Posted on 08/30/2016 9:11:31 AM PDT by simpson96
Nowadays we have Beyonce and Jay-zee. Aren't we lucky.
Hope you enjoy.Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
music *ping*
One of the most beautiful songs ever made.
Two clean-cut people really truly expressing actual devotion for each other. Not one selfish lyric in the whole thing.
While Terrell was finally being established as a star, the migraines and headaches she had suffered from childhood were becoming more constant. While she complained of pains, she insisted to people close to her that she was well enough to perform. However, on October 14, 1967, while performing with Gaye at Hampden-Sydney College,[5] just outside the town of Farmville, Virginia, Terrell fell onstage; Gaye quickly responded by grabbing her by the arms and helping her offstage. Shortly after returning from Virginia, doctors diagnosed a malignant tumor on the right side of her brain.
After recovering from her first surgery, Terrell returned to Hitsville studios in Detroit and recorded “You’re All I Need to Get By”. Both that song and “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”, reached No. 1 on the R&B charts.
Despite Terrell’s optimism, her tumor worsened requiring more surgeries. By 1969, Terrell had retired from live performances as she had been ordered by doctors not to perform due to her tumors. Motown issued Terrell’s first and only solo album, Irresistible, in early 1969. Terrell was too ill to promote the recordings. There was no new repertoire on the album: all tracks had been recorded earlier and had subsequently been shelved for some time.
Both Marvin Gaye and Valerie Simpson gave different stories on how the production of Terrell’s and Gaye’s third album together, Easy, went about. According to reports, Terrell had gotten so ill from her operations that she could not record, and Motown opted to have Valerie Simpson sub in for Terrell, a report that was repeated in the book Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On and the Last Days of the Motown Sound. Gaye would later say the move was “another moneymaking scheme on BG’s part”.[8] Valerie Simpson, on the other hand, stated that the ailing Terrell was brought into the studio when she was strong enough to record over Simpson’s guide vocals, insisting Terrell had sung on the album.[9] Easy produced the singles “Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy to Come By”, “What You Gave Me”, “California Soul” and the UK top ten hit, “The Onion Song”. Late in 1969, Terrell made her final public appearance at the Apollo Theater where Marvin Gaye was performing. As soon as Terrell was spotted by Gaye, he rushed to her side and the duo began singing “You’re All I Need to Get By” together. They were given an ovation by the public.
How did black culture go from this to rap? I find that question highly interesting.
Marvin Gaye is...really...something...significant and special.
I don’t think Marvin was ever quite the same after Tammi passed.
A generation’s version of ‘Sonny and Cher’ without the snark and with two persons who cared for the other. Still remember when Tammi collapsed in Marvin’s arms, even though it was never actually witnessed. A sparkling duo...stars.
Being a 60's teenager, I used to drive my friends crazy for my love of R&B and also The Rolling Stones. They couldn't figure out why I didn't care for early Beatles (bubblegum). I even would play my Mother's Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith jazz albums when they stopped by. That was the end of those visits - ha!
It got an early start.
I, too, was a '60's teenager who didn't care much for the Beatles or most British Invasion groups. I preferred R&B until I discovered KWIZ, an all-"oldies" station, just before my sixteenth birthday. I listened to it exclusively even though it was aimed at an older audience.
Just before I turned seventeen, I discovered Chuck Cecil's Swingin' Years, a program on KFI that played music of the 1930's and 1940's.
Incidentally, my brother, who began as a Beatlemaniac and then kept abreast of each musical trend that came down the pike, was the opposite of me.
My take: every generation regarding pop music has the need to rebel (black,white,or green). Even the Classics musicians like Mozart, Beethoven, Tchakowski(sp) changed things up. Enough time goes by and musicians eventually run out of catchy melodies and arrangements, as seen by rappers' "sampling". Rappers are only about stupid rhyming words, and at a pace only a 15 year old can understand.
There are only 12 notes in the western chromatic scale (minors=24). Still, if you combine those notes into chords with suspended, 7ths, etc., you get much more to play with. Nowadays, Beyonce and the like are using chords in new patterns so they can sound different, but it often sounds off, contrived and repetitive to me. Yes, early RnR was also repetitive, but the melodies were somewhat original from their R&B roots.
I predicted years ago that because of the above, pop/rock music would eventually become boring. Just be glad you either lived through or appreciate, the wonderful songs of those times. R&B died in the 70's. RnR died in the 90's.
I think the 50's/60's was the best era for R&B, and the 80's for RnR. That said for RnR, "Give me the Stones, Cream, Zepplin, early Aerosmith, CCR, ZZTop, any melodic RnR with a good hook." When I get bored hearing them, I always go back to Motown, Roulette, Chess, etc.
I have 10 custom CD's with the best rock from the mid 70's to the early 90's. Message me and I'll sell you a copy...haha! Kidding moderators.
Yup, I still listen to the oldies of the 50's. C'mon the Platters? - just absolutely beautiful songs and singing (think: Twilight Time). And no, I didn't care much for the British Invasion, although a few would get my attention like the Kinks. My wife is 8 years younger and while she grew up on Bobby Sherman, she loves oldies and the Stones and Lynard Skynard are her favorites now. Sorry, I corrupted you Dear!
You must be from the Los Angeles area. KFI is now an AM talk radio channel. If you are, do remember Art Laboe of Scrivners Drive-In fame with live radio/tv broadcasts? I actually rode my bicycle once to the Scrivners at Western & Imperial. Do you remember radio DJ's like Bill Balance, Robert W. Morgan, Real Don Steel?
Do you remember the early rock stations KRLA AM, KFWB AM, KMET FM or KLOS FM (still on air)?
Oh yeah baby.........Motown can’t be beat.....
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