I have always thought of Mavis Staples as the top-selling female artist at Stax. Granted she didn't have any hits as a solo artist at Stax, but the Staple Singers had some huge hits [["Respect...
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I have always thought of Mavis Staples as the top-selling female artist at Stax. Granted she didn't have any hits as a solo artist at Stax, but the Staple Singers had some huge hits [["Respect...
Luther Allison at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois in April 1975. Luther was the opening act for Muddy Waters and his band.
45="Shotgun" by Junior Walker and the All-Stars [[1965)
LP="Greatest Hits from the Beginning" by the Miracles [[1965).
Complete Motown Singles, Volume 2: 1962 [[August 2023). Volume 2 was one of the four Complete Motown Singles sets I still hadn't acquired. I was able to buy a new copy in August for a reasonable...
I don't remember ever hearing Edwin Starr's version of "Stop Her On Sight [[SOS)" played on the radio in Kansas City, where I was living at that time. The first time I ever heard the song was the...
Thank you, Mike, for the information you provided. It clears some things up for me.
Howard Grimes was a great drummer and an integral part of the Hi Records rhythm section. However, I'm not sure npr.org is right about Grimes playing drums on "Let's Stay Together." It's my...
Paul Williams sang lead on the Temptations version of "What's Easy for Two Is Hard For One", which was recorded in 1964 but wasn't released until 2005 on the Hip-O Select 2-CD set Motown Sings Motown...
There was a Smokey & the Miracles' version of "My Girl" that was included on the 1969 Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles album. The arrangement was completely different from the original...
The Motown channel was only available on Sirius XM radios for the first week of February. However, it's still available on the the Sirius XM app and online. It's Channel 730. I'm not sure how long...
"I Dig Everything About You" is still played occasionally on Sirius XM's Carolina Shag channel [[currently internet only).
"Darling Baby", the B-side of "Put Yourself In My Place", was a much bigger hit in the U.S., going all the way to Number 4 on the Billboard R&B chart. As a result, "Darling Baby" ended up being the...
RIP, Roy C. Hammond.
I did not become aware of the stuff he recorded for Mercury Records during the period 1973 to 1978 until twenty years after the fact, but I grew to love it once I heard it. ...
Pat St. John paid tribute to Edna Wright on his Sirius XM show today. Because he's on the 60s channel, he couldn't play Honey Cone's biggest hits from the 70s, but he did play "While You're Out...
A Cellarful Of Motown, Vol. 5 is also now available for pre-order from importcds.com and deepdiscount.com.
https://www.importcds.com/cellarful-of-motown-vol-5-various-artists/600753847008
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You're welcome Motown Eddie.
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I like the fact that "James Brown Collected" contains James' 1985 hit record, "Living in America." There are many James Brown collections out there, including the "Star Time" box set, that do not...
You're right, Robb, the upcoming Barbara Lewis set would have been been better [[and more complete) if it included her Enterprise recordings. I'm assuming they were not included because of licensing...
"Out of Sight" was a bigger hit than probably 75% of the songs included on "James Brown Collected". Personally, I think that there were many other songs that were better candidates to omit for lack...
I find it curious that "Out of Sight" from 1964 is nowhere to be found on this 3-CD collection. That was a big hit for James that crossed over to the pop top 40. The record also signaled that James...
Actually, Barbara Lewis did not go directly from Atlantic to Reprise. In between those two labels she had three singles and one LP for the Enterprise label, which was a subsidiary label of Stax. It...
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It's from Stevie's 1967 "I Was Made to Love Her" album, which contains mostly cover versions. Besides the Tempts, Stevie covers Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Bobby Bland, James Brown, Otis...
They still play Jack Scott records on a regular basis on the 50s channel on Sirius XM Satellite Radio.