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From a musical perspective, 1964 was extremely significant for two specific reasons; 1) The British Invasion, led by the Beatles, and 2) Motown.
This ...read more
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Our Motown Mania Marathon continues with our 15th installment, featuring every A-side released by Motown and its subsidiaries during the latter part of ...read more
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Up until now, you may have been wondering why I’m covering every Motown A-Side, especially since so many of them were a complete bust on the pop charts. ...read more
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Like Part 12, this show captures a period of transition for the label -- the timeframe where Motown began to realize that it was trying too hard to be ...read more
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We pick up our coverage of the Motown label in the Spring of 1963, a time when most people (including me) may have presumed that everything they touched ...read more
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When I started this series, I had the expectation that the story of Motown would move along in a linear fashion. That is to say, I expected the story to ...read more
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Our tenth program dedicated to the Motown hit machine finds us at the end of another banner year for the label, a year that featured nearly exponential ...read more
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This is our ninth episode in what appears to be developing into a never-ending series of every single Motown A-side, and it is also very special, because ...read more
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By the Spring of 1962, Berry Gordy Jr. began to enjoy the sweet taste of success. The label’s hits were sporadic, but there were enough to finance his ...read more
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This show represents our first coverage of Motown for the year 1962. The label had come a very long way since its inception in 1959, but it had a lot ...read more
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