VARIOUS: ‘A Cellarful Of Motown – A Northern Soul Love Affair ‘ (West Grand)
Serious soul collectors in general and Motown fans in particular have been delighted by the recent launch of new indie label whose mission statement is to source rare Motown gems and reissue them as...
MORE (MUCH MORE) MOTOWN MAGIC!
The magical Motown vault amazes collectors as it continues to yield up its treasures! Latest boutique soul label to tap into those untold treasures is new (ish) kid on the UK soul block,...
VARIOUS: Hit and Run – More Motown Guys (Kent)
UK specialist label Ace/Kent continue their remarkable stewardship of the seemingly bottomless Motown vault with this splendid new 25 track compilation which, as the title explains, focuses on the male side of the Gordy...
MY GIRL AT 60!
If you’re an avid reader of the soul and/or music press you’ll know that the TEMPTATIONS/ SMOKEY ROBINSON song ‘My Girl’ is now 60 years old! And guess what? Motown is making a big...
THE TEMPTATIONS: ‘Wish It Would Rain’ (Motown/UMe/Elemental Music)
Released in April 1968, this was the final Temptations album to feature David Ruffin, the bespectacled, husky-voiced lead singer whose egomania and disruptive personality would see him fired from the group a few months...
IVY JO HUNTER DIES…
News is filtering through from the States that Motown alumnus, IVY JO HUNTER died yesterday. Few details are currently available save that Hunter was 82. Born, George Ivy Hunter in Detroit in 1940, Hunter...
JOE MESSINA DIES…
Acclaimed Motown guitarist and original Funk Brother, JOE MESSINA died on Monday 4th April. He died at the Northville, Michigan home of his son, Joel Messina, succumbing to a 12-year kidney disease. He was...
VARIOUS: All Turned On (Ace/Motown)
In the 50s and for the early part of the 60s, instrumentals were mainstays of the pop charts both here and in the States. Oddly, I think, for someone as commercially savvy as Berry...
VARIOUS: Good, Good Feeling – More Motown Girls (Ace)
That legendary Motown vault continues to give! Who’d have thought that the Gordy empire’s archive had any more treasures to yield. Well it does, as this wonderful, new 25 tracker from Ace records proves....
