Sunday, August 28, 2011

Happy 50th Anniversary Motown

Dear Reader,

Again diablog has to apologize for our very dear, funky Mr. Glynsky missing the beat. The self-proclaimed music expert, lover of everything R&B, spent the day in front of the TV (telly for the English) watching the 2nd biggest perversion of racing, aka F1. I guess, only NASCAR is further from real racing then that. And I would not want to be caught watching either.

So what did the wannabe R&B connoisseur miss?

The 50th anniversary of the first #1 Pop hit of Motown Records, "Please, Mr. Postman" by the Marvelettes with lead singer Gladys Horton and Marvin Gaye on drums. The same Marvin Gaye, known for Heard it through the Grapevine and Sexual Healing. Glynsky will probably insist, that this hit song was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. Fugettaboutit!

Here is a small collection of Motown-Hits



including The Supremes with the one and only Diana Ross.

Stay tuned,
Engine Room

4 comments:

Glynsky said...

Never liked her - too breathy.

Engine Room said...

How much harder and more do I have to hit you, until you get into constructive criticism and start posting R&B pearls, huh?

ER

Pete said...

Dear Sirs,
The best bit about this was your question as to how hard to hit Glynsky.
My suggestion would be to start off with a brick and work your way up to possible use of nuclear weapons.

I really love the writing on this Diablog, especially my stuff.

Engine Room said...

Dear Pete,

You do provide the pearls here!

ER