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L'épisode d'aujourd'hui est consacré à "I Can't Help Myself" des Four Tops, et constitue la deuxième partie d'une série de trois épisodes consacrés à la Motown de 1965. PLAYLIST FOUR TOPS The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" The Four Aims, "She Gave Me Love" The Four Tops, "Kiss Me Baby" Ray Charles, "Kissa Me Baby" The Classics, "If Only the Sky Was a Mirror" The Four Tops, "This Can't be Love" The Supremes, "Run Run Run" Martha and the Vandellas, "My Baby Loves Me" The Four Tops, "Baby I Need Your Loving" The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go ?" The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" The Four Tops, "It's the Same Old Song" The Four Tops, "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever" The Supremes, "You Keep Me Hanging On" Vanilla Fudge, "You Keep Me Hanging On" The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Temptations, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" The Four Tops, "Bernadette" The Four Tops, "Walk Away Renee" The Four Tops, "If I Were a Carpenter" The Four Tops, "When She Was My Girl" The Four Tops, "Loco in Acapulco"

One of the groups that defined the Motown sound was the Detroit Quartet known as The Four Tops.  The group originally called themselves the Four Aims, but changed the name to avoid confusion with the Ames Brothers.  The group was composed of Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and lead singer Levi Stubbs, four boys who met at Pershing High School and would remain in the same lineup as the Four Tops from 1953 through 1997.The quartet signed to Chess Records in 1956, but did not experience success with that label.  In fact they would not find significant success with multiple records including Red Top, Riverside Records, and Columbia Records for the next seven years.  What they would gain is a lot of opportunities to polish their act and stage presence with extensive touring.  Berry Gordy Jr. convinced them to move to Motown in 1963, initially to record jazz standards and sing backup.  At Motown they experienced success in their own right.Reach Out is their fourth studio album, and their biggest selling album.  The Four Tops had multiple hits, primarily through the writing of the Motown team known as Holland-Dozier-Holland.  Reach Out would be their last album with that songwriting team, as Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown shortly after this album was recorded.  It went to number 11 on the Billboard Top LP's chart.The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and still perform today, with Duke Fakir as the sole original member.Bruce presents this soulful album in this week's podcast. BernadetteThis song was released in February of 1967 and reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.  It would be the final top 10 hit for the Four Tops in the 1960's.  The song is a plea from the boy to Bernadette to stick with him.  Standing In the Shadows of LoveThis single is a heartbreak song about sleepless nights and soul searching for what went wrong.  It hit number 2 on the soul charts and number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.  It is a bit of a reworked song, as the Supremes had a B-side in 1963 called "Standing at the Crossroads of Love."Last Train to ClarksvilleReach Out was a mixture of original songs and covers, and this song made famous by the Monkees is one of the covers.  They also included "If I Were a Carpenter," "Walk Away Renee," and "I'm A Believer" on this album. Reach Out I'll Be ThereHere is the signature song of the Four Tops.  It was released in 1966 and spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.  It alternates between a minor and major key, giving it a Russian feel in the verse and a gospel feel in the chorus according to Lamont Dozier.  The writers intentionally put Levi Stubbs at the top of his vocal range to make sure there was a hunger and wailing in his voice.  ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:Light My Fire by The DoorsThe Doors appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was their first and last when they promised to change the lyrics "girl we couldn't get much higher," only to leave them unedited in the live performance. STAFF PICKS:Brown Eyed Girl by Van MorrisonLynch launches the staff picks with this hit single off Morrison's debut album, which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The nostalgic lyrics which seem tame today were considered too suggestive for the time and were banned by some radio stations.  However, it remains popular today, and as of 2015 was the most downloaded and played song of the entire 60's decade.The Letter  by The Box TopsRob features a short song with a blue-eyed soul feel.  The Box Tops took this song to number 1 on the charts, making it The Box Tops best seller.  Joe Coker would cover this in 1970, and take it to number 7 on the charts.  The producer overdubbed the song with an airplane sound he located at a local library.Testify by ParliamentWayne brings us an early hit from George Clinton and Parliament before their Funkadelic days.  Actually, George Clinton is the only member of Parliament who is recorded on this song.  The group was based in New Jersey and the other members were not able to travel to Detroit for the recording.  As a result, Clinton is joined by local session musicians and singers to complete the song.Funky Broadway by Wilson PickettBruce closes out the staff picks with a song that Pickett picked up from Arlester “Dyke” Christian.  Dyke Christian was living in Phoenix and playing with a group called Dyke & the Blazers.  Unfortunatley in 1971 Dyke Christian was shot to death at the age of 27.  This is the first charting single with the word "funk" in the title. INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:Groovin' by Booker T. & the M.G.'sWe finish off with an instrumental cover of the ballad made famous by The Rascals. 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1000 Songs Podcast Episode 4 is now live!  In this episode, Rick Campbell, Jim Shedden, Alan Zweig and special guest, Steve Campbell, meet over zoom to discuss songs they love including:  Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil by Jefferson Airplane Fanfare by Eric Matthews  and in a special tribute to Tom Verlaine who passed away on January 28th of this year, our closing song is Marquee Moon by Television.  Follow 1000 Songs Podcast on Facebook and Instagram, and stay tuned for Episode 5 where Rick, Jim and Alan discuss their favourite songs, with special guest Nick Smash! Episode 5 will be released in April and will feature the songs Sex Beat by The Gun Club, Voyage Through the Multiverse by the Dream Warriors, and Nights That Won't Happen by Purple Mountains.  Follow 1000 Songs podcast on Facebook and Instagram, and stay tuned for our next episode, available wherever you get your podcasts!   Technical production and editing by Lisa Santonato. Listen to the 1000 Songs Podcast music playlist on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5SjzvuwgAoEt3ulMEarp7x?si=bbf07f84b60a4621  Visit our website at:  http://www.jimshedden.com/#/1000-songs-podcast/  Follow us on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/1000songspodcast/  #1000SongsPodcast #1000Songs #music #musicpodcasts #JeffersonAirplane #TheLeftBanke #EricMatthews #Television #TomVerlaine #MarqueeMoon #RIPTomVerlaine #tribute #podcast #psychedelic #sixties #seventies #punk #rock 

