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If you follow the history of music, particularly popular music, you know that certain years always recur in the conversation. 1936 marked the first of Robert Johnson’s legendary blues recordings, while 1956 marked the ascent of Elvis. You know that The Beatles did
Sullivan in 1964, Woodstock happened in 1969, and that The Sugarhill Gang recorded the first hip-hop song to hit the Top 40, “Rapper’s Delight,” in 1979. Those years and many others always swirl about the conversation, but one year is consistently overlooked. In retrospect, 1961 is hugely important, as it set the stage for the rest of the decade and for decades to come. Let’s turn back the clock to the year that Berry signed the girls from the Projects, two former school friends met up again, Patsy went pop from the hospital, and four lads played the Cavern Club for the first time.
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Near the end of his life, DMX wept about something that happened when he was 14. Last year, on the show People s Party with Talib Kweli, the then-49-year-old told the story of Ready Ron, an MC who got him into rapping. He was like an older brother to me, DMX said, I didn t have any brothers. At that point, he lapsed into stunned silence. Ready Ron broke his trust, he said, by giving DMX who had never done a drug a joint laced with crack.
Even behind reflective sunglasses, humiliation and hurt visibly spiderwebbed across DMX s face, and he hung his head like a little boy. Tasked with counting money, he said, his mind seemed to shatter. Why would you do that to a child? the three-time GRAMMY nominee entreated, breathing heavily. He was like, 30, and he knew I looked up to him. Why would you do that to somebody who looks up to you?
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In the 1960s Mary and her girlhood friends from the housing projects of Detroit, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross formed a singing group called the Primettes.
When they signed with the local label Motown, it was thought they needed a classier name, and they became The Supremes.
After the departure of the other founding members, Mary guided new incarnations of The Supremes through the 1970s and 1980s.
Mary s autobiography, Dream Girl was among the biggest selling showbiz memoirs of all time and the inspiration for the film
Dream Girls.
Original broadcast February 2010
Buttered Popcorn – The Primettes
Baby Love – The Supremes