The Reborn Identity - I Can't Bike Next To You [ mp3 ] Mark Ronson & The Business Int - The Bike Song The Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You get on your bike and press play on your mp3 playa
Artists have been recording cover songs for years, and putting them out as singles, or b-sides. However, the trend recently has been to put out an entire album of hits recorded by others. Rod Stewart sold millions of CDs using this formula, and now Phil Collins is hoping to follow in "Big Nose's" footsteps with his latest batch of Motown tunes titled, Going Back . Collins stays true to the arrangements and instrumentation of the original recordings, and he even coaxed some of the infamous Funk Brothers, including Bob Babbitt, Eddie Willis and Ray Monette, out of [...]
A familiar name in the history of R&B music is that of the Temptations, a singing group with many years of success and countless adoring fans. But what you might not know is the story of Jimmy Ruffin, who turned down a chance to sing in the group and instead recommended his little brother, but ended up forging a pretty good solo career of his own. The Ruffin brothers grew up in Mississippi as the sons of a minister, and even as children they sang in a gospel music group. By the early 1960s both Jimmy [...]
African-American performances of Jewish themed music. African American - Ethnicity - African - Johnny Mathis - Billie Holiday
The third Covered In Soul compilation may draw from the most eclectic original material yet. So in the space of four songs we move from Grateful Dead favourite Casey Jones via The Beatles to a Barry Manilow song and a Roy Orbison song reinvented by Al Green. A couple of show tunes get the soul treatment. Sammy Davis Jr's wonderful I've Gotta Be Me is lovely in Vivian Reed's hands, while I would regard the Supremes and Temptations collaboration on The Impossible Dream more as a curiosity (hence its position as a postscript). The previous two mixes featured [...]
"Interplay of Jewish Culture and Black Music Chronicled on 'Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations'." BlackSabbath - Religion and Spirituality - Judaism - Secular Jewish culture - Arts
The Four Tops : Standing in the Shadows of Love [ purchase ] Smokey Robinson and the Miracles : The Tracks of my Tears [ purchase ] The Temptations : Since I Lost My Baby [ purchase ] I wonder what was going on in the love lives of Motown's hit makers circa 1965-66? These three songs from that seemingly woeful year were huge [...]
So I posed 3 questions to Fitz from Fitz & the Tantrums (whose new album Pickin' Up the Pieces is available on i-Tunes , their website & Amazon ) on Twitter today & here is the transcript from that interview: Me: The LA Times said you have a clearly derived style from bands like the Temptations. It seems to me that it is more like the 5th Dimension. Do you find it difficult being a nontraditional band that people have to find a band [...]
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 [...]
Ahead of The Visitation next Wednesday 18th August at The Lock Tavern , here's a short mix we prepared showcasing the slo-mo disco, progressive rock and psychedelic soul that we like to play. Full event details here. Visitation Mix by The Beat! Tracklist: 1. Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Hot Coins Remix) 2. Johnny Wakelin - In Zaire 3. Birth Control - Gamma Ray (Fitzcarraldo Variation) 4. Deep [...]
Norman Whitfield, one of Motown's best in-house composers and producers, has died. Whitfield's name graces every third page of my Motown's Greatest Piano Book. He wrote most of the Temptations' songs after 1968 including "I'm Losing You," "Ball of Confusion," "Just My Imagination" and one of my personal favorites, "Message from a Black Man" and will probably go down in history for penning "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Good coverage at pitchfork, here .
Today marks the 25 th anniversary of Love Aid, a sentence that makes me feel old. I wrote what I think is my definitive take on the day two years ago. I have nothing new to add, except for a few minor edits. But it's the 25 th anniversary of a big event I actually attended, so I will recycle that post and re-upload my Live Aid mix, ripped from DVD. The music was mostly terrible, the artists tended to be self-serving and [...]
Amoraboy - Beg it again [ mp3 ] The Temptations - Ain't too proud to beg Jestofunk - Say it again F.U.N.K.
Filed under: Spinner Interview It's often said that the Temptations did for soul music what the Beatles did for rock 'n' roll. From post-doo-wop ballads such as 'My Girl' and the psychedelic soul of 'Ball of Confusion' and 'Papa Was a Rollin' Stone' to an '80s collaboration with Rick James , these Hall of Famers span generations. The Temptations' most recent album, aptly titled 'Still Here,' is a prelude to the group's 50th anniversary celebration in 2011. Like [...]
I realise that this is coming rather late in the month, and there has been the death of Marvin Isley in the interim. Anyway, the two big deaths in May were those of the stunning Lena Horne and heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio. Another particularly notable death is that of country musician and songwriter Slim Bryant, who died at 101. He had one of his songs recorded by the legendary Jimmie Rodgers, who died in 1933, and played guitar on his 1932 song Mother Queen Of My Heart, and collaborated with the seminal fiddler Clayton McMichen. Siphiwo [...]
The ninth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival kicked off Thursday afternoon. As we hit the midpoint of the festie we thought we'd take a peak at what's been going on in Manchester besides some blistering heat and humidity. Here's what's gone down so far… Day One: Neon Indian brought some scantily clad ladies onstage with them All Songs Considered has some fantastic photos from day one [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Few musicians have the talent, let alone gumption, to successfully cover the Temptations , Biz Markie and the Electric Light Orchestra all in one sitting, but Mayer Hawthorne was able to do just that in a high-energy performance that helped bring day one of the 2010 Bonnaroo festival to a close. With his four-piece backing band, the County, in tow, the Ann Arbor, Mich., native came out on stage wearing a skyblue tuxedo. [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Tony Peluso , who played lead guitar with the Carpenters before becoming a successful producer, died on Saturday, June 5 in Los Angeles of heart disease, according to the Hollywood Reporter . Peluso, 60, was a four-time Grammy winner who made an impressive mark on the world of pop music, performing and producing on records that, in total, sold in excess of 150 million copies. Peluso got his start working with teen idol Bobby Sherman in the late '60s and [...]
Generally speaking, the end of Memorial Day weekend signals the unofficial beginning of summer. Lots of us have been free for awhile now, but for those of you who have yet to finish up the semester, leave your day job, and head to the beach, you'll find various news items that will make you long for the dog days and cool nights of the season. There are festival updates as well as album and concert reviews to get you ready. You'll also find lots of other things, some intriguing and others just plain ridiculous. Need I say more? - [...]
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