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Many consider Simon & Garfunkel's third studio album to be the breakthrough album.  The tracks on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme were written primarily by Paul Simon during his time as a visitor in England in the prior year.  The songs maintain the folk feel of previous albums, and are heavily tilted towards acoustic instrumentation.  Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953.  They had their first minor hit as teenagers in 1957 under the stage name Tom and Jerry.  They began by emulating the sound of The Everly Brothers, but moved towards a folk sound as that genre gained in popularity.  Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme was a follow-up to their second album, which had been a commercial success, but which the duo felt was rushed.  Simon insisted on control of the recording process, and they took nine months to craft and record the album.  The result would be both a critical and commercial success, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart and eventually achieving Triple Platinum status with the RIAA.The duet would go on to record five studio albums before growing apart and breaking up in 1971.  The duo would reunite several times afterwards, perhaps most famously for their concert in Central Park in 1981. Scarborough Fair/CanticleThe opening track originated from an English ballad that had its roots in a Scottish folk song from at least the 1670's.  Simon learned it from Martin Carthy in London, and set it in counterpoint against a song he had previously written in 1963.  It would appear as a single after being featured in the film "The Graduate" in 1968.Homeward BoundThis song had previously appeared on the UK version of the duo's second studio album before appearing on the this American release.  The single hit number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier in 1966, and was on the charts for 12 weeks.  SImon wrote it after returning from England in 1964. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)The name of this song is from a bridge in New York, also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.  The theme to the television series "H.R. Pufnstuf" originally considered composed by Sid and Marty Kroft, was found to be too similar to this song, and Paul Simon was given writing credits to this theme after a court suit.A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) This song is considered a parody of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," which was released the year before.  The lyrics name-drop many contemporary politicians, musicians, and celebrities, including Art Garfunkel.  Robert McNamara was the U.S. Secretary of Defense at the time the album was released. ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:The theme from the television series "The Saint" Roger Moore starred as Simon Templar in this British spy series.  His work in The Saint would propel him to a future role as James Bond in the 007 movie franchise. STAFF PICKS:Psychotic Reaction by Count FiveWayne walks down the psychedelic path to open our staff picks.  The song name came from a professor in the lead singer's college psychology class.  The lyrics are about losing your mind due to heartache.  While this is a one-hit wonder, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists this song as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock."You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes Brian's staff pick was written by Holland-Dozier-Holland, authors of the Motown sound.  This song was written specifically for The Supremes, and details the tragedy of a relationship in which a man cannot let go of the woman, but can't commit to her either.  This was one of a string of four number 1 songs by The Supremes.Walk Away Renee by the Left BankBruce brings us a little baroque pop, complete with harpsicord and strings.  co-writer Michael Brown claims he wrote the song about Renee Fladen-Kamm, who was the girlfriend of The Left Bank bassist Tom Finn, and with whom Michael Brown was infatuated.  Co-writer Tony Sansone contradicts Brown, saying it was a French girl's name selected at random, inspired by the Beatles' song "Michelle."A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon & GarfunkelRob's closes out the staff picks with a famous Simon & Garfunkel single that was recorded during the studio sessions for the album, and was on the charts at the time, but which did not appear on this album. COMEDY TRACK:Boy Wonder, I Love You by Burt WardThis strange piece is a weird collaboration between Burt Ward (who played Robin in the 60's "Batman" series) and Frank Zappa.  

First a shout out to Dylan Van Dijk who sent his request in 3 months ago! We flaked and so we want to give him extra love and finally play his song from Nirvana! Hopefully he is wearing his new Radio Wilder t-shirt! Dylan is a freshman in high school and already has big time love of music!! Besides Dylan's song we have a few other goodies for the day after Thanksgiving!Absfacto doing Dissolve, She Devil for the Cocktail Slippers... ever heard the term #BubblegumMusic? We have some from 1910 Fruitgum Company!The Left Bank and Four Tops are doing Walk Away Renee in the Deuces and fabulous Hall of fame instrumental guitarist Duane Eddy is our sticky.We just got back our first cut video of our show with "Baja Bob" the RV King and you can find it on our YouTube Channel at: https://lnkd.in/eWPQz-D.Baby Ruth says because it's a holiday, she will have the show up a little earlier, like around 2:00 Eastern. #happythanksgiving2021 to our friends and fans from RadioWilderLive.com. Thanks as always for spending some of your time with us!! Harry and the Wilder Crew!

