Our friend Larry over at Funky 16 Corners is celebrating five years of F16C with more cool Beatles covers. Head over there and check out two new mixes and four older mixes. Larry has been a guide, an inspiration and a good friend. We have plenty in common, and not just the music. On my wish [...]
Johnny Carter, one of the greatest tenor singers in American popular music history, has died of lung cancer in his home town of Harvey, Illinois. He was 75.
In a move which is certain to cause outrage amongst many festival regulars, it was announced today that the BNP are to headline the Brickton music festival in 2010. In a line up which includes The Artic Monkeys, Blur and the Charlatans, the BNP wi...
Eddie Money has one of the most distinctive voices in rock music. He’s also written and recorded some of the biggest rock hits of the 1970’s and 80’s. With infectious hits to his credit such as “Two Tickets To Paradise”,...
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 [...]
Motown Records is presenting television performances of their icons in a new DVD. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their founding, "Motown 50 - The DVD" will feature 18 classic and rare TV show appearances of their greatest artists from 1965 through 1971. Some of the DVD's highlights include the Marvelettes on "Teen Town" with the record's first Pop #1 hit "Please Mr. Postman,"...
DETROIT, MI (MARKET WIRE) Motown fans sailing to the Bahamas in January on the Heatwave Celebrity Cruise with iconic music legends The Four Tops, The Dramatics and Freda Payne now have an even greater incentive to cruise with the stars.
Crossfaded Bacon Digital released a new EP with Emynd. It contains six baltimore/partyedits of classic soul tunes and I promise they will work wonders on any nightclub, bassrave or wedding ;) Read more about it over at Crossfaded Bacon where you also find a lot of other gems! The EP is called Bmore Soul Vol 1 [...]
From Rolling Stone - no less ( clique me post title) and check out this comment*! Hag-like has-been, Carly Simon is a suing a coffee shop because her records are not selling all that well. Carly Simon was the hippie chick who hooked up with Mick, Cat, Sweet Baby Ray, er James, Warren, Frank, Eddie Carroll ( three times at Keegan's Pub), the 1973 Leo High School Basketball Champs, USS Daniel A. Joy(DE...
The Cincinnati Pops never knew it could rock, but on Sunday it did — with a little help from Steven Reineke and a quartet of soul-singing gents called Spectrum.
One of the better groups of 70's & 80's in my opinion was The Isley Broth ers ! Be tween 1975 & 1989 I brought 14 of their Albums, from a "Motown Special" to "Spend the Night" also several Singles! They were one of the few Black Artistes who had their own Record Label "T-Neck" ( a suburb of New Jersey ), which were released through Epic Records . The Isleys came...
(note: This is not a "Best Songs" list, nor it is a list of "Most Important Records"; those would be decidedly different lists) 1 - "Good Vibrations" (1966) by the Beach Boys 2 - "Be My Baby" (1963) by the Ronettes 3 - "Like A Rolling Stone" (1965) by Bob Dylan 4 - "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) by the Beatles 5 - "I Heard It Through...
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