupermom, and Joe Messina is at joemessina.bandcamp.com. Thank you to our Patreon backers for helping make this show possible!!!

Dinesh D'Souza political commentator, author, filmmaker. Dinesh has written over a dozen books, several of them New York Times best-sellers. In 2012, D'Souza released the documentary film 2016: Obama's America, ; it earned $33 million, making it the highest-grossing conservative documentary of all time and one of the highest-grossing documentaries of any kind. He has since released five other documentary films: America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014), Hillary's America (2016), Death of a Nation (2018), Trump Card (2020) and his latest is 2000 Mules. TOPIC: 2000 Mules.. Joe Messina is the host of "The Joe Messina Show" which can be heard on over 61 stations across the country and several Digital Video Outlets as well as the AUN-TV Network. Joe's daily rants are strong and direct and deals with todays topics and issues with the experts. Joe has been seen on CNN / RT / NEWSMAX and many other news outlets. Joe is an author, columnist and speaker, his book "Ramblings of a Right Wing, Bible Thumping, White Guy!" is one of Rick Traders favorites!!... When Joe is not busy on the airwaves, he is a School Board Trustee / Member at William S Hart High School District for the last 12 years!! TOPIC: 2000 Mules.. A MOVIE REVIEW..

Zac Smith and Joe Messina join the show to talk about their experiences in the ACHA as well as what lead them to starting their own brand together, Second String Leather.Zac has served as a goalie coach at Hope College, while Joe has spent most of his coaching career as goalie coach for Davenport.

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This week's show pays tribute to original Funk Brother, Joe Messina, and features the forthcoming Doctor Bird CD - Super Bad.

Joe Michaels joins the show to talk about the RiverCats Opening Night and chats with RoverCats President Chip Macon! Toger Woods is back, Happy Birthday to Peter Grant, remembering Kurt Cobain on the 28th Anniversary of his passing (April 5, 1994), memories of Courtney Love's father Hank Harrison in studio, Rest in Peace to Bobby Rydell and Joe Messina...

Joe Messina is the host of "The Joe Messina Show" which can be heard on over 61 stations across the country and several Digital Video Outlets as well as the AUN-TV Network. Joe's daily rants are strong and direct and deals with todays topics and issues with the experts. Joe has been seen on CNN / RT / NEWSMAX and many other news outlets. Joe is an author, columnist and speaker, his book "Ramblings of a Right Wing, Bible Thumping, White Guy!" is one of Rick Traders favorites!!... When Joe is not busy on the airwaves, he is a School Board Trustee / Member at William S Hart High School District for the last 12 years!! TOPIC: CALIFORNIA'S CRAZY NEW LAWS!! Clare M. Lopez is the founder and president of Lopez Liberty LLC. She was a career operations officer with the CIA and publishes widely as a strategic policy and intelligence expert. Clare is also a Senor. Advisory Board Member Near East Center for Strategic Engagement. TOPIC: It's Not NATO Putin Fears, It's Western-Style Nationalism!!

The History of Rock N Roll Part X - Soundtrack of the Century: 20 Feet from Stardom/Standing in the Shadows of Motown/Muscle Shoals On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I continue our exploration of The World of Rock N Roll with a look at the foundation of any song . . . the bands and the background singers that give every song structure, power, and drive. This week we look at Morgan Neville's 20 Feet From Stardom (2019) - profiling Tata Vega, Judith Hill, Jo Lawry, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, and the great Darlene Love - Paul Justman's Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) - profiling the great Motown backing band The Funk Brothers. composed of: Jack Ashford (percussion), Bob Babbitt (bass), Uriel Jones (drums), Joe Hunter (keyboards), Joe Messina (guitar), Richard "Pistol" Allen (drums), Benny "Papa Zita" Benjamin (drums), Eddie "Bongo" Brown (percussion), Johnny Griffith (keyboards), Earl Van Dyke (keyboards), and Robert White (guitar). Finally, we close out the show with an incredible film showcasing The Birth of the Deep South Soul & Rock N Roll Sound birthed by the great Alabama Producer Rick Hall and FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama . . . I'm talking about Greg "Freddy" Camalier's Muscle Shoals (2013). An incredible film that showcases the legacy of Hall and the Swampers including: Barry Beckett (keyboards), Roger Hawkins (drums), David Hood (bass), Jimmy Johnson (guitar), Chips Moman (guitar), Junior Lowe (guitar), Dan Penn, Tommy Cogbill, Pete Carr (guitar), and Spooner Oldham (organ and piano). This is a fun episode that will - hopefully - introduce three great films and a host of music that you owe it to yourself to embrace. Take a listen and let us know what you think. Questions, Comments, Complaints, & Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com. Many Thanks. 

Virginia (Ginny) Gentles is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, and a long-time school choice advocate and former state and federal education policy leader. As founder of School Choice Solutions. Sshe helps organizations with policy analysis and development, school choice program administration, stakeholder management, parent organizing, bureaucratic navigation, and event planning. After serving in education bureaucracies in Ontario, Florida and Washington, DC, Gentles transitioned to independent consulting. She spends a fair bit of time on Capitol Hill, informing Members of Congress and their staff about state school choice programs and federal policy options. Ginny served as a senior political appointee in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement under President George W. Bush. TOPIC: Putting Parents In Control Of Their Children's Education!! Joe Messina is the host of "The Joe Messina Show" which can be heard on over 61 stations across the country and several Digital Video Outlets as well as the AUN-TV Network. Joe's daily rants are strong and direct and deals with todays topics and issues with the experts. Joe has been seen on CNN / RT / NEWSMAX and many other news outlets. Joe is an author, columnist and speaker, his book "Ramblings of a Right Wing, Bible Thumping, White Guy!" is one of Rick Traders favorites!!... When Joe is not busy on the airwaves, he is a School Board Trustee / Member at William S Hart High School District for the last 12 years!! TOPIC: Why I am a school board member!!

Joe Messina is the host of The Joe Messina Show, which is broadcast in 42 states, 38 countries and on the Internet. He began his radio career after being asked to fill in for a host who cancelled on short notice. Joe grabbed a Democrat and Republican and stirred it up! Joe is a no-nonsense, conservative realist. He is interested in hearing both sides and has no problem taking on taboo subjects with REAL questions looking for REAL answers. Race, religion, racism, and politics are all open season on his show. TOPIC: Newsom recall, What Happened, Whats Next!! Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan's request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.TOPIC: Dems Propose $3 Trillion Tax Hike on Working Families!! David Horowitz is founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of many books and pamphlets published over the last twenty years. Through his work at the Freedom Center, Horowitz has fought many important political battles including exposing the deadly intentions of adherents to radical Islam and their stealth jihad in America, challenging left-wing indoctrination in our nation's K-12 public schools and universities, and advocating for colleges to withdraw funds from terrorist-affiliated campus organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. David Horowitz is the author of The Enemy Within: How A Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America, and the forthcoming (October 5th) I Can't Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America. TOPIC: The Treason Party!!

The RSB Show 7-6-21 - Compulsory jabs, Vax injury, Experts censored, Cellphone radiation, Tracey Stroup, Nutritional Frontiers, CBD

On this week's show, it's a Black History Month homage to three of the most important record labels in the history of soul music, in the history of pop music, and in the history of music in general. All this & much, much less!

Thank You! A lot of amazing people and places made the Full Belly Laughs Podcast possible, and also just made Brian Durkin a better comedian and person. Thank You, Creators Rob Zawatski, Dena Miranda, and Steve from Bridgeset Sound really helped shape the show you heard every week. Steve helped equip Brian with his current podcast gear, to make the show sound great. Dena Miranda laid down the vocals for the opening theme, and Rob helped produce and record that theme. Rob also encouraged Brian to check out podcasting, and without that nudge, none of this stuff would have happened. Thank you to Steve, Dena, and Rob. Thank You, Guests So many guests over the years made the Full Belly Laughs Podcast something special, but a few people really made the show awesome. Thank you to Megan Goetz, Ben Farrell, Joe Messina, Max Barth, Christian Mangual, and Greg Trout for their contributions to the podcast. These reoccurring guests helped shape the tone of the show, and these people really helped out Brian when another guest would cancel. They were always excited to do the podcast, and Brian is so grateful for their talent and time. Thank you to Meg, Ben, Joe, Max, Christian, and Greg. Thank You, Entities There are two venues/events that really allowed the FBL Podcast and Brian to grow. Than you to the Philly Improv Theater and the Philadelphia Podcast Festival. Without the experience of performing live at these theaters and events, the show would not be as good; Brian also grew faster as a comedian and performer thanks to these opportunities. Thank you, PHIT and PPF. Thank You, Friends and Fam There are a few people close to Brian that really supported the podcast. Special thank you to Alex Colic and Richard Chin for being supportive friends. They helped build up engagement on social media, attended live shows, and even guested on the podcast. Special thank you to Hugh Durkin (Brian's dad). He's been a big supporter of Brian's creative endeavors, and it means a lot. Finally, the closing thank you goes to Lauren Daniels. She is the #1 fan of Full Belly Laughs, inspiring Brian to always make the show entertaining. She has also encouraged Brian on his development, and she continues to be a beacon of light for his spiritual and personal growth. Thank you Alex and Rich. Thank you, Dad. Thank you, Lauren. Thank You, Fans It means so much that you took the time to check out and listen to the Full Belly Laughs Podcast. Hopefully you will enjoy the YouTube videos and the live stream on Twitch. Brian looks forward to seeing you in the comments and live chat. Brian Durkin is on Twitter and Instagram. Full Belly Laughs is on Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Merch available at gachiGASM.com. Watch the podcast live on Twitch. Support the podcast with a one-time or recurring donation.

This week on the Play Inspired Podcast we hang out with Joe Messina. Joe is the host of the activist centered podcast Radicalize Me. Joe shares with us what he has learned in his journey and how we can all contribute and continue educating ourselves towards a better future for the next generation. Connect with Joe: radicalizeme@gmail.com https://www.radicalizemepod.com/ Follow The Play Inspired Podcast On Instagram: https://instagram.com/judithvvergara

Alex returns to the studio, and the guys have another set of long conversations. Second String Leather Company founders Joe Messina and Zac Smith join the show to talk about their story and new products coming up (2:25). The guys go over the College Hockey Scoreboard, followed up by news and notes (32:35). The guys then go into how the coronavirus could possibly send the NHL into another lockout (1:34:10), before discussing which NHL arenas need to be revamped for replaced (1:57:50). Music: "Mondays" by Onlap Second String Leather Company: secondstringleather.com MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-kuehl-show

Paul & Chris sit down with Joe Messina of Radicalize Me to discuss the 2020 election results breakdown. Did the Democrat mission of winning over moderates and centrist Republicans work, or did they only succeed in shredding their own base? Listen to Radicalize Me on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radicalize-me/id1514536715

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Guest: Joe Messina, Host of Radicalized, A podcast about Politics and more. We talk about current events. Surface Politics, protests, spirituality and voting, and more. Joe is a comedian, Music Teacher and he shares his opinion, an authentic talk.Words of Joe:Elections alone don't change the world. Join host Joe Messina and go beyond the headlines as we talk to the brave activists and organizers on the ground, and learn what steps the rest of us can take to get involved and affect real change. podcast can be found here: https://anchor.fm/radicalizeme music can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/joemessinamusic

Gregory Joseph is a comedian and activist currently serving as Communications Director for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and a leading advocate for the Save Our Stages Act. https://www.saveourstages.com/http://www.ncadp.org/Twitter: @whoisfrogjoseph @ncadp @nivassocInstagram: @whoisfrogjoseph @ncadp_ @nivassocTheme song and "We Can Afford It (The Single Payer Song)" by Joe Messina https://soundcloud.com/joemessinamusic--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radicalizeme/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radicalizeme/supportSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/radicalizeme)

Through his own podcast, Radicalize Me, as well as his history working on political campaigns and writing political comedy, Joe has gained insights about politics beyond Democrats vs. Republicans and the cable news nightmare. Joe also has an extensive musical and comedy background.

Noted radio show host Joe Messina joined us for a convention review. The RNC appears to have hit a home run, while the DNC fouled out. The RNC cast America in a positive light, where as the DNC was a scene out of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Is it time to start shooting violent looters and rioters? White Antifa and BLM rioters are burning down black businesses. Makes sense right? Did you say there’s rioting going on? I’m shocked. 

Noted radio show host Joe Messina joined us for a convention review. The RNC appears to have hit a home run, while the DNC fouled out. The RNC cast America in a positive light, where as the DNC was a scene out of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Is it time to start shooting violent looters and rioters? White Antifa and BLM rioters are burning down black businesses. Makes sense right? Did you say there’s rioting going on? I’m shocked. 

