Hello there, folks. The loss of Frank Wilson last week still reverberates with me as it does, I'm sure, with many of you. Reverend Wilson's involvement with Motown and it's artists created much of what has been the best and most unique of Motown. Whether the songs showcased Frank as a vocalist, writer or producer, he added a very special touch.
We all know his own recordings, as well as his writing and producing for Brenda Holloway, Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations, the Four Tops and the Jean Terrell led Supremes and many other Motown artists...solo or together...they made "such sweet music".
You'll hear 3 hours worth of those recordings, along with Frank Wilson rarities...music that brought us ALL "closer to heaven" [[where he is)...tonight...on "Nightflight"...on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans
and streaming live worldwide in digital stereo at www.womr.org
Thanks so much!
John
HEADLINE TOPICS
SOULFUL DETROIT Forum
MOTOWN Forum
CLUBHOUSE
ALL FORUMS
Forum Archives
Soulful Detroit Tours
Results 1 to 50 of 90
-
10-09-2012, 07:59 AM #1
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
"Nightflight" Tue Oct 9, 9P-12M ET:...a 3 hour Tribute to Rev Frank Wilson [[RIP)
-
10-09-2012, 01:54 PM #2
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2012
- Posts
- 7,375
Even though your special night tributes cannot help but start on a note of sadness, the notes of beauty and love that we'll hear tonight through Frank's music and your commentary, knowledge, observations, and opinions are just as real. And I know that's what I'll take with me once tonight's show has ended. Every single show you create, John, is a heartfelt tribute to great artists, writers, producers, and musicians. It's what you do continually--it never ends, and it doesn't begin because of their passing. It's NIGHTFLIGHT's "specialty of the house," and you serve it up fresh and delicious and piping hot every Tuesday night. My compliments to the chef!
-
10-09-2012, 05:15 PM #3
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Bruce....thank you so much....glad you'll be here!
-
10-09-2012, 06:00 PM #4
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
Looking forward to a celebration of the music created by Frank Wilson.
-
10-09-2012, 06:10 PM #5
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Originally Posted by sophisticated_soul
Looking forward to a celebration of the music created by Frank Wilson.
Joseph....so happy to see you....missed you lots!
-
10-09-2012, 06:51 PM #6
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
I was unavoidably detained. Anderson Cooper tried to beat me up for kissing his boyfriend in Central Park. Originally Posted by midnight johnny
-
10-09-2012, 07:20 PM #7
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Good....as long as you didn't go TOO far [[*grin).... Originally Posted by sophisticated_soul
I was unavoidably detained. Anderson Cooper tried to beat me up for kissing his boyfriend in Central Park.
-
10-09-2012, 07:25 PM #8
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2012
- Posts
- 7,375
"A man's kiss is his signature." Originally Posted by sophisticated_soul
I was unavoidably detained. Anderson Cooper tried to beat me up for kissing his boyfriend in Central Park.
-- Mae West in MY LITTLE CHICKADEE
"I gotta brush my teeth and work on my penmanship."
-- Me
But Joseph, Anderson Cooper wouldn't hurt a fly.
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MumI6KovUk
-
10-09-2012, 08:01 PM #9
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
Thank you for devoting a show to the music of Frank Wilson. He was a great talent. Catch you later tonight, John.
Jim
-
10-09-2012, 08:38 PM #10
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
I saw this the night of the broadcast and I laughed so hard I . . . Originally Posted by Methuselah2
-
10-09-2012, 08:46 PM #11
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
When have I ever gone TOO far? Originally Posted by midnight johnny
-
10-09-2012, 08:47 PM #12
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,548
Hi John and the gang!
Look forward to hearing all the goodies and extended mixes John has worked up. Frank Wilson had his hand in so many classics and cant wait to revisit them with everyone. See everyone later....
