To the boys who put the funk in Motown
A good friend of mine recommended this cut to me for Friday Travelin’ Music. It features Joan Osborne performing an old Motown hit with the Funk Brothers, the legendary group of session players who played background for almost all of the hits from Motown’s golden era, from 1959 until the label left Detroit for the glitter of Los Angeles in 1972.
The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder — the brothers funked it up for all of them. Ms. Osborne has the pipes to live up to that heritage in this cut.
– Jay Bookman
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TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 22nd, 2013
3:13 pm
Do I have to listen to the whole tune before I chirp, FIRST! ?
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 22nd, 2013
3:14 pm
TBS didn’t.
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATr5oD9nEQ
Jay
February 22nd, 2013
3:15 pm
Moral:
He who listens first loses first.
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:15 pm
godless
You are welcome to join in……………
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9hpgXaWAg
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZvXtOwcMII
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oCEvpMKGjE
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 22nd, 2013
3:22 pm
heathen can get down with some soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5djzzeA3M&feature=share&list=PL9EA73B7F0646D216
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=des0hOyzgRs
josef
February 22nd, 2013
3:24 pm
BIG DADDY
Yo frien’s got taste! Now thass the way to start off our last FNM…
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:24 pm
This tune is the jam……….. Stevie and his band kill this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_IbJUy3k4&playnext=1&list=PLB558147222C082D1&feature=results_video
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVM00eoohI
josef: You said be ready. I’m laying them down for the FNM’ers.
Redcoat
February 22nd, 2013
3:27 pm
Gas prices are going up……….anyone noticed?
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXm3lUeDkE
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:29 pm
godless
Great tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQKgnw2Cdw
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhL0ioST_U
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:33 pm
“Nothing from Nothing…………”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ5-BTdcqjk
josef
February 22nd, 2013
3:34 pm
Some great stuff coming in already…Unmentionable claims that Motown and Stax did more for race relations at a crucial time than all the rest of what went on combined. I think I’d agree…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKdWViwjiU
Redcoat
February 22nd, 2013
3:34 pm
Oh……a great song and rendition!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
3:36 pm
Oh, this is “just great” !
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/atlanta-falcons/2013/feb/22/falcons-interview-linebacker-manti-teo/
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GghUvQc4hFo
Redcoat
February 22nd, 2013
3:38 pm
Listened to some old Pat Paulson from the Smothers Brothers speaking on gun control, social security…..nothing has changed……funny
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 22nd, 2013
3:38 pm
“I Got Drunk Last Night” …….. Ace Jones
http://youtu.be/Vf-K2wASWa4
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:39 pm
Turn this one UP!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCLir1hdZ8
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-SkBIxElE
josef
February 22nd, 2013
3:42 pm
TBS
You are that!
@ 3:26
Probably my favorite of theirs…
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJDqTLHlmw
josef
February 22nd, 2013
3:44 pm
SCOUT
@ 3:38
Like I sez ’bout you…just when folks think they’ve got you figured out
Cutty
February 22nd, 2013
3:45 pm
Can we get some ‘urban’ traveling music one day?
Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King?
T.I. or Drake would suffice too. Spread the love.
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtFzdpudOk
philosopher
February 22nd, 2013
3:45 pm
Yhis is wonderful! Thanks, Jay.
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTp0AlTuPNA
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:48 pm
Reaching down in the crates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rNx9_yBDVQ
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:49 pm
“have you seen her”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYxKRXDT2I
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfGe6MvY84
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
3:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLg_THUncng
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:53 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwOFThiNnA
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vIIZydXDqg
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:56 pm
Jay: Just put the check in the mail on Monday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEC0jn75cs
josef
February 22nd, 2013
3:58 pm
TBS
Great minds! I had that Chilites pulled up…I’d've beat you to it if I hadn’t've listened to it first…
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
3:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKbn-EVUVp4
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsVVexIYtY
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:03 pm
Damn, I run out to the liquor store and to buy some outrageously price gas for the Q and find I’m dozens of tunes behind!
indigo
February 22nd, 2013
4:05 pm
How often does this happen to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqNuabPwpAs
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwOFThiNnA
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DNztjQJqTI&playnext=1&list=PL5124851988690940&feature=results_video
Bobby Womack and Ron Isley
What a combo
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:07 pm
ZamVet
Not to worry…you’ll catch up…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPw8Q5WBxQ
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
Not sure if anyone has cranked up the black girl band thing yet, but you know me, I LOVE that stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhbGaCwBzs
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
Just so RC (R–apoi) don’t feel left out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWEbweX1rQ
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
josef
great call on the Delfonics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNU00ivIhU
Skip
February 22nd, 2013
4:11 pm
I did work for Motown in the 60’s. To those of us in Detroit at the time they were just somebody from the block. The history had yet to be made.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
God bless Carole King and Gerry Goffin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAKmLWGfMyU
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV9VuPkIIv4
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pnPYbwqFZU
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:14 pm
Another King/Goffin gem…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPGkN9vOE0
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Another from the late, great Curtis Mayfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVANQheoRUw
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
ZamVet
Was hoping you’d go there…where”s DDR when we need her, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElbwimVWiwI
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:20 pm
At the time, I thought this was some of the coolest stuff I had ever heard. Aside from a certain band from Liverpool, of course.
