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 , [...]
I was going to post another mix today, but when one of your favourite songwriters dies, priorities take over. And much as I love Jerry Leiber's repository of great lyrics – he was he Cole Porter of rock & roll – my tribute is for Nickolas Ashford, who with his wife Valerie Simpson wrote, produced and recorded over their career of five decades some of the finest soul music. They deserve a lifetime achievement award alone for that string of wonderful songs they wrote and produced for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, [...]
The Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game So sultry.
Ceci sera mon dernier post sur L.A.D.R.I, ce fût un plaisir, oh oui... merci... Un dernier florilège mélodique: sam cooke -tennessee waltz- cat's eyes -cat's eyes- sharades -dumb head- marvelettes -too much fish in the sea- sugar ray -hold your eyes- isolée -one box- front 242 -ethics- papermaps -you are my gallows- [...]
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A lot of times, dubstep remixes follow the same structure. Sample. Buildup. Drop. Huge Bass. Sample. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's always nice when a producer incorporates the song all the way through. Enter Cragga . The UK Dubstep producer has added a wobbly bassline the the classic Motown track, Please Mr. Postman. Using the original song all the way through took more effort, but has a greater payoff. Cragga - Please Mr Postman (Dubstep Remix)
Back in your business with another edition of Thrashing Thursdays. This week offers some dirty dubstep remixes of original classics. Everyone went through their greaser phase of listening to nothing but classic rock at all hours of the day. For me it was around grade 7 that I broke into that world of music and never looked back. Here are some remixes of oldies that will give you all kinds of whiplash, The first track featured here is from Colorado based dj, Pretty Lights . Conveniently enough, Derek Smith (the dj [...]
With the death of Charlie Louvin, one of the longest-running performers in music has passed on. With his brother Ira, he started performing in the 1940s as the Louvin Brothers. The country and gospel act was massively influential. Elvis Presley was a huge fan (the brothers were his mom's favourites). Ira, a racist drunk, died in a car crash in 1965; Charlie continued to record and perform for the next 45 years. Alas, the Louvin Brothers are often remembered only for the cover art of their 1960 album Satan Is Real (the story of which is HERE [...]
Les Marvelettes étaient un girl group des sixties signé chez Motown. Leur lead chanteuse, Gladys Hornton, vient de décéder (comics). Je ne vais pas causer un choc à la nation Indie en annonçant ma passion de toujours pour les girls group. Je ne m'y connais pas assez, j'aime certains trucs... Dont pas mal de chansons [...]
After a 2010 stroke, former Marvelettes lead singer Gladys Horton, 66, died yesterday in a Los Angeles nursing home, Reuters reports. Signed to Berry Gordy's Motown during its soulful heyday, the quartet landed the label's first No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart–1961′s "Please Mr. Postman." And before leaving the group in 1967, Horton also was featured on other hits like "Too Many Fish in the Sea." The Marvelettes were a teenaged girl group who went from an Inkster High School talent show to scoring Motown's first pop No. 1, "Please Mr. Postman," [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Gladys Horton, the powerful soul singer who co-founded the all-female Motown ensemble the Marvelettes , died late Wednesday in a nursing home outside of Los Angeles. The 66-year-old's cause of death is unknown, though she was recovering from complications due to a stroke she suffered last year, her son told the Associated Press . Horton was born in 1944 in a suburb [...]
mp3: The Marvelettes - I Want A Guy mp3: The Marvelettes - Twistin' Postman The A side here is Twistin' Postman which was the follow up to The Marvelettes' gigantic first single, Please Mr. Postman. A release which took Motown to the top of the pop charts for the first time way back in 1961. But whereas Twistin' Postman is, and sounds like, a transparent attempt to cash in on the success of their previous release by incorporating the Twist craze, albeit one with some neat hand-clapping, I Want A [...]
The other day my wife and I had a discussion about why I haven't made her a mix in a long time. I figured, what better day than Valentines to put together some music to profess my undying love for the beautiful woman in my life. I hope she enjoys this as much as I enjoyed putting it together. C=T Valentine's Day Mix 2010 Patsy Cline-Thats How Much I Love You The Marvelettes-When You're Young And In Love Stevie Wonder-I Believe (When I Fall In Love) [...]
Mayer Hawthorne est un blanc bec fondu de Soul Music qui a sorti son premier disque en 2009, un régal de chill-out music, et preuve que c'est de la bonne came, c'est sorti chez Stones Throw . Il a explosé grâce à Just Ain't Gonna Work Out qui avait conquis plus d'un auditeur de Nova. Aujourd'hui nous est offert un nouveau délice avec une compilation légèrement mixée de pépites introuvables (en anglais on dit nuggets ) délicieusement soul. Des 45 Tours qui devrait faire fondre la petite belette que tu zieutes [...]
Cragga = Please Mr. Postman (Dubstep Refix) This song has been blowing my mind on the daily this weekend. Download link
I don't really know where this came from because as far as I can tell, it's not been released yet. But, it landed in my inbox and it's head and shoulders above 99.9% of the dubstep refixes I have to listen to every time I sift through my e-mails. I didn't feel it it immediately, the first drop felt a bit like an anticlimax, but after a few listens - all the way through, I must add - I realised that it's actually pretty monstrous. Cragga has taken The Marvelettes' 'Please Mr Postman' and impeccably fused it [...]
(Cody Lekush, Zeds Dead and I are somewhere in front of the stage in this one) Dubstep has had a defining impact on my year in music. As basslines became the focus, and feeling your chest rumble became an expectation, Dubstep moved out of dark cramped rooms and onto the main stages of Toronto. From Rusko blowing the soundsystem at The Social (turns out it was really a blown fuze), to Skream and Benga, Caspa, and Joker making to Function One soundsystem at Wrongbar rumble, the genre has come a long way this past year. This list is [...]
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes Waiting? For forces to act upon you, for fate to come in to line, for your end? No. To hold on with more unwavering hope than desperation that it will happen, to ask for enough time; to prolong your time, your longing, your feelings, your dreams, your place in a world where things can and do happen, your individual audience to this music and all it holds to a forever. Pop music.
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 [...]
The Marvelettes: Please, Mr. Postman [ Purchase ] Yet another definitive postal song that I couldn't let pass by. This song was The Marvelettes', one of the first girl groups of Motown, only #1 song, though they had a number of other top 40 hits. The song was well loved enough to be covered by other popular bands, including The Carpenters and The Beatles. The Carpenters even took it back to #1. In the song, a girl pleads with the postman to look in his bag one more [...]
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