I agree entirely with this. Singing about important things wasn't just important in itself - it would have helped cement a new modern and progressive image for the group.
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I agree entirely with this. Singing about important things wasn't just important in itself - it would have helped cement a new modern and progressive image for the group.
Big story in the London Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9239685/Motown-legend-Mary-Wilson-Supremes-dies-aged-76-home-Las-Vegas.html
I didn't know that about Is There A Place.... Who backed Jean on that then?
Nice to see the respect shown to Karen Carpenter in this thread. Not all great voices sang in the soul idiom. And while in general I hate Xmas songs, Karen's take on this was really good
Totally agree with this. I get what everyone is saying about star quality but it was still Jean's voice that moved me in a way that Diana never could. It's a massive loss to soul that she didn't...
Wow, I didn't know that at all. Thanks. That explains why Getty didn't have a negative which would have given me the image I so wanted.
a guy called Michael Ochs. Getty acquired the archives of his work when he died
This is to me one of the defining images of soul. Look closely, it isn’t just that the girls in in their wonderful afros, but that they are wearing black turtle necks to match against a dark...
interesting....I didn't know that
She was born in 1944, so 26 when she joined the Supremes?
yes I have - A Hammer and a nail is outstanding IMO. A TV version of this is on you tube actually, with a lot of stuff from Ernie as to how he would destroy Muhammad Ali, which of course wasn't how...
Oh! that's how to do it - thanks!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVhfd1MB3Pg
Apologies if these have been posted but I had never seen them before. I'm guessing that they are outtakes from Jean's solo LP which Bobby Martin produced. They are only available on digital download...
Stoned Love
Up the ladder
I guess I'll miss the man
bill, when are you coming back?
Is there a place [[in his heart for me)
Wisdom of time
The loving country
Time to break down
When can brown...
Correct - Jean is a Jehovahs Witness. But we can still send best wishes to her anyway. That voice!!!!! Thank you for the music Jean
Me too. It was so wonderful that BBC, ITV and C4 news all led on Aretha, with the BBC being particularly respectful with a reporter outside the New Bethel in Detroit.
Didn't Bob Dylan say that Smokey was America's greatest living poet? Nuff said....
What I cannot understood is how the Motown execs canned I Had A Dream. This was a truly great tune anyway and letting Levi and Jean loose on it really paid dividends.
This could I think have been a...
Ooooh!!! Please post the rest of the article
Yes! Anytime!
PS.. Do yourself a favour and listen to her gorgeous spoken part on The Wisdom Of Time.
thanks for a most instructive and interesting piece of research.It backs up my conviction that the Motown top brass did not know what to do with the post Diana Ross Supremes. I'm convinced that they...
Jean did. This is her signature tune and could almost have been written for her. She didn't just inject a spiritual note to the intro, but there is a sense of urgency about it that still sends a...
To my astonishment I didn't know this either. I love the way you learn things on this board….
The extent to which you can separate an artist from his/or her work is a difficult one. Is Gladys'...
I really enjoyed this thought provoking thread. Rather than reply individudally to half a dozen comments I thought I would merge them into one reply.
Luke - sadly not everyone makes it, and...