Sunday, December 23, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Going In Circles - Friends Of Distinction (July 1969) HQ
When The HiFIs disbanded, Harry Elston and Floyd Butler formed The Friends of Distinction while the rest formed The Five Dimensions. Ex football great Jim Brown helped The Friends of Distinction to sign with RCA Records. Their first single at RCA was "Grazin' In the Grass" which became a mega hit on their first attempt. "Grazin' In the Grass" also went gold making The Friends of Distinction a popular group. Their follow-up to "Grazin' In The Grass" was a slow methodical heart song called "Going In Circles" released in July 1969. It too went gold.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
"Since I Fell for You" Lenny Welch
This sad, romantic ballad composed by Buddy Johnson in 1945 was recorded by Lenny Welch on the Cadence label in 1963, reaching number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Marvin Gaye
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Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (Live, 1963) [HD video]
Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike [Very Good(+) quality] (Live, 1964)
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye at number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked at number 18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and he ranked number 20 on VH1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Gaye was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (extra HQ) - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.1
Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.2
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was born on April 2, 1939 at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.. His father, Marvin Gay, Sr., was a minister at the House of God (the House of God headquarters is located in Lexington, Kentucky), a Hebrew Pentecostal sect which advocated strict conduct and taught and believed in both the Old and New Testament. His mother, Alberta Gay (née Cooper), was a domestic and schoolteacher. As a child, Gaye was raised in the Benning Terrace projects in southeast D.C.
By the time his eldest son was four, Marvin Sr. was bringing Gaye with him to sing for church congregations. Gaye's early home life was marked by violence as his father would often strike him for any shortcoming. Gaye and his three siblings were bed-wetters as children. Gaye would describe living with his father "was like living with a king, a very peculiar, changeable, cruel and all-powerful king". He further stated had it not been for his mother's love and encouragement in his own musical ambitions, he would've been "one of those child suicides you read about in the papers".
Marvin's sister Jeanne later stated that Marvin's life between the ages of 7 into his early teenage years consisted of "brutal whippings" by his father. By age fourteen, Gaye's parents moved to the Deanwood neighborhood of northeast D.C. The following year, Gaye's father quit the ministry after he was passed for promotion as the Chief Apostle (head overseer) of the House of God Inc. Gaye's father never kept a job, only working for a cumulative total of three years. Growing increasingly isolated from social life, Marvin's father withdrew at home and developed alcoholism, preferring vodka and cross-dressing, while also forcing his children to observe an extended Sabbath and would strike them for wrongfully answering Biblical passages he taught them.
Learning how to play piano, organ and drums at a young age, Marvin soon discovered R&B and a subgenre known as doo-wop. Entering Cardozo High School, he joined several groups in the D.C. area including the Dippers with his best friend, Johnny Stewart, brother of R&B singer Billy Stewart. He then joined the D.C. Tones, whose members included Reese Palmer, who was another close friend, and Sondra Lattisaw, mother of R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw. Gaye's relationship with his father led him to run away from home and join the United States Air Force in the hope of becoming an aviator. However, discovering his growing hatred for authority, he began defying orders and skipped practices. Faking mental illness, he was discharged. His sergeant stated that Gaye refused to follow orders. Returning home, Gaye and Reese Palmer formed the doo-wop quintet, the Marquees.
Marvin Gaye Playlist
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Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Live in Montreux)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It on
Marvin Gaye - Come get to this
Marvin Gaye After the dance
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me / What´s Going On
Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind Of Fellow (Live, 1963) [HD video]
Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike [Very Good(+) quality] (Live, 1964)
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye at number 6 on its list of the Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked at number 18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and he ranked number 20 on VH1's list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Gaye was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (extra HQ) - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.1
Marvin Gaye Interview Pt.2
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was born on April 2, 1939 at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.. His father, Marvin Gay, Sr., was a minister at the House of God (the House of God headquarters is located in Lexington, Kentucky), a Hebrew Pentecostal sect which advocated strict conduct and taught and believed in both the Old and New Testament. His mother, Alberta Gay (née Cooper), was a domestic and schoolteacher. As a child, Gaye was raised in the Benning Terrace projects in southeast D.C.
By the time his eldest son was four, Marvin Sr. was bringing Gaye with him to sing for church congregations. Gaye's early home life was marked by violence as his father would often strike him for any shortcoming. Gaye and his three siblings were bed-wetters as children. Gaye would describe living with his father "was like living with a king, a very peculiar, changeable, cruel and all-powerful king". He further stated had it not been for his mother's love and encouragement in his own musical ambitions, he would've been "one of those child suicides you read about in the papers".
Marvin's sister Jeanne later stated that Marvin's life between the ages of 7 into his early teenage years consisted of "brutal whippings" by his father. By age fourteen, Gaye's parents moved to the Deanwood neighborhood of northeast D.C. The following year, Gaye's father quit the ministry after he was passed for promotion as the Chief Apostle (head overseer) of the House of God Inc. Gaye's father never kept a job, only working for a cumulative total of three years. Growing increasingly isolated from social life, Marvin's father withdrew at home and developed alcoholism, preferring vodka and cross-dressing, while also forcing his children to observe an extended Sabbath and would strike them for wrongfully answering Biblical passages he taught them.
Learning how to play piano, organ and drums at a young age, Marvin soon discovered R&B and a subgenre known as doo-wop. Entering Cardozo High School, he joined several groups in the D.C. area including the Dippers with his best friend, Johnny Stewart, brother of R&B singer Billy Stewart. He then joined the D.C. Tones, whose members included Reese Palmer, who was another close friend, and Sondra Lattisaw, mother of R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw. Gaye's relationship with his father led him to run away from home and join the United States Air Force in the hope of becoming an aviator. However, discovering his growing hatred for authority, he began defying orders and skipped practices. Faking mental illness, he was discharged. His sergeant stated that Gaye refused to follow orders. Returning home, Gaye and Reese Palmer formed the doo-wop quintet, the Marquees.
Marvin Gaye Playlist
Create a playlist at MixPod.com
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Live in Montreux)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It on
Marvin Gaye - Come get to this
Marvin Gaye After the dance
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me / What´s Going On
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Whitney Houston . The Greatest Voice of Our Time
The Greatest Voice of Our Time
Whitney Elizabeth Houston [August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012] was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. Houston began singing with her New Jersey church's junior gospel choir at age 11. After she began performing alongside her mother in night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits ("Saving All My Love for You"; "How Will I Know"; "Greatest Love of All"; "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"; "Didn't We Almost Have It All"; "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"). She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts (Whitney Houston and The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album). Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African-American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
From the start of her career more than two decades ago, Whitney Houston had the talent, looks and pedigree of a pop superstar. She was the daughter of Cissy Houston, a gospel and pop singer who had backed up Aretha Franklin, and the cousin of Dionne Warwick. (Ms. Franklin is Ms. Houston’s godmother.)
Whitney Houston’s range spanned three octaves, and her voice was plush, vibrant and often spectacular. She could pour on the exuberant flourishes of gospel or peal a simple pop chorus; she could sing sweetly or unleash a sultry rasp.
Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love ( R.I.P )
Monday, February 13, 2012
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 1
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 2
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 3
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 4
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 5
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 6
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 7
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 8
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 9
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 10
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 11
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 12
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 2
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 3
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 4
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 5
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 6
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 7
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 8
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 9
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 10
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 11
Celebrities Praise Whitney Houston: Part 12
Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
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