‘Melting Pot’: Booker T & The MGs Cooking With Gas
Booker T & The MGs were soul legends by 1971, having created numerous hits not only for themselves but many other acts from the Stax...
The Toppermost Of The TOTPoppermost: 20 Classic Performances
Britain’s longest-running and best-loved pop show, Top Of The Pops, ran from 1964 to 2006 and brought the nation’s families together round their TV sets....
‘You Don’t Know Like I Know’: Sam & Dave’s Soul Starter
Sam Moore and Dave Prater did their share of paying dues. The soul men from Florida and Georgia respectively met in 1961 and cut two...
They Never Could Say Goodbye: Jackson 5 Start 1972 With Hits Galore
Few groups have started their careers with quite the impact that the Jackson 5 made in their first two years. After being “discovered,” as the...
When Gordon Lightfoot Arrived As Top-Class Songwriter On ‘Lightfoot!’ Debut
If reassurance were needed that Gordon Lightfoot’s admiring audience continued to revere his formative work as well as his later hits, it arrived at the...
‘Did She Mention My Name?’ Album: Gordon Lightfoot’s Career ‘Explosion’
Within about a minute of the start of “Wherefore & Why,” the opening track on Gordon Lightfoot’s Did She Mention My Name?, you knew something...