20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Back in 1998, when I went to Detroit, I visited 2648 West Grand Boulevard. No, "visited" is not the right word; I made a pilgrimage to Hitsville USA , the house that served as the recording studio for a great number of artists recording for Motown Records. It is a physically unimpressive building, even dowdy, but it was the launching pad for a great amount of music that I own, tunes by Marvin...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Nolan Strong today. Nolan Strong & the Diablos onstage, mid-50's Detail From Fortune Records Promo Poster. Autographs done with felt tipped pens often smea r. NOLAN STRONG & THE DIABLOS, Nolan Strong, 2nd from right, Bob "Chico" Edward w/guitar. Ethereal , there's no other word for the sound of Nolan Strong and the Diablos. They released twenty one singles and four and a half LP's...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Fifty years ago, Berry Gordy, a songwriter for local Detroit acts like The Matadors and Jackie Wilson, borrowed $800 from his family and founded two record labels that became incorporated a year later as Motown Record Corporation. In its half-century of existence Motown forged an unmistakable sound in popular music, turned a number of artists [...]
Verve music group (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Available today on iTunes for the first time, the Mad Men Character AM Radio Playlists . Each of the five-song playlists is inspired by one of seven characters from the hit series: Betty Draper, Don Draper, Salvatore Romano, Roger Sterling, Joan Harris, Peggy Olson, and Pete Campbell. The song selections shed new light on these characters, exploring their personalities and offering a unique, intimate...
Media: PDA | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
What you listen to says a lot about what kind of person you are: just look at the interest generated by Barack Obama's iPod playlist . The same logic applies to TV shows – and no show has more taste than Mad Men. So the release of playlists for seven of the show's main characters – Betty Draper, Don Draper, Salvatore Romano, Roger Sterling, Joan Harris, Peggy Olson and Pete Campbell –...
The National Pages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes’ repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco. They were the most commercially successful of Motown’s acts and are, to date, America’s most [...]
M80s Soundtrack for an 80s Generation (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Flying Lizards were a British experimental rock band, who were formed in 1978 in London, England. They are best remembered as New wave one-hit wonders, thanks to their deliberately eccentric cover of Barrett Strong's 'Money'. 'Money (That's What I Want)' is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records. The song was written by Tamla founder Berry...
There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
We've become big fans of Little Red here at TGTF recently. Jess reviews the debut collection of infectious retro indie pop from the Melbourne quintet...
Darling Darling (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I haven't really been listening to anything new since last week's Sissy Wish post and as noted in my last post , all I really listened to this weekend was Bowie. So my excuse for no Music Monday yesterday is: no new music + my brother visiting, thus hogging the computer for the last few days. To make up for my lack of musical inspiration, I've put together a mix of covers, since it's a valid way of...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
On Sunday, we counted down what KEXP listeners said were the Best Cover Songs ever. hands down. You picked Nirvana’s rendition of the classic bluegrass tune, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” and while Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” may have climbed to number 2 on Billboard’s top 100 in 2003, Clem Snide’s version scored spot #41 on [...]
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Second song in, and the band play ‘Boys’, as sung by Ringo Starr. I’ll try and keep it brief this time. Visually, not much has changed, although you notice the presence of the camera more as it zooms in on Ringobot’s mangled CGI gob, which presumably would otherwise have been mostly obscured by the drum [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
As Motown turns 50, Funk Brothers Eddie Willis and Bob Babbitt tell Brad Wheeler about the glorious grind within the hit factory
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Musicians Beware! The devil is closer than you think!
Nick's Ramblings (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
OK, I’m not going to go on about the song sung by The Beatles and Barrett Strong! Yesterday I got round to finalising the Scout Troop’s money for the last term. Now for reasons too boring to go into here, I look after the Troop’s subs money. Once I’d tallied all the cash up, two [...]
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Funky16Corners Radio v.72 – The Pulse aka the ‘Marvin’ Mix Playlist Titanic – Sultana (CBS) Santana – Jin-Go-La-Ba (CBS) Simon Kenyatta Troupe – Soul Makossa (Avco) Curtis Mayfield – Future Shock (Curtom) Cymande – Bra (Janus) Eddie Kendricks – Date With the Rain (Tamla) Cold Blood – Valdez In the Country (WB) Rufus – Half Moon (MCA)...
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