Henry Cosby: Army Sax With Cannonball Adderley to Fingertips and Prince
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Cosby was born in Detroit on May 12, 1928, and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean W...
2 Nov 20min
Táta Vega: A 1975 Sniper Shot, Then the Voice of Shug Avery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Táta Vega was born Carmen Rosa Vega in Jamaica, Queens, in October 1951, of Afro-Dominican, Puer...
2 Nov 19min
Bob Babbitt: From Motown's War to Philly's Midnight Train to Georgia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bob Babbitt was born Robert Andrew Kreinar in Pittsburgh in 1937 and became a core bassist in Mo...
2 Nov 20min
Deke Richards: From an Eegah Extra to Writing the Supremes' Love Child
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Deke Richards was born Dennis Lussier in Los Angeles on April 8, 1944, the son of screenwriter D...
2 Nov 15min
Tammi Terrell: Pre-Med at Penn, Eight Brain Surgeries and the Easy Dispute
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tammi Terrell was born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in Philadelphia in 1945 to parents who had ...
2 Nov 20min
David Ruffin: Building Hitsville With Pops Gordy to a Painted Limousine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!David Ruffin was born Davis Eli Ruffin in 1941 in Whynot, Mississippi. His mother died 10 months...
2 Nov 22min
Reach Out I'll Be There: A Bolero Build and a Mallet-Struck Tambourine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1966 Holland-Dozier-Holland set out to write a Four Tops song built on sustained tension. Lam...
2 Nov 19min
Florence Ballard: Naming the Supremes, Singing 17 Feet Back and Welfare
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Florence Ballard was born in Detroit in 1943, the eighth or ninth of up to 15 children in a fami...
2 Nov 17min
