Is there any word in modern English as evocative as “Motown”? That crisp, natty little string of letters was the label, the banner, that spun clockwise on millions of record players at the peak of a ...
Though ABC’s two-part, four- hour special “Motown 40: The Music is Forever” comes at a time when much of the nation will be obsessed with the Winter Olympics and the network put several days between ...
"If you can't understand Motown and its effect on the people, then you can't understand America." _ Julian Bond, former Georgia state representative and renowned civil rights leader. What's your ...
If you want an alternative to the Olympics, here’s a very tuneful one: “Motown 40: The Music Is Forever,” a 40th-anniversary salute to the record label, whose previous anniversary TV celebration gave ...
Smokey Robinson is the reigning genius of Top-40. Since the Beatles and the Beach Boys dropped out of the single-then-follow-up-album pattern aimed at the AM teenage listener, William “Smokey” ...
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