Podcast appearances and mentions of Martha Reeves

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THE PODCAST AMLooking back onSolid Gold Soul, I came across some radio memories from WJMO AM Cleveland dating back to 1995 on YouTube. The show featured Solid Gold Soul with David Jackson, which was also broadcasted on WELS-FM in Kinston, NC. I used to listen to Solid Gold Soul frequently and still recall the catchy jingle celebrating classic soul hits from the 60s and 70s. They showcased incredible tracks like Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' “Honey Chile, Third Finger, Left Hand,” which I mistakenly believed was called "Wedding Band." They also played Aretha Franklin's “The House That Jack Built” and Tina Charles' “I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me.” It puzzles me why radio stations that play such great hits eventually change formats. They often transition to genres like Gospel or Country. I think a station like that could easily incorporate Gospel on Sundays and Country on Saturdays, while still showcasing the beloved soul hits throughout the week. I really miss Solid Gold Soul.I'm Gail Nobles. You're listening to the Podcast AM. A show about the AM Stories on the Cat Bear.

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Hoy en La Gran Travesía os dejamos la segunda parte del especial dedicado al año 1964, donde podréis escuchar a Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Kinks, The Supremes, Bob Dylan, Four Seasons, Beach Boys, The Beatles, High Numbers, Roy Orbison, Marianne Faithfull, James Brown, Rolling Stones, Davie Jones, Dixie Cups...y muchos más. También recordaros que ya podéis comprar La gran travesía del rock, un libro interactivo que además contará con 15 programas de radio complementarios, a modo de ficción sonora... con muchas sorpresas y voces conocidas... https://www.ivoox.com/gran-travesia-del-rock-capitulos-del-libro_bk_list_10998115_1.html Jimi y Janis, dos periodistas musicales, vienen de 2027, un mundo distópico y delirante donde el reguetón tiene (casi) todo el poder... pero ellos dos, deciden alistarse al GLP para viajar en el tiempo, salvar el rock, rescatar sus archivos ocultos y combatir la dictadura troyana del FPR. ✨ El libro ya está en diversas webs https://npqeditores.com/producto/la-gran-travesia-del-rock/ ▶️ Y ya sabéis, si os gusta el programa y os apetece, podéis apoyarnos y colaborar con nosotros por el simple precio de una cerveza al mes, desde el botón azul de iVoox, y así, además podéis acceder a todo el archivo histórico exclusivo. Muchas gracias también a todos los mecenas y patrocinadores por vuestro apoyo: Jose Angel Tremiño, Marco Landeta Vacas, Oscar García Muñoz, Raquel Parrondo, Javier Gonzar, Eva Arenas, Poncho C, Nacho, Javito, Alberto, Tei, Pilar Escudero, Utxi 73, Blas, Moy, Juan Antonio, Dani Pérez, Santi Oliva, Vicente DC,, Leticia, JBSabe, Huini Juarez, Flor, Melomanic, Noni, Arturo Soriano, Gemma Codina, Raquel Jiménez, Francisco Quintana, Pedro, SGD, Raul Andres, Tomás Pérez, Pablo Pineda, Quim Goday, Enfermerator, María Arán, Joaquín, Horns Up, Victor Bravo, Fonune, Eulogiko, Francisco González, Marcos Paris, Vlado 74, Daniel A, Redneckman, Elliott SF, Guillermo Gutierrez, Sementalex, Jesús Miguel, Miguel Angel Torres, Suibne, Javifer, Matías Ruiz Molina, Noyatan, Estefanía, Iván Menéndez, Niksisley y a los mecenas anónimos.

Our old pal Jon Schneider is back once again to discuss one of the most integral episodes of the first season: it's Christmas episode. Not only is it the first time a host would return to the show but it manages to include a number of iconic moments while somehow also managing to seem incredibly loose and nearly incomplete at times. But that's just the magic of S1 SNL. Lots of weirdness abounds: live Polaroid commercials, Mel's Char Palace...done three times with almost no change, the fastest the show would ever get to a musical guest that wasn't pulling double duty, and, most importantly, Maggie Kuhn.

MUSICMegan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly have reportedly split up, just one month after announcing their pregnancy. A new Still G.I.N. commercial By Dre and Snoop ad dropped on Tuesday, Dec. 10. It features the rappers “meeting” music legends Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Singer Gavin Rossdale has revealed he's received offers for Bush's music catalog. Neck Bolt Publishing has released an official Rob Zombie coloring bookTVJamie Foxx's Netflix special "What Had Happened Was" finally hit Netflix yesterday . . and now we know why he was in the hospital fighting for his life last year.Special A Motown Christmas airs on NBC. Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host. Performers: Gladys Knight, Martha Reeves, The TemptationsMOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS:Another Meet The Parents movie is in the works with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are in talks to star in a sequel. They say everybody's got a price. And that theory is about to get seriously tested. A producer named Danny Rossner wants to get Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie back onscreen together, and he's offering them a fortune to do it. Cillian Murphy isn't looking so hot in the trailer for "28 Years Later". The long-awaited sequel comes to theaters on June 20th, 2025 AND FINALLYGoogle released it's top trending searches of 2024. Here's the Top 5 in Entertainment and SportsFollow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams - Check out King Scott's Linktr.ee/kingscottrules + band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MUSIC Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly have reportedly split up, just one month after announcing their pregnancy. A new Still G.I.N. commercial By Dre and Snoop ad dropped on Tuesday, Dec. 10. It features the rappers “meeting” music legends Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Singer Gavin Rossdale has revealed he's received offers for Bush's music catalog. Neck Bolt Publishing has released an official Rob Zombie coloring book TV Jamie Foxx's Netflix special "What Had Happened Was" finally hit Netflix yesterday . . and now we know why he was in the hospital fighting for his life last year. Special A Motown Christmas airs on NBC. Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey host. Performers: Gladys Knight, Martha Reeves, The Temptations MOVING ON INTO MOVIE NEWS: Another Meet The Parents movie is in the works with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are in talks to star in a sequel. They say everybody's got a price. And that theory is about to get seriously tested. A producer named Danny Rossner wants to get Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie back onscreen together, and he's offering them a fortune to do it.  Cillian Murphy isn't looking so hot in the trailer for "28 Years Later". The long-awaited sequel comes to theaters on June 20th, 2025  AND FINALLY Google released it's top trending searches of 2024. Here's the Top 5 in Entertainment and Sports Follow us @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams - Check out King Scott's Linktr.ee/kingscottrules + band @FreeThe2SG and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and Lern's band @LaneNarrows http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

HERE WE GO MY SHOW FOR 21-NOV-2024 WITH A MIXED BAG OF OLD CLASSICS INCLUDING ( SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS, THE MOMENTS & WHATNAUTS, THE SUNBURST BAND, SKIPWORTH & TURNER, CHIC, THE LIMIT  ) AND MANY MORE ALSO SOME TOP NEW TRACKS FROM ( GEORGIE B & THE GROOVE ASSOCIATION, AL LINDSAY, NORMA JEAN WRIGHT ) WE ALSO HAVE THE CONNOISSEURS CORNER ( THIS WEEK WE HAVE GROVER WASHINGTON JR AND KIM WATERS  ) AND WE HAVE THE BACK TO BACK CLASSICS BY A CLASSIC ARTIST (THIS WEEK WE HAVE TWO TRACKS FROM 52ND STREET ) THEN WE HAVE THREE TRACKS DUG OUT FROM THE GARAGE FROM ( THE SUPREMES, JIMMY RUFFIN, MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELAS ) FINNISHING OF WITH A COUPLE OF SLOW TRACKS AND MUCH MUCH MORE SIT BACK WITH A GLASS OF SOMETHING AND ENJOY OR DOWNLOAD FOR LATER

She was the little girl from Detroit with big dreams And along with some friends with similar dreams, Mary Wilson became a founding member of the greatest Motown girl group ever: the Supremes. Her 1986 book Dream Girl became a hug bestseller. In this 1990 interview Wilson talks about her follow-up book, Supreme Faith. Get your copy of Supreme Faith by Mary Wilson As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases.You may also enjoy my interviews with Martha Reeves and Otis Williams For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. and now on YouTube #Motown #Supremes #1960s #girl groups

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Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 [0:00:00] Music behind DJ: Rainbow All-Stars - "Boardwalkin'" - 45 [0:04:28] The Showmen - "Com'n Home" - 45 [0:04:56] Big Maybelle - "Such a Cutie" - 45 [0:06:52] The Composers - "You and Yours" - 45 [0:08:58] The Collegians - "Grandma Told Me So" - 45 [0:11:13] Deloris Ealy - "I Used to Love Someone" - 45 [0:13:38] Music behind DJ: Pearl Reeves with Paul Farano Trio - "High Noon" - 45 [0:15:37] Betty Boothe - "Just a Little Bit of True Love" - 45 [0:18:26] Richard Berry - "In a Real Big Way" - 45 [0:20:13] Bobby Day - "When I Started Dancin'" - 45 [0:22:09] The Hot Tamales - "Join in the Fun" - 45 [0:24:51] Music behind DJ: Preston Love - "Omaha Mash" - 45 [0:26:35] Otis Lee - "Hard Row to Hoe" - 45 [0:29:02] The Pets - "West Side Party" - 45 [0:31:30] Elane & Donna - "Please Me, Don't Tease Me" - 45 [0:33:50] Jan & Chuck - "West Coast Living" - 45 [0:36:08] Don and the Agitators - "Going Back Home" - 45 [0:38:19] Music behind DJ: Jimmy Conwell - "Cigarette Ashes" - 45 [0:40:54] Freddie Williams - "I've Got to Live While I Can" - 45 [0:43:20] Isley Brothers - "Tell Me It's Just a Rumor Baby" - 45 [0:44:55] Those Two - "I Can't Treat Her Bad" - 45 [0:47:55] Tommy Smiley - "I Won't Cry" - 45 [0:50:15] Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - "Honey Chile" - 45 [0:52:12] Music behind DJ: Detroit City Limits - "Honey Chile" - 45 [0:54:45] The Chances - "People Wake Up Before It's Too Late" - 45 [0:56:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/145896

