FAME W/O FORTUNE MOTOWN RECORD

FAME W/O FORTUNE MOTOWN RECORD
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Publisher : Brick Tower Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 1596874813
ISBN-13 : 9781596874817
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis FAME W/O FORTUNE MOTOWN RECORD by : Glenn Soucy

This is a fascinating inside story about one prolific songwriter's experience working for the famed Motown Records and directly with Motown's founder Berry Gordy. It is an interesting look into the actual contracts between Mr. Gordy and his talented ""family"" of musicians told by one of the most famous songwriters of his time. If Motown didn't grow to be the success it is today, Motown's royalty contract-work-for-hire-compensation would be fair under the circumstances. The difficulty comes when Mr. Gordy's success as a businessman exceeds every possible prediction. The FAME WITHOUT FORTUNE story begins in 1959 with Al Cleveland as a young man who makes the hard choice to leave his wife and children behind in order to chase his dreams of being a singer and a songwriter. It follows him through the trials of New York City and putting up with discrimination on the ""Chitlin' Circuit."" There he has an adulterous affair sending the final blow to his marriage. A short time later, he marries his second wife and Al's big break seemed to come when he signed up with Motown Records under Berry Gordy. He was writing number-one songs for stars such as Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. All along his fame grew, but he was not receiving pay for them. Instead he received headaches, heartaches, excuses, and IRS raids. He left Motown and toured with famous artists, but during that time, there was little room for a black songwriter to make a living. Al had to return to Motown to stay in the business.

Fame Without Fortune, Motown Records, the Al Cleveland Story

Fame Without Fortune, Motown Records, the Al Cleveland Story
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Publisher : ibooks
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781883283841
ISBN-13 : 1883283841
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Fame Without Fortune, Motown Records, the Al Cleveland Story by : Daryl Cleveland, Glenn Soucy

This is a fascinating inside story about one prolific songwriter’s experience working for the famed Motown Records and directly with Motown’s founder Berry Gordy. It is an interesting look into the actual contracts between Mr. Gordy and his talented “family” of musicians told by one of the most famous songwriters of his time. If Motown didn’t grow to be the success it is today, Motown’s royalty contract—work-for-hire—compensation would be fair under the circumstances. The difficulty comes when Mr. Gordy’s success as a businessman exceeds every possible prediction. The FAME WITHOUT FORTUNE story begins in 1959 with Al Cleveland as a young man who makes the hard choice to leave his wife and children behind in order to chase his dreams of being a singer and a songwriter. It follows him through the trials of New York City and putting up with discrimination on the “Chitlin’ Circuit.” There he has an adulterous affair sending the final blow to his marriage. A short time later, he marries his second wife and Al’s big break seemed to come when he signed up with Motown Records under Berry Gordy. He was writing number-one songs for stars such as Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. All along his fame grew, but he was not receiving pay for them. Instead he received headaches, heartaches, excuses, and IRS raids. He left Motown and toured with famous artists, but during that time, there was little room for a black songwriter to make a living. Al had to return to Motown to stay in the business.

Ebony

Ebony
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Ebony by :

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Retromania

Retromania
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 498
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429968584
ISBN-13 : 1429968583
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Retromania by : Simon Reynolds

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point, and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?

Elvis Costello's Armed Forces

Elvis Costello's Armed Forces
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 163
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781441173355
ISBN-13 : 1441173358
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Elvis Costello's Armed Forces by : Franklin Bruno

Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold! "Passionate, obsessive, and smart." -Nylon "...an inspired new series of short books about beloved works of vinyl." -Details Franklin Bruno's writing about music has appeared in the Village Voice, Salon, LA Weekly, and Best Music Writing 2003 (Da Capo). He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA, and his musical projects include Tempting: Jenny Toomey Sings the Songs of Franklin Bruno (Misra) and A Cat May Look At A Queen (Absolutely Kosher), a solo album. He lives in Los Angeles.

Miles

Miles
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780671725822
ISBN-13 : 0671725823
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Miles by : Miles Davis

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

Ebony

Ebony
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Total Pages : 288
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Ebony by :

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

That's the Joint!

That's the Joint!
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 652
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0415969190
ISBN-13 : 9780415969192
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis That's the Joint! by : Murray Forman

Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

I, Tina

I, Tina
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Publisher : It Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0061958808
ISBN-13 : 9780061958809
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis I, Tina by : Tina Turner

The dramatic and spectacular story of an American music icon—the immortal Tina Turner! From Nutbush, Tennessee, to Hollywood stardom; from Ike’s Kings of Rhythm to onstage with Mick Jagger and the Stones; and from the lowest lows to the highest highs, Tina Turner has seen it, done it, suffered it, and survived it all. In her monumental bestseller I, Tina—the basis for the Academy Award-nominated motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It—she tells it like it really was . . . and really is. This book is a superstar's honest and intimate account of struggle and pain, love and abuse, glory and tragedy, and one of the greatest comebacks in music history.