The Marvelettes: Don't Mess With Bill - Instrumental

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Just a little thing, but the vibraphone just going, going, going, ding, ding, ding- I LOVE how that thing sounds on this, especially when you hear it with the Earl's bluesy, middle-of-the-night organ swirls.

[marv2]

Just a little thing, but the vibraphone just going, going, going, ding, ding, ding- I LOVE how that thing sounds on this, especially when you hear it with the Earl's bluesy, middle-of-the-night organ swirls.

WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance I agree. It just adds that special little something to it.

[Nurnberg77]

So is the drummer here Benny Benjamin?

[thanxal]

So is the drummer here Benny Benjamin?

Yes. Its the instrumental track to the original song, so Benjamin was the drummer. Just to make this doubly sad [[Marv2 who originally posted this died last year), I'll link to John Perrone's [[Mosogotam) Extended Mix, which is excellent.
John died last year from COVID early in the wave that devastated the northeast US. We've lost John, Marv, Mary and several others in the last year. So much loss.

[Rmick66]

Yes. Its the instrumental track to the original song, so Benjamin was the drummer. Just to make this doubly sad [[Marv2 who originally posted this died last year), I'll link to John Perrone's [[Mosogotam) Extended Mix, which is excellent.
John died last year from COVID early in the wave that devastated the northeast US. We've lost John, Marv, Mary and several others in the last year. So much loss.

I had no idea that John [[Mosogotam) had passed. His extended remixes were fantastic. And as you said, too many losses.

[kenneth]

I had no idea that John [[Mosogotam) had passed. His extended remixes were fantastic. And as you said, too many losses.

John was the sweetest guy, and he just loved Motown music and did so much on his radio show to promote it.


I know Marv was a more polarizing figure but I liked him and nobody could say he didn’t add a lot of value to the forum. His archives of photographs and such were just amazing. He said that he got a lot of it from the old Motown headquarters in Detroit after they moved! I always wondered how much of it he had. He had so many photographs that I’ve never seen before that were so interesting.


And of course I mourn the loss of Mary Wilson. I think she did more to promote the legacy of not only the Supremes, but Motown than did anyone else.


Such a tough tough year.