Hoje o Mulheres e Música te apresenta Martha Reeves

We close out August of 1964 with more from the Cashbox charts. Calling out, around the world (or at least the US and UK). Martha Reeves is Dancing in the Streets, and Roy Orbison is telling us about his pretty woman. Meanwhile, the Beatles continue steamrolling through the 1964 American charts! Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 [0:00:00] Music behind DJ: Lee Castle - "The Big Bad Train" - 45 [0:02:06] The Butlers - "She Tried To Kiss Me (All I Could Do Was Run)" - 45 [0:04:36] Frankie Beverly & the Butlers - "I Want to Feel I'm Wanted" - 45 [0:06:15] Frankie Beverly - "She Kissed Me" - 45 [0:08:21] The Butlers - "The Sun's Message" - 45 [0:10:51] Frankie Beverly & the Butlers - "Because of My Heart" - 45 [0:13:51] Music behind DJ: Floyd Morris - "So Nice 'n' So Easy" - 45 [0:16:00] Frank Beverly & the Butlers - "Love (Your Pain Goes Deep)" - 45 [0:18:31] Frankie Beverly's Raw Soul - "While I'm Alone" - 45 [0:20:20] Frankie Beverly's Raw Soul - "People in the Know" - 45 [0:22:32] Frankie Beverly's Raw Soul - "Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day" - 45 [0:25:22] Frank Beverly & the Butlers - "If That's What You Wanted" - 45 [0:27:47] Music behind DJ: Floyd Morris - "So Nice 'n' So Easy" - 45 [0:31:32] Dee Dee Warwick - "Locked in Your Love" - 45 [0:32:00] Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - "Without You" - 45 [0:34:20] Shirley Lawson - "One More Chance" - 45 [0:36:25] The Sisters Three - "You Can Forget It" - 45 [0:38:41] Carol Anderson - "I'm Not Worried" - 45 [0:41:04] Music behind DJ: The Soulful Strings - "Zambezi" - 45 [0:43:59] The Fabulous Verbs - "Let Me Be the Man" - 45 [0:46:51] Chuck Holiday - "Just Can't Trust Nobody" - 45 [0:49:43] Soul Suspects - "Funky Drop" - 45 [0:51:41] Bobby Holley - "Moving Dancer" - 45 [0:53:42] McKinley Sandifer - "Rare Back and Stretch" - 45 [0:56:37] Music behind DJ: Sonny Forrest - "Madame Bootie Green" - 45 [0:58:46] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/144033

Welcome to Episode 62 of Sounds Like Radio as we get to dancin' at the hop.   Marjorie wants to dance and so does Georgia Gibbs, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Little Eva, Madeleine Peyroux, Frankie & Martha Reeves and her Vandellas.   It's all happening in today's show which features the Great Gildersleeve 5/18/49 episode as we dance before and after with Your Humble Host toe tappin' all the way. AND NEXT WEEK ALL NEW SOUNDS LIKE RADIO shows RETURN!!!

National Sour candy day.  Entertainment from 2005.  Great fire of Rome, Wrong Way Corrigan ends up in Ireland, Ted Kennedy crashes at chappaquiddick & kills Mary Jo Kopechne.  Todays birthdays - Unsinkable Molly Brown, Hume Cronyn, John Glenn, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Dion, James Brolin, Martha Reeves, Ricky Skaggs, Vin Diesel, Kristin Bell.  Jane Austen died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard    https://defleppard.com/tour/Sour candy - Lady Gaga  and BlackpinkWe belong together - Mariah CareyAs good as I once was - Toby KeithMy happiness - Elvis PresleyIt's raining tacos - Perry GrippI put a spell on you - Screamin Jay HawkinsWanderer - DionDancing in the streets - Martha & the VandellasCountry boy - Ricky SkaggsFollow Jeff Stampka on Facebook and cooolmedia.com

Nick Harvey /Suzanne Palmer - Stand Up (Eric Kupper Remix),Warren Clarke / Kathy Brown - Over You (Sophie Lloyd Rework), Next Phase/Helen Bruner and Terry Jones - I Ain't Got Time(Richard Earnshaw Extended Remix),Lukamusic/The Jargons - Lord, Grace and Mercy(Rocco Rodamaal Remix), Yours - Our Love (David Penn Remix),Milk and Sugar - Let The Sun Shine (James Hurt Scorchio Mix),Groove Addix - Faith (Sebb Junior Remix),Ralf Gum feat. Luther Vandross -  Lose My Shine (Andrea Fiorino Shiny Mash)Maysa/Chris Walker - Down With Me (DJ Spen and Reelsoul Radio Edit),Lenny Fontana - Can You Feel It (Club Mix),Eric Faria - Love Ballad,Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love(Ben Liebrand Extended Remix),David Morales/Romina Johnson - Ain't Nobody, Jo Paciello - Montmartre Love Affair,Eric Erickson and Reel People - Don't Hold Back On Love (Vocal Mix),Kiko Navarro - Chan Chan (Mijangos Latin Remix),Jo Paciello - Concentrate and Relax (Mo'cream Remix),  Chuck Jackson and Yvonne Fair - It Must Be Love Baby(From Detroit With Love IV EP),The Vandellas - You Taught Me How To Care(From Detroit With Love III EP),Martha Reeves and The Vandellas - Earthquake(From Detroit With Love II EP),Kim Weston - Fancy Meeting You(From Detroit With Love EP),Cornell C.C. Carter - Everyday (KC MIx),Sunlightsquare - I Thought It Was You (Live),

Fruitful Radio Show with Nick Carling … and the box is heaving... new music comes from Tokyo Riddim Band, Session Victim, Quiet Village, Voilaaa, Greg Foat, Galliano, Jazz n Palms, Ahmad Albar, Mariko Katsuragi, Jack Tennis. Well seasoned gems come from Jerry Garcia Band, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, The Supremes and more! Thanks for listening. For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/fruitful-radio/Tune into new broadcasts of Fruitful Radio, LIVE, every 2nd Friday from 5 - 7 AM EST / 10 AM - Noon GMT, in association with 1BTN Brighton.//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Semblava que no arribaria mai, per

N.W.N./Soso - Soul Food,The Jazzcodes - Jazz Was Dancing (Saison Extended Remix),Micky More, Andy Tee, Angela Johnson - Is it Love You're After(Danny Krivit Edit),Antonello Ferrari - Don't Look Any Further,D.P.V. - It Must Be Love,Harvey Ross - Magic,Beat Rivals/Kathy Brown - I Can't Stop,The Shapeshifters - Beautiful Day (feat. Liisi Lafonatine),Tom Glide - You Are My Light (Tom Glide's Tightrope Rework),Maurice Joshua/Meagan McNeal - Lovin' U (Maurice Joshua House Mix),Ralf Gum - Happy Ending (instr.),October London - Midnight Love Affair,Maze feat. Frankie Beverly - Twilight,Hardage - Hysterical Years (feat. Gil Scott Heron),Tanya Nolan - Honey (Soulpersona Raregroove Remix),Freda Payne - Just To Be With You (Golden Promise Remix),Captain and Tennille - How Can You Be So Cold,Honey Cone feat. Sharon Cash - Somebody is Always Messing Up A Good Thing,Freda Payne - You Brought The Joy,Martha Reeves and The Vandellas - Earthquake,Brenda Holloway - My World is Crumbling,Pressure Point/PP Arnold - Dream All Night,Roberta Flack - Qual E Malindrinho,Luther - Funky Music (Is A Part of Me),