-
10-09-2012, 08:50 PM #13
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
My pleasure, Jim....glad you'll be here! Originally Posted by JimBagley
-
10-09-2012, 08:51 PM #14
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Howdy, Glen P! Great to have you!! And thanks about the remixes....I JUST happen to have......[[*smile)! Originally Posted by Glenpwood
-
10-09-2012, 09:01 PM #15
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
Hi Johnny - I know we are in for a real treat tonight. Have a great shoe!
-
10-09-2012, 09:01 PM #16
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
...in the studio.....
-
10-09-2012, 09:06 PM #17
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
Hey Tone! Originally Posted by lovechild
Hi Johnny - I know we are in for a real treat tonight. Have a great shoe!
-
10-09-2012, 09:07 PM #18
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Originally Posted by lovechild
Hi Johnny - I know we are in for a real treat tonight. Have a great shoe!
Hey there Tonyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! Welcome!
-
10-09-2012, 09:07 PM #19
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 417
Honoring Mr. Wilson is most appropriate tonight, BRAVO!
I have always had an ear for music with which he was creatively involved whether in writing, producing, and/or singing. Brenda's "Just Look What You've Done" has to be one of my most favorite classic Motown songs.
Howard in Long Beach, CA
-
10-09-2012, 09:11 PM #20
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
Up The Ladder is one of my 10 favorite recordings... period. I can die and go to heaven now.
-
10-09-2012, 09:14 PM #21
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
Jim, please stick around a little longer! Originally Posted by JimBagley
-
10-09-2012, 09:15 PM #22
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
It's not up to me. We'll see what happens. Originally Posted by sophisticated_soul
Jim, please stick around a little longer!
-
10-09-2012, 09:18 PM #23
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Originally Posted by motownlover
Honoring Mr. Wilson is most appropriate tonight, BRAVO!
I have always had an ear for music with which he was creatively involved whether in writing, producing, and/or singing. Brenda's "Just Look What You've Done" has to be one of my most favorite classic Motown songs.
Howard in Long Beach, CA
Welcome, Howard!!!!!!
-
10-09-2012, 09:19 PM #24
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2012
- Posts
- 231
it's not up to You? who is up to ?
-
10-09-2012, 09:20 PM #25
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2011
- Posts
- 2,432
Vincent Dimirco was a New York songwriter & guitarist. Frank Wilson is quoted as saying that he usually built his songs around the piano accompaniment. In the case of Up the Ladder it was written with an eye to building it around Vincent's guitar
-
10-09-2012, 09:23 PM #26
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2012
- Posts
- 231
i seem to recall reading that either the writer of Up The Ladder or Stoned Love was still a teenager. Believe that both Vincent and the writer of Stoned Love were from one of the NY boroughs... Queens or the Bronx maybe?
greg jones
los angeles, ca
-
10-09-2012, 09:32 PM #27
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
I wish Brenda had stayed a couple more years at Motown and continued to work with Frank. What magic they made together.
-
10-09-2012, 09:32 PM #28
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2011
- Posts
- 2,432
One reason Brenda claimed that she liked the BS&T version was because they performed it more in the manner that she had wanted to record/perform it. Instead Berry insisted on strings and other Motown flourishes.
-
10-09-2012, 09:37 PM #29
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
Jim - is All I Need on that list? Originally Posted by JimBagley
-
10-09-2012, 09:38 PM #30
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
Hey Joseph - just passed you on the shoeleather expressway... Originally Posted by sophisticated_soul
Hey Tone!
-
10-09-2012, 09:39 PM #31
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2011
- Posts
- 2,432
Thomas Kenny was the young Detroit teenager whose compositions Frank Wilson heard on a Detroit radio contest. Frank later contacted him & asked what else he might have. Thomas presented Stone Love & the rest is history.
-
10-09-2012, 09:42 PM #32
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Jun 2012
- Posts
- 7,375
The extended remixes all sound so gorgeous. Everyone who was involved with the beautiful, original recordings is being acknowledged and appreciated in addition to the multi-talented Frank Wilson. Bravo.
