Motown Weeks....The Funk Brothers

Para não destilar todos os grandes ícones da Motown todos de uma vez, apresento um dos elementos menos conhecidos, talvez....os "Funk Brothers". Espero que apreciem...

They are Motown's unsung heroes.  Known as The Funk Brothers, the studio band put the backbeat into hits for Diana Ross & The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, etc.

Motown Weeks....The Four Tops

Como o meu companheiro eloquentemente enunciou, vamos dedicar algumas semanas à editora discográfica Motown, que teve o condão de ser a rampa de lançamento de inúmeros artistas, na sua maioria de origem afro-americana para o estrelato doméstico e fora dos Estados Unidos.

Como porta-estandarte desta editora, ressalto desde já a coragem de, em plena época de exclusão social e falta de direitos humanos de raiz básica, esta editora ter tido a força que só hoje em dia lhe é reconhecida, com mérito...

Apresento The Four Tops, com "Reach Out" - 1966

Motown Weeks...Jackson 5

Começa hoje uma nova temática "revivalista". Desta feita, vamos apresentar e desenvolver um pouco da Motown - produtora que lançou muitos dos artistas que hoje vigoram na história da música internacional, e que lançaram maior parte das raizes musicais que servem de base para aquilo que hoje podemos ouvir...

Começamos pelos Jackson 5, ainda Michael Jackson era um petiz, mas já com um protagonismo significativo...

Jackson 5


The Jackson Five comprised five brothers, Jackie Jackson (b. Sigmund Esco Jackson, 4 May 1951, Gary, Indiana, USA), Tito Jackson (b. Toriano Adaryll Jackson, 15 October 1953, Gary, Indiana, USA), Jermaine Jackson (b. Jermaine LaJuane Jackson, 11 December 1954, Gary, Indiana, USA), Marlon Jackson (b. 12 March 1957, Gary, Indiana, USA) and Michael Jackson (b. 29 August 1958, Gary, Indiana, USA).

Raised in Gary, Indiana, USA, by their father Joe, a blues guitarist, they began playing local clubs in 1962, with youthful prodigy Michael as lead vocalist. Combining dance routines influenced by the Temptations with music inspired by James Brown, they first recorded for the Indiana-based Steeltown label before auditioning for Motown Records in 1968. Bobby Taylor recommended the group to Motown, although the company gave Diana Ross public credit for their discovery. A team of Motown writers known as the Corporation composed a series of songs for the group's early releases, all accentuating their youthful enthusiasm and vocal interplay. Their debut single for Motown, "I Want You Back", became the fastest-selling record in the company's history in 1969, and three of their next five singles also topped the American chart.

Fica um dos primeiros videos dos Jackson 5 "ABC"



Oldie.

Ballads Weeks.....Don't Stop Believing

Apresento os Journey, com "Don't Stop Believing....espectacular esta balada!

http://www.journeyband.com/

Ballads Weeks.....Deff Leppard w/Love Bites

Sejam baladas, ou não, os Def Leppard ficam na história do Hardrock como uma lenda viva, activa e para durar...

Fica o "Love Bites" Live de 1993.

http://www.defleppard.com/news/



If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites

When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of?
Does he look like me?
Do you tell lies?
And say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch 'n' see?
Ooh babe
Ooh yeah
When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?
Ooh c'mon

I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!

(love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(love lives, love dies)
It's no surprise
(love begs, love pleads)
It's what I need

When I'm with you are you somewhere else?
Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself?
When you wake up will you walk out?
It can't be love if you throw it about
Ooh babe
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'cos making love to you might drive me crazy
Oh

Ooh yeah
(love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(love lives, love dies)
(love bites, love bleeds)
It's bringin' me to my knees
(love lives, love dies)
It's no surprise
(love begs, love pleads)
It's what I need

If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
Yes it does
It will be hell

Oldie.

Ballads Weeks.....Asia w/ Heat of The Moment

"Heat of the Moment" is the first single released by progressive rock band Asia from their 1982 eponymous debut. The song was the most popular of the album, peaking at #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Ballads Weeks......Rosanna by Toto

Toto was an American rock band founded in 1977^[1] by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut, released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time.

www.toto99.com