Zoom Court oopsie, Rolling Stone's Diddy report, Kevin Costner's ex-wife moves on, murdered actor Johnny Wactor's ex-fiancé is taking a pounding, and Fallen Idols: Nick & Aaron Carter sends us into a Righteous Rick rabbit hole. Trudi will be roasting the Doc of Rock Doug Podell. The David Hall/Drew Lane interview has finally dropped. Check it out here. ‘Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter' dropped parts 3&4 last night with the focus on Aaron. RIP Brando Corbin. His ex-fiance Tessa Farrell misses him a lot, but some people are questioning her authenticity. You can donate to his family's GoFundMe. Trudi just now learned of the new Detroit Zoo water tower art. Pete Davidson is coming to town. JLo's spiral is unfolding before our eyes. Her documentary is a turd. Her movie is a turd. Her album is a turd. Her marriage is diarrhea. TikTok is calling her out for being fake. Rolling Stone Magazine published their 6-month investigation on Diddy. It includes some new bombshells. North Korea sent poop-balloons to South Korea in retaliation. Drew Crime: The Bad Breath Rapist has finally been caught. Christine Baumgartner has moved on from Kevin Costner… with his former best friend and neighbor that she totally wasn't nailing before the divorce. Britney Spears and her brother have reconnected. Britney has found yet another way to be totally annoying. Bam Margera got married again. His vows were a story all about himself. We go down a rabbit hole of Righteous Rick on YouTube. Kylie Kelce got in a fight with someone that asked for a photo. Trudi had a parade adventure and met Dave Rozema while beefing with Martha Reeves. There is a new doc on Nicole Brown Simpson. OJ totally confessed, by the way. The Donald Trump jury has been sent home for the day. We watch the greatest Zoom court case possibly ever from Washtenaw County. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (The Drew Lane Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

