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Friday, September 19, 2008
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
The Slits
Cut
Island : 1979
[Buy It]
WAR
Bruce Springsteen
1985
Available on : Live: 1975-85
Sony : 1986
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BALL OF CONFUSION
Tina Turner/B.E.F.
1983
Available on : The Collected Recordings: Sixties to Nineties
Capitol : 1994
[Buy It]
PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE
Was (Not Was)
Are You Okay?
Capitol : 1990
[Buy It]
Norman Whitfield, born in Harlem in May of 1940, moved to Detroit in his teens, joined the Motown record label, and spent his twenties and thirties writing and producing songs for artists like the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Edwin Starr, Rare Earth, the Undisputed Truth, Rose Royce, and others.
That paragraph, while factually accurate, cannot begin to inhabit the emotional ambit of the circumstances described.
Whitfield died Tuesday after weeks in a coma brought on by diabetes and other ailments.
Neither can that one.
There may have been a time when Whitfield's brilliantly pessimistic anthems didn't speak directly to America. This isn't it.Labels: ben
posted by Ben
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