The Spin (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Reporters travelling with Jack Layton were welcomed into the inner sanctum of his musical tastes when he connected his iPod to the loudspeaker on his campaign plane. As expected, the strains of War by Edwin Starr could be heard, but...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Norman Whitfield, a Grammy-winning songwriter, producer and arranger for Motown Records whose many hits, including the signature song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," helped solidify the Motown sound in the 1960s and afterward, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 68 and lived in Toluca Lake, Calif.
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
When you’re 13, you’re still trying to figure out what to make of the world around you. Though I didn’t know his name at the time, songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield tremendously influenced the way I saw the world, the way I thought about the world. That’s what I came to realize in the wake of [...]
Isak (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Brian McCollom of the Detroit Free Press has a lovely tribute to legendary Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield, who died Tuesday of complications with diabetes.Credit Whitfield for jacking up the Motown sound with a social conscience and innovative electronic...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
WHEN he saw the soul singer Smokey Robinson sitting as cool as you like in a Cadillac, the pool player became a tambourine man on his way to writing and producing some of the songs which would define his era.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
It is not an exaggeration to describe Norman Whitfield as black music’s answer to Phil Spector. In the mid- 1960s both men transformed a simple musical form and took it to previously unimagined heights of sophistication and ambition. In Spector’s case his vehicle was teenage pop; Whitfield’s was the soul music of Motown.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
When I was 18, some friends and I looked up Edwin Starr in a phone book. He was listed. A woman answered, and said he wasn't home. We got too nervous to call back. But I like to think that...
the brain police (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
I just saw Sarah Palin speaking live in Sterling Hights, Michigan and I found it so disturbing that I just had to go listen to Edwin Starr singing War! Here is the man live from 1970. The photoshop piece is by John Langdon
VH1 (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Time (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Sheryl Crow is giving away free music - a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Sheryl Crow is giving away free music - a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Sheryl Crow is giving away free music - a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote.
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Monkey ThunderMichael CollinsLet's see how much thunder there is in Tropic Thunder. We are in for a varied collection of tracks here. Maybe it is a little too varied.The look of the Tropic Thunder scared me off so much that you would need to tie me to a truck to drag me to see that film – plus some popcorn. It’s all down to the bill poster – Black, Stiller and Downey Jr looking all military and testosteroned...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Sheryl Crow is giving away free music -- a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote. The singer plans to give a digital copy of her album "Detours" to the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
punditman says...An awesome, soul-felt version of the Edwin Starr classic.