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For those who haven't heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”. This week we take a short look at the song’s writers, Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, and the first released version by Gladys Knight and the Pips. In two weeks time we’ll take a longer look at the sixties career of the song’s most famous performer, Marvin Gaye. This episode is quite a light one. That one… won’t be. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode, on “Bend Me Shape Me” by Amen Corner. 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/ Resources Mixcloud will be up with the next episode. For Motown-related information in this and other Motown episodes, I've used the following resources: 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. 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. Motown: The Golden Years is another Motown encyclopaedia. And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 693 tracks released on Motown singles. For information on Marvin Gaye, and his relationship with Norman Whitfield, I relied on Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz. I’ve also used information on Whitfield in  Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations by Mark Ribowsky, I’ve also referred to interviews with Whitfield and Strong archived at rocksbackpages.com , notably “The Norman Whitfield interview”, John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1 February 1977 For information about Gladys Knight, I’ve used her autobiography. The best collection of Gladys Knight and the Pips’ music is this 3-CD set, but the best way to hear Motown hits is in the context of other Motown hits. This five-CD box set contains the first five in the Motown Chartbusters series of British compilations. The Pips’ version of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” is on disc 2, while Marvin Gaye’s is on disc 3, which is famously generally considered one of the best single-disc various artists compilations ever. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a brief note — this episode contains some brief mentions of miscarriage and drug abuse. The history of modern music would be immeasurably different had it not been for one car breakdown. Norman Whitfield spent the first fifteen years of his life in New York, never leaving the city, until his grandmother died. She’d lived in LA, and that was where the funeral was held, and so the Whitfield family got into a car and drove right across the whole continent — two thousand five hundred miles — to attend the old lady’s funeral. And then after the funeral, they turned round and started to drive home again. But they only got as far as Detroit when the car, understandably, gave up the ghost.  Luckily, like many Black families, they had family in Detroit, and Norman’s aunt was not only willing to put the family up for a while, but her husband was able to give Norman’s father a job in his drug store while he saved up enough money to pay for the car to be fixed. But as it happened, the family liked Detroit, and they never did get around to driving back home to New York. Young Norman in particular took to the city’s nightlife, and soon as well as going to school he was working an evening job at a petrol station — but that was only to supplement the money he made as a pool hustler. Young Norman Whitfield was never going to be the kind of person who took a day job, and so along with his pool he started hanging out with musicians — in particular with Popcorn and the Mohawks, a band led by Popcorn Wylie. [Excerpt: Popcorn and the Mohawks, “Shimmy Gully”] Popcorn and the Mohawks were a band of serious jazz musicians, many of whom, including Wylie himself, went on to be members of the Funk Brothers, the team of session players that played on Motown’s hits — though Wylie would depart Motown fairly early after a falling out with Berry Gordy. They were some of the best musicians in Detroit at the time, and Whitfield would tag along with the group and play tambourine, and sometimes other hand percussion instruments. He wasn’t a serious musician at that point, just hanging out with a bunch of people who were, who were a year or two older than him. But he was learning — one thing that everyone says about Norman Whitfield in his youth is that he was someone who would stand on the periphery of every situation, not getting involved, but soaking in everything that the people around him were doing, and learning from them. And soon, he was playing percussion on sessions. At first, this wasn’t for Motown, but everything in the Detroit music scene connected back to the Gordy family in one way or another. In this case, the label was Thelma Records, which was formed by Berry Gordy’s ex-mother-in-law and named after Gordy’s first wife, who he had recently divorced. Of all the great Motown songwriters and producers, Whitfield’s life is the least-documented, to the extent that the chronology of his early career is very vague and contradictory, and Thelma was such a small label there even seems to be some dispute about when it existed — different sources give different dates, and while Whitfield always said he worked for Thelma records, he might have actually been employed by another label owned by the same people, Ge Ge, which might have operated earlier — but by most accounts Whitfield quickly progressed from session tambourine player to songwriter. According to an article on Whitfield from 1977, the first record of one of his songs was “Alone” by Tommy Storm on Thelma Records, but that record seems not to exist — however, some people on a soul message board, discussing this a few years ago, found an interview with a member of a group called The Fabulous Peps which also featured Storm, saying that their record on Ge Ge Records, “This Love I Have For You”, is a rewrite of that song by Don Davis, Thelma’s head of A&R, though the credit on the label for that is just to Davis and Ron Abner, another member of the group: [Excerpt: The Fabulous Peps, “This Love I Have For You”] So that might, or might not, be the first Norman Whitfield song ever to be released. The other song often credited as Whitfield’s first released song is “Answer Me” by Richard Street and the Distants — Street was another member of the Fabulous Peps, but we’ve encountered him and the Distants before when talking about the Temptations — the Distants were the group that Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Al Bryant had been in before forming the Temptations — and indeed Street would much later rejoin his old bandmates in the Temptations, when Whitfield was producing for them. Unlike the Fabulous Peps track, this one was clearly credited to N. Whitfield, so whatever happened with the Storm track, this is almost certainly Whitfield’s first official credit as a songwriter: [Excerpt: Richard Street and the Distants, “Answer Me”] He was soon writing songs for a lot of small labels — most of which appear to have been recorded by the Thelma team and then licensed out — like “I’ve Gotten Over You” by the Sonnettes: [Excerpt: The Sonnettes, “I’ve Gotten Over You”] That was on KO Records, distributed by Scepter, and was a minor local hit — enough to finally bring Whitfield to the attention of Berry Gordy. According to many sources, Whitfield had been hanging around Hitsville for months trying to get a job with the label, but as he told the story in 1977 “Berry Gordy had sent Mickey Stevenson over to see me about signing with the company as an exclusive in-house writer and producer. The first act I was assigned to was Marvin Gaye and he had just started to become popular.” That’s not quite how the story went. According to everyone else, he was constantly hanging around Hitsville, getting himself into sessions and just watching them, and pestering people to let him get involved. Rather than being employed as a writer and producer, he was actually given a job in Motown’s quality control department for fifteen dollars a week, listening to potential records and seeing which ones he thought were hits, and rating them before they went to the regular department meetings for feedback from the truly important people. But he was also allowed to write songs. His first songwriting credit on a Motown record wasn’t Marvin Gaye, as Whitfield would later tell the story, but was in fact for the far less prestigious Mickey Woods — possibly the single least-known artist of Motown’s early years. Woods was a white teenager, the first white male solo artist signed to Motown, who released two novelty teen-pop singles. Whitfield’s first Motown song was the B-side to Woods’ second single, a knock-off of Sam Cooke’s “Cupid” called “They Call Me Cupid”, co-written with Berry Gordy and Brian Holland: [Excerpt: Mickey Woods, “They Call Me Cupid”] Unsurprisingly that didn’t set the world on fire, and Whitfield didn’t get another Motown label credit for thirteen months (though some of his songs for Thelma may have come out in this period). When he did, it was as co-writer with Mickey Stevenson — and, for the first time, sole producer — of the first single for a new singer, Kim Weston: [Excerpt: Kim Weston, “It Should Have Been Me”] As it turned out, that wasn’t a hit, but the flip-side, “Love Me All The Way”, co-written by Stevenson (who was also Weston’s husband) and Barney Ales, did become a minor hit, making the R&B top thirty. After that, Whitfield was on his way. It was only a month later that he wrote his first song for the Temptations, a B-side, “The Further You Look, The Less You See”: [Excerpt: The Temptations, “The Further You Look, The Less You See”] That was co-written with Smokey Robinson, and as we heard in the episode on “My Girl”, both Robinson and Whitfield vied with each other for the job of Temptations writer and producer. As we also heard in that episode, Robinson got the majority of the group’s singles for the next couple of years, but Whitfield would eventually take over from him. Whitfield’s work with the Temptations is probably his most important work as a writer and producer, and the Temptations story is intertwined deeply with this one, but for the most part I’m going to save discussion of Whitfield’s work with the group until we get to 1972, so bear with me if I seem to skim over that — and if I repeat myself in a couple of years when we get there. Whitfield’s first major success, though, was also the first top ten hit for Marvin Gaye, “Pride and Joy”: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, “Pride and Joy”] “Pride and Joy” had actually been written and recorded before the Kim Weston and Temptations tracks, and was intended as album filler — it was written during a session by Whitfield, Gaye, and Mickey Stevenson who was also the producer of the track, and recorded in the same session as it was written, with Martha and the Vandellas on backing vocals. The intended hit from the session, “Hitch-Hike”, we covered in the previous episode on Gaye, but that was successful enough that an album, That Stubborn Kinda Fellow, was released, with “Pride and Joy” on it. A few months later Gaye recut his lead vocal, over the same backing track, and the record was released as a single, reaching number ten on the pop charts and number two R&B: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, “Pride and Joy”] Whitfield had other successes as well, often as B-sides. “The Girl’s Alright With Me”, the B-side to Smokey Robinson’s hit for the Temptations “I’ll Be In Trouble”, went to number forty on the R&B chart in its own right: [Excerpt: The Temptations, “The Girl’s Alright With Me”] That was co-written with Eddie Holland, and Holland and Whitfield had a minor songwriting partnership at this time, with Holland writing lyrics and Whitfield the music. Eddie Holland even released a Holland and Whitfield collaboration himself during his brief attempt at a singing career — “I Couldn’t Cry if I Wanted To” was a song they wrote for the Temptations, who recorded it but then left it on the shelf for four years, so Holland put out his own version, again as a B-side: [Excerpt: Eddie Holland, “I Couldn’t Cry if I Wanted To”] Whitfield was very much a B-side kind of songwriter and producer at this point — but this could be to his advantage. In January 1963, around the same time as all these other tracks, he cut a filler track with the “no-hit Supremes”, “He Means the World to Me”, which was left on the shelf until they needed a B-side eighteen months later and pulled it out and released it: [Excerpt: The Supremes, “He Means the World to Me”] But the track that that was a B-side to was “Where Did Our Love Go?”, and at the time you could make a lot of money from writing the B-side to a hit that big. Indeed, at first, Whitfield made more money from “Where Did Our Love Go?” than Holland, Dozier, or Holland, because he got a hundred percent of the songwriters’ share for his side of the record, while they had to split their share three ways. Slowly Whitfield moved from being a B-side writer to being an A-side writer. With Eddie Holland he was given a chance at a Temptations A-side for the first time, with “Girl, (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)”: [Excerpt: The Temptations, “Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)”] He also wrote for Jimmy Ruffin, but in 1964 it was with girl groups that Whitfield was doing his best work. With Mickey Stevenson he wrote “Needle in a Haystack” for the Velvettes: [Excerpt: The Velvettes, “Needle in a Haystack”] He wrote their classic followup “He Was Really Sayin' Somethin’” with Stevenson and Eddie Holland, and with Holland he also wrote “Too Many Fish in the Sea” for the Marvelettes: [Excerpt: The Marvelettes, “Too Many Fish In The Sea”] By late 1964, Whitfield wasn’t quite in the first rank of Motown songwriter-producers with Holland-Dozier-Holland and Smokey Robinson, but he was in the upper part of the second tier with Mickey Stevenson and Clarence Paul. And by early 1966, as we saw in the episode on “My Girl”, he had achieved what he’d wanted for four years, and become the Temptations’ primary writer and producer. As I said, we’re going to look at Whitfield’s time working with the Temptations later, but in 1966 and 67 they were the act he was most associated with, and in particular, he collaborated with Eddie Holland on three top ten hits for the group in 1966. But as we discussed in the episode on “I Can’t Help Myself”, Holland’s collaborations with Whitfield eventually caused problems for Holland with his other collaborators, when he won the BMI award for writing the most hit songs, depriving his brother and Lamont Dozier of their share of the award because his outside collaborations put him ahead of them. While Whitfield *could* write songs by himself, and had in the past, he was at his best as a collaborator — as well as his writing partnership with Eddie Holland he’d written with Mickey Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, and Janie Bradford. And so when Holland told him he was no longer able to work together, Whitfield started looking for someone else who could write lyrics for him, and he soon found someone: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Money”] Barrett Strong had, of course, been the very first Motown act to have a major national hit, with “Money”, but as we discussed in the episode on that song he had been unable to have a follow-up hit, and had actually gone back to working on an assembly line for a while. But when you’ve had a hit as big as “Money”, working on an assembly line loses what little lustre it has, and Strong soon took himself off to New York and started hanging around the Brill Building, where he hooked up with Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, the writers of such hits as “Save the Last Dance for Me”, “Viva Las Vegas”, “Sweets for My Sweet”, and “A Teenager in Love”.  Pomus and Shuman, according to Strong, signed him to a management contract, and they got him signed to Atlantic’s subsidiary Atco, where he recorded one single, “Seven Sins”, written and produced by the team: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Seven Sins”] That was a flop, and Strong was dropped by the label. He bounced around a few cities before ending up in Chicago, where he signed to VeeJay Records and put out one more single as a performer, “Make Up Your Mind”, which also went nowhere: [Excerpt: Barrett Strong, “Make Up Your Mind”] Strong had co-written that, and as his performing career was now definitively over, he decided to move into songwriting as his main job. He co-wrote “Stay in My Corner” for the Dells, which was a top thirty R&B hit for them on VeeJay in 1965 and in a remade version in 1968 became a number one R&B hit and top ten pop hit for them: [Excerpt: The Dells, “Stay in My Corner”] And on his own he wrote another top thirty R&B hit, “This Heart of Mine”, for the Artistics: [Excerpt: The Artistics, “This Heart of Mine”] He wrote several other songs that had some minor success in 1965 and 66, before moving back to Detroit and hooking up again with his old label, this time coming to them as a songwriter with a track record rather than a one-hit wonder singer. As Strong put it “They were doing my style of music then, they were doing something a little different when I left, but they were doing the more soulful, R&B-style stuff, so I thought I had a place there. So I had an idea I thought I could take back and see if they could do something with it.” That idea was the first song he wrote under his new contract, and it was co-written with Norman Whitfield. It’s difficult to know how Whitfield and Strong started writing together, or much about their writing partnership, even though it was one of the most successful songwriting teams of the era, because neither man was interviewed in any great depth, and there’s almost no long-form writing on either of them. What does seem to have been the case is that both men had been aware of each other in the late fifties, when Strong was a budding R&B star and Whitfield merely a teenager hanging round watching the cool kids. The two may even have written together before — in an example of how the chronology for both Whitfield and Strong seems to make no sense, Whitfield had cowritten a song with Marvin Gaye, “Wherever I Lay My Hat, That’s My Home”, in 1962 — when Strong was supposedly away from Motown — and it had been included as an album track on the That Stubborn Kinda Fellow album: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, “Wherever I Lay My Hat, That’s My Home”] The writing on that was originally credited just to Whitfield and Gaye on the labels, but it is now credited to Whitfield, Gaye, and Strong, including with BMI. Similarly Gaye’s 1965 album track “Me and My Lonely Room” — recorded in 1963 but held back – was initially credited to Whitfield alone but is now credited to Whitfield and Strong, in a strange inverse of the way “Money” initially had Strong’s credit but it was later removed. But whether this was an administrative decision made later, or whether Strong had been moonlighting for Motown uncredited in 1962 and collaborated with Whitfield, they hadn’t been a formal writing team in the way Whitfield and Holland had been, and both later seemed to date their collaboration proper as starting in 1966 when Strong returned to Motown — and understandably. The two songs they’d written earlier – if indeed they had – had been album filler, but between 1967 when the first of their new collaborations came out and 1972 when they split up, they wrote twenty-three top forty hits together. Theirs seems to have been a purely business relationship — in the few interviews with Strong he talks about Whitfield as someone he was friendly with, but Whitfield’s comments on Strong seem always to be the kind of very careful comments one would make about someone for whom one has a great deal of professional respect, a great deal of personal dislike, but absolutely no wish to air the dirty laundry behind that dislike, or to burn bridges that don’t need burning. Either way, Whitfield was in need of a songwriting partner when Barrett Strong walked into a Motown rehearsal room, and recognised that Strong’s talents were complementary to his. So he told Strong, straight out, “I’ve had quite a few hit records already. If you write with me, I can guarantee you you’ll make at least a hundred thousand dollars a year” — though he went on to emphasise that that wasn’t a guarantee-guarantee, and would depend on Strong putting the work in. Strong agreed, and the first idea he brought in for his new team earned both of them more than that hundred thousand dollars by itself. Strong had been struck by the common phrase “I heard it through the grapevine”, and started singing that line over some Ray Charles style gospel chords. Norman Whitfield knew a hook when he heard one, and quickly started to build a full song around Strong’s line. Initially, by at least some accounts, they wanted to place the song with the Isley Brothers, who had just signed to Motown and had a hit with the Holland-Dozier-Holland song “This Old Heart of Mine”: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)”] For whatever reason, the Isley Brothers didn’t record the song, or if they did no copy of the recording has ever surfaced, though it does seem perfectly suited to their gospel-inflected style. The Isleys did, though, record another early Whitfield and Strong song, “That’s the Way Love Is”, which came out in 1967 as a flop single, but would later be covered more successfully by Marvin Gaye: [Excerpt: The Isley Brothers, “That’s the Way Love Is”] Instead, the song was first recorded by the Miracles. And here the story becomes somewhat murky. We have a recording by the Miracles, released on an album two years later, but some have suggested that that version isn’t the same recording they made in 1966 when Whitfield and Strong wrote the song originally: [Excerpt: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”] It certainly sounds to my ears like that is probably the version of the song the group recorded in 66 — it sounds, frankly, like a demo for the later, more famous version. All the main elements are there — notably the main Ray Charles style hook played simultaneously on Hammond organ and electric piano, and the almost skanking rhythm guitar stabs — but Smokey Robinson’s vocal isn’t *quite* passionate enough, the tempo is slightly off, and the drums don’t have the same cavernous rack tom sound that they have in the more famous version. If you weren’t familiar with the eventual hit, it would sound like a classic Motown track, but as it is it’s missing something… [Excerpt: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”] According to at least some sources, that was presented to the quality control team — the team in which Whitfield had started his career, as a potential single, but they dismissed it. It wasn’t a hit, and Berry Gordy said it was one of the worst songs he’d ever heard. But Whitfield knew the song was a hit, and so he went back into the studio and cut a new backing track: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine (backing track only)”] (Incidentally, no official release of the instrumental backing track for “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” exists, and I had to put that one together myself by taking the isolated parts someone had uploaded to youtube and synching them back together in editing software, so if there are some microsecond-level discrepancies between the instruments there, that’s on me, not on the Funk Brothers.) That track was originally intended for the Temptations, with whom Whitfield was making a series of hits at the time, but they never recorded it at the time. Whitfield did produce a version for them as an album track a couple of years later though, so we have an idea how they might have taken the song vocally — though by then David Ruffin had been replaced in the group by Dennis Edwards: [Excerpt: The Temptations, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”] But instead of giving the song to the Temptations, Whitfield kept it back for Marvin Gaye, the singer with whom he’d had his first big breakthrough hit and for whom his two previous collaborations with Strong – if collaborations they were – had been written. Gaye and Whitfield didn’t get on very well — indeed, it seems that Whitfield didn’t get on very well with *anyone* — and Gaye would later complain about the occasions when Whitfield produced his records, saying “Norman and I came within a fraction of an inch of fighting. He thought I was a prick because I wasn't about to be intimidated by him. We clashed. He made me sing in keys much higher than I was used to. He had me reaching for notes that caused my throat veins to bulge.” But Gaye sang the song fantastically, and Whitfield was absolutely certain they had a sure-fire hit: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”] But once again the quality control department refused to release the track. Indeed, it was Berry Gordy personally who decided, against the wishes of most of the department by all accounts, that instead of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Gaye’s next single should be a Holland-Dozier-Holland track, “Your Unchanging Love”, a soundalike rewrite of their earlier hit for him, “How Sweet It Is”. “Your Unchanging Love” made the top thirty, but was hardly a massive success. Gordy has later claimed that he always liked “Grapevine” but just thought it was a bit too experimental for Gaye’s image at the time, but reports from others who were there say that what Gordy actually said was “it sucks”. So “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” was left on the shelf, and the first fruit of the new Whitfield/Strong team to actually get released was “Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got”, written for Jimmy Ruffin, the brother of Temptations lead singer David, who had had one big hit, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” and one medium one, “I’ve Passed This Way Before”, in 1966. Released in 1967, “Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got” became Ruffin’s third and final hit, making number 29: [Excerpt: Jimmy Ruffin, “Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got”] But Whitfield was still certain that “Grapevine” could be a hit. And then in 1967, a few months after he’d shelved Gaye’s version, came the record that changed everything in soul: [Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Respect”] Whitfield was astounded by that record, but also became determined he was going to “out-funk Aretha”, and “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” was going to be the way to do it. And he knew someone who thought she could do just that. Gladys Knight never got on well with Aretha Franklin. According to Knight’s autobiography this was one-sided on Franklin’s part, and Knight was always friendly to Franklin, but it’s also notable that she says the same about several other of the great sixties female soul singers (though not all of them by any means), and there seems to be a general pattern among those singers that they felt threatened by each other and that their own position in the industry was precarious, in a way the male singers usually didn’t. But Knight claimed she always *wished* she got on well with Franklin, because the two had such similar lives. They’d both started out singing gospel as child performers before moving on to the chitlin circuit at an early age, though Knight started her singing career even younger than Franklin did. Knight was only four when she started performing solos in church, and by the age of eight she had won the two thousand dollar top prize on Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour by singing Brahms’ “Lullaby” and the Nat “King” Cole hit “Too Young”: [Excerpt: Nat “King” Cole, “Too Young”] That success inspired her, and she soon formed a vocal group with her brother Bubba, sister Brenda and their cousins William and Eleanor Guest. They named themselves the Pips in honour of a cousin whose nickname that was, and started performing at talent contests in Atlanta Chitlin’ Circuit venues. They soon got a regular gig at one of them, the Peacock, despite them all being pre-teens at the time. The Pips also started touring, and came to the attention of Maurice King, the musical director of the Flame nightclub in Detroit, who became a vocal coach for the group. King got the group signed to Brunswick records, where they released their first single, a song King had written called “Whistle My Love”: [Excerpt: The Pips, “Whistle My Love”] According to Knight that came out in 1955, when she was eleven, but most other sources have it coming out in 1958. The group’s first two singles flopped, and Brenda and Eleanor quit the group, being replaced by another cousin, Edward Patten, and an unrelated singer Langston George, leaving Knight as the only girl in the quintet. While the group weren’t successful on records, they were getting a reputation live and toured on package tours with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and others. Knight also did some solo performances with a jazz band led by her music teacher, and started dating that band’s sax player, Jimmy Newman. The group’s next recording was much more successful. They went into a makeshift studio owned by a local club owner, Fats Hunter, and recorded what they thought was a demo, a version of the Johnny Otis song “Every Beat of My Heart”: [Excerpt: The Pips, “Every Beat of My Heart (HunTom version)”] The first they knew that Hunter had released that on his own small label was when they heard it on the radio. The record was picked up by VeeJay records, and it ended up going to number one on the R&B charts and number six on the pop charts, but they never saw any royalties from it. It brought them to the attention of another small label, Fury Records, which got them to rerecord the song, and that version *also* made the R&B top twenty and got as high as number forty-five on the pop charts: [Excerpt: Gladys Knight and the Pips, “Every Beat of My Heart (Fury version)”] However, just because they had a contract with Fury didn’t mean they actually got any more money, and Knight has talked about the label’s ownership being involved with gangsters. That was the first recording to be released as by “Gladys Knight and the Pips”, rather than just The Pips, and they would release a few more singles on Fury, including a second top twenty pop hit, the Don Covay song “Letter Full of Tears”: [Excerpt: Gladys Knight and the Pips, “Letter Full of Tears”] But Knight had got married to Newman, who was by now the group’s musical director, after she fell pregnant when she was sixteen and he was twenty. However, that first pregnancy tragically ended in miscarriage, and when she became pregnant again she decided to get off the road to reduce the risk. She spent a couple of years at home, having two children, while the other Pips – minus George who left soon after – continued without her to little success. But her marriage was starting to deteriorate under pressure of Newman’s drug use — they wouldn’t officially divorce until 1972, but they were already feeling the pressure, and would split up sooner rather than later — and Knight  returned to the stage, initially as a solo artist or duetting with Jerry Butler, but soon rejoining the Pips, who by this time were based in New York and working with the choreographer Cholly Atkins to improve their stagecraft. For the next few years the Pips drifted from label to label, scoring one more top forty hit in 1964 with Van McCoy’s “Giving Up”, but generally just getting by like so many other acts on the circuit. Eventually the group ended up moving to Detroit, and hooking up with Motown, where mentors like Cholly Atkins and Maurice King were already working. At first they thought they were taking a step up, but they soon found that they were a lower tier Motown act, considered on a par with the Spinners or the Contours rather than the big acts, and according to Knight they got pulled off an early Motown package tour because Diana Ross, with whom like Franklin Knight had something of a rivalry, thought they were too good on stage and were in danger of overshadowing her. Knight says in her autobiography that they “formed a little club of our own with some of the other malcontents” with Martha Reeves, Marvin Gaye, and someone she refers to as “Ivory Joe Hunter” but I presume she means Ivy Jo Hunter (one of the big problems when dealing with R&B musicians of this era is the number of people with similar names. Ivy Jo Hunter, Joe Hunter, and Ivory Joe Hunter were all R&B musicians for whom keyboard was their primary instrument, and both Ivy Jo and just plain Joe worked for Motown at different points, but Ivory Joe never did) Norman Whitfield was also part of that group of “malcontents”, and he was also the producer of the Pips’ first few singles for Motown, and so when he was looking for someone to outdo Aretha, someone with something to prove, he turned to them. He gave the group the demo tape, and they worked out a vocal arrangement for a radically different version of the song, one inspired by “Respect”: [Excerpt: Gladys Knight and the Pips, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”] The third time was the charm, and quality control finally agreed to release “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” as a single. Gladys Knight always claimed it had no promotion, but Norman Whitfield’s persistence had paid off — the single went to number two on the pop charts (kept off the top by “Daydream Believer”), number one on the R&B charts, and became Motown’s biggest-selling single *ever* up until that point. It also got Knight a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female — though the Grammy committee, at least, didn’t think she’d out-Aretha’d Aretha, as “Respect” won the award. And that, sadly, sort of summed up Gladys Knight and the Pips at Motown — they remained not quite the winners in everything. There’s no shame in being at number two behind a classic single like “Daydream Believer”, and certainly no shame in losing the Grammy to Aretha Franklin at her best, but until they left Motown in 1972 and started their run of hits on Buddah records, Gladys Knight and the Pips would always be in other people’s shadow. That even extended to “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” when, as we’ll hear in part two of this story, Norman Whitfield’s persistence paid off, Marvin Gaye’s version got released as a single, and *that* became the biggest-selling single on Motown ever, outselling the Pips version and making it forever his song, not theirs. And as a final coda to the story of Gladys Knight and the Pips at Motown, while they were touring off the back of “Grapevine’s” success, the Pips ran into someone they vaguely knew from his time as a musician in the fifties, who was promoting a group he was managing made up of his sons. Knight thought they had something, and got in touch with Motown several times trying to get them to sign the group, but she was ignored. After a few attempts, though, Bobby Taylor of another second-tier Motown group, the Vancouvers, also saw them and got in touch with Motown, and this time they got signed. But that story wasn’t good enough for Motown, and so neither Taylor nor Knight got the credit for discovering the group. Instead when Joe Jackson’s sons’ band made their first album, it was titled Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5. But that, of course, is a story for another time…

