Believe it or not, “I Want You Back” was the first national single by the Jackson 5. It arrived via Motown on October 7, 1969, and became the first No.1 hit for the band just a few months later. It marked a new era, as it signaled the arrival of Michael Jackson, who single-...
Plenty of producers and musicians questioned the arid, close-mic’d ’70s production style. New Jersey native Tony Bongiovi, who got his start at age 17 working for Motown, had in idea. He envisioned a studio that would have Motown-like ambience and allow musicians to play in the same roo...
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who is a super-talented bassist, and thought this song with a bassline by the amazingJames Jamersonwould be a great fit forThe Sunday Six. Jamerson played on numerousMotownhits, oftentimes uncredited – fortunately, not so in this case!I...
Motown’s shrewd founder Berry Gordy used the drive toward desegregation in the ‘60s as his highway to the huge white market. To get there, he walked tricky lines: Early contends that the crossover brand of soul Gordy shaped was “neither bleached nor blackened,” and though Motown produc...
s Hot 100 — if they managed to climb onto it at all. Motown created several key crossover stars in the ’60s, as did disco and Philly soul in the ’70s, but not nearly enough of them. Even in the ’80s, black singers who weren’t Prince, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Billy ...
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Benny Benjamin, one of Motown’s great drummers, was just 43 when he died of a stroke in April 1969. A key member of the collective of session musicians known as The Funk Brothers, he was known for his deft brushwork and explosive drum fills. Benjamin, who had a background in big-ba...
The Rolling Stones: Rare and Unseen: Photographs by Gered Mankowitz— The music world of the 1960s was filled with fashion icons, from the Beatles to the Ronettes, from Jimi Hendrix to the Supremes, from Motown to Haight-Ashbury. But for some of us, the mid-1960s Rolling...