Dan and Garrett are joined by Joe Messina, host of Radicalize Me, to discuss James McTeigue's V FOR VENDETTA. Listen to Joe's new album RAGEONOMICS.  twitter | Facebook | tumblr | iTunes | YouTube  

Music On Your Own Terms 068 - Joe Messina – Politics, Porpoises, and Phallic Humor In this episode, we learn about the history of Boston based guitarist, comedian, podcaster, activist and teacher, Joe Messina. From growing up in a musical family and not wanting to follow the family business, to discovering comedy and wanting to become an aspiring writer, he was then diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Despite almost quitting music altogether, Joe found himself embracing music once again, teaches guitar and other instruments, and is about to release his new album Rageonomics. Joe also hosts a podcast that aims to provide a roadmap for those who feel frustrated with the slow and ineffective voting system, and want to do more in the way of direct action outside of sharing posts and signing petitions.   If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton   Radicalize Me on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/radicalizeme/ Joe Messina on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joemessiah/ Joe Messina on the Twitter - https://twitter.com/joe_messina Joe Messina on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-messina-97536831/ Topics discussed in this episode : Victoria Watts | Suzuki Violin Program | Berklee Certificate Program | Anais Azul | Meredith Monk | School Of Rock | Good Good Comedy Theatre | Weird Al Yankovic | Fibromyalgia | National Fibromyalgia Association | DDP Yoga | Curable | John Sarno | Joe Rogan Podcast | Leonard Bernstein | Sammy Davis Junior --- In line with our conversation about fibromyalgia, I have created this "fibromyalgia can suck it" shirt, with $10 from every sale going to the National Fibromyalgia Association. Click here to order, or go to the Music On Your Own Terms Podcast store at moyot.itemorder.com --- This episode is sponsored by The Skinny Armadillo Print Company Specializing in screen printing, embroidery, design, on demand digital printing, web stores, fulfillment and more. Visit https://theskinnyarmadillo.com/ or call 817 546 1430 --- Website - http://www.musiconyourownterms.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MusicOnYourOwnTerms/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/musiconyourownterms/

While much of the country has thankfully begun to reopen, but not California. But they’ve met their match. Elon Musk, head of Tesla ignored the petty dictators of Alameda County and reopened his factory, just daring them to take action. Thousands of people descended upon Cali Beaches over the weekend. And businesses around the nation have decided to fight back. And we saw the Republicans flip disgraced House Member Katie Hill’s seat back to Republicans. It’s all part of the madness taking place around the country. Joe gives his unique perspective on the state of California and the nation.       

While much of the country has thankfully begun to reopen, but not California. But they’ve met their match. Elon Musk, head of Tesla ignored the petty dictators of Alameda County and reopened his factory, just daring them to take action. Thousands of people descended upon Cali Beaches over the weekend. And businesses around the nation have decided to fight back. And we saw the Republicans flip disgraced House Member Katie Hill’s seat back to Republicans. It’s all part of the madness taking place around the country. Joe gives his unique perspective on the state of California and the nation.       

Tyler talks about the name for the new Toronto NWHL team before going into where he believes the 24-team playoffs will be held. Then, another couple of guests! First, Tyler talks with The Athletic's Ken Wiebe (20:15) about the Jets' season has gone, and what the future could hold for the team. Then, he chats with longtime coach and friend Joe Messina (54:15) about all of his businesses, including Bandits Goalie School and the ever-growing Second String Leather Company. Ken Wiebe's Athletic Profile: https://theathletic.com/author/ken-wiebe/ Second String Leather Company: https://secondstringleather.com/ Bandits Goalie School: http://www.banditsgoaltending.com/ Edge ProTech: http://www.edgeprotech.com/ Masked Marvel: http://www.maskedmarvelhelmets.com/ Music: "Seek Advice Elsehwere" by Off With Their Heads, "White Trash" by Steriogram, "Key to Gramercy Park" by Deadsy, "Target Practice" by Riot, "DC Love Go Go" by Silent Partner

Seth Fisher is a programmer and organizer based in Philly. We talked about his own struggles that led him to organizing, the ups and downs in his attempts to form unions, and his new website that will help get groceries to communities in need during the COVID-19 crisis. Seth offers tips on how to get started in activism by identifying achievable goals and joining up with existing organizations.coviddelivery.netJoe's solo musicJackson MoeUnderwritten by Anchor.fm. Original music by Joe Messina.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radicalizeme/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radicalizeme/supportSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/radicalizeme)

Episode eighty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Money” by Barrett Strong, the dispute over its authorship, and the start of a record label that would change music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Alley Oop” by the Hollywood Argyles. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ —-more—-Erratum I say “His name didn’t appear on the label of the record.” I mean here that Strong’s name didn’t appear on the label as a songwriter. It obviously did appear as the performer.   Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. You might want to listen again to the episode on Jackie Wilson, in which we looked at Berry Gordy’s career to this point. I used six principal sources to put together the narrative for this one, most of which I will be using for most future Motown episodes.  Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George is an excellent popular history of the various companies that became Motown.  To Be Loved by Berry Gordy is Gordy’s own, understandably one-sided, but relatively well-written, autobiography. Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall is a collection of interviews with women involved in Motown, including Janie Bradford. I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by J. Andrew Flory is an academic look at Motown. The Motown Encyclopaedia by Graham Betts is an exhaustive look at the people and records involved in Motown’s thirty-year history. And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 693 tracks released on Motown singles. There is a Complete Motown Singles 1959-62 box available from Hip-O-Select with comprehensive liner notes, but if you just want the music, I recommend instead this much cheaper bare-bones box from Real Gone Music. And this set contains every recording that Barrett Strong made for Tamla as a performer.   Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today, we’re going to look at a record which was the first success for one of the most important record labels of all time, which has one of the most instantly recognisable riffs of any record ever, and which was the product of a one-hit wonder who would, several years later, go on to be a hugely important figure as a writer, rather than a performer. Along the way we’re going to look at the beginnings of many, many, other careers we’ll be seeing more of in the next couple of years. Today, we’re going to look at “Money” by Barrett Strong: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] When we left Berry Gordy Jr, he had just stopped writing songs for Jackie Wilson — while the songs he’d co-written with his sister Gwen and her boyfriend Roquel Davis had been massive hits for Wilson, Wilson’s manager had believed that any songwriters could bring the same amount of success, and that Wilson’s records were selling solely because of Wilson’s performances. Davis and Gwen had started up a new record label with the help of another Gordy sister, Anna, after whom they named the label. But at the start, Berry Gordy had little involvement in that label. While Gwen had wanted Berry to become a partner in the business, Berry had soured on the idea of business partners after some of his other ventures had failed due to conflicts between him and his partners. Berry was going to work for himself. He would write and produce for his family’s record labels, but he wasn’t going to be a partner in their businesses. Instead, he focussed on a group he’d got to know. The Matadors were a vocal group he’d seen audition, and been mildly impressed with, but he had decided to work with them mostly because he was very attracted to one of their singers, Claudette Rogers. He’d worked with them for a few days before asking Claudette out, and she’d turned him down because she was seeing one of the other group members, William Robinson. But by that point Gordy had got to know Robinson, and to appreciate his talent, and his response was just to tell her how lucky she was to have a man like that. He took them on as a management project, and also decided to teach Robinson songwriting — Robinson had written a lot of songs, which showed potential, but Gordy thought none of them were quite there yet. What impressed Gordy most was Robinson’s attitude, every time Gordy told him what was wrong with a song — Robinson would just go on to the next song, as enthusiastic as ever. Eventually, Robinson came up with a song that they thought could be a hit. At the time, the Silhouettes had a big hit with a song called “Get a Job”: [Excerpt: The Silhouettes, “Get a Job”] Robinson had come up with an answer song, which he called “Got a Job”. Gordy decided that that was good enough for him to produce a recording — he’d recently started up a production company, which he primarily used to produce demos of his own songs, with singers like Eddie Holland. Gordy took the group into the studio, and got a deal with George Goldner’s label End Records to distribute the single that resulted. The only thing was, Gordy still wasn’t happy with the group’s name — The Matadors sounded too masculine for a group which had a woman in it. So they all chose other names, wrote them down, stuck them in a hat, and the one that came out was “the Miracles”; and so “Got a Job” by the Miracles came out on End Records on William “Smokey” Robinson’s eighteenth birthday: [Excerpt: The Miracles, “Got a Job”] Gordy at this point was a songwriter first and foremost, but he wanted to make sure he was making money from the songs. He had already started his own publishing company, after having not been paid the royalties he was owed on several of his songs. He’d decided that he could use his production company to ensure his songs got a release — he’d lease the recordings out to other labels, like End, or his sister’s label Anna. The recordings themselves were just a way to get some money from the songs, which were his real business. He and his second wife Raynoma also used their production company, named Rayber as a portmanteau of their two names, in another way — they would, for a fee, provide a full professional recording of anyone — you could walk in and pay for an arrangement of your song by Berry Gordy, instrumental backing, vocals by the Rayber Singers (a fluid group of people that included Raynoma and Eddie Holland), and a copy of the record. If the amateur singer who came in was any good, the results would be quite listenable, as in “I Can’t Concentrate” by Wade Jones, which they liked so much they later even released it properly: [Excerpt: “I Can’t Concentrate”, Wade Jones] But at this point, Gordy still wasn’t making much money at all. In 1959, according to court papers around a claim for child support for his kids, he made $27.70 a week on average — and almost all of that came from a single one-thousand-dollar cheque for writing “Lonely Teardrops” for Jackie Wilson. And producing the Miracles didn’t add much to that — when Gordy received his first royalty cheque from End Records for “Got a Job”, he was astonished to see that it was only for $3.19. To add insult to injury, End Records tried to claim that the Miracles were now their artists, and they were going to record them directly, without the involvement of Gordy. This was a thing that many businesses connected with Morris Levy did, and they were usually successful, because if you get into an argument with the Mafia you’ll probably not win. But in the case of Gordy, his family were so well-known and respected in Detroit’s black community, and Gordy himself had enough cachet because of his work with Jackie Wilson, that a contingent of black DJs told End Records that they’d stop playing any of their records unless they backed off on the Miracles. But all this led Gordy to one conclusion — one he didn’t come to until Smokey Robinson pointed it out to him. He needed to start his own record label, just like his sisters had. The problem was that he had no money, and while his family was, for a black family at the time, very rich, they held their money in a trust and required a proper contract and unanimous approval from all eight siblings before they would provide one of the family with a business loan — and Berry was regarded by his siblings as a useless drifter and underachiever. But eventually he managed to win them round, and they lent him $800. His original idea for the name of the label was “Tammy”, after Debbie Reynolds’ hit, to show that they weren’t just aiming at the R&B market: [Excerpt: Debbie Reynolds, “Tammy”] However, it