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1965 est directement sous l'influence de l'intersection de trois mouvements musicaux différents, chacun d'entre eux étant important - l'influence des Beatles et, dans une moindre mesure, des autres groupes de Merseybeat, l'influence de Bob Dylan et du mouvement folk et protestataire, et les groupes de guitares R&B britanniques qui commence à ramener aux États-Unis leur interprétation du son de Chess Records qu'on appellera le british blues boom. Mais bien sûr, alors que ces groupes à guitares influençaient tout le monde, ils étaient également influencés par l'essor de la soul, et en particulier par la Motown, et les groupes de la Motown ont été parmi les rares groupes américains qui ont réussi à continuer à avoir des succès pendant la British Invasion. En effet, 1965 a été un pic créatif et commercial pour le label, tout comme pour les groupes à guitare blancs. Aujourd'hui, nous allons donc nous pencher sur les Supremes, sur la carrière du seul groupe noir à avoir sérieusement défié les Beatles pour dominer les hit-parades dans les années 60 et sur le début des rivalités entre groupes qui ont fini par les faire tomber. Nous allons examiner "I Hear a Symphony" des Supremes The Supremes, “I Hear a Symphony” Nella Dodds, “Come See About Me” The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love” The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love” Dusty Springfield et Martha Reeves, "Wishin' and Hopin'" The Supremes, "Nothing But Heartaches" The Toys, "A Lover's Concerto" The Supremes, "Stop ! In the Name of Love !" Junior Walker and the All-Stars, "(I'm a) Road Runner" The Supremes, "I Hear a Symphony" The Beach Boys, "Don't Hurt My Little Sister" The Supremes, "Things Are Changing For The Better" The Supremes, "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" The Supremes, "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You"

