Four Tops: Seven Lean Years, Levi Stubbs' Strain and Missing Pan Am 103
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Four Tops formed in Detroit in 1953 when Levi Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir of Pershing High...
2 Nov 20min
The Belleville Three: Kraftwerk, Funk and the Birth of Detroit Techno
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Detroit techno grew from three high school friends in Belleville, Michigan, about 30 miles outsi...
2 Nov 21min
You Can't Hurry Love: A Gospel Hymn, Phil Collins' Clone and The Chicks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!You Can't Hurry Love began, as this episode traces it, with a 1950s gospel song by Dorothy Love ...
2 Nov 17min
Uptight (Everything's Alright): A Stones-Inspired Riff and No Braille Sheet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1965 Stevie Wonder was 15, two years past the No. 1 live recording of Fingertips, and his voi...
2 Nov 18min
Universal Music Group: Decca's Saved Masters, a Vault Fire and TikTok
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Universal Music Group traces part of its roots to the American branch of Decca Records, which du...
2 Nov 23min
Marvin Gaye: Simple City, a Detroit Lions Tryout and the .38 He Bought
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., in 1939 and grew up in a housing project know...
2 Nov 21min
Thelma Houston: A Lost Mahogany Theme, Direct-to-Disc and Don't Leave Me
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thelma Houston was born Thelma Jackson in Leland, Mississippi, where her mother picked cotton, b...
2 Nov 22min
The Velvelettes: A Ninth-Grade Lead, Needle in a Haystack and VIP 401
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Velvelettes formed in 1961 when Western Michigan University students Bertha Barbee McNeal an...
2 Nov 20min
