Long Motown/Short Jonas Brothers

With a little luck we will never have to see the Jonas Brothers again at halftime of a NFL game. Talk about Turkeys.

The Lions were hideous today, but better than the Jonas Brothers, who hail from the badlands of suburban New Jersey.

Figures.

Ready for some real music?

Motown shaped the culture and did all the things that made the 1960s what they were. So if you don’t understand Motown and the influence it had on a generation of black and white young people, then you can’t understand the United States, you can’t understand America. —Julian Bond, N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board

Must read article on Motown and Berry Gordy Jr. for people who remember a vibrant Detroit, and music before the Jonas Brothers.

And Happy Thanksgiving!
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Martha Reeves, lead singer of Martha & the Vandellas: I thought Dreamgirls was a good story, but it had nothing to do with Motown. Motown was more of a nightmare in that we played horrible places on the chitlin circuit, not that dreamland they show in that movie. We played some places that had horse stables in the back with straw on the floor, places where you had to put fire in the wastebasket to keep warm. At the Apollo Theater, when it was raggedy and dingy and dark, before it was renovated, we were in there cooking hot dogs on the lightbulbs. We would eat popcorn and sardines, and drink a lot of water to try to feel full.
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Their follow-up to “Come and Get These Memories”, “Heat Wave” was an even bigger hit for Martha & The Vandellas. The song went to #4 on the Pop and #1,R&B for 1963. It was nominated for a Grammy, but lost to Ray Charles. This song is considered by some to be the beginning of the Motown Sound with it’s driving rhythm and its Gospel-Pop style singing and harmonies.

Bankman58
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Whats goin on?—Marvin Gaye

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It Happened in Hitsville
Vanity Fair
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