This week on the podcast is part two of our interview with Eddie Tuduri. You may not recognize his name, but we guarantee you've heard him perform!  Eddie's career spans 50 years and he's played drums with many well known bands including The Beach Boys, Dr. John, Ike Turner, Martha Reeves, Steve Perry, Dwight Yoakam and Michael McDonald to name a few. In addition to his performing career, Eddie's devoted his life to charitable causes and has been given many awards for his contributions to those with disabilities and impoverished children around the world.  In 1997, after a life-changing surfing accident, he founded The Rhythmic Arts Project, a nonprofit 501c3 that educates individuals with intellectual and developmental differences by embracing a curriculum that uses rhythm to address life and learning skills as well as reading, writing and arithmetic.  We hope you'll join us for our interview with this selfless and inspiring musician.Eddie shares his inspiring journey of musical mastery and profound humanitarianism that began with a late-night revelation and led to his dedicated support of causes such as Save the Children and UNICEF. It's a narrative that not only spotlights his remarkable benefit concerts but also showcases the true power of selfless acts.Our conversation takes an emotional turn through the corridors of a hospital ward, where Eddie's impromptu music sessions sparked the birth of The Rhythm Arts Project (TRAP). This initiative blossomed into a therapeutic haven, aiding patients with disabilities through the healing power of rhythm. 

This week on the podcast is part one of our interview with Eddie Tuduri. You may not recognize his name, but we guarantee you've heard him perform!  Eddie's career spans 50 years and he's played drums with many well known bands including The Beach Boys, Dr. John, Ike Turner, Martha Reeves, Steve Perry, Dwight Yoakam and Michael McDonald to name a few. In addition to his performing career, Eddie's devoted his life to charitable causes and has been given many awards for his contributions to those with disabilities and impoverished children around the world.  In 1997, after a life-changing surfing accident, he founded The Rhythmic Arts Project, a nonprofit 501c3 that educates individuals with intellectual and developmental differences by embracing a curriculum that uses rhythm to address life and learning skills as well as reading, writing and arithmetic.  We hope you'll join us for our interview with this selfless and inspiring musician.  https://traplearning.org/Hear how a childhood dream beat out a path to stardom, the sacrifices made along the way, and the rich tapestry of life as a musician that Eddie weaves for us, from his first wedding gig at twelve to the powerful educational outreach through The Rhythmic Arts Project. Discover the life of a musician navigating the waters of fame and anonymity, the definition of success, and the unvarnished truths of the working-class artist. Eddie's journey encapsulates the bittersweet symphony of the music industry, and it's one that resonates with anyone who has ever chased a dream.

Peace Funk Soul Let's Go I look out my window and what do I see ? Neil Armstrong waving to me! All funk all soul on two turntables - Matt steps in Pete and celebrates the Soul Jazz Records series Space Funk - plus classic soul from Martha Reeves & The Vandellas and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. The hot new Chicano Soul from teenagers Thee Heart Tones. Also features Boiling Point, Fat Larry's Band, The Voice Of Q, Tim Maia, Primal Scream, The Free Association, Mexican Institute Of Sound and loads more. This show was first broadcast on the 16th of February, 2024For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/superfly-funk-and-soul-show/Tune into new broadcasts of the Superfly Funk & Soul Show, LIVE, Friday from 10 AM - 12 PM EST / 3 - 5 PM GMT.Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ** Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music's foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm. Featured in TIR Episode 324 (Part 3 of 3): Funk and soul guitarist, singer and composer Mark Anthony Jones, better known by his initials, MAJ. Since the early 1990s, he has recorded and performed with international stars and artists including Mark Ronson, George Benson, Jay Z, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Sade, Donna Summer, Maxwell, Masters At Work, Common, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Erykah Badu, Martha Reeves, Nikka Costa, Meshell Ndegeocello, Maceo Parker and The Roots.  He is presently working on his solo debut and a documentary titled, “The Funk King of Greenwich Village.” RECORDED JANUARY 2024 LEGAL NOTICE: All video and audio content protected by copyright. Any use of this material is strictly prohibited without expressed consent from original content producer and owner Scott Goldfine, dba FUNKNSTUFF. For inquiries, email info@funknstuff.net. TRUTH IN RHYTHM is a registered U.S. Trademark (Serial #88540281). Get your copy of "Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk" today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541256603/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1541256603&linkCode=as2&tag=funknstuff-20&linkId=b6c7558ddc7f8fc9fe440c5d9f3c400

** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ** Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music's foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm. Featured in TIR Episode 324 (Part 2 of 3): Funk and soul guitarist, singer and composer Mark Anthony Jones, better known by his initials, MAJ. Since the early 1990s, he has recorded and performed with international stars and artists including Mark Ronson, George Benson, Jay Z, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Sade, Donna Summer, Maxwell, Masters At Work, Common, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Erykah Badu, Martha Reeves, Nikka Costa, Meshell Ndegeocello, Maceo Parker and The Roots.  He is presently working on his solo debut and a documentary titled, “The Funk King of Greenwich Village.” RECORDED JANUARY 2024 LEGAL NOTICE: All video and audio content protected by copyright. Any use of this material is strictly prohibited without expressed consent from original content producer and owner Scott Goldfine, dba FUNKNSTUFF. For inquiries, email info@funknstuff.net. TRUTH IN RHYTHM is a registered U.S. Trademark (Serial #88540281). Get your copy of "Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk" today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541256603/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1541256603&linkCode=as2&tag=funknstuff-20&linkId=b6c7558ddc7f8fc9fe440c5d9f3c400

** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE ** Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music's foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm. Featured in TIR Episode 324 (Part 1 of 3): Funk and soul guitarist, singer and composer Mark Anthony Jones, better known by his initials, MAJ. Since the early 1990s, he has recorded and performed with international stars and artists including Mark Ronson, George Benson, Jay Z, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Sade, Donna Summer, Maxwell, Masters At Work, Common, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Erykah Badu, Martha Reeves, Nikka Costa, Meshell Ndegeocello, Maceo Parker and The Roots.  He is presently working on his solo debut and a documentary titled, “The Funk King of Greenwich Village.” RECORDED JANUARY 2024 LEGAL NOTICE: All video and audio content protected by copyright. Any use of this material is strictly prohibited without expressed consent from original content producer and owner Scott Goldfine, dba FUNKNSTUFF. For inquiries, email info@funknstuff.net. TRUTH IN RHYTHM is a registered U.S. Trademark (Serial #88540281). Get your copy of "Everything Is on the One: The First Guide of Funk" today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541256603/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1541256603&linkCode=as2&tag=funknstuff-20&linkId=b6c7558ddc7f8fc9fe440c5d9f3c400

