24 April 2009: it's the MOTORTOWN REVUE!

[urth]

Gonna just give everything a preemptive 10-way tie and sit back and enjoy the rest of the set.

I heard almost the whole set in the car, but missed the intro & the back-announce.  Did Dave say where all the documentary sounding stuff came from?

He didn't, but I recognized some of it from a vinyl box set I bought in the early 80s called The Motown Story--The First Decade (Vol. 1-5), which has short interview clips in between a number of songs. Not sure if that's where all of it came from, but I'm pretty sure some of what we heard is on there. (I'm guessing it had been out awhile when I got it, too.)

[RGMike]

Gonna just give everything a preemptive 10-way tie and sit back and enjoy the rest of the set.

I heard almost the whole set in the car, but missed the intro & the back-announce.  Did Dave say where all the documentary sounding stuff came from?

He didn't, but I recognized some of it from a vinyl box set I bought in the early 80s called The Motown Story--The First Decade (Vol. 1-5), which has short interview clips in between a number of songs. Not sure if that's where all of it came from, but I'm pretty sure some of what we heard is on there. (I'm guessing it had been out awhile when I got it, too.)

indeed, that's a famous box (and those interviews were used in a syndicated radio special as well). Dave's used that stuff numerous times in "Motortown" 10@10s.

[mshray]

am I the only fucking person who knows how to keep a goddamn font consistent from page to page?

No, you're not, I have to deal with that all the time in corporate powerpoints, but of course that's nothing like the scale of Time Inc.

[urth]

am I the only fucking person who knows how to keep a goddamn font consistent from page to page?

No, you're not, I have to deal with that all the time in corporate powerpoints, but of course that's nothing like the scale of Time Inc.

Why the copy desk gets gray.

[RGMike]

am I the only fucking person who knows how to keep a goddamn font consistent from page to page?

No, you're not, I have to deal with that all the time in corporate powerpoints, but of course that's nothing like the scale of Time Inc.

Why the copy desk gets gray.

EVERYBODY needs a copy editor...

[mshray]

don't have time to fish for a photo, but apparently a recent MLB game in DC featured 2 members of the home team whose team name across the front of their jerseys was "Natinals".

[RGMike]

don't have time to fish for a photo, but apparently a recent MLB game in DC featured 2 members of the home team whose team name across the front of their jerseys was "Natinals".

Yes! Rachel M did that story last nite -- the uniform company screwed up and nobody on the team even noticed! It came to light when fans pointed it out. "maybe they thought the button-hole was the 'O'?" suggested Rachel.

[ggould]

am I the only fucking person who knows how to keep a goddamn font consistent from page to page?

No, you're not, I have to deal with that all the time in corporate powerpoints, but of course that's nothing like the scale of Time Inc.

Why the copy desk gets gray.

EVERYBODY needs a copy editor...

so, this isn't a Star Trek joke?
;-)

[ggould]

4/24/09 - FRIDAY!!!!  A great day for a.....Motortown Review!!!
   1.  Smokey & the Miracles - Going to a Go Go
   2.  Supremes - You Keep Me Hanging On
   3.  Temptations - Since I Lost My Baby
   4.  Spinners - It's a Shame
   5.  Martha & the Vandellas - Dancin' in the Street
   6.  Four Tops - Reach Out, I'll Be There
   7.  Marvin Gaye - Can I Get a Witness
   8.  Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
   9.  Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?
 10.  Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
BONUS TRACK:  The Capitols - Cool Jerk

[RGMike]

BONUS TRACK:  The Capitals - Cool Jerk

a) it's "Capitols" with an "O"  -- these no-nothing interns must have a union!

b) I hate it when the Bonus track of a Motown set is not a Motown record.