The Supremes led by Diana Ross was one of the biggest girl groups of the time, and “Where Did Our Love Go” was among their many top singles. Motown’s music drew inspiration from the jazz and big band sound of earlier decades and mixed it with a modern flair popular for the time ...
soverallevolution — a consequence of the historic disregard for disco as an art form, though it defined the many branches of dance music that evolved in its wake. As disco’s greatest champion, Summer redefined what it meant to be a "pop star" in a post-Motown world. Summer’s ...
How did you first get into ZZ Top? What's your origin story? It was the early ‘80s. I was born in ‘63 and graduated in ‘82. Right around the timeEl Lococame out, our local radio station here, QFM, had “Tube Snake Boogie” and “Pearl Necklace" in heavy rotation. My other ...
Lamont Dozier has talked about the graft involved when the writing trio Holland-Dozier-Holland created Motown hits such as “Baby Love,”“Stop! In the Name Of Love” and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”“We’d start at 9am and we would sometimes work until 3am,” said Dozier. “It was...
” That’s precisely what people loved and hated aboutdisco, since the biggest disco hits made an art out of that simple repeated part. In Rose Royce’s “Car Wash” (written, lest we forget, by Motown’s psychedelic soul genius, Norman Whitfield), the “Car wash, yeah!” refrain gets...
Armstrong says the tribute to Amy Winehouse took him less than 20 minutes to write. “I felt like there was this connection with R&B of the past and R&B of the present. What she did, her knowledge of old music and old Motown, it’s something in the chain of music that is gone ...
Grapevine Surveys started as a way to ask customers one simple question when they checked their order status: “How did you hear about us?” The name “Grapevine Surveys” was inspired by the classic Motown song “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” perfectly capturing its purpose of discoveri...
"Production-wise, Sugar Hill [the record label that released many key early rap singles] built themselves on the model of Motown, which is to say, they had their own production studios and they had a house band and they recorded on the premises,"explains Bill Adler, who handled PR for ...
the pillow so my screaming wouldn’t wake up everybody at 4 am during the Superbowl, the sting of the Fail Mary game, the excitement of Rodgers connecting with Cobb to beat the Bears the first time he got back from the broken collarbone, the sheer madness of the Miracle in Motown... ...
From the outside, Motown seems like a small building where people live. However, the little house changed the world with its hit songs. Berry Gordy Jr. and othersused music production equipmentto create classic tunes like “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.”...