Stevie Wonder's Innervisions: A Log Truck Crash, a Coma and Higher Ground
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1973 Stevie Wonder had shed the Little Stevie image through Music of My Mind and Talking Book...
2 Nov 19min
Nowhere to Run: Ivy Jo Hunter's Snow Chains, Panic Lyrics and John Wick
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nowhere to Run, the 1965 Martha and the Vandellas single, was written and produced by Holland-Do...
2 Nov 14min
The Andantes: 20,000 Tracks, Four Tops Sopranos and the Darnells Ruse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Andantes, Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps, were Motown's in-house female sess...
2 Nov 19min
Uriel Jones: The Laid-Back Drummer on Grapevine and Ain't No Mountain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Uriel Jones, born in Detroit in 1934, entered Motown's Funk Brothers as a backup for Benny Benja...
2 Nov 20min
Benny Benjamin: Big Band Roots, a Mixed-Brand Kit and the Beatles' Question
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Benny Benjamin Jr., known in the studio as Papa Zita, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, i...
2 Nov 19min
The Funk Brothers: Snake Pit Sessions, Ed Wingate's Cash and a Door Notice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house studio band from about 1959 to 1972, played on more than 10...
2 Nov 19min
The Satintones: Motown's First Group, the Motor City B-Side and a Lawsuit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Satintones formed in 1959 when Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders, backing singers at Berry Go...
2 Nov 21min
MCA Records: A Pope Album, Tom Petty's Bankruptcy and Mob-Linked Cutouts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!MCA Records grew out of American Decca, cut loose in 1937 by its British owner as war approached...
2 Nov 23min
