Just My Imagination: A Shelved 1969 Ballad, Marimba and Strings at Dawn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By late 1970 the Temptations had spent years in Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong's psychedeli...
2 Nov 21min
Robert Taylor: ARPANET, Tuskegee Bricks and a 1979 Livingston UFO Case
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode works through a Wikipedia disambiguation page for the name Robert Taylor, which spa...
2 Nov 20min
Heat Wave: Motown's First Grammy Nod to Linda Ronstadt's Sixth Encore
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Heat Wave began at Hitsville USA in Detroit, where Holland-Dozier-Holland, fresh off their first...
2 Nov 18min
Marvin Gaye's 1976 Turn: Leon Ware's Songs and Ernie Barnes' Sugar Shack
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1975 Marvin Gaye was stuck. Coming off a massive 1973 success, he could not write or record, ...
2 Nov 19min
Barney Ales: From a Dodge Assembly Line to Motown's National Sales Chief
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Barney Ales, the son of a Sicilian immigrant barber, started out fitting parts on a Dodge assemb...
2 Nov 17min
Syreeta Wright: A Vetoed Supremes Spot and With You I'm Born Again
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rita Wright was born in Pittsburgh in 1946. Her father was killed in the Korean War, and money t...
2 Nov 20min
Stevie Wonder: A $2.50 Stipend, a 14% Royalty and Ray Kurzweil's Reader
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stevland Hardaway Judkins was born six weeks premature in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, and the hig...
2 Nov 19min
Music of My Mind: Stevie Wonder's 1972 One-Man Album After Leaving Tamla
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stevie Wonder had been inside Motown's Tamla system since age 11, where writers wrote, session p...
2 Nov 16min
