Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Loik - Norman Is The One! (MP3 Podcast on www.parisdjs.com) Kraked, 2008-10-05 A tribute to Norman Whitfield : In the past, you might have stumbled upon on of our summer mixes, cooked by one of our DJs, called... Norfield Whitman. As most of us here in the Paris DJs crew, he's just another...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
from Vibe.com CRITICAL NOIR Soul Revolt: Remembering Norman Whitfield by Mark Anthony Neal At the root of Motown's success in the 1960s was a stable of youthful and innovative producers and songwriters. Though figures like William "Smokey" Robinson and the trio of Brian Holland, Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier are legendary for their roles in Motown's rise as the "Sound of Young America," Norman Whitfield,...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Arrangements have been set for Norman Whitfield, the Motown Records songwriter-producer who died Sept. 16.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
DOWNLOAD: The Phenomenal Handclap Band - O Castelo Do Jorge (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Dim the Lights (MP3) In the midst of popular electronic-based production teams such as Justice and DFA, Embassy Sound Productions (ESP) emerges with...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Robbie Daw presents a weekly pop music update here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own site called Chart Rigger. Leaked tracks. It happens all the time. In the past week alone, both a snippet of Britney Spears' new single "Womanizer"...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
When the pianist and producer Richard “Popcorn” Wylie joined the tiny Motown label in 1960 the only big thing about it were the ambitions of its owner, Berry Gordy Jr, a former Detroit carworker.
Stop Smiling (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
While many towering band leaders who passed away this year have been properly immortalized in American newspapers and bible-thick British music magazines, a few important studio musicians and session players have passed away recently, with considerably less fanfare: jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, famous in Chicago for his “blowing sessions“; Buddy Harmon, the Nashville drummer who [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Alistair Cooke writes: Your obituary of Denis Rooke presents him as the driving force behind the privatisation of British Gas as a single unit, “winning support for his view from Peter, now Lord Walker”. In fact it was the other way round. Walker was the zealot for privatisation; Rooke initially opposed him. It was only when the battle to defeat the Treasury’s insistence on the introduction of competition...
BEATS and RANTS 2.2 (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
I know I'm late on this . . . but I have to honor the maestro. Can we please have a moment of silence . . . For Motown Records songwriter-producer Norman Whitfield. The 67-year-old master tunesmith died Sept. 16 in Los Angeles after a long bout with diabetes and other illnesses. He was among the second-wave of producers during...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Check out Funky 16 Corners' tribute to Norman Whitfield.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations Norman Whitfield, 1940-2008, RIP Norman Whitfield, who passed away yesterday at age 67 in Los Angeles after a long battle with diabetes, may not be a name immediately familiar to most music listeners. But I would venture a guess that virtually everyone reading this has at some point [...]
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Surely, my initial appreciation for songwriter Norman Whitfield came at that juncture in the career of Motown's Temptations in 1968 when David Ruffin, the lead vocalist on "My Girl" and most of the hits up to that point, left the group and was replaced by Dennis Edwards. At the same time, Whitfield became the exclusive producer for the group, and implemented what he freely admitted that he stole from...
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.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Famed Motown Records producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield has died at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 67. Norman Whitfield was one of the most prolific songwriters and record producers of our time, Smokey Robinson said in a statement issued to the Los Angeles Times this week. He will live forever through his great music. The Times said Whitfield,...
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Avedon Carol compiled a bunch of Norman Whitfield song links. Readers are commanded to click them. You won’t regret.