turned out that there was another label called Tammy, and so Gordy decided on Tamla instead. Tamla’s first record was by a local singer called Marv Johnson, who had a very similar voice to that of Jackie Wilson, but who was known for having more of an ego than Wilson. There’s an anonymous quote by someone who knew both men — “The difference between Marv and Jackie Wilson was that Wilson would kiss all the women, especially the ugly ones, because he knew if he did they’d be with him forever. Marv only kissed the pretty ones, and that coldness came through in everything he did.” One can argue about whether it’s colder to cynically manipulate people’s feelings or to show contempt for them, but it’s definitely the case that Marv Johnson does not seem to have been well loved by many of the people who knew him. Johnson had recorded one previous single, “My Baby-O”, on another record label: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “My Baby-O”] Some sources claim that Berry Gordy produced that track — others that he was just present at the session, watching. Whatever Gordy’s involvement with Johnson before signing him to Tamla, the first Tamla single, “Come to Me”, was the start of something big. It was written by Johnson and Gordy, and featured a group of session players who would form the core of what would become known as the Funk Brothers — James Jamerson, Benny Benjamin, Eddie Willis, Joe Messina, and Thomas “Beans” Bowles. On top of that, Brian Holland, who with his brother Eddie would later go on to become part of arguably the most important songwriting and production team of the sixties, was on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “Come to Me”] Johnson wrote that song himself, and Gordy polished it up, giving himself a co-writing credit. At the start, Tamla was a very, very small operation. Other than the musicians they employed, the team mostly consisted of Berry and Raynoma Gordy, Smokey Robinson acting essentially as Berry’s apprentice and assistant, and Janie Bradford, a teenage songwriter with whom Gordy had collaborated on a couple of songs for Jackie Wilson: [Excerpt: Jackie Wilson, “The Joke (Is Not On Me)”] Bradford was given the official job title of receptionist, but she actually did almost all the admin at the label offices, doing everything from sorting out the contracts to mopping the floor, along with chipping in with songs when she had an idea. Because they were a shoestring operation, Gordy, Marv Johnson, and Robinson would do most of the legwork of getting the track to radio stations, and it only got local distribution. They followed up with a second Tamla record, three weeks later, written by Berry and sung by Eddie Holland, who had sung on Berry’s demos for Jackie Wilson and also had a Wilson-esque voice: [Excerpt: Eddie Holland, “Merry Go Round”] Marv Johnson’s record, “Come to Me”, became a local hit, but as we’ve talked about before, when you’re running an indie label the last thing you want is a hit — you have to pay to get the records pressed, but then you have to wait months for the money to come in from the distributors. Becoming too big too fast could be a problem. Luckily, before the record got too big, United Artists stepped in. They wanted to buy the master for “Come to Me”, and to buy both Johnson and Holland’s contracts from Gordy. Gordy would continue writing and producing for them, but they would be United Artists performers rather than on Tamla. Gordy got enough money from that deal to continue running his label for a while longer, and United Artists got their first R&B star — “Come to Me” ended up going top thirty on the pop charts and top ten on the R&B charts. Not bad at all for something put out on a little micro-label. Eddie Holland, on the other hand, didn’t do so well on United Artists — he wasn’t ever a confident performer, and after two years he was back with Gordy’s operation, this time working behind the scenes rather than as the main performer. So Tamla was ready to put out its third single, and Gordy may have had a plan for how his label was going to get much bigger. It’s been suggested by several people that a few of the early acts he signed were intended as ways to get more famous relatives of those acts interested in the label. For example, the first female solo singer he signed to the label, Mable John, was the sister of Little Willie John, the R&B star. Mable was certainly good enough to be hired on her own merits, but at the same time the thought must have crossed Gordy’s mind that it would be good to get her brother recording for him. In the same way, Smokey Robinson’s favourite local group was Nolan Strong and the Diablos, who recorded the doo-wop classic “The Wind”: [Excerpt: Nolan Strong and the Diablos, “The Wind”] Nolan Strong’s cousin Barrett was also an aspiring singer, and Gordy signed him to Tamla, and wrote him a song with his sister Gwen and her then-boyfriend Roquel Davis, the same team with whom he’d collaborated on Jackie Wilson’s hits: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Let’s Rock”] Unfortunately, “Let’s Rock” wasn’t a hit, and Gordy seemed to decide to try to throw a lot of records at the wall to see what would stick. Over the next few months, they put out a variety of odd singles, none of which charted, and none of which seem much like the music Gordy was generally known for. There was “Snake Walk”, a jazz instrumental played by the Funk Brothers under the name The Swinging Tigers, with the songwriting credited to Gordy and Robinson: [Excerpt: The Swinging Tigers, “Snake Walk (part 1)”] There was “It”, a novelty single about an alien, performed by Smokey Robinson and Ronnie White of the Miracles, under the name “Ron & Bill”: [Excerpt: Ron & Bill, “It”] And a few more. But it wasn’t until Barett Strong’s second single, in August 1959, that Tamla hit the jackpot again. There are three very different stories about how “Money” was written. According to Berry Gordy, he came up with the music and the whole first verse and chorus himself, and played it to Janie Bradford, who suggested a couple of lines for the second verse, but he was impressed enough with her lines that he gave her fifty percent of the song, even though she didn’t think she’d contributed very much. Barrett Strong came and sat down with them, uninvited, and started singing along, but didn’t contribute anything to the writing of the song. According to Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy was playing the riff on the piano, but had no words or melody yet. He said to her, “I need a title, give me a title, something that everybody wants,” and she replied “Money, that’s what I want!” and the two of them wrote the lyrics together based on her lyrical idea. And according to Barrett Strong, who is backed up by the engineer and the guitarist on the session, *Strong* — who played the piano on the session as well as singing — was jamming the riff, having hit upon it while messing around with Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say”. Gordy only came into the session after Strong had already taught the instrumental parts to the musicians, and Gordy and Bradford only wrote the lyrics after the instrumental track was already completed. The initial filing of the song’s copyright credited Strong for words and music, Gordy for words and music, and Bradford only for words. According to both Bradford and Gordy, that’s because Bradford, who filled out the form, didn’t understand the form and made a mistake. Three years later, Strong’s name was taken off the copyright, and he wasn’t informed of the change. His name didn’t appear on the label of the record. Personally, I tend to believe Strong. The song simply doesn’t sound that much like Gordy’s other songs of the period, which were based far less on riffs, and which didn’t tend to be twelve-bar blueses. Whoever wrote it, the result was a great record, and the first true classic to come out of the Gordy operation: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] The B-side isn’t quite as good, but it’s still a strong ballad, and if you’re a fan of John Lennon’s solo work you might find the middle eight very familiar: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Oh I Apologize”] “Money” came out on Tamla and was initially fairly unsuccessful, because Tamla didn’t have any national distribution. But Anna Records did. That label had partnered with Chess Records. Chess had sent Harvey Fuqua, who was working for Chess as an executive as well as a performer, over to work with Anna Records. Fuqua had brought with him another member of his latest lineup of the Moonglows, a young man named Marvin Gay, to work for Anna as a session drummer and part-time janitor, and Marvin soon got into a relationship with Anna Gordy. But Marvin wasn’t the only one to get into a relationship with a Gordy sister. Harvey Fuqua had been dating Etta James, with whom he was having a few hits as a duet act on Chess: [Excerpt: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua, “Spoonful”] But he soon struck up a relationship with Gwen Gordy. He split up with James, Gwen Gordy split up with Roquel Davis — and then Berry and Gwen Gordy and Roquel Davis wrote a song about the splits, which Etta James performed for Chess, back as a solo artist again: [Excerpt: Etta James, “All I Could Do Was Cry”] That became a hit in June 1960, and that was also the month that “Money” finally became a hit, nearly a year after it was released. The Tamla record had been a local hit, but Tamla still didn’t have any national distribution, so Berry Gordy leased the recording to his sisters’ label. It was rereleased on Anna Records, distributed through Chess, and became the first national hit for one of the Gordy family of labels, reaching number two on the R&B charts and number twenty-three on the pop charts. The Gordy family of labels was starting to have some real success: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] Unfortunately, that would be Barrett Strong’s only hit as a performer. Over the next eighteen months he would release a whole variety of singles, none of which had any success, eventually trying the desperate tactic of recording a follow-up to “Money”, titled “Money and Me”, with the writing credited to Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford, Smokey Robinson, and Robert Bateman — a singer who was one of the Rayber singers: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money and Me”] That didn’t work, and Strong ended up going back to work on the Chrysler production line, giving up his singing career. But that won’t be the last we’ll see of him — he’ll be back with a new job in a few years’ time. But in late 1959, they didn’t know yet that “Money” would even be a hit, let alone a classic that would be remembered more than sixty years later. Indeed, the biggest success that had come out of the Gordy operation was still Marv Johnson, and while he was signed to United Artists, he was still making records with Berry Gordy. Gordy was writing and producing his records, and now they were also being recorded at Gordy’s home — he and Raynoma had bought a house with a recording studio in the back in August 1959. They named the house Hitsville USA, and it became the headquarters for the Gordy family of labels. Berry and Raynoma lived in a flat upstairs, while the recording studio downstairs was open twenty-two hours a day. Eventually they would buy all the other nearby houses, and turn them into offices for their recording, publishing, and management empire. The whole family pitched in to make the company a success. Berry’s sister Esther took over the finances of Tamla, with the assistance of her accountant husband. Their other sister Loucye took charge of the record manufacturing side of the business — liaising with pressing plants, overseeing cover art, and so on. Raynoma managed Jobete, the publishing company named after Berry’s first three children, Joy, Berry, and Terry. The Hitsville studio was primitive at first — the echo chamber was also the toilet, and someone had to stand guard outside it while they were recording to make sure no-one used it during a session — but it was good enough for Gordy to use it to make hit records for Marv Johnson, like “You Got What It Takes”: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “You Got What It Takes”] That went top ten on both the pop and R&B charts, as did the follow-up, “I Love The Way You Love”: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “I Love the Way You Love”] But those hits were on someone else’s label. Berry Gordy was still looking to expand his own record business, and so he decided he was going to start a second label, to go along with Tamla. Smokey Robinson had still not had a hit, though he was writing a lot of material, but then Smokey brought Berry a song he thought was a guaranteed hit, “Bad Girl”: [Excerpt: The Miracles, “Bad Girl”] Gordy decided that he was going to start up a new label just for groups, while Tamla would be for solo artists, and “Bad Girl” was going to be the first release on it. But once again, he didn’t have a proper national distributor for his record, so after it started selling around Detroit, he licensed the record to Chess Records, who reissued it. “Bad Girl” went to number ninety-three on the Hot One Hundred, proving that Smokey Robinson did indeed have the potential to make a real hit. But, as was so often the way, Chess didn’t pay Gordy’s company the proper royalties for the record, and so Gordy decided that his new label was going to have to have national distribution. He wasn’t going to let any more of its records come out on Chess or United Artists. From now on, either they were on Tamla, or they were coming out on the new label, Motown.

