Motown Grooves From The Crates
Flickr Enjoy my late birthday salute to Motown! The opening track is a small tribute to Bill Withers, who sadly passed away this month. Tommy Good was a singer in local clubs around Detroit, when Motown boss Berry Gordy contracted him and released Baby I Miss You on Gordy, a subsidiary of Motown, in 1964. Tommy Good, one of the first white employees of the famous soul factory, recorded an album, but for reasons that are still unknown today, it was never released at the time and it stayed in the vaults for almost 40 years! In 2006 a collection gathering most of his recordings on the Motown label was released. In 1963, at the age of 13, Carolyn Crawford signed a contract to Motown Records, after winning a talent contest. She recorded a few singles for the label and she also sang backup vocals for some of the Motown artists. Her final record for Motown, When someone's good to you , released in December 1964, failed to chart and her contract was not renewed...