Motown entered the 70s fit, fresh and ready for the fray. Having grown from nothing to become one of the world’s most recognizable brands, there was no reason to assume that the music it made in the new decade would not be as successful as the previous one. Motown had the vast majori...
with a characteristic style of black music that combined rhythm and blues with the rhythms and ballad style of pop music, often with orchestral backing. The company featured a stable of songwriters and composers that scored many hits in the 1960s and 70s, including Smokey Robinson and The ...
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Other Motown hits winning Grammys in performance categories includeGladys Knight & the Pips‘ “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye),”Thelma Houston‘s “Don’t Leave Me This Way,” theDazz Band‘s “Let It Whip,”Commodores‘ “Nightshift” and Ro...
Essential Hits: Soul, Funk & Groove 2 Essential Hits: Soul, Funk & Groove 1 Dr Packer Remixes 2: 80s Soul – Extended The Mastermix Collection: Soul & Motown 2 Grandmaster Philadelphia Soul Grandmaster Northern Soul Grandmaster 70s Soul ...
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted 100votes Went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Buy at 2 My Guy 56votes Mary Wells Buy at 3 Do You Love Me 79votes The group had other minor hits, but this was their only smash, hitting #1 in 1962. ...
You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Stevie Wonder) was a hit. 1974 Stevie Wonder hits #1 with "You Haven't Done Nothin'" and #8 with "Living For the City". October 27, 1974 You Haven't Done Nothin' (Stevie Wonder) was a hit. ...
(1965)More often than not, especially in the 1960s, Motown albums were collections of hit singles padded with other recordings. The result was often uneven, but the album tracks on Second Album are pretty great in their own regard. No one can argue with the three Top 10 hits on the ...
s book publicist about an interview and having conversations with Ewart Abner of Vee-Jay Records fame, a former President of Motown Records himself, now running The Gordy Company, arrangements were made for the meeting. I was on Q and A assignment for the weekly US trade magazineHITS, and ...
His playing graced a gazillion Motown hits –Going To a Go-Go, I Second That Emotion(above),but mainly Motown misses –I’ll be Doggone, Cruisin’, Still Waterand many other minor tracks I’d need to Google. He loved a hammer-on with the pinky, he loved a simple-yet-effective runnin...