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'American Idol' recap: March Motown Madness
Reality CheckJanell reports on last night's American Idol:Welcome to the next Milestone Marker in the American Idol Journey to the Road that will lead us up the Stairs to the Platform of the Finale. The loser from tonight can say that......Tags: The Supremes (music group), MTV (tv network), Pia Toscano, Barbie (fictional character), Celine Dion
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'American Idol': Top 10 perform
Reality CheckDelayed a night because of Tuesday's presidential address, American Idol is finally back tonight. The Top 10 will be taking on the songs of Motown.Host Ryan Seacrest lets us know that the contestants are over last week's outbreak of flu. Then......Tags: Popular Music (genre), Anoop Desai, Danny Gokey, Kris Allen, Kara DioGuardi
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Michael Jackson: Memories and reality
The Swampby Mark Silva Could there be anything more ghoulish than the image of klieg lights and satellite trucks assembled before dawn today outside the compound of the Los Angeles County Coroner awaiting word of what killed Michael Jackson, who died......Tags: Elvis Presley, Popular Music (genre), Fred Astaire, Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden
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Daring 'Gaye' delivers stories and songs
When Black Ensemble Theatre opened its beautiful new building in November, it did so with a show, "The Jackie Wilson Story," that not only was under-rehearsed but was merely a pro forma remount of a hit from the past. The second, far more successful...
Tags: Jackie Wilson, Music Theater, Human Accomplishments, Motown Records, Entertainment
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Steve Jobs' approach a lesson for Broadway's 'Motown'
In 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" "I anticipated that," Isaacson replied. "But he didn't. He kept surprising me by...
Tags: Justice System, Aaron Sorkin, Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, Motown Records
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Songs, not stories, get top billing in 'Motown'
NEW YORK — Berry Gordy, the man who discovered Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells (and on and on), was a peerless record producer when it came to handpicking talent and building careers. But Berry Gordy, the...Tags: Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Human Accomplishments, Motown Records, Michael Jackson
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2012 concerts: The kids are all right
When it comes to the Central Florida concert scene in 2012, the spotlight was shared by the kids and the classic stars old enough to be their grandparents. Often enough, both ends of the generational spectrum acquitted themselves admirably. At Amway...
Tags: Mardi Gras, Weezer (music group), Motown Records, Diana Ross, Amway
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Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford: Their greatest hits
The songwriting world lost two titans Monday when Nick Ashford and Jerry Leiber died within hours of each other. Ashford, 70, cowrote a string of hits with his wife, Valerie Simpson, that helped define soul, R&B and funk in the ‘60s, ‘70s and...Tags: Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Steve Allen, DJ Shadow, Diana Ross
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Win new DVD package of Jackson 5 cartoon series in our Lehigh Valley Music contest
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGBack in the early 1970s, the singing group Jackson 5 was so popular, it even became the subject of a Saturday morning cartoon series that used its fictionalized adventures -- such as having to do farm work or play for...... -
Concert review: LMFAO at Amway Center
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelPity the fool assigned to analyze the appeal of dance-pop duo LMFAO. The red-hot, electro-dance-pop duo shuffled into the Amway Center on Saturday to headline the Sorry for Party Rocking Tour, a good-time marathon powered by mind-numbingly incessant beats... -
Live: LMFAO has fun with debauchery
Pop & HissLMFAO's Redfoo and Sky Blu stay in character and play debauchery for laughs and fun at Staples Center as part of Sorry for Party Rocking Tour.... -
Talking with LMFAO: Laughing all the way to the top of the charts
Lehigh Valley MusicIt was one thing when electro-pop duo LMFAO had a minor hit with its jokey 2009 debut disc “Party Rock,” which hit Top 40 on Billboard and produced the novelty hits “I’m in Miami (Trick),” “La La La” and “...
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