Friday evening interlude - A 60s classic
Wednesday's brief item about The Supremes put me in the mood to post some more Motown. This particular number gets an awful lot of play in my car just at the moment. It's the instrumental track laid down by the company's fabled session men, The Funk Brothers, on a song that became a Number One in 1967. See if you can guess the title, and name the artists who subsequently added the vocals. If you're struggling, the bass line - by the great James Jamerson - gives the game away at around the 50 second mark.
A much more famous arrangement topped the charts a year later, although it was actually recorded first. (The company, weirdly enough, didn't think it had that much potential.) I've put the answers in the comment sections. You can hear - and watch - the finished version of the song by clicking here. To hear the track - and more from the vaults - find yourself a copy of the "deluxe" edition of the superb film soundtrack "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
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Clive
May 16th, 2008 8:40pmIt's the Gladys Knight & the Pips treatment of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". Earl Van Dyke is on keyboards, Eddie Willis on guitar, Uriel Jones plays the main drum part, Hank Cosby is on sax. The co-writer and producer, the great Norman Whitfield, is working the tambourine like crazy.
More about the tortuous history of the song here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_It_Through_the_Grapevine
THX1138
May 17th, 2008 12:24pmClive- Really starting to enjoy your Friday afternoon musical interludes. I saw Tinawiren at the Jazz Café on Thursday, gig of the year so far they are a very special band & really exciting live.
See if you can get to see them you won't be disappointed
http://www.sasamusic.com/a13_tinariwen/artist_tourdates.htm
Please blog more on music.
Clive
May 17th, 2008 2:42pmThanks. I didn't catch them, but I have seen them a couple of times before. Still haven't seen the light yet, but will keep trying. Wasis Diop's latest is worth a listen, if you stumble across it.