Superstition: A Jeff Beck Barter, a Drum Jam and Berry Gordy's Overrule
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Superstition began as a trade. During sessions for Talking Book, guitarist Jeff Beck agreed to p...
2 Nov 17min
Fulfillingness' First Finale: Stevie Wonder's Somber 1974 Album of the Year
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Released in the summer of 1974, Fulfillingness' First Finale was the fourth album in Stevie Wond...
2 Nov 21min
Smokey Robinson: A 100-Song Notebook, Quiet Storm and a $500M Countersuit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Robinson grew up in Detroit's North End, nicknamed Smokey Joe by his uncle Claude and in...
2 Nov 19min
Shorty Long: Devil With a Blue Dress On, Here Comes the Judge and Pigmeat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frederick Earl Long, known as Shorty Long, brought a gritty Birmingham, Alabama blues sound to M...
2 Nov 19min
Stop! In the Name of Love: The Hidden Andantes and a Statler Brothers Loss
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Supremes' Stop! In the Name of Love was written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland and r...
2 Nov 19min
2648 West Grand Boulevard: Esther Gordy Edwards and McCartney's Steinway
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1959, 29-year-old Berry Gordy bought a two-story house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroi...
2 Nov 21min
Rick James: Skipping Sharon Tate's Party, a Navy Brig Escape and MTV
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Ambrose Johnson Jr. was born in Buffalo, New York in 1948. His father left when he was 10,...
2 Nov 20min
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: Aretha's Slow Grammy to an EDM Sample
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, written and produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson,...
2 Nov 20min
