Posts Tagged: The supremes
The Great Music of Detroit
The Detroit Metro Times lists more than 100 top songs from in and around the city. Here are its top ten:
- Marvin Gaye, 1971: What’s Goin’ On
- Stevie Wonder, 1973: Living for the City
- Question Mark & the Mysterians, 1966: 96 Tears
- The Stooges, 1969: No Fun
- John Lee Hooker, 1948: Boogie Chllen
- Del Shannon, 1961: Runaway
- Alice Cooper, 1971: I’m Eighteen
- McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, 1929: Will You, Won’t You, Be My Babe?
- The Supremes, 1968: Love Child
- MC5, 1969: Kick Out the Jams
Of course, great Detroit area acts such as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Temptations, Eminem and Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band are represented on the long and interesting list.
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The American Pop Music Hall of Fame Will Have a Great First Class
The site has a news item today that reports the American Pop Music Hall of Fame is seeking input from the public on which group or performer should be in the inaugural class. The story the item is based on has a link to the entire list of candidates.
They are:
Paul Anka, The Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Bee Gees, Tony Bennett, Chuck Berry, Pat Boone, the Carpenters, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Chubby Checker, the Dave Clark Five, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, the Everly Brothers, the Four Seasons, Connie Francis, Elton John, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, the Monkees, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Patti Page, Les Paul & Mary Ford, the Platters, Elvis Presley, Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Smokey & Miracles, The Supremes, Three Dog Night, Bobby Vinton, Dionne Warwick, Andy Williams, Hank Williams and Stevie Wonder.
I wanted to feature one of the acts on the site in addition to the news item. So I took a pen, closed my eyes and pointed to the screen. The Everly Brothers was the closest.
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It Must Have Been Some Show
This is from the listing in This Day in Music for Sept. 12, 1964.
The Supremes, The Shangri-La’s, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, Millie Small, The Temptations, The Miracles and Little Anthony and the Imperials all appeared at The Fox Theatre, Brooklyn, New York.
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A Happy Anniversary and a Sad Birthday for The Supremes
A couple of Supremes notes for June 30. You Keep Me Hanging On was recorded on this day in 1966. It also is the birthday of Florence Ballard, one of the original members of the group. Like so many in rock and roll, it is not a happy story, according to allmusic:
In mid-1967, as a result of what was deemed increasingly unprofessional behavior, Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong (from Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles). Ballard become one of rock’s greatest tragedies, eventually ending up on welfare, and dying in 1976.
Ballard was born in 1943 and died in 1976 at age 32. Here is more on Ballard at NNDB.
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