Episode eighty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Money" by Barrett Strong, the dispute over its authorship, and the start of a record label that would change music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Alley Oop" by the Hollywood Argyles. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ ----more----Erratum I say “His name didn't appear on the label of the record.” I mean here that Strong's name didn't appear on the label as a songwriter. It obviously did appear as the performer.   Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. You might want to listen again to the episode on Jackie Wilson, in which we looked at Berry Gordy's career to this point. I used six principal sources to put together the narrative for this one, most of which I will be using for most future Motown episodes.  Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George is an excellent popular history of the various companies that became Motown.  To Be Loved by Berry Gordy is Gordy's own, understandably one-sided, but relatively well-written, autobiography. Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall is a collection of interviews with women involved in Motown, including Janie Bradford. I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by J. Andrew Flory is an academic look at Motown. The Motown Encyclopaedia by Graham Betts is an exhaustive look at the people and records involved in Motown's thirty-year history. And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 693 tracks released on Motown singles. There is a Complete Motown Singles 1959-62 box available from Hip-O-Select with comprehensive liner notes, but if you just want the music, I recommend instead this much cheaper bare-bones box from Real Gone Music. And this set contains every recording that Barrett Strong made for Tamla as a performer.   Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today, we're going to look at a record which was the first success for one of the most important record labels of all time, which has one of the most instantly recognisable riffs of any record ever, and which was the product of a one-hit wonder who would, several years later, go on to be a hugely important figure as a writer, rather than a performer. Along the way we're going to look at the beginnings of many, many, other careers we'll be seeing more of in the next couple of years. Today, we're going to look at "Money" by Barrett Strong: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Money"] When we left Berry Gordy Jr, he had just stopped writing songs for Jackie Wilson -- while the songs he'd co-written with his sister Gwen and her boyfriend Roquel Davis had been massive hits for Wilson, Wilson's manager had believed that any songwriters could bring the same amount of success, and that Wilson's records were selling solely because of Wilson's performances. Davis and Gwen had started up a new record label with the help of another Gordy sister, Anna, after whom they named the label. But at the start, Berry Gordy had little involvement in that label. While Gwen had wanted Berry to become a partner in the business, Berry had soured on the idea of business partners after some of his other ventures had failed due to conflicts between him and his partners. Berry was going to work for himself. He would write and produce for his family's record labels, but he wasn't going to be a partner in their businesses. Instead, he focussed on a group he'd got to know. The Matadors were a vocal group he'd seen audition, and been mildly impressed with, but he had decided to work with them mostly because he was very attracted to one of their singers, Claudette Rogers. He'd worked with them for a few days before asking Claudette out, and she'd turned him down because she was seeing one of the other group members, William Robinson. But by that point Gordy had got to know Robinson, and to appreciate his talent, and his response was just to tell her how lucky she was to have a man like that. He took them on as a management project, and also decided to teach Robinson songwriting -- Robinson had written a lot of songs, which showed potential, but Gordy thought none of them were quite there yet. What impressed Gordy most was Robinson's attitude, every time Gordy told him what was wrong with a song -- Robinson would just go on to the next song, as enthusiastic as ever. Eventually, Robinson came up with a song that they thought could be a hit. At the time, the Silhouettes had a big hit with a song called "Get a Job": [Excerpt: The Silhouettes, "Get a Job"] Robinson had come up with an answer song, which he called "Got a Job". Gordy decided that that was good enough for him to produce a recording -- he'd recently started up a production company, which he primarily used to produce demos of his own songs, with singers like Eddie Holland. Gordy took the group into the studio, and got a deal with George Goldner's label End Records to distribute the single that resulted. The only thing was, Gordy still wasn't happy with the group's name -- The Matadors sounded too masculine for a group which had a woman in it. So they all chose other names, wrote them down, stuck them in a hat, and the one that came out was "the Miracles"; and so "Got a Job" by the Miracles came out on End Records on William “Smokey” Robinson's eighteenth birthday: [Excerpt: The Miracles, "Got a Job"] Gordy at this point was a songwriter first and foremost, but he wanted to make sure he was making money from the songs. He had already started his own publishing company, after having not been paid the royalties he was owed on several of his songs. He'd decided that he could use his production company to ensure his songs got a release -- he'd lease the recordings out to other labels, like End, or his sister's label Anna. The recordings themselves were just a way to get some money from the songs, which were his real business. He and his second wife Raynoma also used their production company, named Rayber as a portmanteau of their two names, in another way -- they would, for a fee, provide a full professional recording of anyone -- you could walk in and pay for an arrangement of your song by Berry Gordy, instrumental backing, vocals by the Rayber Singers (a fluid group of people that included Raynoma and Eddie Holland), and a copy of the record. If the amateur singer who came in was any good, the results would be quite listenable, as in "I Can't Concentrate" by Wade Jones, which they liked so much they later even released it properly: [Excerpt: "I Can't Concentrate", Wade Jones] But at this point, Gordy still wasn't making much money at all. In 1959, according to court papers around a claim for child support for his kids, he made $27.70 a week on average -- and almost all of that came from a single one-thousand-dollar cheque for writing "Lonely Teardrops" for Jackie Wilson. And producing the Miracles didn't add much to that -- when Gordy received his first royalty cheque from End Records for "Got a Job", he was astonished to see that it was only for $3.19. To add insult to injury, End Records tried to claim that the Miracles were now their artists, and they were going to record them directly, without the involvement of Gordy. This was a thing that many businesses connected with Morris Levy did, and they were usually successful, because if you get into an argument with the Mafia you'll probably not win. But in the case of Gordy, his family were so well-known and respected in Detroit's black community, and Gordy himself had enough cachet because of his work with Jackie Wilson, that a contingent of black DJs told End Records that they'd stop playing any of their records unless they backed off on the Miracles. But all this led Gordy to one conclusion -- one he didn't come to until Smokey Robinson pointed it out to him. He needed to start his own record label, just like his sisters had. The problem was that he had no money, and while his family was, for a black family at the time, very rich, they held their money in a trust and required a proper contract and unanimous approval from all eight siblings before they would provide one of the family with a business loan -- and Berry was regarded by his siblings as a useless drifter and underachiever. But eventually he managed to win them round, and they lent him $800. His original idea for the name of the label was "Tammy", after Debbie Reynolds' hit, to show that they weren't just aiming at the R&B market: [Excerpt: Debbie Reynolds, "Tammy"] However, it turned out that there was another label called Tammy, and so Gordy decided on Tamla instead. Tamla's first record was by a local singer called Marv Johnson, who had a very similar voice to that of Jackie Wilson, but who was known for having more of an ego than Wilson. There's an anonymous quote by someone who knew both men -- "The difference between Marv and Jackie Wilson was that Wilson would kiss all the women, especially the ugly ones, because he knew if he did they'd be with him forever. Marv only kissed the pretty ones, and that coldness came through in everything he did." One can argue about whether it's colder to cynically manipulate people's feelings or to show contempt for them, but it's definitely the case that Marv Johnson does not seem to have been well loved by many of the people who knew him. Johnson had recorded one previous single, "My Baby-O", on another record label: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, "My Baby-O"] Some sources claim that Berry Gordy produced that track -- others that he was just present at the session, watching. Whatever Gordy's involvement with Johnson before signing him to Tamla, the first Tamla single, "Come to Me", was the start of something big. It was written by Johnson and Gordy, and featured a group of session players who would form the core of what would become known as the Funk Brothers -- James Jamerson, Benny Benjamin, Eddie Willis, Joe Messina, and Thomas “Beans” Bowles. On top of that, Brian Holland, who with his brother Eddie would later go on to become part of arguably the most important songwriting and production team of the sixties, was on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, "Come to Me"] Johnson wrote that song himself, and Gordy polished it up, giving himself a co-writing credit. At the start, Tamla was a very, very small operation. Other than the musicians they employed, the team mostly consisted of Berry and Raynoma Gordy, Smokey Robinson acting essentially as Berry's apprentice and assistant, and Janie Bradford, a teenage songwriter with whom Gordy had collaborated on a couple of songs for Jackie Wilson: [Excerpt: Jackie Wilson, "The Joke (Is Not On Me)"] Bradford was given the official job title of receptionist, but she actually did almost all the admin at the label offices, doing everything from sorting out the contracts to mopping the floor, along with chipping in with songs when she had an idea. Because they were a shoestring operation, Gordy, Marv Johnson, and Robinson would do most of the legwork of getting the track to radio stations, and it only got local distribution. They followed up with a second Tamla record, three weeks later, written by Berry and sung by Eddie Holland, who had sung on Berry's demos for Jackie Wilson and also had a Wilson-esque voice: [Excerpt: Eddie Holland, "Merry Go Round"] Marv Johnson's record, "Come to Me", became a local hit, but as we've talked about before, when you're running an indie label the last thing you want is a hit -- you have to pay to get the records pressed, but then you have to wait months for the money to come in from the distributors. Becoming too big too fast could be a problem. Luckily, before the record got too big, United Artists stepped in. They wanted to buy the master for "Come to Me", and to buy both Johnson and Holland's contracts from Gordy. Gordy would continue writing and producing for them, but they would be United Artists performers rather than on Tamla. Gordy got enough money from that deal to continue running his label for a while longer, and United Artists got their first R&B star -- "Come to Me" ended up going top thirty on the pop charts and top ten on the R&B charts. Not bad at all for something put out on a little micro-label. Eddie Holland, on the other hand, didn't do so well on United Artists -- he wasn't ever a confident performer, and after two years he was back with Gordy's operation, this time working behind the scenes rather than as the main performer. So Tamla was ready to put out its third single, and Gordy may have had a plan for how his label was going to get much bigger. It's been suggested by several people that a few of the early acts he signed were intended as ways to get more famous relatives of those acts interested in the label. For example, the first female solo singer he signed to the label, Mable John, was the sister of Little Willie John, the R&B star. Mable was certainly good enough to be hired on her own merits, but at the same time the thought must have crossed Gordy's mind that it would be good to get her brother recording for him. In the same way, Smokey Robinson's favourite local group was Nolan Strong and the Diablos, who recorded the doo-wop classic "The Wind": [Excerpt: Nolan Strong and the Diablos, "The Wind"] Nolan Strong's cousin Barrett was also an aspiring singer, and Gordy signed him to Tamla, and wrote him a song with his sister Gwen and her then-boyfriend Roquel Davis, the same team with whom he'd collaborated on Jackie Wilson's hits: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Let's Rock"] Unfortunately, "Let's Rock" wasn't a hit, and Gordy seemed to decide to try to throw a lot of records at the wall to see what would stick. Over the next few months, they put out a variety of odd singles, none of which charted, and none of which seem much like the music Gordy was generally known for. There was "Snake Walk", a jazz instrumental played by the Funk Brothers under the name The Swinging Tigers, with the songwriting credited to Gordy and Robinson: [Excerpt: The Swinging Tigers, "Snake Walk (part 1)"] There was "It", a novelty single about an alien, performed by Smokey Robinson and Ronnie White of the Miracles, under the name "Ron & Bill": [Excerpt: Ron & Bill, "It"] And a few more. But it wasn't until Barett Strong's second single, in August 1959, that Tamla hit the jackpot again. There are three very different stories about how "Money" was written. According to Berry Gordy, he came up with the music and the whole first verse and chorus himself, and played it to Janie Bradford, who suggested a couple of lines for the second verse, but he was impressed enough with her lines that he gave her fifty percent of the song, even though she didn't think she'd contributed very much. Barrett Strong came and sat down with them, uninvited, and started singing along, but didn't contribute anything to the writing of the song. According to Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy was playing the riff on the piano, but had no words or melody yet. He said to her, "I need a title, give me a title, something that everybody wants," and she replied "Money, that's what I want!" and the two of them wrote the lyrics together based on her lyrical idea. And according to Barrett Strong, who is backed up by the engineer and the guitarist on the session, *Strong* -- who played the piano on the session as well as singing -- was jamming the riff, having hit upon it while messing around with Ray Charles' "What'd I Say". Gordy only came into the session after Strong had already taught the instrumental parts to the musicians, and Gordy and Bradford only wrote the lyrics after the instrumental track was already completed. The initial filing of the song's copyright credited Strong for words and music, Gordy for words and music, and Bradford only for words. According to both Bradford and Gordy, that's because Bradford, who filled out the form, didn't understand the form and made a mistake. Three years later, Strong's name was taken off the copyright, and he wasn't informed of the change. His name didn't appear on the label of the record. Personally, I tend to believe Strong. The song simply doesn't sound that much like Gordy's other songs of the period, which were based far less on riffs, and which didn't tend to be twelve-bar blueses. Whoever wrote it, the result was a great record, and the first true classic to come out of the Gordy operation: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Money"] The B-side isn't quite as good, but it's still a strong ballad, and if you're a fan of John Lennon's solo work you might find the middle eight very familiar: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Oh I Apologize"] "Money" came out on Tamla and was initially fairly unsuccessful, because Tamla didn't have any national distribution. But Anna Records did. That label had partnered with Chess Records. Chess had sent Harvey Fuqua, who was working for Chess as an executive as well as a performer, over to work with Anna Records. Fuqua had brought with him another member of his latest lineup of the Moonglows, a young man named Marvin Gay, to work for Anna as a session drummer and part-time janitor, and Marvin soon got into a relationship with Anna Gordy. But Marvin wasn't the only one to get into a relationship with a Gordy sister. Harvey Fuqua had been dating Etta James, with whom he was having a few hits as a duet act on Chess: [Excerpt: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua, "Spoonful"] But he soon struck up a relationship with Gwen Gordy. He split up with James, Gwen Gordy split up with Roquel Davis -- and then Berry and Gwen Gordy and Roquel Davis wrote a song about the splits, which Etta James performed for Chess, back as a solo artist again: [Excerpt: Etta James, "All I Could Do Was Cry"] That became a hit in June 1960, and that was also the month that "Money" finally became a hit, nearly a year after it was released. The Tamla record had been a local hit, but Tamla still didn't have any national distribution, so Berry Gordy leased the recording to his sisters' label. It was rereleased on Anna Records, distributed through Chess, and became the first national hit for one of the Gordy family of labels, reaching number two on the R&B charts and number twenty-three on the pop charts. The Gordy family of labels was starting to have some real success: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Money"] Unfortunately, that would be Barrett Strong's only hit as a performer. Over the next eighteen months he would release a whole variety of singles, none of which had any success, eventually trying the desperate tactic of recording a follow-up to "Money", titled "Money and Me", with the writing credited to Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford, Smokey Robinson, and Robert Bateman -- a singer who was one of the Rayber singers: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, "Money and Me"] That didn't work, and Strong ended up going back to work on the Chrysler production line, giving up his singing career. But that won't be the last we'll see of him -- he'll be back with a new job in a few years' time. But in late 1959, they didn't know yet that "Money" would even be a hit, let alone a classic that would be remembered more than sixty years later. Indeed, the biggest success that had come out of the Gordy operation was still Marv Johnson, and while he was signed to United Artists, he was still making records with Berry Gordy. Gordy was writing and producing his records, and now they were also being recorded at Gordy's home -- he and Raynoma had bought a house with a recording studio in the back in August 1959. They named the house Hitsville USA, and it became the headquarters for the Gordy family of labels. Berry and Raynoma lived in a flat upstairs, while the recording studio downstairs was open twenty-two hours a day. Eventually they would buy all the other nearby houses, and turn them into offices for their recording, publishing, and management empire. The whole family pitched in to make the company a success. Berry's sister Esther took over the finances of Tamla, with the assistance of her accountant husband. Their other sister Loucye took charge of the record manufacturing side of the business -- liaising with pressing plants, overseeing cover art, and so on. Raynoma managed Jobete, the publishing company named after Berry's first three children, Joy, Berry, and Terry. The Hitsville studio was primitive at first -- the echo chamber was also the toilet, and someone had to stand guard outside it while they were recording to make sure no-one used it during a session -- but it was good enough for Gordy to use it to make hit records for Marv Johnson, like "You Got What It Takes": [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, "You Got What It Takes"] That went top ten on both the pop and R&B charts, as did the follow-up, "I Love The Way You Love": [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, "I Love the Way You Love"] But those hits were on someone else's label. Berry Gordy was still looking to expand his own record business, and so he decided he was going to start a second label, to go along with Tamla. Smokey Robinson had still not had a hit, though he was writing a lot of material, but then Smokey brought Berry a song he thought was a guaranteed hit, "Bad Girl": [Excerpt: The Miracles, "Bad Girl"] Gordy decided that he was going to start up a new label just for groups, while Tamla would be for solo artists, and "Bad Girl" was going to be the first release on it. But once again, he didn't have a proper national distributor for his record, so after it started selling around Detroit, he licensed the record to Chess Records, who reissued it. "Bad Girl" went to number ninety-three on the Hot One Hundred, proving that Smokey Robinson did indeed have the potential to make a real hit. But, as was so often the way, Chess didn't pay Gordy's company the proper royalties for the record, and so Gordy decided that his new label was going to have to have national distribution. He wasn't going to let any more of its records come out on Chess or United Artists. From now on, either they were on Tamla, or they were coming out on the new label, Motown.

