Being an utter Motown/oldies junkie, I find it completely necessary to add a little bit of that genre into the mix for this week's Friday Five. Without further ado, here are five upbeat tracks that will get your Friday started off in the right direction - you can bet that they'll get you ready for the rowdy weekend ahead. 1. Original post: Friday Five: Motown Throwdown 2. Posted in: soul , doo-wop , old school , motown , [...]
Download: Veterano (Producer) "Westside Stories" Project 01. Jumped In 02. Hold Steady 03. Oh Baby 04. One 05. Mr. DJ 06. I Love You & You Love Me 07. When We Get Married 08. In the Park 09. Lil' Dreamer 10. Forever 11. Gang Violence 12. Angel Baby 13. Sad Girl 14. Get Down Loco 15. Custom Paint 16. Want You Around (ft. Mary Wells) 17. 80 Spoke 18. Please 19. Blood in, Blood Out 20. [...]
mp3: Mary Wells - I'm Gonna Stay mp3: Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You Today's selections include Motown's Mary Wells' first hit, The One Who Really Loves You, which was released in 1962 when she was just 19. Both tunes are killer, but I'm mostly feeling the flip side, I'm Gonna Stay -- Wells' vocals are heartfelt and the production, courtesy of Smokey Robinson, is beautifully sparse.
Review by Michelle Da Silva (@michdas) Photos by David Thai (@david_thai) Sweaty nightcrawlers were alive and well at the Biltmore Cabaret on March 20 as early as 8 p.m. The group, which normally would be sitting down for possibly their first meal of the day having woken just a few hours earlier, were sloshing back [...]
Wrapping up our duets albums just in time for Valentine's Day: today we spin the Motown/Tamla classic You're All I Need, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, from 1968. Marvin Gaye was an established star at the Detroit label Motown when he was asked to cut a duet with a female singer in 1967. Gaye, who had giant hits way back in 1965 with "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Ain't That Peculiar," Gaye recorded "It Takes Two" with singer Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label in '67. Written and produced by [...]
Wrapping up our duets albums just in time for Valentine's Day: today we spin the Motown/Tamla classic You're All I Need, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, from 1968. Marvin Gaye was an established star at the Detroit label Motown when he was asked to cut a duet with a female singer in 1967. Gaye, who had giant hits way back in 1965 with "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Ain't That Peculiar," Gaye recorded "It Takes Two" with singer Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label in '67. Written and produced by [...]
Wrapping up our duets albums just in time for Valentine's Day: today we spin the Motown/Tamla classic You're All I Need, by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, from 1968. Marvin Gaye was an established star at the Detroit label Motown when he was asked to cut a duet with a female singer in 1967. Gaye, who had giant hits way back in 1965 with "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Ain't That Peculiar," Gaye recorded "It Takes Two" with singer Kim Weston for Motown's Tamla label in '67. Written and produced by [...]
Nothing comes close to the rich and dynamic sound of a band recording live in a studio. On the 1962 single "You Beat Me To The Punch," Motown singer Mary Wells was joined by the unequalled Funk Brothers and you can really hear every player weaving in and out of the front of the mix with the guitar and drums playing an especially loose and fun groove. The song was penned by Smokey Robinson, who composed many a Motown tune. Mary Wells - "You Beat Me To The Punch"
This year I won't be doing a Halloween mix. For those who m issed last year's mixes, take a look at Any Major Halloween Vol. 1 (creepy stuff) and Any Major Halloween Vol. 2 (less creepy stuff) . Meanwhile, fortify yourself wth some soul music. Of all the mixes that I compile for this blog, I think doing the soul covers is my favourite. For one thing, as I go through my collection of music, I get to listen to some gorgeous soul albums I [...]
Ancient Vessel is involved in a show at Conor Byrne this Saturday for a Motown Tribute night the Conor Byrne Pub is hosting. An Ancient Vessel Allstar cast has been pulled together with some of Seattle's finest players featuring Randy Neal (Captain Leroy & the Zydeco Locals, The Hilltones) on guitar, Mark Bateman (Ian McFeron [...]
It's Sunday night. All across the country, people are watching horrible television. I know this because I drove to Nicci's house after work only to learn that she was involved in a reality cooking show, and half of her neighbors were involved in an episode of a vampire drama. The other half of her neighbors were watching Jersey Shore . This left me with nothing to do but think about blogging. I was sidetracked for a few hours by a spur-of-the-moment poker tournament, but now that I've lost my $5 I can once again focus on sharing some music [...]
Tomorrow marks the birthday of Mary Wells , the soul singer who rose to fame during the height of the Motown era in the mid-'60s. Wells, who was born in 1943, died in 1992 of pneumonia resulting from the laryngeal cancer that had ended her singing career two years earlier. Motown founder Barry Gordy first heard Wells sing when she approached him at a club with a song she had written, "Bye Bye Baby," intended for Jackie Wilson . Instead, Gordy had the then 17-year-old record the song, and it became her first hit single. However, [...]
The transition from novel to cinema is quite a tricky one. While some argue that "the book is forever better than the movie," certain exceptions have been made. The most famous cases that can be argued in defense of their cinematic counterparts include Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller Jaws (written by Peter Benchley) and Francis Ford Coppola's crime 1973-74 masterpieces The Godfather trilogy (based on the novel by Mario Puzo). With that being said however, the brilliant Irish author Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy is another dazzling series of stories that at first seem incredibly [...]
If you come here often, you'll know the score by now - my mind goes off linking numerous covers, or songs with some tenuous relationship to each other. Today's no exception, and I couldn't play that Warpaint track without the following song by The Brook Brothers getting lodged in my shell-like ears. ♫ Warpaint - The Brook Brothers originally released in 1961 on Pye - produced by Tony Hatch . Warpaint was written by Barry Mann & Howard Greenfield buy [...]
Mary Wells: Two Lovers Marvin Gaye: I'll Be Doggone The Supremes: The Happening Eddie Kendricks: Shoeshine Boy T.G. Shepherd: Devil in the Bottle Brenda Holloway: You've Made Me So Very Happy All from The Complete Motown #1s (Motown, 2008) As for many children of baby boomers, Motown was my introduction to soul music thanks to what I'd hear my dad listen to in the car. But [...]
Mary Wells - Oh Little Boy (mp3)
How cool is it that my 82-year old Mom will travel across the country to spend a month with me and my wife and my three crazy kids? It's totally cool. She heads back east tomorrow and the star fish is waving goodbye. (BTW: She digs all this stuff...tapping her toes to Social D. on the way to buy school supplies...you rock, Mom!) Bob Dylan - Bye and Bye Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby [...]
Darkblack - Vote For It My mom used to be an occasional dancer on the old American Bandstand teevee show. She and a group of her friends would squeeze into a car and make the trek from Flatbush to Philadelphia, all ready to show off the latest moves. Eventually, dancing was pushed aside for motherhood, but she still carried the beat in her head. For as long as I can remember, she'd have the radio on, tuned to the local pop station. Whenever this Mary Wells song would come [...]
1961 The One-Car Accident Mary Wells, Bye Bye Baby. The Supremes, Buttered Popcorn. The sound of raw, young America: the debut single of Mary Wells, the first major artist that Berry Gordy's Motown produced, and the second single by The Supremes, who would become Motown's biggest act in the mid-'60s. Wells' "Bye Bye Baby" is an ocean's remove from the poised, demure sensibilities of "My Guy,
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