From Publishers Weekly
This useful but often flat history of legendary Motown Records is the first music-related work by Posner, who is best known for his books on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy (Case Closed) and Martin Luther Kin (more…)
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (Paperback)
From Library Journal
“A definitive chronicle of one of the great creative periods in American pop history,” said LJ’s reviewer of this 1986 volume, which tracks the rise and fall of a collaboration of white and black musicians, songwrite (more…)
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life) (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
George, an editor at Billboard and author of The Michael Jackson Story, recounts the story of Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit in 1959 and now located in Hollywood. In the end, the author concludes (more…)
Go Ahead and Burn: Soul Music from the Shoals to Chicago [IMPORT]
Shout Records Presents Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces, a Combo Who, in the Golden Age of Soul, in the Summer of 1966, Took their Down Home Soul from the Chittlin’ Circuit of the Deep South Into the Us Top 30 with the Hit Ballad “Search (more…)