Songs in the Key of Life: Stevie Wonder's Ghana Plan and a $13 Million Deal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1975, at 24 and after Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' ...
2 Nov 20min
Super Freak's Afterlife: Alonzo Miller's Edit, Beat Freaks and Nicki Minaj
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Super Freak was recorded in winter 1980 and early 1981 for Rick James' fifth album, Street Songs...
2 Nov 19min
What's Going On: Obie Benson's Berkeley Bus Ride and a Smuggled 1971 Single
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What's Going On began in May 1969, when the Four Tops' Renaldo "Obie" Benson watched the Bloody ...
2 Nov 20min
Dreamgirls 2006: Whitney's Lost Deal, 783 Effie Auditions and an Oscar Snub
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 2006 film of Dreamgirls spent 25 years in development. David Geffen, who co-financed the 198...
2 Nov 21min
Eddie Holland: A Top 30 Hit With Jamie, Then the Pen Behind 143 Hits
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edward James Holland Jr. was born in Detroit in October 1939. In 1958 he sang You, You, You, You...
2 Nov 18min
Detroit 1967 Riot: Willie Horton's Plea, Guard Panic and Phantom Snipers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, 1967, Detroit police raided an after-hours blind pig in a 12th ...
2 Nov 22min
For Once in My Life: Billie Jean Brown's Fight to Free Stevie Wonder's Take
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For Once in My Life was written in 1965 by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown's publishing...
2 Nov 18min
Wanda Young: From Nursing Student to Marvelettes Lead and a 1989 Comeback
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wanda LaFaye Young was born in August 1943 and raised in Inkster, Michigan, one of ten children ...
2 Nov 18min
