December 24, 2013

A Christmas note for you

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Happy holidays to any who've enjoyed the blog this year. I haven't completely abandoned it and don't intend for two years to fl...
July 6, 2013

Annual link check

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The links to external sights have all been checked as of this date. Should readers experience any problems, any comment will be brought to ...
February 21, 2012

1968- "Christmas Lullaby"

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[Final re-edit March 17th, 2012] .....Five years after releasing the first Motown Christmas album, The Miracles were in a slightly differen...
February 20, 2012

1968- "Winter Wonderland" (Funk Brothers)

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. .....A year ago I placed this track in 1965 because that was the date given in the liner notes of its first appearance. Having dug a bit f...
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February 19, 2012

1967- Stevie Wonder Album

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.....In 1967 a Stevie Wonder A-side from the previous year, "SOMEDAY AT CHRISTMAS" (see two posts ago), became the title track of ...
February 18, 2012

1967- "Won't Be Long Before Christmas"

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.....In the latter half of the 1960's The Supremes sporadically worked toward an album of songs from Walt Disney films. It appears to ha...
February 17, 2012

1966- "Someday At Christmas"

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.....When this single debuted, Ron Miller had been keeping busy around Motown as a pianist and increasingly as a composer since the early 19...
February 16, 2012

1966- "Season's Greetings From Motown"

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.....In 1966 Motown had a Stevie Wonder single in the works for Christmas (see next post), but the rest of their holiday music catalog consi...
February 15, 2012

1965- "A Child's Prayer"

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.....Briefly, I want to mention a candidate for the list of Motown Christmas originals that I have ultimately decided to exclude. Just as th...
February 13, 2012

1965- Supremes sessions 2

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.....In the previous post the first half of the Supremes ' recordings for their 1965 Christmas album were covered. Of the nine songs kno...