This Week's Track Listing
MOTOWN: WEEK 2
Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
The Miracles - Shop Around
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It Takes Two
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers - Does Your Mama Know About Me
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Fuad & the Feztones - Soul Camel
The Contours - Do You Love Me?
The Miracles - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Interesting Facts of the Week
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, although they "played" lovers on their albums, were never romantically involved.
- The backing musicians for the majority of the Motown hits were a group of men who went by the name The Funk Brothers. By the end of their 14 year run, they played on more #1 hits than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and Elvis combined.
- Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers guitarist Tommy Chong went on to be half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. Bobby Taylor went on to be a Motown producer, and discovered The Jackson 5.
- For publicity's sake, Motown decided that it would be better for Diana Ross to have "discovered" The Jackson 5.
- When Motown went about publicizing The Jackson 5, they reduced the ages of all the members. Michael's age was changed from 11 to 8 to make him appear "cuter."
- When Barry Gordy Jr. (CEO of Motown) first heard Marvin Gaye's song What's Going On, he said it was "the worst record [he] ever heard." The song would later become a #1 hit, even with no backing from Motown, and was later called the fourth best song of all time by Rolling Stone.
(* Please note that this week, the computer timer was a little off at the station, so the file is a little off - at the beginning, you'll hear the end of Alley Cat Café, the show on before mine. Hold on, I'm coming. This also means that the end of my show is cut off - listen here (while it works) for the end. You don't want to miss the amazing promo that we made last Friday night.)
Awesome, Linds. It brings me back to my childhood-not the 60s, but cruising in my Dad's car (and when I say cruising, I mean sitting in the back of a station wagon with 3 siblings). Probably my Dad turned the music on (Big D 103 is still the name of my favourite CT station) to silence any squablings. You just can't be in a bad mood with this music. :)
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