Soul Serenade: The Masqueraders, “I’m Just An Average Guy”
The Masqueraders are one of the longest running groups in history...
Posts Tagged: "The Temptations"
The Friday Five: June 7, 2013
Shuffle. Rinse. Repeat x5. What is on your Friday Five?...
Soul Serenade: Diana Ross And The Supremes, “Reflections”
Florence Ballard was part of one last hit before she was brutally dismissed from the Supremes...
Soul Serenade: The Elgins, “Heaven Must Have Sent You”
The Elgins revived a name at Motown that the Temptations had discarded...
The #1 Albums: “TCB” by the Supremes and the Temptations
Over the years, certain television programs became iconic because of their historical value—the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Elvis Presley’s 1968 “comeback” special, Nirvana on MTV Unplugged. Others have...
Soul Serenade: Stevie Wonder, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”
We lost Funk Brother Bob Babbitt this week, He played on countless Motown hits, including this Stevie Wonder classic....
The Friday Five: July 13, 2012
From Motown to Scotland in five songs, what is on your Friday Five?...
Soul Serenade: The Temptations, “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)”
David Ruffin's final single as lead vocalist with the Temptations featured one of his finest performances....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 38
In this, the second installment of AM Gold: 1971, we tackle one of music's greatest mysteries. Just how many people are in Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds?...
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....
Jheri Curl Fridays 28: “Don’t Look Any Further”
Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards gets the Jheri Curl Fridays treatment with his 1984 video "Don't Look Any Further."...
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 26
We're back after a brief pause for the holiday season, and we've got a couple of stone classics for you....
Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 13
It's a brave new year on AM Gold - 1965 to be precise!...
Soul Serenade: Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”
May 21 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Marvin Gaye's landmark album What's Going On. Ken Shane has an appreciation....
Here’s Something Else!: Hall and Oates That Doesn’t, You Know, Suck
Hall and Oates are, of course, the poster boys for what happens when hair gel meets R&B. Funny thing is, they were originally anything but polished. Hall had reportedly been...
Soul Serenade: The Temptations, “My Girl” (A Cappella)
The Temptations' hit "My Girl" is the very definition of a Motown standard. This week Ken Shane unearths a rare a cappella version of the soul classic....
Soul Serenade: Eddie Holland, “Leaving Here”
Eddie Holland had moderate success as a recording artist, but his greatest contribution came as a member of one of the leading songwriting teams in history....
Soul Serenade: Anniversary MegaMix 1
Ken Shane celebrates the six-month anniversary of his Soul Serenade column with an awesome mix that includes every song that has appeared in his column so far....
Soul Serenade: The Temptations, “You’re My Everything”
It’s surprising to me that we’re now several months into Soul Serenade, and I have yet to feature a track by the Temptations. They are, after all, my favorite soul...
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,...
You Again?: The Temptations, “Still Here”
There are only 26 letters in the Western alphabet, and thousands upon thousands of musical acts, so it’s only natural that every once in awhile, a band will end up...
Soul Serenade: David Ruffin, “Walk Away From Love”
I have mixed feelings when it comes to telling people about some of the shows I’ve seen. After all, the Beatles in ’64, Dylan in ’65, and the Stones in...
DVD Review: “Motown: The DVD”
Let’s begin with the facts. Motown: The DVD contains 18 vintage clips of Motown artists performing some of their best known songs. Only five of the 18 are actually live...
CHART ATTACK!: 11/3/73
Join us for a trip back in time -- when Art Garfunkel shunned his first name, Cher sang on a horse, and Billy Preston's afro threatened to take over the...
CD Review: “Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates”
The multiplatinum duo gets its first four-disc box, containing all the hits, a few deep cuts, and plenty of unreleased material. Ken Shane has the review....
Basement Songs: The Temptations, “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
One of my brother’s infamous parties was going on downstairs in the basement. He didn’t have to return to Columbus for a couple weeks, so I guess he felt one...
Bootleg City: Daryl Hall & John Oates
The career-spanning, four-disc box set Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates comes out October 13, and in anticipation of its...
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...
CD Review: The Revelations featuring Tre Williams, “Deep Soul”
I love soul music in each and every one of its glorious permutations, so it’s been gratifying for me to listen as a new generation of soul masters has taken...
Motown at 50
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...
