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Soul Serenade: The Four Tops, “Ask the Lonely”

Ken Shane June 3, 2010 0

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, but only after clearly

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DVD Review: The T.A.M.I. Show

Ken Shane March 24, 2010 3

The famous story goes that T.A.M.I. Show (Shout Factory) Executive Producer Bill Sargent wanted the Rolling Stones to close the show. The Stones, however, had seen James Brown’s act, and were not eager to

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CD Review: Human Nature, “Reach Out”

Robert Cass September 1, 2009 11

“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 international contemporaries Backstreet Boys,

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Motown at 50

Ken Shane January 12, 2009 7

Today is a very important day in the history of popular music. It was on this day in 1959 that Motown was born. An auto worker by the name of Berry Gordy borrowed $800

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