Summary: It's a fast-paced, all-star reunion that spotlights performances by the biggest acts ever to come out of Detroit, including vintage footage of the groups from the Sixties and Seventies, a look behind the scenes at the songwriters who brought the Motown sound to fame, and a moving tribute to the man who started it all, Barry Gordy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The concept album starts Batiste as interstellar traveling griot DJ Billy Bob Bo Bob, who examines popular music from around the globe on a radio broadcast to the rest of the universe, asking the question: isn't all music world music?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Hometown glory -- I'll be waiting -- Don't you remember -- Turning tables -- Set fire to the rain -- If it hadn't been for love -- My same -- Take it all -- Rumour has it -- Right as rain -- One and only -- Lovesong -- Chasing pavements -- I can't make you love me -- Make you feel my love -- Someone like you -- Rolling in the deep.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ADESummary: Jac Holzman, head of Elektra Records for 23 years, has compiled cuts from the early days of Elektra's 60 years of spreading music's love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Daptone celebrates twenty years of soulful music with this release. Performed and recorded over three nights in front of a sold out crowd at The World Famous Theater in Harlem, NY (December 4th - 6th, 2014), this album brings the electrifying performances that helped put Daptone on the map. Featuring live sets from: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Naomi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES DAPWhite, Adam.
Summary: "Motown: The Sound of Young America is the definitive, visual history of the Detroit-based independent record company which became a style unto itself, a prolific and hugely successful production line of suave, sassy and sophisticated music through the sixties, seventies and eighties. Featuring extensive, specially commissioned photography of treasures gathered from the archives, this landmark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WHIThomas, Irma.
Contents: Ask what you will (5:32) -- I know prayer changes things (3:35) -- Careful hands (6:42) -- Hold to God's unchanging hand (3:09) -- No, not one (7:16) -- I will say yes Lord (4:01) -- Walk around heaven all day (3:10) -- Oh, holy night (4:58) -- Just a little while to stay here (3:21) -- Where we'll never grow old (5:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ThomaThomas, Irma.
Contents: My heart's in Memphis -- Keep it simple -- Not enough time to change -- If you want it, come and get it -- Blue in the heart -- I'm your puppet -- Irma's song -- Life at the end of the road -- I do -- Woman left lonely -- Hurtin' for certain -- Joke is on you -- Zero willpower.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2000