Soul Serenade: Diana Ross And The Supremes, “Reflections”
Florence Ballard was part of one last hit before she was brutally dismissed from the Supremes...
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Soul Serenade: Martha & The Vandellas, “Come And Get These Memories”
Martha & the Vandellas had their first hit with their second Gordy single...
The Friday Five: February 22, 2013
It's Friday, you know what to do ......
Soundtrack Saturday Special Edition! Best Original Song 1982
After a two-year hiatus, Kelly Stitzel's Soundtrack Saturday returns! This week, she takes a look at the Best Original Song Oscar nominees from 1982....
The Friday Five: December 28, 2012
It's the last Friday Five of 2012! Join in with five random tracks of your own....
Songs in the Key of Life 7: “I’m Coming Out”
In order to make things happen, you need to advertise. June discusses that subject, to the tune of a Diana Ross classic, in the latest "Songs" column....
The #1 Albums: “Diana Ross and the Supremes’ Greatest Hits”
I quit buying 45s when I was 13 years old. After that, I considered myself an album consumer, but that sometimes created an economic conundrum: when a cool new song...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 48
That's a wrap on AM Gold: 1973. This week may not offer a lot, but it does have David Foster!...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 36
And just like that, the first chapter of AM Gold in the 1970s is over....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 33
What better way to kick off a new decade of AM Gold than to sharpen our collective wit and come up with all the awful Bread jokes we can?...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 30
Say what you want about the Guess Who and Three Dog Night... because you may be talking about the other band anyway....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 29
1969 --The year Hair dominated the American airwaves. The first of several Hair cover songs debuts on AM Gold this week....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 19
We're one week away from the end of AM Gold: 1966, and for the Popdose staff it seems it couldn't come fast enough....
Soul Serenade: Brenda Holloway, “Every Little Bit Hurts”
Brenda Holloway isn't often included in the discussion of great female Motown vocalists. Ken Shane tells us why she deserves to be....
Weekend ’80s Dance Party: Special Labor Day Edition
You work hard for your money. So relax and dance this weekend! Kelly Stitzel brings you a special Labor Day Weekend '80s Dance Party....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 9
AM Gold: 1964 beckons! Enjoy the Supremes and the Zombies! Make it through Gene Pitney!...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 8
And just like that, 1963 is in our rear-view mirrors. But before we speed ahead to '64 let's fire up the old transistor radio and check out the final group...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 1
Popdose breaks down the first five songs from Time-Life Music's AM Gold: 1962 compilation album, and takes time to enjoy a classic 1980s Dom DeLuise commercial....
Consumerism: The Motown Tour
Berry Gordy, Jr. served in Korea, returned to Detroit, got a job at Ford, and started writing songs for his friend Jackie Wilson. Gordy figured out two things. First, there...
Soul Serenade: The Four Tops, “Ask the Lonely”
Levi Stubbs never left. While Diana Ross split from the Supremes, Smokey Robinson migrated from his Miracles, and David Ruffin took off from the Temptations (ok, technically he was fired,...
Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 76
This week, Dave Steed sets off a chain reaction, goes crazy from the heat, rocks a tricky rhyme, and bangs on the drum all day with Tom Sawyer....
CHART ATTACK!: 10/11/80
Diana Ross smacks Chic around, Kenny Loggins starts his soundtrack reign, and Olivia welcomes us to Xanadu -- all in Jason Hare's latest edition of CHART ATTACK!...
CD Review: Human Nature, “Reach Out”
“In the style of the boy-band vocal bands of the time, Human Nature became Australia’s most successful pop group of the ’90s and beyond,” according to their Allmusic.com biography, “outselling their...
Popdose Interview: Sharon Robinson, The Leonard Cohen Collaborator Not Everybody Knows
Just what the hell is a famous blue raincoat, anyway? Maybe Jon Cummings finds out in his new Popdose Interview with Leonard Cohen collaborator -- and solo artist in her...
Future Retro: Jody Watley
A TOUCH OF SHALAMAR Singer, songwriter, and producer Jody Watley first boogied her way to fame at the age of 14 as a dancer on the legendary music program Soul...
Mix Six: “Graduation Day”
LISTEN TO THE FULL MIX HERE This is the time of the year when graduates go through the ritual where they transition from one stage of life to another. It’s...
Mix Six: “It’s Disco, Bitches!”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE As Prince said, “I think I wanna dance!” Sometimes in the weekly Mix Six shuffle it’s easy to forget the lasting impact of disco on...
When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Diana Ross, “Diana”
Berry Gordy is a powerful man. Not only did he found Motown Records, building a musical empire that allowed blacks to crossover into what had pretty much been a white-controlled...