If I were a queen
And he asked me to leave my throne
I’d do anything that he asked
Anything to make him my own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinz9Avvq6A
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCikI9npJQ
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
Wonderful harmony and soulfulness. Makes Al Green seem like a beginner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8D5HVgfrk8
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0tsKCB4lc
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:22 pm
Yep, jonix, that chick also loves some of that great stuff…
No wonder that the white boys (blokes and Yanks) went crazy over this stuff and copied the hell out of it, huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE_jOD2Fxvs
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imYJpr09IgQ
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUe1VdXQpo
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:24 pm
most aptly named mo town group ev-uh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn-Vm4uqUSg
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zIUJFYqVgg
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
I know I’m biased (hat tip, alex!) but for me this is STILL the greatest 10 minutes of blue eyed soul ever recorded…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIJ8_JUrj5E
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
GA native.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYTZR1EJL8
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNtIOfuszg
The Oddball
February 22nd, 2013
4:29 pm
Oh hell yeah.
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:29 pm
Jackie, you’re killing it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jg0E-SzcU
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWuAcMWDLY
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOSCYwKAbU
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:32 pm
You know, I do think we do have some pretty funky white boys and girls here.
That music, though upsetting to some, back in the day, made us all better!
Are you hongry, honey?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdov7l1V8xk
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8raabzZNqw
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:33 pm
British R&B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhRVroaw9I
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:34 pm
The late Phyllis Hyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUEnBHdJ0A
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUlJsxbmUI
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:36 pm
Just now got around to listening to TBS’s Womack and Isley piece.
Awesome. On a scale of one to ten, I give that one a 12.
Womack played with both Rundgren and the Isleys, who covered Todd’s Hello, It’s Me.
The circle goes round and round…
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4boK3MDkXAA
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:38 pm
Another GA native the works on the Blues side of the house.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=willie+clayton+boom+boom+boom&oq=WILLIE+CLAYTON&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.2.0l4.311812.314707.0.326717.14.8.0.6.6.0.200.839.5j2j1.8.0…0.0…1ac.1.N9dswNwQlVM
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:39 pm
ZamVet
That blue-eyed soul…Unmentionable was playing this at work one day and one of the younger Black girls refused to believe they were white boys…he had to make her go youtube it before she’d believe him…the older women on the floor were singing right along…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaASwKbUGE
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:39 pm
Jam
Ron Wood and Bill Wyman were part of Womack’s studio band when he recorded the album that song was on. I think Keith Richards may have sat in as well.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:42 pm
A Jersey girl with roots in the ATL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9h_-pGKK0
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:43 pm
Let’s not leave out the Detroit steppers and our blue-eyed soul brethren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_eSBOhTQiE
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:43 pm
josef
Nice tune at 4:39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflkuBweSYo
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HbbM-FG8lQ
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:47 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XDZjLAV66A
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:47 pm
No wonder it is so fine, TBS. The musicianship is top notch.
I love it when black bands rock out!
And bro Kam, that Dionne Farris is a great example!
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:50 pm
jonix, funny. I think I’ve told this story before. ES&F at Music Midtown. Me and my friend Dave were singing along to all of their songs and these black kids kept looking at us like WTF? We laughed and told them we grew up on that stuff!
One world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpsOu8jyU8
josef
February 22nd, 2013
4:52 pm
TBS
Diamond in the Back…ah, the memories…riding about Jackson with Miz Johnny Paul Pickett who’d borrowed his cuzzin’s one and listening to it on the eight track…doobie passing around and looking at the folks looking at us!
Who’d've ever thought JP would “grow up” to be a big time corporate attorney in New Yawk…and still, after all these years, comes back home from time to time and, well, is still true to his roots as a screamin’ queen up for a night on the town and cruising around…
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:55 pm
jonix, I miss Bruno, That cat was also into that killer Philly blue eyed soul, BIG time!
But not much white music for White Chocolate tonight. (Once he goes black, he don’t go back! LOL!!)
OK, how about a half and half?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mu8m8_-tRo
Jackie
February 22nd, 2013
4:56 pm
A NC native that recently died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICtAySqjW8
TBS
February 22nd, 2013
4:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vlthJImVw
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
February 22nd, 2013
4:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16_RNvYWogs
JamVet
February 22nd, 2013
4:59 pm
The most talented black cat of his era. Hands down.
(Stevie Wonder – all instruments and vocals.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPsFz85gGw