Episode one hundred and thirty-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Can't Help Myself” by the Four Tops, and is part two of a three-episode look at Motown in 1965. 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 "Colours" by Donovan. 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 No Mixcloud this week, as too many of the songs were by the Four Tops. Amazingly, there are no books on the Four Tops, so I've had to rely on the information in the general Motown sources I use, plus the liner notes for the Four Tops 50th Anniversary singles collection, a collection of the A and B sides of all their Motown singles. That collection is the best collection of the Four Tops' work available, but is pricey -- for a cheaper option this single-disc set is much better value. 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. How Sweet It Is by Lamont Dozier and Scott B. Bomar is Dozier's autobiography, while Come and Get These Memories by Brian and Eddie Holland and Dave Thompson is the Holland brothers'. And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 694 tracks released on Motown singles. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript This is the second part of a two-part look at the work of Holland, Dozier, and Holland, and part of a three-part look at Motown Records in the mid-sixties. If you've not listened to the last episode, on the Supremes, you might want to listen to that one before this. There's a clip of an old radio comedy show that always makes me irrationally irritated when I hear it, even though I like the programme it's from: [Excerpt of The Mark Steel Lectures, “Aristotle” episode. Transcript: "Which led him back to the problem, what is it that makes something what it is? Is an apple still an apple when it's decomposing? I went to see the Four Tops once and none of the original members were in the band, they were just session musicians. So have i seen the Four Tops or not? I don't know" ] That's the kind of joke that would work with many vocal groups -- you could make the joke about the Drifters or the Ink Spots, of course, and it would even work for, for example, the Temptations, though they do have one original member still touring with them. Everyone knows that that kind of group has a constantly rotating membership, and that people come and go from groups like that all the time. Except that that wasn't true for the Four Tops at the time Mark Steel made that joke, in the late 1990s. The current version of the Four Tops does only have one original member -- but that's because the other three all died. At the time Steel made the joke, his only opportunity to see the Four Tops would have been seeing all four original members -- the same four people who had been performing under that name since the 1950s. Other groups have had longer careers than that without changing members -- mostly duos, like Simon & Garfunkel or the Everly Brothers -- but I can't think of another one that lasted as long while performing together continuously, without taking a break at any point. So today, we're going to look at the career of a group who performed together for forty-four years without a lineup change, a group who were recording together before Motown even started, but who became indelibly associated with Motown and with Holland-Dozier-Holland. We're going to look at the Four Tops, and at "I Can't Help Myself": [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself"] The Four Tops have turned up in the background in several episodes already, even though we're only now getting to their big hits. By the time they became huge, they had already been performing together for more than a decade, and had had a big influence on the burgeoning Detroit music scene even before Berry Gordy had got involved with the scene. The group had started out after Abdul "Duke" Fakir, a teenager in Detroit, had gone to see Lucky Millinder and his band perform, and had been surprised to see his friend Levi Stubbs turn up, get on stage, and start singing with the band in a guest spot. Fakir had never realised before that his friend sang at all, let alone that he had an astonishing baritone voice. Stubbs was, in fact, a regular on the Detroit amateur singing circuit, and had connections with several other performers on that circuit -- most notably his cousin Jackie Wilson, but also Hank Ballard and Little Willie John. Those few singers would make deals with each other about who would get to win at a particular show, and carved things up between them. Stubbs and Fakir quickly started singing together, and by 1953 they had teamed up with two other kids, Obie Benson and Lawrence Payton. The four of them sang together at a party, and decided that they sounded good enough together that they should become a group. They named themselves the Four Aims, and started playing local shows. They got a one-off record deal with a small label called Grady Records, and released their only single under the name "The Four Aims" in 1956: [Excerpt: The Four Aims, "She Gave Me Love"] After that single, they tried teaming up with Jackie Wilson, who had just quit Billy Ward and the Dominoes, but they found that Wilson and Stubbs' voices clashed -- Wilson's then-wife said their voices were too similar, though they sound very different to me. Wilson would, of course, go on to his own massive success, and that success would be in part thanks to Roquel Davis, who was Lawrence Payton's cousin. As we saw in the episode on "Reet Petite", Davis would co-write most of Wilson's hits with Berry Gordy, and he was also writing songs for the Four Aims -- who he renamed the Four Tops, because he thought the Four Aims sounded too much like the Ames Brothers, a white vocal quartet who were popular at the time.  They explained to Davis that they were called the Four Aims because they were *aiming* for the top, and Davis said that in that case they should be the Four Tops, and that was the name under which they would perform for the rest of their career. In the early fifties, before Wilson's success, Davis was the person in the group's circle with the most music industry connections, and he got them a deal with Chess Records. I already talked about this back in the episode on Jackie Wilson, but the group's first record on Chess, with Davis as the credited songwriter: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Kiss Me Baby"] Sounds more than a little like a Ray Charles record from a couple of years earlier, which Davis definitely didn't write: [Excerpt: Ray Charles, "Kissa Me Baby"] But that wasn't a success, and it would be another four years before they released their next single -- a one-off single on Columbia Records. It turned out that Chess had mostly signed the Four Tops not for the group, but to get Davis as a songwriter, and songs he'd originally written for the Tops ended up being recorded by other acts on Chess, like the Moonglows and the Flamingoes. The group's single on Columbia would also be a flop, they'd wait another two years before another one-off single on Riverside, and then yet another two years before they were signed by Motown. Their signing to Motown was largely the work of Mickey Stevenson, Motown's head of A&R. Of course, Stevenson was responsible, directly or otherwise, for every signing to the label at this point in time, but he had a special interest in the Four Tops. Stevenson had been in the Air Force in the 1950s, when he'd wandered into one of the Detroit amateur shows at which the Four Aims had been performing. He'd been so impressed with them that he immediately decided to quit the air force and go into music himself. He'd joined the Hamptones, the vocal group who toured with Lionel Hampton's band, and he'd also become a member of a doo-wop group called The Classics, who'd had a minor hit with "If Only the Sky Was a Mirror": [Excerpt: The Classics, "If Only the Sky Was a Mirror"] Stevenson had moved into a backroom position with Motown, but it was arguably the most important position in the company other than Gordy's. He was responsible for putting together the Funk Brothers, for signing many of the label's biggest acts, and for co-writing a number of the label's biggest hits, including "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" and "Dancing in the Street". Stevenson had wanted to sign the group from the start -- given that they were the group who were directly responsible for everything that had happened in his career, they were important to him. And Berry Gordy was also a fan of the group, and had known them since his time working with Jackie Wilson, but it had taken several years for everything to fall into place so that the group were able to sign to Motown. When they did, they naturally became a priority. When they were signed to the label, it was initially with the intention of recording them as a jazz group rather than doing the soul pop that Motown was best known for. Their first recordings for Motown were for their subsidiary Workshop Jazz. They recorded an entire album of old standards for the label, titled "Breaking Through": [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "This Can't be Love"] Unfortunately for the group, that album wouldn't be released for thirty-five years -- Workshop Jazz had been founded because Berry Gordy was still a jazz fanatic, but none of the records on it had been very successful (or, frankly, very good -- the Four Tops album was pretty good, but most of the music put out on the label was third rate at best), and so the label closed down before they released the Four Tops album. So the group were at a loose end, and for a while they were put to work as session vocalists on other people's records, adding backing to records by the Supremes: [Excerpt: The Supremes, "Run Run Run"] And even after they started having hits of their own they would appear on records by other people, like "My Baby Loves Me" by Martha and the Vandellas: [Excerpt: Martha and the Vandellas, "My Baby Loves Me"] You'll notice that both of these records were ones where the Four Tops were added to a female group -- and that would also be the case on their own records, once Holland, Dozier, and Holland took over producing them. The sound on the Four Tops' records is a distinctive one, and is actually made up of seven voices. Levi Stubbs, of course, took the lead on the singles, but the combination of backing vocalists was as important as the lead. Unlike several other vocal groups, the Four Tops were never replaced on their records -- Stubbs was always resistant to the idea that he was more important than the rest of his group. Instead, they were augmented -- Motown's normal session singers, the Andantes, joining in with Fakir, Payton, and Benson. The idea was to give the group a distinctive sound, and in particular to set them apart from the Temptations, whose recordings all featured only male vocals. The group's first hit single, "Baby I Need Your Loving", was a song that Holland, Dozier, and Holland had written but weren't too impressed with. Indeed, they'd cut the backing track two years earlier, but been too uninspired by it to do anything with the completed track. But then, two years after cutting the backing, Dozier was hit with inspiration -- the lines "Baby, I need your loving/Got to have all your loving" fit the backing track perfectly. Eddie Holland was particularly excited to work with the Four Tops. Even though he'd somehow managed never to hear the group, despite both moving in the same musical circles in the same town for several years, he'd been hearing for all that time that Levi Stubbs was as good as his rivals Little Willie John and Jackie Wilson -- and anyone that good must be worth working with. When they took the song into the studio, though, Levi Stubbs didn't want to sing it, insisting that the key was wrong for his voice, and that it should be Payton who sang the song. The producers, though, insisted that Stubbs had the perfect voice for the song, and that they wanted the strained tone that came from Stubbs' baritone going into a higher register than he was comfortable with. Eddie Holland, who always coached the lead vocalists while his brother and Lamont Dozier worked with the musicians, would later say that the problem was that Stubbs was unprepared and embarrassed -- they eventually persuaded Stubbs to take the song home and rehearse it over the weekend, and to come in to have a second go at the track the next Monday. On the Monday, Stubbs came in and sang the song perfectly, and Stubbs' baritone leads became the most distinctive sound to come out of Motown in this period: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Baby I Need Your Loving"] According to at least one source, Stubbs was still unhappy with his vocal, and wanted to come in again the next day and record it again. Holland, Dozier, and Holland humoured him, but that wasn't going to happen. "Baby I Need Your Loving" became a hit, making number eleven, and so of course the next record was a soundalike. "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile)" even started with the line "Baby, I need your good loving". Unfortunately, this time Holland, Dozier, and Holland copied their previous hit a little *too* closely, and people weren't interested. Dozier has later said that they were simply so busy with the Supremes at the time that they didn't give the single the attention it deserved, and thought that cranking out a soundalike would be good enough. Because of this, they weren't given the group's next single -- the way Motown worked at the time, if you came up with a hit for an act, you automatically got the chance to do the follow-up, but if you didn't have a hit, someone else got a chance. Instead, Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter came up with a ballad called "Ask the Lonely", which became a minor hit -- not as big as "Baby I Need Your Loving", but enough that the group could continue to have a career. It would be the next single that would make the Four Tops into the other great Holland-Dozier-Holland act, the one on which their reputation rests as much as it does on the Supremes: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself"] "I Can't Help Myself" was inspired by Dozier's grandfather, who would catcall women as they passed him on the street -- "Hey, sugar pie! Hi there honey bunch!" Dozier married those words to a chord progression that's almost identical to the one from "Where Did Our Love Go?".  