Episode eighty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Money” by Barrett Strong, the dispute over its authorship, and the start of a record label that would change music. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Alley Oop” by the Hollywood Argyles. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ —-more—-Erratum I say “His name didn’t appear on the label of the record.” I mean here that Strong’s name didn’t appear on the label as a songwriter. It obviously did appear as the performer.   Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. You might want to listen again to the episode on Jackie Wilson, in which we looked at Berry Gordy’s career to this point. I used six principal sources to put together the narrative for this one, most of which I will be using for most future Motown episodes.  Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George is an excellent popular history of the various companies that became Motown.  To Be Loved by Berry Gordy is Gordy’s own, understandably one-sided, but relatively well-written, autobiography. Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall is a collection of interviews with women involved in Motown, including Janie Bradford. I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by J. Andrew Flory is an academic look at Motown. The Motown Encyclopaedia by Graham Betts is an exhaustive look at the people and records involved in Motown’s thirty-year history. And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 693 tracks released on Motown singles. There is a Complete Motown Singles 1959-62 box available from Hip-O-Select with comprehensive liner notes, but if you just want the music, I recommend instead this much cheaper bare-bones box from Real Gone Music. And this set contains every recording that Barrett Strong made for Tamla as a performer.   Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today, we’re going to look at a record which was the first success for one of the most important record labels of all time, which has one of the most instantly recognisable riffs of any record ever, and which was the product of a one-hit wonder who would, several years later, go on to be a hugely important figure as a writer, rather than a performer. Along the way we’re going to look at the beginnings of many, many, other careers we’ll be seeing more of in the next couple of years. Today, we’re going to look at “Money” by Barrett Strong: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] When we left Berry Gordy Jr, he had just stopped writing songs for Jackie Wilson — while the songs he’d co-written with his sister Gwen and her boyfriend Roquel Davis had been massive hits for Wilson, Wilson’s manager had believed that any songwriters could bring the same amount of success, and that Wilson’s records were selling solely because of Wilson’s performances. Davis and Gwen had started up a new record label with the help of another Gordy sister, Anna, after whom they named the label. But at the start, Berry Gordy had little involvement in that label. While Gwen had wanted Berry to become a partner in the business, Berry had soured on the idea of business partners after some of his other ventures had failed due to conflicts between him and his partners. Berry was going to work for himself. He would write and produce for his family’s record labels, but he wasn’t going to be a partner in their businesses. Instead, he focussed on a group he’d got to know. The Matadors were a vocal group he’d seen audition, and been mildly impressed with, but he had decided to work with them mostly because he was very attracted to one of their singers, Claudette Rogers. He’d worked with them for a few days before asking Claudette out, and she’d turned him down because she was seeing one of the other group members, William Robinson. But by that point Gordy had got to know Robinson, and to appreciate his talent, and his response was just to tell her how lucky she was to have a man like that. He took them on as a management project, and also decided to teach Robinson songwriting — Robinson had written a lot of songs, which showed potential, but Gordy thought none of them were quite there yet. What impressed Gordy most was Robinson’s attitude, every time Gordy told him what was wrong with a song — Robinson would just go on to the next song, as enthusiastic as ever. Eventually, Robinson came up with a song that they thought could be a hit. At the time, the Silhouettes had a big hit with a song called “Get a Job”: [Excerpt: The Silhouettes, “Get a Job”] Robinson had come up with an answer song, which he called “Got a Job”. Gordy decided that that was good enough for him to produce a recording — he’d recently started up a production company, which he primarily used to produce demos of his own songs, with singers like Eddie Holland. Gordy took the group into the studio, and got a deal with George Goldner’s label End Records to distribute the single that resulted. The only thing was, Gordy still wasn’t happy with the group’s name — The Matadors sounded too masculine for a group which had a woman in it. So they all chose other names, wrote them down, stuck them in a hat, and the one that came out was “the Miracles”; and so “Got a Job” by the Miracles came out on End Records on William “Smokey” Robinson’s eighteenth birthday: [Excerpt: The Miracles, “Got a Job”] Gordy at this point was a songwriter first and foremost, but he wanted to make sure he was making money from the songs. He had already started his own publishing company, after having not been paid the royalties he was owed on several of his songs. He’d decided that he could use his production company to ensure his songs got a release — he’d lease the recordings out to other labels, like End, or his sister’s label Anna. The recordings themselves were just a way to get some money from the songs, which were his real business. He and his second wife Raynoma also used their production company, named Rayber as a portmanteau of their two names, in another way — they would, for a fee, provide a full professional recording of anyone — you could walk in and pay for an arrangement of your song by Berry Gordy, instrumental backing, vocals by the Rayber Singers (a fluid group of people that included Raynoma and Eddie Holland), and a copy of the record. If the amateur singer who came in was any good, the results would be quite listenable, as in “I Can’t Concentrate” by Wade Jones, which they liked so much they later even released it properly: [Excerpt: “I Can’t Concentrate”, Wade Jones] But at this point, Gordy still wasn’t making much money at all. In 1959, according to court papers around a claim for child support for his kids, he made $27.70 a week on average — and almost all of that came from a single one-thousand-dollar cheque for writing “Lonely Teardrops” for Jackie Wilson. And producing the Miracles didn’t add much to that — when Gordy received his first royalty cheque from End Records for “Got a Job”, he was astonished to see that it was only for $3.19. To add insult to injury, End Records tried to claim that the Miracles were now their artists, and they were going to record them directly, without the involvement of Gordy. This was a thing that many businesses connected with Morris Levy did, and they were usually successful, because if you get into an argument with the Mafia you’ll probably not win. But in the case of Gordy, his family were so well-known and respected in Detroit’s black community, and Gordy himself had enough cachet because of his work with Jackie Wilson, that a contingent of black DJs told End Records that they’d stop playing any of their records unless they backed off on the Miracles. But all this led Gordy to one conclusion — one he didn’t come to until Smokey Robinson pointed it out to him. He needed to start his own record label, just like his sisters had. The problem was that he had no money, and while his family was, for a black family at the time, very rich, they held their money in a trust and required a proper contract and unanimous approval from all eight siblings before they would provide one of the family with a business loan — and Berry was regarded by his siblings as a useless drifter and underachiever. But eventually he managed to win them round, and they lent him $800. His original idea for the name of the label was “Tammy”, after Debbie Reynolds’ hit, to show that they weren’t just aiming at the R&B market: [Excerpt: Debbie Reynolds, “Tammy”] However, it turned out that there was another label called Tammy, and so Gordy decided on Tamla instead. Tamla’s first record was by a local singer called Marv Johnson, who had a very similar voice to that of Jackie Wilson, but who was known for having more of an ego than Wilson. There’s an anonymous quote by someone who knew both men — “The difference between Marv and Jackie Wilson was that Wilson would kiss all the women, especially the ugly ones, because he knew if he did they’d be with him forever. Marv only kissed the pretty ones, and that coldness came through in everything he did.” One can argue about whether it’s colder to cynically manipulate people’s feelings or to show contempt for them, but it’s definitely the case that Marv Johnson does not seem to have been well loved by many of the people who knew him. Johnson had recorded one previous single, “My Baby-O”, on another record label: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “My Baby-O”] Some sources claim that Berry Gordy produced that track — others that he was just present at the session, watching. Whatever Gordy’s involvement with Johnson before signing him to Tamla, the first Tamla single, “Come to Me”, was the start of something big. It was written by Johnson and Gordy, and featured a group of session players who would form the core of what would become known as the Funk Brothers — James Jamerson, Benny Benjamin, Eddie Willis, Joe Messina, and Thomas “Beans” Bowles. On top of that, Brian Holland, who with his brother Eddie would later go on to become part of arguably the most important songwriting and production team of the sixties, was on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “Come to Me”] Johnson wrote that song himself, and Gordy polished it up, giving himself a co-writing credit. At the start, Tamla was a very, very small operation. Other than the musicians they employed, the team mostly consisted of Berry and Raynoma Gordy, Smokey Robinson acting essentially as Berry’s apprentice and assistant, and Janie Bradford, a teenage songwriter with whom Gordy had collaborated on a couple of songs for Jackie Wilson: [Excerpt: Jackie Wilson, “The Joke (Is Not On Me)”] Bradford was given the official job title of receptionist, but she actually did almost all the admin at the label offices, doing everything from sorting out the contracts to mopping the floor, along with chipping in with songs when she had an idea. Because they were a shoestring operation, Gordy, Marv Johnson, and Robinson would do most of the legwork of getting the track to radio stations, and it only got local distribution. They followed up with a second Tamla record, three weeks later, written by Berry and sung by Eddie Holland, who had sung on Berry’s demos for Jackie Wilson and also had a Wilson-esque voice: [Excerpt: Eddie Holland, “Merry Go Round”] Marv Johnson’s record, “Come to Me”, became a local hit, but as we’ve talked about before, when you’re running an indie label the last thing you want is a hit — you have to pay to get the records pressed, but then you have to wait months for the money to come in from the distributors. Becoming too big too fast could be a problem. Luckily, before the record got too big, United Artists stepped in. They wanted to buy the master for “Come to Me”, and to buy both Johnson and Holland’s contracts from Gordy. Gordy would continue writing and producing for them, but they would be United Artists performers rather than on Tamla. Gordy got enough money from that deal to continue running his label for a while longer, and United Artists got their first R&B star — “Come to Me” ended up going top thirty on the pop charts and top ten on the R&B charts. Not bad at all for something put out on a little micro-label. Eddie Holland, on the other hand, didn’t do so well on United Artists — he wasn’t ever a confident performer, and after two years he was back with Gordy’s operation, this time working behind the scenes rather than as the main performer. So Tamla was ready to put out its third single, and Gordy may have had a plan for how his label was going to get much bigger. It’s been suggested by several people that a few of the early acts he signed were intended as ways to get more famous relatives of those acts interested in the label. For example, the first female solo singer he signed to the label, Mable John, was the sister of Little Willie John, the R&B star. Mable was certainly good enough to be hired on her own merits, but at the same time the thought must have crossed Gordy’s mind that it would be good to get her brother recording for him. In the same way, Smokey Robinson’s favourite local group was Nolan Strong and the Diablos, who recorded the doo-wop classic “The Wind”: [Excerpt: Nolan Strong and the Diablos, “The Wind”] Nolan Strong’s cousin Barrett was also an aspiring singer, and Gordy signed him to Tamla, and wrote him a song with his sister Gwen and her then-boyfriend Roquel Davis, the same team with whom he’d collaborated on Jackie Wilson’s hits: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Let’s Rock”] Unfortunately, “Let’s Rock” wasn’t a hit, and Gordy seemed to decide to try to throw a lot of records at the wall to see what would stick. Over the next few months, they put out a variety of odd singles, none of which charted, and none of which seem much like the music Gordy was generally known for. There was “Snake Walk”, a jazz instrumental played by the Funk Brothers under the name The Swinging Tigers, with the songwriting credited to Gordy and Robinson: [Excerpt: The Swinging Tigers, “Snake Walk (part 1)”] There was “It”, a novelty single about an alien, performed by Smokey Robinson and Ronnie White of the Miracles, under the name “Ron & Bill”: [Excerpt: Ron & Bill, “It”] And a few more. But it wasn’t until Barett Strong’s second single, in August 1959, that Tamla hit the jackpot again. There are three very different stories about how “Money” was written. According to Berry Gordy, he came up with the music and the whole first verse and chorus himself, and played it to Janie Bradford, who suggested a couple of lines for the second verse, but he was impressed enough with her lines that he gave her fifty percent of the song, even though she didn’t think she’d contributed very much. Barrett Strong came and sat down with them, uninvited, and started singing along, but didn’t contribute anything to the writing of the song. According to Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy was playing the riff on the piano, but had no words or melody yet. He said to her, “I need a title, give me a title, something that everybody wants,” and she replied “Money, that’s what I want!” and the two of them wrote the lyrics together based on her lyrical idea. And according to Barrett Strong, who is backed up by the engineer and the guitarist on the session, *Strong* — who played the piano on the session as well as singing — was jamming the riff, having hit upon it while messing around with Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say”. Gordy only came into the session after Strong had already taught the instrumental parts to the musicians, and Gordy and Bradford only wrote the lyrics after the instrumental track was already completed. The initial filing of the song’s copyright credited Strong for words and music, Gordy for words and music, and Bradford only for words. According to both Bradford and Gordy, that’s because Bradford, who filled out the form, didn’t understand the form and made a mistake. Three years later, Strong’s name was taken off the copyright, and he wasn’t informed of the change. His name didn’t appear on the label of the record. Personally, I tend to believe Strong. The song simply doesn’t sound that much like Gordy’s other songs of the period, which were based far less on riffs, and which didn’t tend to be twelve-bar blueses. Whoever wrote it, the result was a great record, and the first true classic to come out of the Gordy operation: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] The B-side isn’t quite as good, but it’s still a strong ballad, and if you’re a fan of John Lennon’s solo work you might find the middle eight very familiar: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Oh I Apologize”] “Money” came out on Tamla and was initially fairly unsuccessful, because Tamla didn’t have any national distribution. But Anna Records did. That label had partnered with Chess Records. Chess had sent Harvey Fuqua, who was working for Chess as an executive as well as a performer, over to work with Anna Records. Fuqua had brought with him another member of his latest lineup of the Moonglows, a young man named Marvin Gay, to work for Anna as a session drummer and part-time janitor, and Marvin soon got into a relationship with Anna Gordy. But Marvin wasn’t the only one to get into a relationship with a Gordy sister. Harvey Fuqua had been dating Etta James, with whom he was having a few hits as a duet act on Chess: [Excerpt: Etta James and Harvey Fuqua, “Spoonful”] But he soon struck up a relationship with Gwen Gordy. He split up with James, Gwen Gordy split up with Roquel Davis — and then Berry and Gwen Gordy and Roquel Davis wrote a song about the splits, which Etta James performed for Chess, back as a solo artist again: [Excerpt: Etta James, “All I Could Do Was Cry”] That became a hit in June 1960, and that was also the month that “Money” finally became a hit, nearly a year after it was released. The Tamla record had been a local hit, but Tamla still didn’t have any national distribution, so Berry Gordy leased the recording to his sisters’ label. It was rereleased on Anna Records, distributed through Chess, and became the first national hit for one of the Gordy family of labels, reaching number two on the R&B charts and number twenty-three on the pop charts. The Gordy family of labels was starting to have some real success: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] Unfortunately, that would be Barrett Strong’s only hit as a performer. Over the next eighteen months he would release a whole variety of singles, none of which had any success, eventually trying the desperate tactic of recording a follow-up to “Money”, titled “Money and Me”, with the writing credited to Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford, Smokey Robinson, and Robert Bateman — a singer who was one of the Rayber singers: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money and Me”] That didn’t work, and Strong ended up going back to work on the Chrysler production line, giving up his singing career. But that won’t be the last we’ll see of him — he’ll be back with a new job in a few years’ time. But in late 1959, they didn’t know yet that “Money” would even be a hit, let alone a classic that would be remembered more than sixty years later. Indeed, the biggest success that had come out of the Gordy operation was still Marv Johnson, and while he was signed to United Artists, he was still making records with Berry Gordy. Gordy was writing and producing his records, and now they were also being recorded at Gordy’s home — he and Raynoma had bought a house with a recording studio in the back in August 1959. They named the house Hitsville USA, and it became the headquarters for the Gordy family of labels. Berry and Raynoma lived in a flat upstairs, while the recording studio downstairs was open twenty-two hours a day. Eventually they would buy all the other nearby houses, and turn them into offices for their recording, publishing, and management empire. The whole family pitched in to make the company a success. Berry’s sister Esther took over the finances of Tamla, with the assistance of her accountant husband. Their other sister Loucye took charge of the record manufacturing side of the business — liaising with pressing plants, overseeing cover art, and so on. Raynoma managed Jobete, the publishing company named after Berry’s first three children, Joy, Berry, and Terry. The Hitsville studio was primitive at first — the echo chamber was also the toilet, and someone had to stand guard outside it while they were recording to make sure no-one used it during a session — but it was good enough for Gordy to use it to make hit records for Marv Johnson, like “You Got What It Takes”: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “You Got What It Takes”] That went top ten on both the pop and R&B charts, as did the follow-up, “I Love The Way You Love”: [Excerpt: Marv Johnson, “I Love the Way You Love”] But those hits were on someone else’s label. Berry Gordy was still looking to expand his own record business, and so he decided he was going to start a second label, to go along with Tamla. Smokey Robinson had still not had a hit, though he was writing a lot of material, but then Smokey brought Berry a song he thought was a guaranteed hit, “Bad Girl”: [Excerpt: The Miracles, “Bad Girl”] Gordy decided that he was going to start up a new label just for groups, while Tamla would be for solo artists, and “Bad Girl” was going to be the first release on it. But once again, he didn’t have a proper national distributor for his record, so after it started selling around Detroit, he licensed the record to Chess Records, who reissued it. “Bad Girl” went to number ninety-three on the Hot One Hundred, proving that Smokey Robinson did indeed have the potential to make a real hit. But, as was so often the way, Chess didn’t pay Gordy’s company the proper royalties for the record, and so Gordy decided that his new label was going to have to have national distribution. He wasn’t going to let any more of its records come out on Chess or United Artists. From now on, either they were on Tamla, or they were coming out on the new label, Motown.

