![]() Andrew Flory is an academic look at Motown. I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by J. Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall is a collection of interviews with women involved in Motown. To Be Loved by Berry Gordy is Gordy’s own, understandably one-sided, but relatively well-written, autobiography. Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George is an excellent popular history of the various companies that became Motown. For those who prefer physical media, this is a decent single-CD collection of his early work at a very low price indeed.Īs well as the general Motown information listed below, I’ve also referred to Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder by Mark Ribowsky, which rather astonishingly is the only full-length biography of Wonder, to Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul by Craig Werner, and to Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove.įor Motown-related information in this and other Motown episodes, I’ve used the following resources: The best value way to get all of Stevie Wonder's early singles is this MP3 collection, which has the original mono single mixes of fifty-five tracks for a very reasonable price. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Īs usual, I’ve put together a Mixcloud playlist of all the recordings excerpted in this episode. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Groovin'" by the Young Rascals. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Episode one hundred and fifty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Was Made to Love Her", the early career of Stevie Wonder, and the Detroit riots of 1967. ![]()
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