Bobby Harris: Let It Whip, United We Funk and Reclaiming the Dazz Band
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Saxophonist and vocalist Bobby Harris founded the group that became the Dazz Band in Cleveland i...
2 Nov 18min
Rockwell: Kennedy Gordy's Secret Motown Deal and Somebody's Watching Me
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kennedy William Gordy was born in Detroit on March 15, 1964, to Margaret Norton and Motown found...
2 Nov 19min
I Hear a Symphony: Gordy's No. 1 Ultimatum and the Shelved Mother Dear
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By mid-1965 the Supremes had a run of hits built on the stomping beat and looping chorus Holland...
2 Nov 21min
Berry Gordy: Jimmy Carter's Cousin, a Boxing Career and the 3-D Record Mart
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Berry Gordy was born in Detroit in 1929, the seventh of eight children of Berry Sr. and Bertha G...
2 Nov 17min
Ben: Gaelic Mountains, a 1972 Killer Rat Film and the BEN Protein Domain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode follows the three letters B-E-N across geography, language, entertainment, business...
2 Nov 18min
Anna Gordy Gaye: Anna Records, Marvin's Muse and the Here, My Dear Alimony
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Anna Ruby Gordy was born in Georgia in 1922, raised in Detroit, and in the 1950s ran a photo con...
2 Nov 19min
Anita Baker: Dropped for No Star Potential, Then Rapture and Her Masters
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Anita Baker was born in Toledo, Ohio, in January 1958, abandoned by her mother at two and raised...
2 Nov 17min
I Second That Emotion: Smokey Robinson's Pearl Counter Slip of the Tongue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1967 Smokey Robinson was shopping for pearls for his wife Claudette at Hudson's department st...
2 Nov 17min