At this point do I really need to tell you who Joe Messina is? For the left of the Santa Clarita Valley, he is the boogeyman and I'm sure as I do everytime I have him on, I'll get flack for doing this show with him. But you know, there was a purpose. These days, I am more and more incredibly concerned about the partisanship which exists among us. Not just in the Santa Clarita Valley but in this nation as well. It seems that people no longer look at the other side as someone with a different opinion. Instead, as they see them as "The enemy" something which I find to be extremely disturbing. Yet, for myself, I have difficulty sometimes understanding the positions of the other side. Which is why I contacted Joe about doing this episode. I wanted to try and get inside his head and try to understand as best as I can his views on the issues and why he thinks the way he does. We talked about his general philosophy as a conservative, impeachment, healthcare, and of course, his involvement with the Katie Hill controversy. The results? Well, we barely agreed on anything. But you know, the one thing that did come to my mind as we talked is that there are some things that the right and left do have in common. We are all humans who want a lot of the same things, safe homes and cities, good schools for our kids, and a chance to be happy in this great country. We just see the way to go about it very very differently. I have hopes that someday we can all realize this and then work together on solving the problems we face. Click on the link below to view a video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t28VO1dy1E

The Democrat clown car dumpster fire seems to know no bounds. Reparations galore for everyone compliments of Liawatha. Free money and free stuff will somehow carry the day, and perhaps for a large number of people, it will. Free operations for transgenders. What will Bernie charge for, will there be anything we have to pay for. Meanwhile Trump is standing by sidelines and hurling insults at the already challenged field and having a great party. But the party is about to end and then we'll see a landslide of epic proportions. 

The Democrat clown car dumpster fire seems to know no bounds. Reparations galore for everyone compliments of Liawatha. Free money and free stuff will somehow carry the day, and perhaps for a large number of people, it will. Free operations for transgenders. What will Bernie charge for, will there be anything we have to pay for. Meanwhile Trump is standing by sidelines and hurling insults at the already challenged field and having a great party. But the party is about to end and then we'll see a landslide of epic proportions. 

If politicians deliberately set out to destroy a state, it would look like California. It's not enough having the highest taxes in the nation, the worst business environment, emptying out the jails and driving the middle class to other states, they're doing their best to accelerate the trend. And let's not forget homelessness. The state is completely unable and unwilling to deal with it. Which has led to a recall petition for Governor Newsome and LA Mayor Garcetti. Most states try to avoid blackouts, but California embraces them. Fortunately Joe Messina was just outside the zone, so his lights stayed on. But hundreds of thousands lost their power for several days. At this point, California is circling down the drain and there's nothing that can save it. 

If politicians deliberately set out to destroy a state, it would look like California. It's not enough having the highest taxes in the nation, the worst business environment, emptying out the jails and driving the middle class to other states, they're doing their best to accelerate the trend. And let's not forget homelessness. The state is completely unable and unwilling to deal with it. Which has led to a recall petition for Governor Newsome and LA Mayor Garcetti. Most states try to avoid blackouts, but California embraces them. Fortunately Joe Messina was just outside the zone, so his lights stayed on. But hundreds of thousands lost their power for several days. At this point, California is circling down the drain and there's nothing that can save it. 

Today on @ChosenGenerationRadio Former Mayor of Shiloh Israel David Rubin joins Pastor Greg to discuss Iran, the nuclear threat, Missiles that hit a Saudi Arabian power plant, shooting down the American Drone, their 1979 declaration of war on the USA, Israeli response and what should the USA be doing. Thaddeus Dionne Alexander our Man on the street, the Democrats continue to act as though they care about the minority communities, but 50 years of Democratic Party policies have proven that they care little about the black population. As they push their reparation agenda, incarcerations, poverty, single parent homes, drugs, gangs and a reduced life expectancy plague the neighborhoods run by Democrats. The one bringing hope is President Donald Trump with job opportunities which has lowered the unemployment rate to record lows, black entrepreneurship on the rise, a hard line on drugs, prison reform for non violent offenders and the second chance program and a President helping men to be men again. Dr Tom Barrett www.chosengold.com Dr Barrett like many others continue to share how weak the dollar really is and the danger of the paper money system and increased debt, at some point the bubble will burst, Then what should you do? Well he suggests you start planning now. Joe Messina The Real Side with Joe Messina, the conservatives have once again taken up the fight against abortion, this is a very important cause, but they refuse to take the moral high ground and confront the issue of radical LGBTQ and because of that the Equality Act HR5 now has 47 Senatorial signatures and a petition with 220,000 signatures trying to push it through. We confront it again today.

I contributed $1 to the Comrade de Blasio campaign, but there's a reason. No I don't support his run for president, but rather for comic relief purposes, I think de Blasio is an infinite source of comic material. Is London becoming San Francisco. The place has become a complete hellhole. President Trump was in another tif with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Trump likened him to a height challenged de Blasio. Khan's latest brainchild is banning all kitchen knives from London. We'll see about that. 

I contributed $1 to the Comrade de Blasio campaign, but there's a reason. No I don't support his run for president, but rather for comic relief purposes, I think de Blasio is an infinite source of comic material. Is London becoming San Francisco. The place has become a complete hellhole. President Trump was in another tif with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Trump likened him to a height challenged de Blasio. Khan's latest brainchild is banning all kitchen knives from London. We'll see about that. 

Hr 1: DNC says no debates for FoxNews because they aren't REAL news. AND... One freshman Congresswomen is SHOCKED at how much work she's having to do in the capital! AND... Ret. USMC Col. Corey Duncan talk cultural appropriation, social justice, and the diversity at CPAC (it isn't just for old white guys!) Hr 2: The Left says according to science Toxic Masculinity is real… REALLY? Hr 3: Find out more about the craziness and just plain weird things going in the world today with Joe Messina, from students being assaulted on college campuses JUST for being conservative, to Trump's "hush money", to wondering where we're getting all these employees to fill jobs in this economy that is ON FIRE, and a national traitor! Have you had your healthy dose of reality lately?

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Gaven Newsom is now the governor and he's planning ever larger giveaways to illegal aliens. Where does he think the money's going to come from? California is already $127 billion in debt and counting. Liberalism has reached pandemic proportions and Joe is very concerned. In fact, for the first time, he and his lovely wife are making plans to flee the state. Who can blame them for not wanting to go down with the ship? 

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Gaven Newsom is now the governor and he's planning ever larger giveaways to illegal aliens. Where does he think the money's going to come from? California is already $127 billion in debt and counting. Liberalism has reached pandemic proportions and Joe is very concerned. In fact, for the first time, he and his lovely wife are making plans to flee the state. Who can blame them for not wanting to go down with the ship? 

Today on @ChosenGenerationRadio Don Jans My Grandchildrens America joins as we discuss what is the new normal in America? What does the recent attack on Tucker Carlson's home tell us? Violent anarchist groups are attacking people and destroying free speech. This is a Marxist tactic. Don Jans explains. Jon Sutz Save the West joins us as we discuss the caravan that left wing media wants us to believe are simply down trodden poor immigrants who are looking to save their families. Video and pictures show thousands of young men who appear to be marching and burning American flags. What is really going on? David Ward retired Border Patrol Agent with over 38 years of law enforcement, public safety experience, and emergency management in supervisory and managerial positions. Guest commentator on FOX Business, FOX and Friends, Your World w Neil Cavuto, Ingraham Angle, Risk and Rewards, various radio media networks, Public Speaking relating to Border and National Security, Interior Immigration Enforcement. Joe Messina host of The Real Side with Joe Messina joins to discuss the attack on conservative news media and alternative news media outlets by Facebook, Twitter and Google.

It's no secret that California has gone off the rails, and we don't mean high speed bullet trains. We're looking at a state that has lost its collective sanity. Is there any hope? Can anything be done. Perhaps, as long as Joe Messina doesn't desert the sinking ship. Affirmative action is running rampant, with affirmative action air traffic controllers, pilots and cardiologists. How do you request a non-affirmative action professional? But Joe is always optimistic and enthusiastic about the future and you should be too. 

It's no secret that California has gone off the rails, and we don't mean high speed bullet trains. We're looking at a state that has lost its collective sanity. Is there any hope? Can anything be done. Perhaps, as long as Joe Messina doesn't desert the sinking ship. Affirmative action is running rampant, with affirmative action air traffic controllers, pilots and cardiologists. How do you request a non-affirmative action professional? But Joe is always optimistic and enthusiastic about the future and you should be too. 

It's no secret that California has gone off the rails, and we don't mean high speed bullet trains. We're looking at a state that has lost its collective sanity. Is there any hope? Can anything be done. Perhaps, as long as Joe Messina doesn't desert the sinking ship. Affirmative action is running rampant, with affirmative action air traffic controllers, pilots and cardiologists. How do you request a non-affirmative action professional? But Joe is always optimistic and enthusiastic about the future and you should be too. 