Both songs go C-G-Dm-F-G, with the same number of beats between changes: [demonstrates] There's only one tiny change in the progression -- in the last beat of the last bar, there's a passing chord in "I Can't Help Myself", a move to A minor, that isn't there in "Where Did Our Love Go?" Even the melody lines, the syllabics of the words, and their general meanings are very similar. "Where Did Our Love Go?" starts with "Baby baby", "I Can't Help Myself" starts with "Sugar pie, honey bunch". "Baby don't leave me" is syllabically similar to "You know that I love you". The two songs diverge lyrically and melodically after that, but what's astonishing is how a different vocalist and arrangement can utterly transform two such similar basic songs. Compare the opening of "Where Did Our Love Go?": [Excerpt: The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go?"] With the opening of "I Can't Help Myself": [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself"] It's a perfect example of how Holland, Dozier, and Holland would reuse musical ideas, but would put a different spin on them and make the records sound very different. Of course, some of the credit for this should go to the Funk Brothers, the session musicians who played on every Motown hit in this period, but there's some question as to exactly how much credit they deserved. Depending on who you believe, either the musicians all came up with their own instrumental lines, and the arrangement was a group effort by the session musicians with minimal interference from the nominal producers, or it was all written by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, and the musicians just did what they were told with no creative input at all. The arguments about who did what tend to get quite vicious, with each side pointing out, accurately, that the other needed them. It's true that Holland, Dozier, and Holland didn't do anything like as well as writers and producers after they left Motown. It's also true that the Funk Brothers didn't write or produce any hits themselves, but were reliant on the Motown staff writers and producers for material. I suspect, and it is only a suspicion, that the truth lies between the two, and that it was a collaborative process where Holland and Dozier would go into the studio with a good idea of what they wanted, but that there was scope for interpretation and the musicians were able to make suggestions, which the producers might take up if they were good ones. If Brian Holland sketched out or hummed a rough bassline to James Jamerson, saying something like "play bum-bum-bum-bum", and then Jamerson embellished and improvised around that rough bassline, it would be easy to see how both men could come out of the session thinking they had written the bassline, and having good reason to think so. It's also easy to see how the balance could differ in different sessions -- how sometimes Holland or Dozier could come in with a fully worked out part, and other times they might come in saying "you know the kind of thing I want",  and how that could easily become remembered as "I came up with all the parts and the musicians did nothing" or "Us musicians came up with all the parts and the producers just trusted us". Luckily, there's more than enough credit to go around, and we can say that the Four Tops, Holland, Dozier, and Holland, the Funk Brothers, and the Andantes all played an important part in making these classic singles: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself"] "I Can't Help Myself" knocked the Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again" off the number one spot, but was itself knocked off the top by "Mr. Tambourine Man" -- but then a week later, "I Can't Help Myself" was at number one again, before being knocked off again by "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". The success of "I Can't Help Myself" meant that the group's singles on their old labels suddenly had some value. Columbia Records reissued "Ain't That Love", a single the group had originally released four years earlier, in the hope of having some success because of the group's new-found fame. As we saw last time when the Supremes rushed out "Come See About Me" to prevent someone else having the hit with it, there was nothing that Berry Gordy hated more than the idea that someone else could have a hit based on the success of a Motown act. The Four Tops needed a new single *now* to kill the record on Columbia, and it didn't matter that there were no recordings or even songs available to put out. Holland, Dozier, and Holland went into the studio to record a new backing track with the Funk Brothers, essentially just a remake of the backing from "I Can't Help Myself", only very slightly changed. By three o'clock in the afternoon on the day they found out that the Columbia record was being released, they were in the studio, Dozier fine-tuning the melody while Brian Holland rehearsed the musicians and Eddie Holland scribbled lyrics in another corner. By five PM the track had been recorded and mixed. By six PM the master stamper was being driven the ninety miles to the pressing plant so they could start pressing up copies. The next day, DJs started getting copies of the record, and it was in the shops a couple of days later. Of course, the record being made in such a rush meant that it was essentially a remake of their previous hit -- something that was acknowledged in the tongue-in-cheek title: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "It's the Same Old Song"] "It's the Same Old Song" wasn't as big a hit as "I Can't Help Myself", but it made number five on the charts, a more than respectable follow-up, and quite astonishing given the pressure under which the record was made. The next few singles that Holland, Dozier, and Holland wrote for the group weren't quite as successful -- this was early 1966, and Holland, Dozier, and Holland were in a mini slump -- they'd had a number one with "I Hear a Symphony", as we heard in the last episode, but then they produced two singles for the Supremes that made the top ten, but not number one -- "My World is Empty Without You" and "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart".  And as the Four Tops weren't quite as big as the Supremes, so their next two singles, "Something About You" and "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)", only just scraped into the bottom of the top twenty. Still hits, but not up to Holland, Dozier, and Holland's 1965 standards. And so as was the common practice at Motown, someone else was given a chance to come up with a song for the group. "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever" was written by Ivy Jo Hunter, a songwriter and producer whose biggest contribution to this point had been co-writing "Dancing in the Street", and Stevie Wonder, a child star who'd had a hit a couple of years earlier but never really followed up on it, and who also played drums on the track: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever"] Within a few months, Wonder would begin a run of hit singles that would continue for more than a decade, and would become arguably the most important artist on Motown. But that golden period hadn't quite started yet, and "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever" didn't make the top forty. At this point, it would have been easy for the Four Tops to have been relegated to the same pile as artists like the Contours -- people who'd had a couple of hits on Motown, but had then failed to follow up with a decent career. Motown was becoming ever more willing to drop artists as dead weight, as Gordy was increasingly concentrating on a few huge stars -- Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and especially the Supremes – to the exclusion of everyone else. But then Holland, Dozier, and Holland got back up on top. They came up with two more number ones for the Supremes in quick succession. "You Can't Hurry Love" was recorded around the same time that "Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever" was failing to chart, and quickly became one of the Supremes' biggest ever hits. They followed that with a song inspired by the sound of the breaking news alert on the radio, replicating that sound with the staccato guitars on what was their most inventive production to date: [Excerpt: The Supremes, "You Keep Me Hanging On"] Not only was that a number one record, it was soon followed by a top ten cover version by the heavy rock band Vanilla Fudge: [Excerpt: Vanilla Fudge, "You Keep Me Hanging On"] Holland, Dozier, and Holland were back on top, and they brought the Four Tops back to the top with them. The next single they recorded with the group, "Reach Out, I'll Be There", started with an instrumental introduction that Brian Holland was noodling with on the piano: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There"] Holland was playing that part, over and over, and then suddenly Lamont Dozier was hit with inspiration -- so much so that he literally pushed Holland to one side without saying anything and started playing what would become the verse: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There"] The interesting thing about that track is that it shows how the different genres that were charting at the time would have more influence on each other than it might appear from this distance, where we put them all into neat little boxes named "folk-rock" or "Motown". Because Lamont Dozier was very specifically being influenced by Bob Dylan and "Like a Rolling Stone", when it came to how the song was phrased. Now, this is not something that I would ever in a million years have thought of, but once you know it, the influence is absolutely plain -- the way the melody stresses and elongates the last syllable of each line is pure Dylan. To show this, I am afraid I'm going to have to do something that I hoped I'd never, ever, have to do, which is do a bad Bob Dylan impression. Everyone thinks they can impersonate Dylan, everyone's imitations of Dylan are cringeworthy, and mine is worse than most. This will sound awful, but it *will* show you how Dozier was thinking when he came up with that bit of melody: [demonstrates] Let us never speak of that again. I think we'd better hear how Levi Stubbs sang it again, hadn't we, to take that unpleasant sound away: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There"] That became the group's second and last number one single, and also their only UK number one. Unfortunately, Holland, Dozier, and Holland were so hot at this point that they ended up competing with themselves. Norman Whitfield, one of the other Motown songwriter-producers, had wanted for a while to produce the Temptations, whose records were at this point mostly written and produced by Smokey Robinson. He called on Eddie Holland to help him write the hit that let him take over from Robinson as the Temptations' producer, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg": [Excerpt: The Temptations, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"] Dozier and Brian Holland were fine with Eddie working with another writer -- they all did that kind of thing on occasion -- until the date of the BMI Awards. The previous two years, the trio had been jointly given BMI's award for most successful songwriter of the year. But that year, Eddie Holland got the award on his own, for having written more hits than anyone else (he'd written eight, Dozier and Brian Holland had written six. According to a contemporary issue of Billboard, John Sebastian was next with five, then Lennon/McCartney and Jagger/Richards with four each.) Holland felt bad that he'd inadvertently prevented his collaborators from winning the award for a third year in a row, and from this point on he'd be much more careful about outside collaborations. Holland, Dozier, and Holland wrote two more classic singles for the Four Tops, "Standing in the Shadows of Love", and "Bernadette". That latter had been inspired by a coincidence that all three of Holland, Dozier, and Holland had at one time or another dated or felt unrequited love for different girls called Bernadette, but it proved extremely difficult to record. When the trio wrote together, Eddie Holland would always sing the songs, and the melodies were constructed around his tenor vocal range. Stubbs was a baritone, and sometimes couldn't hit some of the higher notes in the melodies, and he was having that problem with "Bernadette". Eddie Holland eventually solved the problem by inviting in a few fans who had been hanging around outside hoping for autographs. Stubbs being a performer wasn't going to make himself look bad in front of an audience, and sang it perfectly: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Bernadette"] "Bernadette" made the top five, and it was followed by a couple more top twenty hits with lesser Holland/Dozier/Holland songs, but then the writer-producers quit Motown, for reasons we'll look at in a few months when we take our last look at the Supremes. This left the Four Tops stranded -- they were so associated with their producers that nobody else could get hits with them. For a while, Motown turned to an interesting strategy with them. It had been normal Motown practice to fill albums up with cover versions of hits of the day, and so the label put out some of this album filler as singles, and surprisingly had some chart success with cover versions of the Left Banke's baroque pop hit "Walk Away Renee": [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Walk Away Renee"] and of Tim Hardin's folk ballad "If I Were a Carpenter": [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "If I Were a Carpenter"] And so for a while many of the singles the group released, both in the US and elsewhere, were covers of songs that were very far from the normal Motown style -- the Jimmy Webb ballad "Do What You Gotta Do" made the UK top twenty, their cover of another Jimmy Webb song, "MacArthur Park", made the lower reaches of the US top forty, their version of the old standard "It's All in the Game" made number twenty-four, and they released a version of "River Deep, Mountain High", teaming up with the Supremes, that became more successful in the US than the original, though still only just made the top forty. But they were flailing. Motown had no idea what to do with them other than release cover versions, and any time any of Motown's writing and production teams tried to come up with something new for the group it failed catastrophically. In 1972 they signed to ABC/Dunhill, and there they had a few hits, including a couple that made the top ten, but soon the same pattern emerged -- no-one could reliably get hits with the group, and they spent much of the seventies chasing trends and failing to catch them. They had one more big US hit in 1981, with "When She Was My Girl", which made number eleven, and which went to number one on the R&B charts: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "When She Was My Girl"] But from that point on they were essentially a nostalgia act, though they carried on releasing records through the eighties. The group's career nearly came to a premature end in 1988. They were in the UK to promote their single "Loco in Acapulco", co-written by Lamont Dozier and Phil Collins, from the soundtrack of Collins' film Buster: [Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Loco in Acapulco"] That was a UK top ten hit, but it nearly led to the group's death -- they were scheduled to fly out of the UK on Pan Am flight 103 to Detroit on the twenty-first of December 1988. But the group were tired after recording an appearance on Top of the Pops the night before, slept in, and missed the flight. The flight fell victim to a terrorist bombing -- the Lockerbie bombing -- and everyone on it died. The group carried on performing together after that, but their last new single was released in 1989, and they only recorded one more album, a Christmas album in 1995. They performed together, still in their original lineup, until 1997 when Lawrence Payton died from cancer. At first the group continued as a trio, retiring the Four Tops name and just performing as The Tops, but eventually they got in a replacement. By the turn of the century, Levi Stubbs had become too ill to perform as well -- he retired in 2000, though he came back for a one-off performance for the group's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, and he died in 2008. Obie Benson continued performing with the group until three months before his death in 2005. A version of the Four Tops continues to perform, led by Abdul Fakir, and also featuring Lawrence Payton's son Roquel, named after Roquel Davis, who performs under the name Lawrence Payton Jr. The Four Tops were one of those groups that never quite lived up to their commercial potential, thanks in large part to Holland, Dozier, and Holland leaving Motown at precisely the wrong moment, and one has to wonder how many more hits they could have had under other circumstances. But the hits they did have included some of the greatest records of the sixties, and they managed to continue working together, without any public animosity, until their deaths. Given the way the careers of more successful groups have tended to end, perhaps it's better this way.

