White, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WHIWonder, Stevie
Summary: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE is a milestone in Stevie Wonder's career and a masterwork of American popular music. Released in 1976, this double LP spent 14 of its 80 charting weeks at number one.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Wonder 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WONHarris, Duchess.
Summary: Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and activist. Her music helped shape the civil rights movement and inspired many people. Aretha Franklin: Legendary Singer explores her life and legacy. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN HARContents: I don't know what you got (Little Richard) -- Sad girl (Jay Wiggins) -- Let's get a thing going (Don Gardner) -- Someone to take your place (Joe Tex) -- Poor unfortunate me (J.J. Barnes) -- Gonna send you back to Georgia (Timmie Shaw) -- In a moment (The Intrigues) -- This can't be true (Eddie Holman) -- Do the 45 (Sharpees) -- Michael (C.O. Ds) -- The real thing (Tina Britt) -- Until you came...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds of Soul 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LOSSummary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RESCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESEl Michels Affair (Musical group)
Contents: 4th chamber -- Iron man -- Shaolin brew -- Pork chop express -- Drums for sale -- Shadow boxing -- Sipped up -- Tearz -- Verbal intercourse -- Wu-tang clan ain't nuthing ta f' wit -- All I need -- The end (eat my vocals).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ELMcBride, James
Summary: A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 780 MCBRitz, David.
Summary: Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, ARETHA RITSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the 1970's. Also featured are comedy performances by Freddie Prinze and David Brenner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Burt Sugarman, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MID 1974Contents: Where did our love go (Diana Ross & The Supremes) (2:31) -- Shop around (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) (2:43) -- Dancing in the street (Martha Reeves & The Vandellas) (2:38) -- Reach out I'll be there (Four Tops) (2:59) -- Take me in your arms (rock me a little while) (Kim Weston) (2:56) -- I heard it through the grapevine (Gladys Knight & The Pips) (2:45) -- Baby love (Diana Ross & The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES EVEWilson, Rainn
Summary: "The trauma that our world experienced in recent years-as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us-has been unprecedented and is not going away anytime soon. It is clear that existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. In this book, Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group 2023
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Contents: Intro (0:21) -- Conquer & divide (3:15) -- Amazing women (1:16) -- Angel face (2:44) -- Walk with me (3:20) -- No one else (3:53) -- King (2:00) -- Ugly truths (2:31) -- I love NY (2:56) -- Superstar (3:09) -- Awkward (take 2) (3:12) -- Lucky man (3:15) -- Faded (3:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ELContents: Voice your choice (The Radiants) (2:32) -- The boy from New York City (The Ad Libs) (2:57) -- Hold what you've got (Joe Tex) (3:05) -- Twine time (Alvin Cash & the Crawlers) (2:22) -- Don't mess up a good thing (Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure with Oliver Sain and Orchestra) (2:59) -- My girl (The Temptations) (3:06) -- Shotgun (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) (2:56) -- People get ready (The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Family Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SWEBirdlegs & Pauline (Musical group)
Contents: Never be free of me / Banks -- A mist of a dream ; Pickin' the chicken / Beasley -- Tell me why / Patton, Murphy -- Suffer / Banks -- Teardrops -- Summertime -- Deep thoughts / Murphy -- Monkey Willie / Banks, Duncans -- Pauline / Banks -- Chickiewawa -- Dishrag / Hudson.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1964
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RHYTHM AND BLUES BIRBrown, Maxine
Contents: Oh no not my baby -- All in my mind-- It's gonna be alright -- Ask me -- Funny -- Little girl lost -- Baby cakes -- One step at a time -- Coming back to you -- Something you got -- Since I found you -- One in a million -- Yesterday's kisses -- I cry alone -- If you gotta make a fool of somebody -- Soul serenade -- Gotta find a way -- It's torture-- Secret of living -- Love that man -- Put...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gusto Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BROMcBride, James
Summary: A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016
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Summary: The Night Beats are an American psychedelic, garage and soul group based in Seattle, Washington. The group consists of Lee Blackwell, James Traeger and Jakob Bowden.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NIGScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: The revolution will not be televised (3:05) -- Save the children (4:25) -- Lady Day and John Coltrane (3:34) -- Home is where the hatred is (3:19) -- When you are who you are (3:21) -- I think I'll call it morning (3:29) -- Pieces of a man (4:52) -- A sign of the ages (4:01) -- Or down you fall (3:12) -- The needle's eye (4:48) -- The prisoner (9:25) -- Chains (3:23) -- Peace (6:07) -- A toast...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOSimone, Nina
Contents: It be that way sometime -- The look of love -- Go to hell -- Love o' love -- Cherish -- I wish I knew how it would feel to be free -- Turn me on -- Turning point -- Some say -- Consummation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1967
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL VOCAL SIMHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEASummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUPhilipps, David
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Philipps uncovers the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, the decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes during his deployment to Mosul, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PHIGallagher, Eddie
Summary: On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher--a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq--was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballast Books, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, EDDIE GALWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022