It's no secret that California has gone off the rails, and we don't mean high speed bullet trains. We're looking at a state that has lost its collective sanity. Is there any hope? Can anything be done. Perhaps, as long as Joe Messina doesn't desert the sinking ship. Affirmative action is running rampant, with affirmative action air traffic controllers, pilots and cardiologists. How do you request a non-affirmative action professional? But Joe is always optimistic and enthusiastic about the future and you should be too. 

Today on @ChosenGenerationRadio Don Jans continues to expose us to how Marxists are working to destroy our nation from within. Michael Hammond @GunOwners of America joins us to discuss how labeling people with a mental illness and taking away their Second Amendment Rights will lead to disarming specific groups like Christians who Janet Reno identified as having a mental illness. Burgess Owens Super Bowl Champion and retired NFL Player, joins us to discuss the NIKE deal and the NFL’s continued plunge in ratings. How social justice warriors like Lebrun James are driving away the very people that have made him rich. Joe Messina The Realside with Joe Messina joins us to discuss the continued craziness of California and the progressive left.

Max Barth, Joe Messina, & Brian Durkin are joined by Dan Vetrano to discuss Season 4 Episode 15 of The OC. But this isn't like any other TV show review podcast. The gang recorded themselves as they watched this episode. Think of it like a DVD commentary track. We press play on this OC episode at 3:54.

Max Barth, Joe Messina, & Brian Durkin are joined by no guest this time to discuss Season 4 Episode 16 of The OC. But this isn't like any other TV show review podcast. The gang recorded themselves as they watched this episode. Think of it like a DVD commentary track. We press play on this OC episode at 9:17.

Max Barth, Joe Messina, & Brian Durkin are joined by Natalie Nance to discuss Season 4 Episode 14 of The OC. But this isn't like any other TV show review podcast. The gang recorded themselves as they watched this episode. Think of it like a DVD commentary track. We press play on this OC episode at 2:59.

This week a charitable event. My friend Joe Messina joins us to talk about the upcoming Hope & Heroes Walk to benefit kids and families going through a rough time. (See below to make a donation) It's an important charity that's close to my heart as well BUT, (speaking of heroes) there's still plenty of time to talk about Lee Majors, my trip to Vegas, and the director of the 1978 movie, "Convoy", Sam Peckinpah. Yeah, you heard me right. Well if that's not eclectic enough for ya. . . .For donations click here: https://hopeandheroes.org/event/hope-heroes-walk/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The biggest problem I've had doing my podcasting career is the quality of my Skype connection. For such a well established service, it has a number of deficiences. Dropped calls, fadeouts, clicks, latency issues, etc. And yet it appears to be the cleanest shirt in the laundry. Other services promise the moon and the stars, but can't deliver. Worst part is that they rely upon you sending a connection link to get your interviewee on the call. This is often problematical. As a host, you want to be in control of the call. You don't want to be sitting around waiting for your guest to remeber to connect. With Skype, unlike all the other services, either party to a call can initiate contact. For seven years I've looked for a solution. Finally, my good friend Joe Messina has found one. Used properly, it will reduce your Skype issues by a large percentage. It's called QOS - Quality of Service. Found on your router settings, it enables you to allocate bandwith to different apps, programs and devices, either dynamically or in a fixed priority listing. It works amazingly well. If you're using a cable company combo modem/router you probably don't have access to DOS. However, you can simply configure your modem to shut down the built-in router and then connect an after market router. I'm using a Netgear AC1900 Nighthawk. It's way faster than my cable co's router and has QOS. Thus far I'm using the dynamic QOS setting and it's working like a charm. You might also want to consider it, especially  if you're having too many Skype issues.  

The biggest problem I've had doing my podcasting career is the quality of my Skype connection. For such a well established service, it has a number of deficiences. Dropped calls, fadeouts, clicks, latency issues, etc. And yet it appears to be the cleanest shirt in the laundry. Other services promise the moon and the stars, but can't deliver. Worst part is that they rely upon you sending a connection link to get your interviewee on the call. This is often problematical. As a host, you want to be in control of the call. You don't want to be sitting around waiting for your guest to remeber to connect. With Skype, unlike all the other services, either party to a call can initiate contact. For seven years I've looked for a solution. Finally, my good friend Joe Messina has found one. Used properly, it will reduce your Skype issues by a large percentage. It's called QOS - Quality of Service. Found on your router settings, it enables you to allocate bandwith to different apps, programs and devices, either dynamically or in a fixed priority listing. It works amazingly well. If you're using a cable company combo modem/router you probably don't have access to DOS. However, you can simply configure your modem to shut down the built-in router and then connect an after market router. I'm using a Netgear AC1900 Nighthawk. It's way faster than my cable co's router and has QOS. Thus far I'm using the dynamic QOS setting and it's working like a charm. You might also want to consider it, especially  if you're having too many Skype issues.  

An interview with Joe Messina, conservative pundit and Hart School Boardmember.

Hurricane clean up in Houston continues. 23 confirmed dead. National Guard goes to Houston. Urban Word of the Day. Joel Osteen denys not opening church for Houston displaced families. Trump trys to sell his tax program. What's Next: Words. Joe Messina, The Real Side, talks about Joe Arpiaos pardon and what it means. Say What?? Trump plans to repeal DACA. Would you trust your computer to examine your eyes?

7/2/17: Billy chats with radio talk show host Joe Messina, aviation expert/daytrader Jay Ratliff and Julie Gunlock from the Independent Women's Forum. Plus, your calls at 866-647-7337.

Yes, it’s me. Marc Hershon. Your host and corporeal being for Epi153 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. And this is another installment of Succotash Clips, where we feature clips of comedy soundcasts from all over the place. As far as this epi goes, we’ve got clips coming up in this installment from Chillpak Hollywood Hour, Crazytown, The David Feldman Show, Harmontown, The Jackie & Laurie Show, Nerd Poker, Nerds with Words, PTO Unlimited, and Studio 60 Sessions.  In addition, we also have a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment, featuring political comedian and social commentator Will Durst. And this episode is brought to you by Henderson’s Pants CoverALLs. Big thanks our Associate Producer Tyson Saner for harvesting half of the shows you’re going to hear on this episode – he does a great job finding new shows for this show and he also has his own soundcast, The Anti Social Show, along with Hunter Block, who is also a friend of this show. They just got their show up on iTunes so check ‘em out there, or on SoundCloud. Speaking of iTunes, if you’d like to be a friend of this show as well and have not yet rated and reviewed Succotash on iTunes, please do so. It doesn’t cost you a cent and it really helps our visibility in Soundcastland. For that matter if you listen to us on the Laughable app, or Stitcher, or SoundCloud, it would be great if you’d rate us using whatever system they’ve got going on. Same goes for YouTube and iHeart Radio, two more fab spots to hear our spew. WELCOME US TO PATREON I just popped the top on our new Succotash Patreon account. That’s right, we're now part of the Patreon soundcast life support system. I’m not quite sure what I’m doing with it yet, so I think the only option currently available is for you to kick us $1 a month, for which we will thank you every show in our Calvalcade of Gratitude. And I also think there’s a thing that’s live that if we get 250 followers on Patreon, I will commit to churing out an episode each and every week on a regular release day. So check out that page at https://www.patreon.com/succotash THE CLIPS The David Feldman ShowA soundcast that’s been around for a while in various forms is The David Feldman Show. David is a former standup comedian who I’ve known since he first got on stage in the San Francisco area. He took off years ago, heading for LA and then New York, where he’s been a writer on a bunch of TV shows. He’s been a guest on Succotash before – back in Epi108 – and I tickled that he asked me to be on his show just a couple of weeks ago. Chillpak Hollywood HourNormally for our friends in soundcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness, of Chillpak Hollywood Hour fame, I reserve playing clips unless they’re mentioning me because I’m just that self-absorbed. But a couple of weeks back the boys were on the road across the great US of A – Dean was even in the country from Australia where he’s been living the past couple of years – and they were at a Famous Monsters convention in Dallas, Texas. And they were not alone but, instead, sat down with Bruce Harwood and Tom Braidwood, the two actors who had co-starred with Dean as the trio known as The Lone Gunmen, first on The X-Files TV show and then for a season in their spin-off, The Lone Gunmen.   HarmontownOne of Tyson Saner’s picks for this episode is from a soundcast that we’ve featured before but it’s always a delight to drop in and see what latest bits of outrageousness are going on over in Dan Harmon's Harmontown. In this case, the clip we have is from back in March, when Harmontown had been annexed to Austin, Texas, as part of South By Southwest. Harmon was on hand along with Jeff Davis and Spencer Crittendon. Nerd PokerAt the end of April this year, a version of the defunct Nerd Poker with Brian Posehn & Friends soundcast snuck back into Soundcastland. Now called Brian Posehn’s Nerd Poker, it’s not network affiliated any more and so rather than being recorded in the Earwolf Studios, the action happens in Brian Posehn’s home in LA. The DM is Dan Telfer and, in addition to Brian, the players include Brian, Blaine Capatch, and Ken Daly, all of whom were in the original crew. We feature a slice from a recent episode where the characters are fighting something that might just be a werewolf. Crazy TownIt may be called Crazy Town, but the host, Jonaas, takes pains on the homesite to make sure no one’s offended by things that happen on the show – here’s part of his disclaimer: “Let me be serious with everyone for a second. This podcast is all about having fun and being goofy and poking fun at things. Nothing should be taken super serious, and the hosts and anyone else involved in this podcast are great people who have no prejudices of any sort, in any way, shape or form. This podcast is a work of fiction, please keep that in mind even though real life events and stories are discussed. If anyone is offended or feels that they have been wronged, let us please apologize up front as that is not our intent in  any way, shape or form.” Make you really curious what you’re about to hear though, right? The Jackie & Laurie ShowWe get a glimpse into the glamorous show biz lives of Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin. Jackie has had her Soundcast, The Dork Forest, for years now, but she and Laurie teamed up last year to put out The Jackie & Laurie Show, which is usually the two hosts talking about performing in comedy as woman, the state of comedy today, and reminiscing about various hell gigs over the years. But Laurie was a recent guest on Conan and so, in an episode entitled Show Yourself Out, she and Jackie headed backstage just before that appearance to do their show from there. (Producer's Note: Our host f'd up royally in this episode and called the show "Show Yourself Out". The dork has even reviewed Jackie and Laurie's soundcast before so I…er…he should have known better…) Nerds With WordsTyson snipped us off a hunk of a soundcast called Nerds with Words, featuring Adam Nutter and Greg Trout. It’s not to be mistaken with, or for, Nerdz with Wordz where the esses in "nerds" and "words" are spelled with a z. Totally different soundcast. Our clip is from a recent show featuring guest Joe Messina,a comedian and soundcaster who just shut down his show Breaking Up with Joe, where he recounted the details of a painful breakup he had gone through. He has a stage show called Party Lines and we pick up here mid-discussion about that show.  PTOUnlimitedAnother “new to us” soundcast is PTO Unlimited, hosted by Brett, Josh, and Alyx. The PTO part – I think – comes from “paid time off” and the Unlimited part is from the fact they will talk about unlimited topics. Their SoundCloud page says there are from “Fort Wayne, United States.” I’m guessing that’s in Indiana, too.  Anyway, Tyson flipped us this clip, where the hosts kick around the movie Ghost Ship from 2002. The Studio 60 SessionsAn old friend of Succotash is Travis Clark. He and his wife, Brandi, had their soundcast, Tiny Odd Conversations, up and running for quite some time. I think TOC is offcially in the Soundcast Graveyard now, as their last episode was posted in March of last year, but Travis popped up this last week as the first guest on a new soundcast called The Studio 60 Sessions. Another fine example of niche programming, this show is devoted to a TV show called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was on NBC over a decade ago. (You can find the series on Amazon and other online places. It seems Travis had been a fan of the show and he joins Studio 60 Sessions host Dave Amiott to chat about the pilot episode of the TV show. CLOSING REMARKS If you're a comedy soundcaster and would like us to feature your show on our show, you can get us a 3-5 minute MP3 clip (no promos, please!) by uploading it directly to me via our direct upload link, at http://hightail.com/u/Succotash. And please tell us a little about you and the show itself, including the homesite, distribution points, etc. Our next epi will likely be an installment of Succotash Chats, with a surprise guest who's actually making his fourth appearance on the show! Until next time, thanks for passing the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Dedication: Lieutenant Kevin Clyde Mainhart, Yell County Sheriff's Department, AR EOW: Thursday, May 11, 2017  Cause of Death: Gunfire Guests: Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, the Original Mad Black Man!  Corey is a frequent guest on Joe Messina's, "The Real Side".  http://www.therealside.com/ https://www.facebook.com/corey.p.duncan Rodney Lee Conover - Activist, producer, writer, entertainer Follow on Twitter @rodneyconover Webpage: www.IHavetheTruth.com Scott Osborne - Co-host on Conover U http://www.blogtalkradio.com/contending4truthradio Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Kevin Clyde Mainhart, Yell County Sheriff's Department, AREOW: Thursday, May 11, 2017  Cause of Death: GunfireGuests:Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, the Original Mad Black Man!  Corey is a frequent guest on Joe Messina's, "The Real Side".  http://www.therealside.com/https://www.facebook.com/corey.p.duncanRodney Lee Conover - Activist, producer, writer, entertainerFollow on Twitter @rodneyconoverWebpage: www.IHavetheTruth.comScott Osborne - Co-host on Conover U http://www.blogtalkradio.com/contending4truthradioSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Kevin Clyde Mainhart, Yell County Sheriff's Department, AREOW: Thursday, May 11, 2017 Cause of Death: GunfireGuests:Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, the Original Mad Black Man! Corey is a frequent guest on Joe Messina's, "The Real Side". http://www.therealside.com/https://www.facebook.com/corey.p.duncanRodney Lee Conover - Activist, producer, writer, entertainerFollow on Twitter @rodneyconoverWebpage: www.IHavetheTruth.comScott Osborne - Co-host on Conover U http://www.blogtalkradio.com/contending4truthradioSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Kevin Clyde Mainhart, Yell County Sheriff's Department, AREOW: Thursday, May 11, 2017 Cause of Death: GunfireGuests:Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, the Original Mad Black Man! Corey is a frequent guest on Joe Messina's, "The Real Side". http://www.therealside.com/https://www.facebook.com/corey.p.duncanRodney Lee Conover - Activist, producer, writer, entertainerFollow on Twitter @rodneyconoverWebpage: www.IHavetheTruth.comScott Osborne - Co-host on Conover U http://www.blogtalkradio.com/contending4truthradioSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Leo K. Thorsness, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a dogfight over North Vietnam and spent six years in the enemy prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, died May 2 in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 85.Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community.  He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina.  Facebook: corey.p.duncanClarence V. McKee has an extensive background in law, media, corporate, government, legislative, international and political affairs. He is particularly skilled in the effective use of electronic and print media.His political commentary has appeared in national publications. He is a commissioner on the North Broward Hospital District, serving the northern two thirds of Broward County Florida and has been a member of the Florida Council of 100 and Associated Industries of Florida.  He's column: "The Silent Minority" on NewsMax.comBobby Lawrence: ProtectYourVoteUSA.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Leo K. Thorsness, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a dogfight over North Vietnam and spent six years in the enemy prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, died May 2 in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 85.Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community. He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina. Facebook: corey.p.duncanClarence V. McKee has an extensive background in law, media, corporate, government, legislative, international and political affairs. He is particularly skilled in the effective use of electronic and print media.His political commentary has appeared in national publications. He is a commissioner on the North Broward Hospital District, serving the northern two thirds of Broward County Florida and has been a member of the Florida Council of 100 and Associated Industries of Florida. He's column: "The Silent Monority" on NewsMax.comBobby Lawrence: ProtectYourVoteUSA.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Leo K. Thorsness, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a dogfight over North Vietnam and spent six years in the enemy prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, died May 2 in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 85.Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community. He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina. Facebook: corey.p.duncanClarence V. McKee has an extensive background in law, media, corporate, government, legislative, international and political affairs. He is particularly skilled in the effective use of electronic and print media.His political commentary has appeared in national publications. He is a commissioner on the North Broward Hospital District, serving the northern two thirds of Broward County Florida and has been a member of the Florida Council of 100 and Associated Industries of Florida. He's column: "The Silent Monority" on NewsMax.comBobby Lawrence: ProtectYourVoteUSA.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Leo K. Thorsness, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a dogfight over North Vietnam and spent six years in the enemy prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, died May 2 in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 85. Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community.  He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina.  Facebook: corey.p.duncan Clarence V. McKee has an extensive background in law, media, corporate, government, legislative, international and political affairs. He is particularly skilled in the effective use of electronic and print media. His political commentary has appeared in national publications. He is a commissioner on the North Broward Hospital District, serving the northern two thirds of Broward County Florida and has been a member of the Florida Council of 100 and Associated Industries of Florida.  He's column: "The Silent Minority" on NewsMax.com Bobby Lawrence: ProtectYourVoteUSA.org Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Deputy Sheriff Michael Robert Foley, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, California End of Watch: Thursday, February 23, 2017 Jeff Crouere hosts Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com. Since January of 1999, Crouere (pronounced crew-air) has been a radio talk show host based in New Orleans, LA. His programs are dedicated to examining the top issues of the day on the local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators.  shows/ringside-politics/  ringsidepolitics.com/  jeffcrouere.com/ Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community.  He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina.  Facebook: corey.p.duncan Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Deputy Sheriff Michael Robert Foley, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, CaliforniaEnd of Watch: Thursday, February 23, 2017Jeff Crouere hosts Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.Since January of 1999, Crouere (pronounced crew-air) has been a radio talk show host based in New Orleans, LA. His programs are dedicated to examining the top issues of the day on the local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators. shows/ringside-politics/ ringsidepolitics.com/ jeffcrouere.com/Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community. He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina. Facebook: corey.p.duncanSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Deputy Sheriff Michael Robert Foley, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, CaliforniaEnd of Watch: Thursday, February 23, 2017Jeff Crouere hosts Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.Since January of 1999, Crouere (pronounced crew-air) has been a radio talk show host based in New Orleans, LA. His programs are dedicated to examining the top issues of the day on the local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators.  shows/ringside-politics/  ringsidepolitics.com/  jeffcrouere.com/Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community.  He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina.  Facebook: corey.p.duncanSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Deputy Sheriff Michael Robert Foley, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, CaliforniaEnd of Watch: Thursday, February 23, 2017Jeff Crouere hosts Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.Since January of 1999, Crouere (pronounced crew-air) has been a radio talk show host based in New Orleans, LA. His programs are dedicated to examining the top issues of the day on the local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators. shows/ringside-politics/ ringsidepolitics.com/ jeffcrouere.com/Corey "Charismatic" Duncan, Our Mad Black Man from Baltimore, joins us to discuss issues from the inner city and why Democrats keep screwing the Black community. He is a frequent guest on "The Real Side Radio Show with Joe Messina. Facebook: corey.p.duncanSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

