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Motown's Smokey Robinson Going Strong: 'I Want to Be Beethoven'
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Posted on 07/15/2022 2:50:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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posted on
07/15/2022 2:52:50 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
He gave “great tunes”.
Hope he recovers and keeps on truckin’.
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posted on
07/15/2022 2:53:55 PM PDT
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Da Coyote
To: nickcarraway
One of my favorite singers.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:09:17 PM PDT
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Inyo-Mono
To: nickcarraway
I’ve listened to a lot of his music and enjoyed it all. Oddly enough, I’ve never the terms “hos” or “bitches” in his love songs. Go figure
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:09:23 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: nickcarraway
I recently saw Otis Williams, the last remaining original Temptation discussing modern music. He doesn’t think much of it.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:10:26 PM PDT
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cyclotic
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To: nickcarraway
““You’ve got a lot of young people out there making some really good music,” said Robinson.”
Not really, but other than that this is a nice article and I’m not sure anything negative can be said of his songs or career.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:11:38 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: muir_redwoods
Berry Gordy would never have allowed that.
To: nickcarraway
Oh, brother I’m on here for like 10 minutes looking for his new song, “I want to be Beethoven”.
Duh.
So nice to see Mr. Smokey Robinson still going :)
Maybe he SHOULD write ‘I want to be Beethoven’ ;)
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:12:56 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: nickcarraway
A great talent. I am glad to see he is still at it.
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He’s one of the great pop lyricists ever to have worked.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:25:39 PM PDT
by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
To: nickcarraway
Gonna need a bigger genre (but he is damn good at what he does).
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:27:22 PM PDT
by
Stosh
To: nickcarraway
Cruisin” is one of my faves. One of the smoothest songs ever.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:33:35 PM PDT
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Trailerpark Badass
(“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
To: nickcarraway
Smokey has more talent in his little finger than a 1000 recording “artists” today.
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posted on
07/15/2022 3:35:40 PM PDT
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llevrok
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To: muir_redwoods
I seem to recall that Motown music was mostly positive. If a song was about something negative, the song was a lament, protest, or cautionary tale, not a celebration of badness.
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posted on
07/15/2022 4:21:17 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: nickcarraway
Bob Dylan once called Smokey Robinson “the Poet Laureate of America”. Smokey wrote lots of big hits for other Motown artists including “My Girl” by the Temptations and “My Guy” by Mary Wells. My favorite Smokey Robinson and the Miracles songs are “Tracks of My Tears”, “Ooh Baby, Baby”, and the lesser known but beautiful,
”Baby, Baby, Don’t Cry”.
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posted on
07/15/2022 4:33:13 PM PDT
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fidelis
(Behold, the Cross of the Lord! Begone, all evil powers! The Lion of the tribe of Judah rules!)
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You've Really Got a Hold on Me
To: nickcarraway
That’s a good one too. He’s got a hundred of them.
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posted on
07/15/2022 5:17:05 PM PDT
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fidelis
(Behold, the Cross of the Lord! Begone, all evil powers! The Lion of the tribe of Judah rules!)
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