L'épisode d'aujourd'hui parle de "Heat Wave" de Martha and the Vandellas, et des débuts du trio de songwriters producteurs Holland-Dozier-Holland. PLAYLIST   Martha and the Vandellas, "Heatwave" The Fascinations, "Girls Are Out To Get You" The Del-Phis, "I'll Let You Know" Mike Hanks, "When True Love Comes to Be" Della Reese, "Don't You Know ?" Saundra Mallett and the Vandellas, "Camel Walk" Marvin Gaye, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" The Vells, "You'll Never Cherish A Love So True ('Til You Lose It)" Martha and the Vandellas, "I'll Have to Let Him Go" Eddie Holland, "You" Briant Holland, "(Where's the Joy) in Nature Boy ?" Les Marvelettes, "Please Mr. Postman" Eddie Holland, "Jamie" Aretha Franklin, "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood" The Romeos, "Gone Gone Get Away" The Voice Masters, "Hope and Pray" Lamont Anthony, "Popeye the Sailor Man" Lamont Anthony, "Benny the Skinny Man" The Marvelettes, "Forever" Little Stevie Wonder, "Contract on Love" The Marvelettes, "Locking Up My Heart" Martha and the Vandellas, "Come and Get These Memories" Martha and the Vandellas, "Heat Wave" Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, "Dancing in the Street" Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"

Mickey Stevenson worked for Berry Gordy from Motown Records and was responsible for signing the biggest names from that era, Steve Wonder, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Marvin Gaye and others. Support the show: https://takinawalk.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Tamla Records in Detroit on 12th January, 1959, he reshaped popular music forever. With an iconic artist roster that included The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5, Motown's ability to identify and nurture talent - inspired by the principles of a car production line - were unprecedented. Gordy's journey, from a professional boxer and owner of a jazz record store to becoming a songwriter and producer, underscored his innate understanding of popular appeal. ‘The Motown Sound', carefully crafted for crossover appeal, redefined genres for broader audiences. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Gordy's production philosophy was decades ahead of its time; consider the challenges faced by the label in the 70s and 80s; and reveals how Martha Reeves became a lead vocalist, after starting at Hitsville as a secretary… Further Reading: • ‘From the archive, 1 May 1972: Motown - the sound that changed America' (The Guardian, 2014): https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/may/01/motown-detroit-soul-berry-gordy • ‘Motown: The music that changed America' (BBC Culture, 2019): https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20190109-motown-the-music-that-changed-america • ‘Smokey Robinson & Berry Gordy: "I'll Try Something New", from "Hitsville"' (Showtime, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbiDLeRzoxQ We'll be back on Monday - unless you join

A concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on October 28th and 29th, 1964 which would be released as a concert film called the T.A.M.I. Show.  Free tickets were provided for local high school students to provide the audience.  T.A.M.I. stands for either “Teenage Awards Music International” or “Teen Age Music International,” as both were used by the show's publicity team.  The show included many of the top rock and roll and R&B musicians of the time, including the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Chuck Berry, and The Miracles.  Jan and Dean were the emcees for the event.  Motown Records was represented by three of its biggest acts in the Miracles, Marvin Gay, and the Supremes.  The Rolling Stones were featured as the grand finale.  However, the performance by James Brown and the Famous Flames is perhaps the highlight of the show, as it features his dance moves at the height of his career.  Steve Binder and his personnel from The Steve Allen Show shot the film, and the legendary session musicians of The Wrecking Crew provided most of the instrumentation.  The go-go dancers in the background were choreographed by David Winters and his assistant, a young Toni Basil.This is a difficult film to locate due to copyright disputes on the show over the years.  You'll need to go to YouTube to find the performances.Wayne takes us through this concert footage of the early days of rock and roll. (Here They Come) from All Over the World by Jan and DeanThe film starts with a song from Jan and Dean which is played over the credits.  Jan and Dean co-hosted the concert and contributed this anthem written for the show.  It has a surfing vibe and is easily confused for The Beach Boys who also participated in the concert.Hey Little Bird by The BarbariansThe Barbarians were a precursor to the Punk movement, and their style was called garage rock in the day.  The Barbarians had a one-handed drummer who utilized a drum stick in his left arm with a hook prosthetic.  The group sported a pirate look with leather sandals, open necked shirts, and bloused sleeves.Out of Sight by James Brown and the Famous FlamesMany consider the highlight of the show to be James Brown's performance, as it showcases his dance moves.  The energy shown by Brown and his backing singers clearly influenced future acts like Michael Jackson and Prince.Around and Around by The Rolling StonesWhile the Rolling Stones were the final act, Keith Richards claims that choosing to follow James Brown on stages was the worst decision of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they couldn't top him.  They performed a cover of Chuck Berry's song - an interesting choice since Berry was also a performer for the concert. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Do the Clam by Elvis Presley (from the motion picture “Girl Happy”)Elvis was making movies at the time, and would almost always be expected to sing songs in the picture. STAFF PICKS:Nowhere to Run by Martha & the VandellasBruce leads off the staff picks with a group which would see a name change to Martha Reeves & the Vandellas later on.  This Motown hit written by the legendary team called Holland-Dozier-Holland went to number 8 on the US charts.  The song is about a woman trapped in a downward spiraling love affair that she just can't give up.Land of 1000 Dances by Cannibal and the HeadhuntersRob features an iteration of a frequently covered song.  Chris Kenner originally recorded it in 1962, but it was more successful as a cover by Cannibal & the Headhunters, going to number 30 on the Billboard chart.  They also added the "na na na na na" hook to the original when front man Frankie Garcia forgot the lyrics.  Sixteen dances are mentioned in the lyrics of the song.Eight Days a Week by The Beatles Lynch brings us an early hit penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.  It would be the seventh number one single for the Fab Four in the United States, despite Lennon's feeling that it was a failed attempt at writing a single.  The title is attributed to a statement Ringo Starr made regarding how busy the Beatles were at the time.Satisfied by Lulu and the LuvversWayne wraps up the staff picks with a high energy party song from a Scottish band.  Lulu would go on to a successful solo career that included film songs like "To Sir With Love," and the title song for "The Man with the Golden Gun."  Lulu was 17 at the time this song came out.  She would go on to marry Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.   INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Sounds OrchestralThis week's podcast ends with an instrumental song

  A terrific and fun interview with Terry A Ferguson aka Professor T Love of the podcast " A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music "joined HODGEPOD to talk about her podcast and items below. -How does she get to comprise each episode. -Soul Music and how it is different in regions around United States, tremendous insight into the different regions. -Beatles and Rolling Stones inflienced by the blues -How soul music and different genres cross paths -Samples being used especially from the Isley Brothers -Rock bands covering Motown especially Martha Reeves & The Vandellas -Memphis with Stax and Sun Records -Isaac Hayes -U2 and B.B. KIng -Betty Wright and her influence on major artists -Recorded November 14, 2023 -You can hear A Bowl of Soul on Apple, Spotify, Heart and Deezer. You can also listen to the Bowl of Soul Radio Network on Live365.com  -You can follow Bowl of Soul on social media at @bowlofsoul on X formerly known as Twitter @proftlove on Instagram @Bowl of a Soul a Mixed Stew of Soul Music on Facebook. _Please give a listen and follow HODGEPOD which can be heard on Apple. Spotify, IHeart, Amazon and ll podcast platforms.

  A terrific and fun interview with Terry A Ferguson aka Professor T Love of the podcast " A Bowl of Soul A Mixed Stew of Soul Music "joined HODGEPOD to talk about her podcast and items below. -How does she get to comprise each episode. -Soul Music and how it is different in regions around United States, tremendous insight into the different regions. -Beatles and Rolling Stones inflienced by the blues -How soul music and different genres cross paths -Samples being used especially from the Isley Brothers -Rock bands covering Motown especially Martha Reeves & The Vandellas -Memphis with Stax and Sun Records -Isaac Hayes -U2 and B.B. KIng -Betty Wright and her influence on major artists -Recorded November 14, 2023 -You can hear A Bowl of Soul on Apple, Spotify, Heart and Deezer. You can also listen to the Bowl of Soul Radio Network on Live365.com  -You can follow Bowl of Soul on social media at @bowlofsoul on X formerly known as Twitter @proftlove on Instagram @Bowl of a Soul a Mixed Stew of Soul Music on Facebook. _Please give a listen and follow HODGEPOD which can be heard on Apple. Spotify, IHeart, Amazon and ll podcast platforms.

