from the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" to the Four Tops' "I'll Be There." Eddie's deceptively simple lyrics — written to Brian and Lamont's completed tracks — often focused on bittersweet, tormented love ("I got a lot of ideas from what I learned talking to women," he sai...
There are no deep plots in Fats Domino songs: “Yes, it’s me, and I’m in love again/Had no lovin’ since you know when/You know I love you, yes I do/And I’m savin’ all my lovin’ just for you.” It don’t get no simpler than that. Even when Fats Domino did songs b...
The album opens with the quasi-acapella “Freedom.” The smooth “No More Rain (in This Cloud)” glides over a luscious string arrangement and sweet melodies. The funk-fueled “Green Grass Vapors” and “Love Junkie” are the groovy highlights ofBlack Diamond, with phrasing in the vein of ...
Complete Bob Dylan Song Lyrics Book Due Oct. 28; Dylan Sings ‘Do Re Mi’ With Ry Cooder, Van Dyke Parks October 9, 2014 Eight Questions: Interview With ‘True Love Scars’ Author Michael Goldberg October 8, 2014 Photo Gallery + Music: The Great Woody Guthrie In New York October 8,...
I love singers whom you can identify the first second they open their mouth, and Levi Stubbs is one of those; he's one of the greatest of all time. He has that distinctive voice, and his range is staggering. The combination of Levi, Obie Benson, Duke Fakir and Lawrence Payton was ...
Elton:I think it would. I like writing songs like “First Episode at Heinton,” which really doesn’t have any shape or form, it just meandered with a general feel of wistfulness. I’d love to eventually, I feel I could write lyrics someday, I might want to, but I just can’t ...
The Supremes had bigger hits. The Temptations had the better dance moves. The Miracles did it with pure music. Back then the radio played the rougher stuff, like "Do You Love Me," by the Contours, only at night. Smokey Robinson— they played him all day. Everybody loved his songs,...
I love singers whom you can identify the first second they open their mouth, and Levi Stubbs is one of those; he's one of the greatest of all time. He has that distinctive voice, and his range is staggering. The combination of Levi, Obie Benson, Duke Fakir and Lawrence Payton was ...