IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE WITH ALL OF THE 'MONSTER' GROUPS AND THE MUSICAL HITS THAT CAME OUT
OF 'MOTOWN RECORDS', THAT THERE WERE MANY FABULOUS SINGERS THAT NEVER EVEN LIVED IN THE 'MOTOR CITY'...LET
ALONE EVER TREADED UP THE STEPS OF 'HITSVILLE'!
JAMES
BROWN, RUTH BROWN, MAXINE BROWN, THE 'COUNT', THE 'DUKE' AND NAT ' THE 'KING' COLE, THE TEMPREES,
THE DELFONICS, THE UNIFICS, CARLA THOMAS, LINDA JONES, SHEP & THE LIMELIGHTS, SAM & DAVE, PEACHES & HERB, LITTLE
RICHARD, THE MADD LADDS AND OTIS REDDING, NEVER WORKED FOR MOTOWN!
CARLA, LINDA & SHEP? WHO ARE THEY? WELL, IF YOU DON'T KNOW NOW, YOU'LL LEAVE THIS SHOW HUMMING
THEIR SONGS AND ASKING YOUR MOMS AND DADS TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE 'GOOD OLE DAYS'.
ALTHOUGH A FEW OF THEM WERE 'ONE HIT WONDERS', THEY WERE SONGS THAT WE'RE STILL SINGING
TODAY...THAT SONG THAT GOT YOU THROUGH A BAD HEARTBREAK OR A HARD DAY. YOU KNOW, THAT PERFORMANCE AT THE APOLLO THEATER THAT
YOU CAN STILL SEE IN YOUR MIND'S EYE - BECAUSE OF THE INCREDIBLE MOVES THE SINGERS MADE WHILE NEVER MISSING A SINGLE LYRIC.
THEY WOULD PRACTICALLY DISAPPEAR IN FIVE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS OFF STAGE AND THEN SUDDENLY, THERE THEY WERE - BACK CENTER STAGE
ON THE DOWNBEAT, HANDS CLAPPING HIGH IN THE AIR, PULLING YOUR RAW SOUL OUT OF YOUR SEATS TO JOIN IN THE END OF THE SONG! I
CANNOT WIPE THE SMILE OFF MY FACE TIL THIS DAY AND I PROMISE THE SAME FOR YOU!
YES, THEY WERE GOOD. IN FACT, THEY WERE GREAT AND WE WILL SHOW YOU WHY. WITH
TRIBUTE PERFORMANCES BY OR TO; THE DELFONICS, MAXINE BROWN, BABY WASHINGTON, LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS, OTIS REDDING,
THE DEL VIKINGS, LINDA JONES, GENE CHANDLER, LITTLE RICHARD, CARLA THOMAS, ARETHA, THE CRYSTALS, AND ON AND ON...NOT NECESSARILY
IN THAT ORDER OR THOSE PERFORMERS, BUT EACH ONE, A HOME RUN, HEART STOPPING MEMORY. HECK,
WE'LL EVEN THROW IN A 'BARNBURNER' GROUP SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE TEMPTATIONS, THE DRIFTERS, THE MARVELETTES AND THE
SHIRELLS!