As promised, Jorge Torres-Torres returns to the show and this time he brought along friend and fellow director Jason Banker to talk about the types of films they make, and Russell brands a new sub-genre.   Films: Pre-paradise (2009), Fugue (2016), Shadow Zombie (2013), Hillbilly Wolf (2012), Fat Tuesday (2018), Toad Road (2012), Tarnation (2003), Walk Away Renee (2011), Gummo (1997), Uncle Goddamn (2004), Felt (2014), Sisters of the Plague (2015), My Name Is Faith (2012), 964 Pinocchio (1991), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Hellraiser (1987), The Evil Dead (1981), Tangerine (2015)   Hey, we're on YouTube!  Listening on an iPhone? Don't forget to rate us on iTunes!   Fill our fe-mailbag by emailing us at Podcast@TheOverlookTheatre.com    Reach us on Instagram (@theoverlooktheatre) Facebook (@theoverlookhour) Twitter (@OverlookHour)

Welcome to episode #287 of dHarmic Evolution Join me as we take a ride today from Nashville to Pennsylvania with the musician, recording and performing artist, composer, educator, and finger-style guitar connoisseur, Tim Farrell. Growing up jamming with friends and playing rock music, Tim eventually studied classical guitar, shifting from jazz. His eyes and ears were opened to everything that one can do, not only by playing the rhythm and lead but also melodies, bass line, and open strings, the list is endless! He then applied everything he learned from classical to steel-string guitar and combined the techniques and tones available to steel-string. Realizing that this was not just about playing a chord, but telling a story which Tim believes was one of the best compliments he received when he became the first-ever instrumentalist to play at a venue in Florida and someone quoted to him that “your story is in the music”. Tim's music has shades of Michael Hedges; it's like there is practically no limit to what he can do with his imagination on the way he approaches even the tuning of the guitar. Tim, for the most time, has been using standard tuning when he came across alternate tuning with Little Martha by Leo Kottke. He figured out that he was using open E tuning and heard the potentials that open E created and intensely explored it, in fact, he keeps a guitar on hand with that definitive tuning. Coping with the pandemic With the current situation, Tim believes that the biggest change was not being able to play and perform his music to a larger crowd. While keeping himself active doing walks, yoga, and taking care of his crops, Tim is streaming concerts every other Sunday. He also has a scheduled online concert and workshop at the Cooperage in Pennsylvania. His concerts with his trio called StringSongs - playing alongside Michael Manring and Christopher Garcia are also currently canceled. StringSongs StringSongs was formed when Tim first met Michael on a gig and did some recording together. Eventually, they decided to make it formal, and initially joined by the Grammy-winning piano player and producer, Pat Robinson but later replaced by Christopher due to conflicts in schedule. Tim together with Michael and his fretless bass, and Christopher using a very exotic percussion - they all blend, just perfectly fit, and their music is very unique. What's next for Tim? Watch out for the new solo album that he is working on. And StringSongs – with Michael and Christopher where they are now planning for the recording and rehearsals even during this time of pandemic to come up with new projects Streaming and Music Industry In this confusing time where CDs are going away, vinyl making a comeback, where consumers love streaming and artists hate it. Tim, who is also an educator, is continuously sharing his music and develops workshops online and onsite, performs at senior centers and performing art centers. He believes that this is an eye-opener for people to see that there are so many unexpected things that can be done with an acoustic guitar aside from strumming chords or playing solo. To know more about Tim Farrell's music and everything that he does, you can support him by playing his music through streaming services, ordering his CDs through his website, supporting him on his online live concerts. Timestamps: 2:54 How Tim got connected to finger-style acoustic playing 7:52 Alternate Tuning 9:10 Listen to “Joyride to Tranquillity” 13:49 When did he first come across the idea of starting alternative tuning 17:28 Online concert and workshop in Pennsylvania 19:04 Listen to “Rosewood Alley 25:10 StringSongs with Michael Manring and Christopher Garcia 29:38 Tim's work ethic towards music 33:31 New solo album and plans with StringSongs 36:05 Listen to “Walk Away Renee” written by the Four Tops 40:22 Thoughts about streaming and music business 44:29 Challenges with rehearsing and recording together with Michael and Christopher 49:12: Listen to “Kindred Spirits” 53:20 Coping with the pandemic 55:52 Learn and support Tim Farrell's music 58:13 Listen to “Connected” by James Kevin O'Connor QuotesIn some ways, you get to be like the complete composer when you do what you do. Because It is an entire orchestra, it's not just by playing a chord…and it just brings out so much in the story of what's being played And they said to me afterward, you don't need the words, your story is in the music. A lot of people expect that you will either be strumming chords or playing a solo, and they don't realize you can do these other things together. It's phenomenal to see it open people's eyes and ears up. I think the more your style of playing is out there, the better that songwriters will continue to develop songs in general. We will get better music because it incorporates so much imagination and so much beauty into the songs. Connect with Tim Website: www.timfarrellmusic.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeAvq_RNxO90JQeeBi9KvQ Apple Music: itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tim-farrell/1749396 Deezer: www.deezer.com/en/artist/1076837/radio?autoplay=true Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2ZUazTgHPZia5PfuXsTtyu?si=XmDO2VwGQvOiqmon3gosLQ StringSongs Selected links and mentions. Michael Hedges Leo Kottke Michael Manring Christopher Garcia Pat Robinson Connected by James Kevin O'Connor As always, thanks a lot for being a part of the dHarmic evolution podcast, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and connect with us on social media. Follow our Podcast on Facebook Twitter Instagram  You can also see the show on The James O'Connor Agency YouTube channel and join our community on dHarmic Evolution Community Facebook Group

