TheSupremesrecord 'Where Did Our Love Go' atMotownStudios in Detroit. The song would become their first US No.1 single. Originally founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and are, to date, America's most...
His most famous role, however, was as Frodo Baggins' loyal companion Samwise Gamgee in theLord Of The Ringstrilogy. Watch the Stranger Things cast perform an INCREDIBLE Motown medley He later appeared in Netflix hit seriesStranger Things, which itself was inspired byThe Goonies. Astin has three...
A decision was made to rerelease the single. However, by then, a disillusioned Charlene had left the music industry, married and moved to England. Motown tracked her down and re-signed her. When the single was released it topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and ...
Ultimately, [the Monkees] affirmed the Brill Building–and, tangentially, Motown–as the secret motor of the best sixties pop, and also showed Monterey to be the decade’s great fulcrum of failure–dethroning the Mamas and the Papas (despite their role in setting it up), destabilizing Brian ...
ago, she says she met her partner, a white man, at a bar and “fell in love at first sight.” They made their way back to his hotel. “For the first time I felt someone could see who I really was.” And that was someone who found it erotic to ...
This little resort was hemmed by the bright roses and gladioli and honeysuckle growing strongly in my mother’s well tended flower borders, and the thoroughly creosoted fence and trellis beyond them camouflaged the rest of the world from view. In cooler evenings, we listened to Motown and the...
He appeared in Married…With Children and the Motown movie, The Last Radio Station. In 1994, he went to Westwood One and did afternoon drive on the 70’s format and weekends at “B-100.” After radio, Benny worked as an automotive salesman at Ed Butts Ford....
Robinson, was Motown’s first million-seller, rising to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart — thanks in part to the timing of its release. In an interview in 2015 with WVUD-FM in Newark, Del., Mr. Moore said that Mr. Gordy “wasn’t aware that you didn’t release records in...
Founded as a theatre club in 1979, members took over the old Tron Kirk in 1980, staging plays originally in the Victorian Bar as the kirk itself was transformed into an auditorium. Opened formally as the Tron Theatre on May 10, 1981, it went on to flourish under the artistic leadership ...