-
10-09-2012, 09:42 PM #33
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
I thought that was you! Originally Posted by lovechild
Hey Joseph - just passed you on the shoeleather expressway...
-
10-09-2012, 09:44 PM #34
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2012
- Posts
- 231
Thanx Carole... can never remember his name because on the label and album credit they spelled it backwards! Didn't realize that he was from Detroit.
-
10-09-2012, 09:45 PM #35
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 20,256
Is that a hint???? Originally Posted by lovechild
-
10-09-2012, 09:46 PM #36
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
Why yes it is, Mr Kreskin. That makes two Frank Wilson productions in my top 10! Originally Posted by lovechild
-
10-09-2012, 09:46 PM #37
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
I would love to have a 3 hour mix of Stoned Love ... that is how much I love the song
Great job tonight JP
-
10-09-2012, 09:47 PM #38
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
woohoo I would love to hear it JP lol Originally Posted by midnight johnny
-
10-09-2012, 09:52 PM #39
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
Wow, they did! I never noticed that before. Good catch. Originally Posted by greg jones
-
10-09-2012, 09:53 PM #40
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
let us guess one more and then i can send the spaceship down to get you Jim.. Originally Posted by JimBagley
-
10-09-2012, 09:55 PM #41
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Oct 2012
- Posts
- 231
Nice remix johnny... do use a professional computer music program to do it?
-
10-09-2012, 10:01 PM #42
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
Let's go for it, Tony. Originally Posted by lovechild
-
10-09-2012, 10:03 PM #43
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2011
- Posts
- 2,432
About 'You Made Me So Very Happy' Brenda has been quoted:
"My boyfriend had quit me, I was so sad", Brenda says "I thought, you know what, I'm gonna write a song about being happy, 'cause this man is crazy. Leaving me? I'll show him " Brenda called her sister Patrice for help on the song, explaining simply 'This is a hit'. She called Berry Gordy and told him the same thing. He brought in Frank Wilson, who contributed the dynamic bridge, which Brenda says 'made the song'.
But the singer/songwriter didn't like the final result. " We were on the verge of psychedelic sounds, all that rock and funk", she says. Gordy's response was all business: "I'm Berry Gordy. You're Brenda Holloway. I'm putting up the money. We'll do it the way I want it, thank you".
Brenda's version barely dented the Top 40. Then the jazz-rock version by Blood, Sweat and Tears became a gold smash in 1969. It was arranged, Brenda has said, exactly the way she imagined it.
-
10-09-2012, 10:03 PM #44
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
well I know that Choo Choo Train isnt on the list lol how about Still Waters Originally Posted by JimBagley
-
10-09-2012, 10:04 PM #45
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 1,585
NO and no. No Little Lisa tracks amongst my very favorites. Originally Posted by lovechild
-
10-09-2012, 10:05 PM #46
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Sep 2011
- Posts
- 2,432
Ala Rednow Eivets...... Originally Posted by greg jones
-
10-09-2012, 10:09 PM #47
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 722
Tuning in from San Francisco. How about a little Here comes the sunrise?
go MJ
-
10-09-2012, 10:16 PM #48
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 2,348
wow I love I Can't Turnaround... thanks JP
-
10-09-2012, 10:17 PM #49
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 62,010
"I Can't Turn Around". Perfection!
-
10-09-2012, 10:18 PM #50
Senior Member
- Join Date
- Aug 2010
- Posts
- 417
Oh, WOW! "I Can't Turn Around" has got to be one of the GREATEST Marvelettes tunes!!! HOT!!!!!
Reply With Quote
Posting Permissions
Soulful Detroit Navigation
SoulfulDetroit Management
SoulfulDetroit Affiliates
© AtDetroit LLC All Rights Reserved - unless otherwise specified. Please notify us of uncited proprietary content.
Bookmarks