Episode 31 – “Tu mandasti”( 25th Sunday in OT) Chant: Communio, Psalm 118:4-5 Text & Translation Latin: Tu mandasti mandata tua custodiri nimis: utinam dirigantur viae meae, ad custodiendas justificationes tuas. English: Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes. Musical Musings #chantnerdterm: Lydian Mode Secular music example, Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QVUfZv92U Resonant Reflections: This week’s chant is in the “Happy Mode”. Is the practice of diligently obeying God’s commandments your idea of happiness? Take some time to tap back into the springboard for the Catholic faith: happiness is to be found in communion with God. We’re reminded of this through both: 1) The physical world: beauty in creation 2) The human person: your deepest, most noble desires Sunday Playlist: - Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHYZvEUh7jbNvXI_m-qdwKafYUhfXePZf - Melchior Franck score: http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Beati_immaculati_a_10_(Melchior_Franck) - Hear David Stattelman’s commissioned ‘Quaerite Dominum’ piece this coming Sunday at 11 am EST through my parish’s livestream channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNJZpONsKRMsPRktoGjz3vA Guinevere Christian, Content Creator Josh Reznicek, Editor Learn more about the project at www.patreon.com/chantpodcast Contact us at takeachants@gmail.com Resources: Chant Tools App Choral Wiki Catechism of the Catholic Church #31-43.

