Can you remember anything else about the movie JAI? I will try to find it.
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To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar - Brick House by the Commodores
It is best known as a Gloria Gaynor song she recorded for Polydor in 1978. To include a remake of a song from another record company would mean that now we would have to start considering remakes of Motown songs by artists that are not associated or were signed to Motown. I don't like that, it's not authentic. I hope you understand?
Ok, got it!
Norman Is That You?
- Stevie Wonder -"For Once In My Life"
- Thelma Houston -"One Out Of Every Six "
- Diana Ross - "Touch Me In the Morning"
- Smokey Robinson -"An Old Fashioned Man"
Bingo Long and the Traveling Allstars & Motor Kings:
- Thelma Houston -"The Bingo Long Song [[Steal On Home)"
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I love Motown, but I spent my late teen years and early 20s in Chicago, and Cooley High was one of our rival High Schools in Chicago. My high School, Bowen, was, along with Cooley, and a handful of other South Side, South Chicago, and West Side high schools, had some of the best musicians and singing groups in the nation, during the '50s and early '60s. We should have filled that film with Chicago sounds of The Impressions, Jerry Butler, Billy Butler and The Enchanters, Jan Bradley, The Artistics, Gene Chandler, The Dukays, Billy Stewart, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Green, The Dells, Otis Leavill, Barbara Acklin, The Daylighters, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, Donald and The Delighters, The Opals, The Sheppards, The Fascinations [[I know they were from Detroit-but they recorded for Curtis Mayfield- same with Walter Jackson).
Robb, there is also a Cooley High in Detroit, although I know the one in film was about the one in Chicago. The writer and director of "Cooley High" was Eric Monte. We learned later on it was an autobiographical film about his life growing up in Chicago in the early 60s. His character in the film is named "Preach". They could have combined the Sound of Chicago and the Motown Sound and it would have worked. That is what we heard as kids visiting relatives in Chicago in those days.
Here is another new film that uses Motown music in it. "Like Father, Like Son":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73By4IzR2lg
Not quite a film, but a weird placement in the BBC Drama series "Inspector George Gently".
In the episode "Gently Northern Soul", set in 1969 , at a "Northern Soul" event [[despite the fact that term was not coined until 1971!) the playlist includes a track from the Four Tops that wasn't released until the Lost and Found CD [[2005).
"Sweet was the love" is played at a dance scene. So we have dancers dancing to a track that was not known about in 1969.
Stranger still, when the show was repeated some years later, the original sound track [[original 60s NS tunes plus said Four Tops track) was removed and replaced by a 'pastiche' soul soundtrack, presumably due to copyright issues.
Spike Lee’s new joint BlacKkKlansman also uses The Tempts’ “Ball of Confusion.”
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The first song in that movie is "Oh Happy Day", followed by "Too Late to Turn Back Now" and the third - if I remember correctly - is "Ball of Confusion."
Incidentally, that cordial guy called Felix is a Finnish actor by the name of Jasper Pääkkönen.
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Heikki
He was terrific! Literally!!!
Also, bump: Crazy Rich Asians [[outstanding!!!) uses Marvin & Tammi’s “You’re All I Need to Get By” in a very clever way; it also opens with a killer Chinese [[Cantonese? Mandarin?) version of “Money [[That’s What I Want)” [[the same artist [Cheryl K] covers it in English over the closing credits).
https://youtu.be/vzMCtzMFZ8g
Last night on[ballers-hbo]the temps classic[get ready] was played by a high school band,very cool.
A Bronx Tale - Four Tops' "Baby I Need Your Loving"
from Nativity - great obscure Christmas movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cbJ-WfZfs
Motown, especially in the 90s, released a number of soundtrack albums on CD, many mentioned above. As I'm not a film buff I wouldn't know from first hand experience and I suspect some of the CDs contained tracks that might not have been on screen. Soundtracks I have include "the Big Chill" [[several volumes and the expanded 2 CD set), "Walking Dead", "In & Out", "The Associate", "Stuart Little", "The Meteor Man", "Girl Groups The Story of A Sound"[[?), "Our Friend Martin", "The Lost Dragon", "Mahogany", "Lady Sings The Blues", "Pippin", "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown", "Nothing But A Man", "Trouble Man" "Hell Up In Harlem", "The Mack", "Jungle Fever" plus others.
Cheating even more, there's this....
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Bump: Netflix’s Nappily Ever After employs Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations’ “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me.”