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| Name | Motown: The Sound of Young America by Adam White, Barney Ales and Andrew Loog Oldham |
| Video Uploader | Video From Nicholas Hoare Books |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 18-05-2019 01:42:59 |
| Video Discription | Other than their hairdos, what do the likes of Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Lionel Richie, The Jackson Five, Gladys Knight, The "Temps" and The Commodores have in common? Motown. Those of our viewers who have come to expect a certain standard will be somewhat startled to note that, underneath your correspondent's deceptively elegant veneer, there beats the heart of an ageing rocker, given to wearing wigs (not!). Nowhere is that more apparent than with Motown, whose peerless and prodigious musical output accounts for a large slice of the 8,000-odd LPs lurking in these precincts, many of them first editions, exported to Britain perforce (by the indispensable Sam Goody) when such things were only selectively issued there. Thanks largely to Billboard, not a single issue of which has been missed in 50 years, the Hoare house collection is almost definitive. But so, too, is this book, which covers the rich history of the Tamla-Motown-Gordy group as a whole. Written by enlightened insiders - Adam White, Billboard's stellar editor at the time; the ineffable Barney Ales, who ran all three labels with the President, Berry Gordy; and Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones' highly astute manager - Motown: The Sound of Young America is the book on the topic we've been awaiting for, lo! these many years. In addition, until January 2020, the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, has mounted a parallel exhibit in tandem with this handsome book. Deploying the same title, it claims to be "the first major museum exhibition to embrace all facets - music, culture and politics - of the 1960s' biggest sounds in soul." Comprehensive, smoothly written, pictorially perfect and consistently fascinating, this splendid tome is long overdue. Published, improbably, by the august house of Thames & Hudson in London, it is a musical sight for sore eyes; and the music, the history and the evocative context come roaring back as in a flood. A timeless memorial to an indelible era when some of us still had hair! While your correspondent's affection for classics and jazz remains happily unabated (6,000 recordings at last count and climbing), Motown's R&B holds a hallowed place by comparison to contemporary pop, little of which will has legs and much of which is atrocious. More music video reviews at https://www.bookreviewsandvideos.com/category/music/ [6rg0GkaLU-s] |
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