but not intentionally. Motown’s history of the song relates that after the first pressings were distributed to radio stations and record stores ‘in September 1960, [Gordy] couldn’t sleep, worried that it wasn’t good enough (‘too slow, not enough life’). He called ...
Soul music, term adopted to describe African American popular music in the U.S. as it evolved from the 1950s to the ’60s and ’70s. Some view soul as merely a new term for rhythm and blues. In fact a new generation reinterpreted the sounds of the R&B pi
The Beatles loved Motown — Lennon said that Smokey Robinson was American’s greatest poet. Lennon himself works this one on out, and the other members of the group deliver the unrelenting pile-driver of a backing track. Starr’s drumming contributes a lot. 66. “Hello, Goodbye,” Magical ...
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Soul music had basically been perfected throughout the 60s byMotownand others, so the following decade was all about broadening the genre’s borders in different ways. Eddie Kendricks, for instance, helped pioneer disco with “Girl, You Need a Change of Mind,” whileMinnie Ripertontook things...
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Gaye, who also played drums and piano, bucked the Motown system and its emphasis on teen hits. He was set on being a crooner in theNat King Cole–Frank Sinatravein, but his first efforts in that style failed. His break came with “Stubborn Kinda Fellow” (1962), the first of a long...
These areall the Top Songs of 1966. *Note: Based on the Nolan Method, these are the year-end songs that represented the best songs of 1966. The Nolan Method ranking system was formulated by lead Top40Weekly contributor Jarrett Nolan and is based on a point system for an artist’s chart...
This list of the best songs from the 60s is a loving tribute to some of the artists that made it a decade that changed music forever.