May 10, 2009

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This Week's Track Listing

INTRO TO SOUL: THE THREE FATHERS OF SOUL
Ray Charles - I Got a Woman
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
James Brown & the Famous Flames - Try Me

MOTOWN: WEEK 1
The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg
The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony
The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
Jr. Walker & the All Stars - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Mary Wells - My Guy
Stevie Wonder - Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)
Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her
Ray Charles - What'd I Say

Interesting Facts of the Week

1. Soul music can be thought of as a mixture of the sacred (gospel music) and the profane (the blues).


2. Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of Motown Records, was the seventh of eight children and had a brief career as a featherweight boxer in his late teens.


3. Berry Gordy's first record store, 3D Record Mart, went out of business because all he stocked was jazz, running counter to what his customers wanted to hear and buy.


4. Motown is a portmanteau for "motor" and "town," two words that together make another name for Detroit, the city where Motown Records was founded.


5. Motown producers believed strongly in the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.


6. Motown made significant contributions to the soul canon in the 1960s even though it styled itself as a manufacturer of pop music.

Tune in next week for Motown part two!