This list is not complete … I’m guessing at a lot of this … but here are the artists who are 1) in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2) alive and healthy, and 3) weren’t on the HBO...
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...
The label asserts that the pairing of Mikkeller (Denmark and the known world at large) and Brew Dog (bricks and mortar in Scotland, thank you much) is tantamount to two rock stars coming together. I'm for it, but wary. Pop and rock is littered with the corpses of ill-conceived super groups and one-off video abominations like Mick Jagger and David Bowie imagining they might improve on the divinely rebellious...
"Or should I be a lady, oh maybe, cuz I wanna have his babies." ++This Melanie Fiona video puts a new spin on the ol' woman done wrong lament. Drama! I wanna feel bad for this girl but seriously how...
Martha Reeves and The Vandellas join Dusty Springfield for a live performance of Wishin' And Hopin' . From the Ready Steady Go (RSG), Sound Of Motown TV special, recorded at the Rediffusion TV studios in London on March 18, 1965. What's on your mind?
Conyers resigned this summer and awaits a Dec. 1 sentencing for bribery. Councilwoman Martha Reeves, a former Motown recording star and lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, failed to make it past the August primary in which she received less than 1 percent of the vote.
DETROIT -- The look of the Detroit City Council could change drastically when voters go to the polls in the city's fourth election in just over eight months.
I was a Laura Nyro fan without even knowing it. When I was a kid, I loved listening to "Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension, and later as a young man, I discovered more of their groovy music like "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Sweet Blindness" as well as Three Dog Night's "Eli's Coming" and Barbra Streisand's "Stoney End". It wasn't until I heard Nyro's...
Mack The Knife, originally Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, was written by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928.
Nick Canepa's report card for Chargers7:37 p.m. September 27, 2009Quarterbacks – A. Rivers is not Crazy Legs Hirsch, but this is his team now and he can carry the load as well as anyone. Running Backs – INC. Same grade as last week. LT, where are you? As Martha and the Vandellas sang, “Nowhere to Run.” Receivers – A. No team has guys who can catch the long ball better...
Singer Richard Marx is 46. Actress Lauren Bacall is 85. Blues singer B.B. King is 84. Actor Peter Falk is 82. Singer Betty Kelly of Martha and the Vandellas is 65. Drummer Kenney Jones (Small Faces, Faces, The Who) is 61. Actress Susan Ruttan (”L.A. Law”) is 61. Bassist Ron Blair of Tom Petty and [...]
When the Baad Lamb looked over at my screen to watch this, he said "That is the way voices used to sound when they were not overprocessed". This is true. The electronic studio processing of a singer's voice today creates a product that is like Velveeta or a kind of audio anime . You'll enjoy this. Martha and the Vandellas looking and sounding so happy, even when Ms. Reeves claims to have...
For the 50th anniversary of the founding of Motown Records, The Associated Press over a period of months invited stars from the fields of music, politics and film to visit Studio A to talk about how the Detroit musical movement has affected them and the larger world.
Photo: "Blue Angel F/A 18" by gavatron , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar . GALLERY | Thirty in Twenty In 1973 Dutch-Canadian couple Toni and Ria Harting traveled through France reacquainting themselves with the country's famous cuisine. Armed only with their trusty Michelin Guide...
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