This month, Jo unleashes fabulous homages to Bill Withers, Suzi Quatro and Martha Reeves plus a magnificent Top 5 from the legendary selector, Alan Handscombe. What's not to like - soul, jazz, reggae - all your favourite songs sung by somebody elseTune into new broadcasts of Run For Cover, The 3rd Monday from 4 – 6 PM EST / 9 - 11 PM GMT.For more info visit: https://thefaceradio.com/run-for-cover///Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt flies solo again this week, but gets by with a little help from our listeners with requests for The Jam, Purple Hearts, Richard Berry, The Fuzztones and Martha Reeves.Tune into new broadcasts of Blow-Up, Sunday from 8 - 10 AM EST / 1 PM - 3 PM GMT, in association with Brisbane's 4ZZZ.For more info visit: https://thefaceradio.com/blow-up///Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this day before American Independence, Matt, your personal musical activist, comes to you from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of Fonzie and Happy Days! Lots of early Rock-n-Roll, the great American Invention- SOUL MUSIC, plus a few punk and Americana country for good measure. Featuring Booker T. & The M.G. 's, Funkadelic, Bad Brains, Chuck Berry, R.E.M. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Madonna, and loads more. Happy 4th Faces!Tune into new broadcasts of Worldy with Matt and Dom, LIVE, Monday from 10 AM - 12 Noon EST / 3- 5 PM GMT.For more info visit: https://thefaceradio.com/worldy///Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nueva entrega del coleccionable "Aquellos maravillosos años", una serie de episodios esporádicos en donde rescatamos algunas de las grandes canciones que dieron forma a la música popular de la primera mitad de los años 60. Playlist; (sintonía) THE REVELS “Intóxica” THE BEATLES “I feel fine” THE SEARCHERS “Love potion nº 9” TONY JACKSON GROUP “Watch your step” THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP “I can’t stand it” JACKIE EDWARDS “Keep on runnin’” THEM “Gloria” JOHN D. LOUDERMILK “Road hog” DORIS TROY “Just one look” MARTHA REEVES and THE VANDELLAS “Quicksand” THE EXCITERS “It’s so exciting” BOBBY DARIN “Not for me” ROBERTO CARLOS “Splish Splash” THE VELVETS “Tonight (could be the night)” DICKEY LEE “I saw Linda yesterday” THE JELLY BEANS “I wanna love him so bad” LESLEY GORE “If that’s the way you want it” LITTLE RICHARD “You better stop” SOLOMON BURKE “You can’t love em all” THE JOHN BARRY ORCHESTRA “Time out” Escuchar audio

Candice Bergen returns to host the  first-ever Christmas episode! All is merry and bright in SNL's first Christmas episode which aired just 5 days before the big day! Our stockings are stuffed with sketches that and bits to last all 12 days, including a classic rendition of "Winter Wonderland" sung by Garrett with backing vocals from the rest of the cast. We also are gifted with 3 Mel's Char Palace sketches (is it a gift though?) as well as more Pong, more Muppets (who sing a nice number with Candice) and Candice has a conversation with Maggie Kuhn from the Gray Panthers. The episode certainly leans into the Christmas season, but is it a gift for the viewers, or just a lump of coal?Subscribe today! And follow us on social media on X (Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.

ICYMI: Later, with Mo'Kelly Presents – Thoughts on soul singing icon Martha Reeves launching a fundraiser for her Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame' star, the possibility of YouTube being the new home of MLB Baseball in San Diego AND a dangerous new social media prank on the rise that's already resulted in an innocent woman being hospitalized on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

EmRata is a bad friend, Nashville school shooting, Eli Zaret joins us, OnlyFans judge, 21 Jump Street cures Kanye, news anchor fizz-ired for talking like Snoop Dog, Bonerline Karen responds, LMFAO should have Martha Reeves' HW star, and we're sick of AT&T Lily & the Antonelli's. Another day, another school shooting. This time a lot of the focus will be on the shooter's gender. Karl Hamburger once brawled with the drummer of Eli Zaret's intro song for today. We See It Eli's Way on the greatest (or the worst) Final Four possibly ever, the wild west of NIL deals, the Michigan State Spartans loss to Kansas State, ESPN's non-stop women's NCAA coverage, MLB's return (with very few Detroit Tiger stars), eulogize Jerry Green and more. Marc just wants a mention for the NCAA Frozen Four & it's shot down. Dr. Jordan Peterson had a hell of a battle with Adderall. Emily Ratajkowski and Harry Styles are enjoying each other's mouths. Olivia Wilde is pretending she's not bothered by it. Yeah, right. She's more upset about her divorce money. Reese Witherspoon and her Quibi husband are divorcing. Actor Jonathan Majors arrested for strangling his girlfriend. Update: the woman has recanted her story. Majors will play Dennis Rodman in a future movie. Hopefully it's about this awesome trip to North Korea. Donald Trump held a rally in Waco. Ted Nugent took the opportunity to take shots at Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Orlando Bloom and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are best buds now. Commercials: The Antonelli's Cheese Shop needs to go away. Milana Vayntrub (the AT&T) has deserted her Boner Army and left us alone in the field Jim Nantz is likely to give his tie to himself this year. Jonah Hill & 21 Jump Street has cured Kanye West's antisemitism. A 20-year TV veteran said "for swizzle, my nizzle" and didn't realize only black people can say that. She's in trouble now. Charlamagne tha God comes to her defense. If you use a meme with a black person in it, you are racist according Teen Vogue. GVSU Graduations: They are having segregated graduations. Now they are NOT having segregated graduations. Wait... now they ARE having segregated graduations. Martha Reeves needs $55k for her Hollywood Walk of Fame slab. You can pay for her sidewalk star right here. LMFAO's Super Bowl Halftime performance is one of the most underrated cultural moment in the last 20 years. A Wayne State professor has been suspended for advocating violence on social media. Stanford is screwing up left and right these days. Bill Laimbeer was in Land of the Lost. Bloop. There is a YouTube Exclusive Bonerline. Watch it. The infamous 'Bonerline Karen' has responded to her appearance on last week's Bonerline. Call or text 209-66-Boner. Is Trump still supposed to be arrested or what? His NFTs are soaring in value. Meghan Markle may be 'Marklecidal' as she wants to go to the coronation. Not-a-prince Harry and his best friend Elton John are in England suing The Daily Mail. Meet Gregory A. Locke, the OnlyFans judge. He has some hot photos on Instagram, as well. Trudi has food poisoning. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… please consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon). Or don't, whatever.

Jean Johnson is a highly acclaimed solo and background vocalist in the music industry, known for her dynamic range, impressive vocal control and exquisite tone. With a career spanning several decades, Johnson has lent her voice to numerous historic Grammy Award-winning, gold and platinum albums, and has shared the stage with an array of legendary artists such as Elton John, Andraé Crouch, and Martha Reeves.Born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, Jean Johnson's passion for music started at an early age. She learned to play the piano and studied at the prestigious Walsh Conservatory School of Music. Johnson is an ordained and licensed minister with a Bachelor's degree in Theology, and her faith and spirituality have played an important role in her musical journey.Johnson's professional music career began as one of the Vandellas of Martha and the Vandellas, where she sang hits such as Jimmie Mac and Dancing in the Street. She went on to perform with an array of leading artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Julio Iglesias and Gladys Knight, to name a few. Her work with Michael Jackson on songs like "Bad", "Man in the Mirror", "Will You Be There" and "Unbreakable" cemented her status as one of the industry's most sought-after vocalists.Johnson's big break came when Sandra Crouch asked her to perform as the lead vocalist for the singles "He's Worthy", "My Soul Loves Only You" and "Completely Yes". Her work on "Completely Yes" earned Johnson her first Grammy nomination, and the album went on to win the Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female.In addition to her music career, Johnson is currently the Minister of Music at New Birth Church in Murrieta, where she uses her talents to inspire and uplift congregants. She continues to tour and perform with Elton John, captivating audiences with her powerful vocals and magnetic stage presence.With a wealth of talent and experience under her belt, Jean Johnson is a true icon in the music industry, and her contributions to the world of music will continue to be celebrated for generations to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called the American Century. Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For one brief, shining moment in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars. From the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquila's Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) offers an in-depth look at early 1960s rock & roll, as well as an unconventional history of Kennedy's America through the lens of popular music. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with Dion, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Martha Reeves, Pete Seeger, Bob Gaudio, Dick Clark, and other legendary figures, the book rejects the myth that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was the day the music died. It proves that rock & roll during the early 1960s was vibrant and in tune with the history and events of this colorful era. These interviews and Aquila's research reveal unique insights and new details about politics, gender, race, ethnicity, youth culture, and everyday life. Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America recalls an important chapter in rock & roll and American history. Richard Aquila is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America and Let's Rock! How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze. Richard's website. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called the American Century. Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For one brief, shining moment in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars. From the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquila's Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) offers an in-depth look at early 1960s rock & roll, as well as an unconventional history of Kennedy's America through the lens of popular music. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with Dion, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Martha Reeves, Pete Seeger, Bob Gaudio, Dick Clark, and other legendary figures, the book rejects the myth that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was the day the music died. It proves that rock & roll during the early 1960s was vibrant and in tune with the history and events of this colorful era. These interviews and Aquila's research reveal unique insights and new details about politics, gender, race, ethnicity, youth culture, and everyday life. Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America recalls an important chapter in rock & roll and American history. Richard Aquila is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America and Let's Rock! How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze. Richard's website. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history