Who is Charly Cazalet? Charly is one of the first long haired NYC rockers. His band, The Outsiders were one of the first British Invasion influenced bands to play The Scene, an early Manhattan rock venue. Charly also had his own influence on The Left Banke, a popular NYC band known for the big hit “Walk Away Renee”, writing later songs with them and teaching them how to play their instruments. Later he would record with The Left Banke as well. Charly has his hand in other musical endeavors as well and you can hear him talk about his interesting life here on the Rocker Mike and Rob Presents Show. Please follow us on Youtube,Facebook,Instagram,Twitter and at www.gettinglumpedup.com Get your T-shirt on www.prowrestlingtees.com/gettinglumpedup https://www.bonfire.com/store/getting-lumped-up/ #rock #metal #rocknroll #guitar #punk #band #heavymetal #alternative #emo #bands #hardrock #grunge #guitarist #rockmusic #pop #musician #concert #punkrock #rockandroll #metalhead #indie #classicrock #nirvana #blues #fender #goth #livemusic #bass #guitars #bringmethehorizon #nycrock #nycrocknroll #nycrocks #nycrockband #nycrockettes #nycrockbands

In this episode, we talk about the difference between having a derivative sound vs an inspired sound as a musician; what's STILL been going on in Nashville and NY; and a trip down memory lane with more stories from Greg and Carl's past! We are featuring an amazing, new UK band called CALM this week, who just released a new 2 single EP! Make sure you subscribe on the digital platform of your choice, so as to not miss out on an episode - and leave a comment or review to let us hear from you! Links from today's episode: CALM (the band) Pokey Lafarge The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee" Danny Wilson "Mary's Prayer" Gary Clark Joe Jackson Abagail Nielson Anthony Wolfe

Marc's narrative feature editing includes the films Putty Hill, Museum Hours, Little Boxes, Sollers Point, The Kindergarten Teacher, and Blow the Man Down. Marc's documentary feature work includes The Painter Sam Francis, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, and Walk Away Renee. Recently, Marc has edited episodes of the documentary series Dirty Money and The Innocence Files.

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The Sensible Peeps are back at it following the celebration of their one year anniversary. Mandi B gets some much deserved criticism, Tay whines about the weather change in Chicago and analyzes Illinois’ heftier neighbors beyond the border north, and Raw Dog gets thrown to the wolves as we bring his sweet mother Renee on … Continue reading "S2 05 | Don’t Walk Away Renee"

In this episode we discuss which hills to die on, the dangers of handshake deals, and our (least) favorite contract clauses, as well as general contract dos and don’ts.  NB: We realized midway through the episode that we had supporters this week, so the thanks come at the end! Our apologies for the omission.  NBB: We’re nearly at 50 episodes! Got ideas for what we could do for the big 5-0? Leave ‘em in the ask box or let us know on email!  Listen to the episode here.  Like the podcast? Support us by buying one of the books we mention in this podcast and using our affiliate links (below! Currently only Amazon and Indiebound.)  You can also support us through a donation on ko-fi, by subscribing to us on iTunes, or by leaving a review!  Discussed in this episode:  Twilight Zone – “Time Enough at Last” Linda Holmes - “Why That Arrested Development Interview Is So Bad” Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey Amazon | B&N | IndieBound  Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club Amazon | B&N | IndieBound Jane Austen Book Club Amazon | B&N  Rihanna – Bitch Better Have My MoneyW.L. Goodwater – Breach Amazon | B&N | IndieBoundKatrina Leno – Summer of Salt Amazon | B&N | IndieBound  GJ Meyer – A World Undone: A Story of the Great War 1914-1918 Amazon | B&N | IndieBound  Sarah J. Maas – A Court of Mist and Fury  Amazon | B&N | IndieBound 

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Rick Price is known in Australia for his hits including “Heaven Knows”, “Walk Away Renee” and “Not a Day Goes By”, but he's so much more.  Now living in Nashville, he is a producer, while still continuing to create original music.  His latest album, Tennessee Sky, brings him back to Australia with his “Can I Get a Witness” Tour in April.  Susie got to catch up with Rick ahead of the tour by Skype to talk music, touring, food, health, Tina Arena, famous people in Nashville and producing music.  We also caught up again with Dr Charlotte Middleton to ask for the doctor's perspective on a debate of parents versus doctor in the doctor's surgery.  If a parent brings a child in to see a doctor with a gut feeling of what's going on, but the doctor diagnoses something else, how hard should a parent push to follow their gut?   Episode Timeline: 02:38   Introducing Rick Price 24:30   Dr Charlotte Middleton – A parent's gut vs a doctor's diagnosis   Show Links: To find out more about Rick Price, go to:  Rick Price To check out his upcoming tour dates, go to:  Rick Price Tour

In this episode of the Movie Geeks United! original series The Art of the Documentary, acclaimed director Jonathan Caouette discusses his deeply intimate and personal work (Tarnation, Walk Away Renee). For more information on The Art of the Documentary series, including a complete line-up of all-new and archived interviews, visit http://www.moviegeeksunited.net. 

