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So it goes without saying that ‘Motown the Musical’ is unimpeachable from a music perspective. Can a show be musically unimpeachable and also not very good? Yes. Yes it can. Ironically this Broadway import’s Achilles heel starts with the embarrassment of riches that is its set list. ...
When it comes to defining the sound of soul and R&B, you can't overlook the best Motown artists of all time. The Motown label, founded by Berry Gordy in 1959, became a musical phenomenon, producing hit after hit and shaping the landscape of American music. Its iconic sound, characterized...
Motown the Musical - Battle of the Stars: Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Prologue) / I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) / Ain't Too Proud To Beg / Baby I Need Your Loving / I Can't Get Next To You / Reach Out I'll Be There / (I Know) I'm Losing You ...
the guests will be of that ilk, other times Tam and Stuart will discuss their musical preferences, with Stuart the black music obsessed yin to Tam Cowan’s cabaret ‘n crooners yang. And there’s always arecord to play out with, a thematically-linked song that encapsulates the mood of ...
by their mother, Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, when Clark Sheard was a teenager, the five sisters released their national crossover hit “You Brought The Sunshine” in 1981. The song reached churches and dancefloors alike, and climbed to the upper reaches of several Billboard charts in th...
A quick scouring of the local bars found him somewhat worse for wear but they brought him back to the studio. However he was so drunk he couldn't stand and it is said that he played his part whilst lying on his back in the studio. He played a song he was unfamiliar with and the ...
who is one of the most talented young men in the rhythm-and-blues field, wrote a new song called Shop Around, which he performed himself with a group called Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Released late in 1960, the record became a hit; by February, 1961, Motown had sold one million...
“The idea [forMotown] came originally from whenever someone would ask me what I thought was the best song ever created for children, and I would immediately say that it was ‘ABC,'” Wakely tellsBillboard. “One of the reasons Motown music was so astronomically successful was because at ...
the children in song. After his three eldest sons—Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine—took an interest in his guitar, Joseph began shaping them and a pair of their cousins into a musical group. In about 1964 the cousins were replaced by Joseph’s sons Marlon and Michael (the latter of whom ...