High Inergy: A Pasadena Discovery and Eight Motown Albums in Seven Years
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1976 Gwen Gordy Fuqua, sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, watched a new quar...
2 Nov 20min
Harvey Fuqua: From the Moonglows to Sylvester's Disco and Sexual Healing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harvey Fuqua was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1929, the nephew of Charlie Fuqua of the Ink S...
2 Nov 21min
Brewster-Douglass: From Eleanor Roosevelt's 1935 Shovel to 2025 Rebirth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1935 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground in Detroit on the Brewster Homes, described in...
2 Nov 20min
Martha Reeves: Answering Motown's Phones to a Seat on Detroit City Council
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Martha Rose Reeves was born in 1941 in Eufaula, Alabama, the eldest daughter of 11 children, and...
2 Nov 21min
The Spinners: From Motown Shipping Clerks to Thom Bell's Philly Soul Hits
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Spinners began in 1954 as the Domingos, five friends from Detroit's Herman Gardens housing p...
2 Nov 21min
John Griffith: A Tudor Martyr, a 106-Year-Old Test Pilot and a Destroyer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode reads a single Wikipedia disambiguation page, the one for the name John Griffith, a...
2 Nov 19min
Edwin Starr: Agent 00 Soul, War and a Northern Soul Life in England
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edwin Starr was born Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville in 1942 and raised in Cleveland, where h...
2 Nov 19min
Eddie 'Chank' Willis: Polio, Muted Guitar and the Funk Brothers' Groove
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eddie Willis was born in Grenada, Mississippi, in 1936 and contracted polio as a child, which le...
2 Nov 19min
