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Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey to host ‘A Motown Christmas’ special honoring the label’s legacy
1 week, 6 days ago

Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey to host ‘A Motown Christmas’ special honoring the label’s legacy

Associated Press  

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey — bridging Motown’s old and new school — are lending their voices during a holiday special to honor the groundbreaking record label that changed music forever. Robinson and Bailey will host “A Motown Christmas,” a special that will celebrate Motown’s iconic music and influence on American culture. Here are some insights …

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Tina Mabry Hopes To Reignite The '90s Black Film Era
4 months ago

Tina Mabry Hopes To Reignite The '90s Black Film Era

Huff Post  

Ahead of her new movie, "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat," director Tina Mabry reflected on the Black film canon, Hollywood's failure to support complex, independent cinema and her early inspirations growing up in Mississippi. Matt Carr via Getty Images “Y’all could still make money and we can still make art,” Mabry said, in an exhaustive though honest appraisal of Hollywood. …

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Scott Covert: Why one artist has made it his life's mission to hunt down dead celebrities
1 year, 8 months ago

Scott Covert: Why one artist has made it his life's mission to hunt down dead celebrities

BBC  

Scott Covert: Why one artist has made it his life's mission to hunt down dead celebrities Scott Covert Since 1985, the unique Covert has devoted himself to one thing – travelling the world looking for celebrity graves, from Marilyn Monroe to Amy Winehouse, and taking rubbings of the gravestones. Scott Covert Covert has said he simply wants to "make something …

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Springsteen takes on Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops
2 years, 2 months ago

Springsteen takes on Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Bruce Springsteen takes on the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and other soul legends in an album of cover songs due out next month. The disc “Only the Strong Survive” is named for the Jimmy Butler song, among the 15 other cover songs, which will be released on Nov. 11. I’ve taken my inspiration …

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Lamont Dozier: An appreciation of a song craftsman who wrote hits with heart and soul
2 years, 4 months ago

Lamont Dozier: An appreciation of a song craftsman who wrote hits with heart and soul

LA Times  

Lamont Dozier on “American Bandstand” in 1975. Lamont Dozier was in his downstairs home studio, singing “My World Is Empty Without You,” the classic Diana Ross and the Supremes hit he had composed with his Motown partners Eddie and Brian Holland. I just had to have the engineer stop the tape.” At the time, Dozier, who died Monday at the …

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7 great Lamont Dozier songs you don’t already know by heart
2 years, 4 months ago

7 great Lamont Dozier songs you don’t already know by heart

LA Times  

When a person writes as many perfect songs in as brief a period of time as Lamont Dozier did, other people’s temptation is to liken the labor to that of a machine or a robot or an industrial plant. The Marvelettes, “Locking Up My Heart” One of H-D-H’s earliest singles to chart on the Hot 100, “Locking Up My Heart” …

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Lamont Dozier, prolific Motown songwriter and producer, dies at 81
2 years, 4 months ago

Lamont Dozier, prolific Motown songwriter and producer, dies at 81

LA Times  

Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and an abundance of other hits that helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81. Dozier’s death was confirmed Tuesday by Paul Lambert, who helped produce the stage musical “The First …

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Story of the song: Please Mister Postman by The Marvelettes
2 years, 8 months ago

Story of the song: Please Mister Postman by The Marvelettes

The Independent  

Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins, from Inkster, Michigan, couldn’t sing – or so they thought. They came fourth, but their teacher, a Mrs Sharpley, arranged for an audition at Detroit’s Motown records, which had just charted with The Miracles’ “Shop Around” and was scouting for a follow-up. Her eye caught a title that she thought was cute: “Please Mister Postman”. …

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Section 138 NI Act Complaints Filed During Limitation Extension Period Not Premature : Gurugram Bar Seeks Supremes Court's Clarification
2 years, 9 months ago

Section 138 NI Act Complaints Filed During Limitation Extension Period Not Premature : Gurugram Bar Seeks Supremes Court's Clarification

Live Law  

The Gurugram District Bar Association has moved the Supreme Court of India seeking clarification regarding interpretation of court's orders suspending period of limitation qua the proviso and to the section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, An application has been filed by the Association in the suo moto case regarding extension of limitation. According to the applicant association, the …

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Original Member Of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, Dies At Age 76
3 years, 10 months ago

Original Member Of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, Dies At Age 76

NPR  

Original Member Of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, Dies At Age 76 Mary Wilson began her career in Detroit in 1959 as a singer in what was then called the Primettes. Mary Wilson was a founding member of the Supremes, and she stayed with the group even after Diana Ross had left. NPR's Lauren Onkey, senior director of NPR Music, knew …

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Mary Wilson, longest-reigning original Supreme, dies at 76
3 years, 10 months ago

Mary Wilson, longest-reigning original Supreme, dies at 76

LA Times  

Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original Supreme, has died at 76. “I am reminded that each day is a gift,” she added, writing “I have so many wonderful memories of our time together.” Motown founder Berry Gordy said he was “extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the …

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VF is buying streetwear brand Supreme for $2.1 billion
4 years, 1 month ago

VF is buying streetwear brand Supreme for $2.1 billion

LA Times  

Once a skateboarding shop, Supreme has become an international fashion symbol, known for collaborating with both luxury and mainstream brands. VF Corp., owner of the North Face and Vans, agreed to buy streetwear fashion label Supreme for $2.1 billion to bolster its portfolio of apparel and footwear brands. VF said Monday that the Supreme brand will be modestly accretive to …

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