Time for some more anthology discussion from Eric Reanimator. This time around Eric talks about not one, not two, but three great compilations from bands of the early years of rock. You all know them for one or two songs, but Eric gives you the lowdown on other songs you should hear if your curiousity points that way. First of all, we hear about The Best of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. Everyone will be familiar with “Shakin’ All Over” – it’s been covered by all manner of bands (my favourites are The Who and Eilen Jewell). Get familiar with their bluesy Merseybeat sounds. Next up is mid 60s New York pop band, The Left Banke. Eric discusses their compilation “There’s Gonna be a Storm”. Everybody loves their hit “Walk Away Renee” (great cover version by The Four Tops and an unusual spin by Billy Bragg – go on search it out). Eric will bring to your attention some other great songs including “She May Call You Up Tonight” (also covered by Richard and Linda Thompson). Highly recommended if you dig what is called the baroque pop sound. Finally, Eric talks about The Love Story, about Arthur Lee’s great band that should have been HUGE. A very eclectic band. Known mostly for “Forever Changes”, this compilation shows both their gentle and more garage oriented side (songs from De Capo for instance). Once again, Eric presents a hugely entertaining and informative show and exposes you to great music. Get onto it. You can download the podcast at iTunes by searching for “love that album”. You can also stream or download it at “http://lovethatalbum.blogspot.com”.  Send me any feedback at rrrkitchen@yahoo.com.au (written or mp3 voicemail) or join the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/lovethatalbum

Följ med Kino till snöiga Sundance där världens viktigaste festival för independentfilm pågår just nu. Hör grundaren Robert Redford och den franske kultfilmaren Quentin Dupieux i Gunnar Bolins porträtt av en festival som har pjäxor och skidbyxor som dresscode. Även i Göteborg är det snart festivaldags. Kino har träffat den österrikiska filmaren Jessica Hausner, regissören bakom Miraklet i Lourdes som nu är ordförande i den jury som ska dela ut en miljon kronor till vinnaren av priset Dragon Award i Göteborg.  Filmfestivalen i Sundance är en av de där festivalerna som fortfarande har ett lite mystiskt skimmer över sig. Bilderna därifrån ser mer ut som scener från en idyllisk fjällby, än något pulserande centrum för den amerikanska indiefilmen. Folk i bylsiga dunjackor som pulsar runt i snön. Filmbolagsfester som pågår i små timrade stugor. Efter att ha sett Cannes invaderas varenda år av horder av människor undrar man ju hur den där lilla staden, Park City, egentligen får plats med media, filmstjärnor, filmbolagsmänniskor och dessutom en engagerad filmpublik. Och hur hänger festivalen ihop med Sundanceinstutet - namnet brukar blixtra till i eftertexterna till vissa filmer. Gunnar Bolin förklarar hur allt funkar i sin rapport från hans premiärtur till Sundance filmfestival där pjäxor och skidbyxor är dresscode.  Även i Göteborg är det snart festivaldags. En av de filmskapare som finns i programmet är den amerikanska regissören Jonathan Caouette som 2005 slog igenom med sin debutfilm Tarnation. Ett frenetiskt montage av dokumentära scener blandat med gamla hemvideoinspelningar från hans barndom. En uppväxt som till stor del präglades av mammans personlighetsstörningar, delvis framkallade av elchocker som hon behandlats med efter en förlamning som barn. Nu har det kommit en ny film av honom som visas på filmfestivalen i Göteborg. Walk Away Renee berättar på nytt historien om förhållandet mellan mor och son, men den här gången med Jonathans mamma Renee som huvudperson, och han själv mer som en bifigur. Filmen är både en fortsättning och en avslutning på den första filmen, men kanske framför allt en kärlekshistoria mellan en mor och en son, berättar Jonathan Caouette för Kinos Gunilla Kracht. Det är ju danskt tema på Göteborgs filmfestival i år. En av filmerna som visas där är Labrador, eller Out of bounds som den heter på engelska, gjord av långfilmsdebutanten Frederikke Aspöck, och med manus av dansk/svenske Daniel Dencik - skådespelaren Davids bror. Och i huvudrollen i denna danska film ser vi faktiskt Jacob Eklund. Han spelar Nathan, en rå, farlig och oberäknelig svensk man som bor på en ödslig ö. När hans dotter kommer på besök med sin pojkvän så börjar en sorts märklig maktkamp och psykologisk krigföring mellan pappan och den blivande svärsonen. Roger Wilson träffade Frederikke och Daniel på filmens världspremiär i Cannes i fjol. Och då var hans första fråga hur Jacob Eklund egentligen hamnade i filmen. Är den ett möte mellan de svenska och danska manlighetstyperna - eller var det bara ett sätt att få loss samproduktionspengar från sverige till en dansk film? Men det visade sig att det faktiskt var skrivet så i manuset redan från början. Och manusförfattaren Daniel och filmkonsulenten som de fick pengar av fick övertala Fredrikke om att det inte finns en man som Nathan i Danmark. Kino har träffat den österrikiska filmaren Jessica Hausner, regissören bakom Miraklet i Lourdes som i fjol vann en Guldbagge för bästa utländska film. Det var hennes stora internationella genombrott. Men nu är det alltså hennes tur att bestämma vem som ska bli en av 2012:s stora festivalvinnare. Hon sitter nämligen som ordförande för juryn för Göteborgs Dragon Award, som delar ut en miljon i prispengar till en av 8 nordiska filmer. Men vad är det för typ av filmer som Jessica Hausner gillar då? Yvonne Ihmels åkte hem till Hausner i Wien för få svar på frågan. Programledare: Roger Wilson Producent: Lisa Bergström