LIVE FROM TATTOOED MOM, IT'S EVERYTHING IS AWESOME LATE NIGHT! This episode, Brian Durkin from Fully Belly Laughs, Philadelphia comedian, Joe Messina, and co-host, the creator of Tellest, Mike DeAngelo! Kev created a mini-festival of sorts to celebrate Everything is Awesome's first anniversary (the show debuted on February 1st, 2016). He and Mike chat about alternative facts, the NotUS campaign from Fuck Cancer, and play some trivia before getting political with Joe Messina. A last-minute guest change brings back the host of Fully Belly Laughs, Brian Durkin and they chat about the strong Philadelphia podcasting community. All this and more on this week's edition of Everything is Awesome! Find Kev on twitter @ThatNerdyKev Find Mike on twitter @Tellest Find Joe Messina on twitter @Joe_Messina Find Brian Durkin and Full Belly Laughs on twitter @FullBellyLaughs Everything is Awesome on twitter @RealAwesomePod Support Everything is Awesome by leaving a 5-star review on iTunes, Apple's math gets us in front of more people's eyes and ear :) Support Everything is Awesome by telling a friend

LIVE FROM TATTOOED MOM, IT'S EVERYTHING IS AWESOME LATE NIGHT! This episode, Brian Durkin from Fully Belly Laughs, Philadelphia comedian, Joe Messina, and co-host, the creator of Tellest, Mike DeAngelo! Here's your host, as heard on 95.7 BEN-FM's BEN Around Philly, Kevin Gallagher! The post Everything is Awesome Episode 53 – Podiversary the First (LIVE at Tattooed Mom) appeared first on That's Entertainment.

Guest this hour - Joe Messina (talk show host). - Obama has pardoned a few dozen people towards the end of his final term and there’s more to come. Will he pardon Hillary Clinton? - Did fake news get Donald Trump elected? Victoria talks to Joe Messina about, “How Fake News and Delusions Win Elections”. – Victoria talks about liberal celebrities that are trying to protest Trump and disrupt the election process and get their message across. There’s a difference between attention and persuasion. The Mark Larson Show - with Victoria Taft sitting in!

Dedication: To the 136 Sailors and Marines lost aboard the USS Turner, January 3, 1944Joe Messina began his radio career after being asked to fill in for a show host who cancelled short notice. Joe grabbed a Democrat and Republican and, being the “agitator” he can be, stirred it up!After that, he was asked to do a one hour weekly show that quickly turned into a two hour show, then three hour show.Now Joe can be heard daily across the airwaves and over the internet on several stations.He has loyal listeners in 42 states and 38 countries, and the list keeps growing! therealside.comDan Perkins: Author | Financial Planner | Speaker | Philanthropist | MentorAs with the novels he writes, Dan Perkins is a multi-faceted character. He resonates a life filled with action, travel, family and of course, writing. The story-lines of his books, although fiction, could be pulled today’s headlines. His sense of the political arena is keen and sharp, with a wit to match. From his speaking engagements to his radio program, to his often appearances on TV programs, Dan keeps his opinions in the public view. While not always politically “correct” he is always politically “astute.”  danperkinsatsanibel.com/Southern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and Kel Fritzi, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: To the 136 Sailors and Marines lost aboard the USS Turner, January 3, 1944Joe Messina began his radio career after being asked to fill in for a show host who cancelled short notice. Joe grabbed a Democrat and Republican and, being the “agitator” he can be, stirred it up!After that, he was asked to do a one hour weekly show that quickly turned into a two hour show, then three hour show.Now Joe can be heard daily across the airwaves and over the internet on several stations.He has loyal listeners in 42 states and 38 countries, and the list keeps growing! therealside.comDan Perkins: Author | Financial Planner | Speaker | Philanthropist | MentorAs with the novels he writes, Dan Perkins is a multi-faceted character. He resonates a life filled with action, travel, family and of course, writing. The story-lines of his books, although fiction, could be pulled today’s headlines. His sense of the political arena is keen and sharp, with a wit to match. From his speaking engagements to his radio program, to his often appearances on TV programs, Dan keeps his opinions in the public view. While not always politically “correct” he is always politically “astute.” danperkinsatsanibel.com/Southern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and Kel Fritzi, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: To the 136 Sailors and Marines lost aboard the USS Turner, January 3, 1944 Joe Messina began his radio career after being asked to fill in for a show host who cancelled short notice. Joe grabbed a Democrat and Republican and, being the “agitator” he can be, stirred it up! After that, he was asked to do a one hour weekly show that quickly turned into a two hour show, then three hour show. Now Joe can be heard daily across the airwaves and over the internet on several stations.He has loyal listeners in 42 states and 38 countries, and the list keeps growing! therealside.com Dan Perkins: Author | Financial Planner | Speaker | Philanthropist | Mentor As with the novels he writes, Dan Perkins is a multi-faceted character. He resonates a life filled with action, travel, family and of course, writing. The story-lines of his books, although fiction, could be pulled today’s headlines. His sense of the political arena is keen and sharp, with a wit to match. From his speaking engagements to his radio program, to his often appearances on TV programs, Dan keeps his opinions in the public view. While not always politically “correct” he is always politically “astute.”  danperkinsatsanibel.com/ Southern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and Kel Fritzi, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: To the 136 Sailors and Marines lost aboard the USS Turner, January 3, 1944Joe Messina began his radio career after being asked to fill in for a show host who cancelled short notice. Joe grabbed a Democrat and Republican and, being the “agitator” he can be, stirred it up!After that, he was asked to do a one hour weekly show that quickly turned into a two hour show, then three hour show.Now Joe can be heard daily across the airwaves and over the internet on several stations.He has loyal listeners in 42 states and 38 countries, and the list keeps growing! therealside.comDan Perkins: Author | Financial Planner | Speaker | Philanthropist | MentorAs with the novels he writes, Dan Perkins is a multi-faceted character. He resonates a life filled with action, travel, family and of course, writing. The story-lines of his books, although fiction, could be pulled today’s headlines. His sense of the political arena is keen and sharp, with a wit to match. From his speaking engagements to his radio program, to his often appearances on TV programs, Dan keeps his opinions in the public view. While not always politically “correct” he is always politically “astute.” danperkinsatsanibel.com/Southern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and Kel Fritzi, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website Southern-Sense.com

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An interview with host of "The Real Side" and Hart School Board Member, Joe Messina

Joe Messina on the Oregon SituationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest this week is Joe Messina. He is a political radio talk show host. We are going to discuss how to have productive conversations with friends and family about politics. With less than three weeks until the Presidential election it’s time to learn some healthy communication skills for these heated topics.

Michelle's first show, she interviews radio talk show host Joe Messina, host of The Real Side.

Special Guest Joe Messina joins the gang to talk about actors who played Presidents

Special Guest Joe Messina joins the gang to talk about actors who played Presidents