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 Tom Jones Praise & Blame - reviewTom Jones' album "Praise & Blame" takes the Welsh star in a new and interesting direction. The result is his best album in years. One hit wonders - ten of the bestEnjoy our selection of ten of the best one-hit wonders, spanning 1954 to 1979. Ten forgotten originalsSometimes a cover verison of a song is so popular that it becomes better known than the first recording. Enjoy these "ten forgotten originals." Elvis Presley's essential first albumWe look back at Elvis Presley's first album, simply titled "Elvis Presley." T.A.M.I. Show DVD - reviewRead the Classic Pop Icons review of one of this year's "must have" music DVD releases. Pop legends say Things Go Better with CokeHear some of the biggest stars of the 1960s singing their Coke jingles, including Marvin Gaye, Roy Orbison and The Moody Blues. |
Posts Tagged ‘marvin gaye’
Bobby Hebb dies aged 72
Written by admin on August 4, 2010 – 4:27 pm -| Bobby Hebb has died aged 72 from lung cancer. He passed away yesterday (August 3) at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville.
Hebb was a singer-songwriter best known for his composition of the classic song “Sunny,” which he took to number two on the US pop charts in 1966. |
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Tags: Bobby Hebb, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra, marvin gaye
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Crowe to direct Marvin Gaye biopic
Written by admin on May 18, 2010 – 8:28 pm -Cameron Crowe has long been rumoured to be developing a Marvin Gaye biopic, but now the film looks set to happen.
 Howard to play Marvin Gaye |
The website, Deadline, reports that Oscar-nominated actor Terrence Howard is on board to play the Motown legend. Will Smith had been approached but turned the role down. I’m glad of that. Will is a fine actor, but can anyone imagine him played Marvin Gaye? |
Tags: Cameron Crowe, marvin gaye, Terrence Howard
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T.A.M.I. Show DVD – review
Written by admin on April 23, 2010 – 9:33 pm -| Harley Payette reviews the long awaited T.A.M.I. Show DVD, which is one of the “must have” music DVDs of 2010. |
| When I bought Shout Factory’s first ever issue of the legendary lost concert film The TAMI Show, my night was shot. I spent two hours watching the movie. Then there were another two plus hours soaking up the special features and replaying favorite moments. Then there was the trip to my CD collection to revisit the original recordings of all the great hits I had heard in the show. |
Tags: beach boys, Chuck Berry, Gerry and the Pacemakers, James Brown, Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore, marvin gaye, smokey robinson, T.A.M.I. show, T.A.M.I. show DVD, The Miracles, The Rolling Stones, the supremes
Posted in 60s pop, British Invasion, Motown, New releases, Soul | No Comments »
UK votes on best ever political songs
Written by admin on April 21, 2010 – 6:43 am -The UK’s New Statesmen magazine has published a list of the top 20 political songs, as voted for by their readers and members of the Political Studies Association.
| Not surprisingly, the list contains some of the most famous protest songs of all time, including John Lennon’s “Imagine,” Bob Dylan’s “The Times They are a-Changin’” and Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” which takes the top spot. |
Tags: Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, John Lennon, marvin gaye, Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Political songs, protest songs, The Who, Woody Guthrie
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Motown around the World – The Classic Singles
Written by admin on April 20, 2010 – 7:03 am -Motown collectors can now obtain all the label’s foreign language recordings on a 2-CD set from Hip-o Select.
With the Motown Records fan base spreading across Europe in the 1960s, the company decided that its major stars should perform foreign language versions of their hits to appeal to these markets. This new 2-CD set includes all 38 of these tracks from The Supremes, The Temptations, The Miracles, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Edwin Starr, Jimmy Ruffin, and the Velvelettes.
Tags: Edwin Starr, Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, marvin gaye, Motown around the World - The Classic Singles, smokey robinson, stevie wonder, The Miracles, the supremes, The Temptations, Velvelettes
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