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"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by #Motown recording act #theUndisputedTruth in 1972, though it became much better known after a #GrammyAward-winning cover by #theTemptations was issued later the same year. This latter version of the song became a number-one hit on the #Billboard #Hot100. "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong in 1971. Whitfield produced #theOriginal Undisputed Truth version.
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and soon became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
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"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" is a #Motown song written by #NormanWhitfield, #BarrettStrong, and #JanieBradford. The song was first recorded by #TheTemptations as a track on their 1966 album #GettinReady. #EddieKendricks sings lead on the recording, which was produced by Whitfield. #JimmyRuffin also recorded a version with The Temptations providing background vocals in 1966. It remained unreleased until 1997. Three years later.
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"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by #Motown recording act #theUndisputedTruth in 1972, though it became much better known after a #GrammyAward-winning cover by #theTemptations was issued later the same year. This latter version of the song became a number-one hit on the #Billboard #Hot100. "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong in 1971. Whitfield produced #theOriginal Undisputed Truth version.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Barrett Strong:
🎵 Money (That's What I Want)https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/barrett-strong-money-funkastik-remix
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85 years ago today, #BarrettStrong, American R&B vocalist ("Money (That's What I Want)"), piano player, and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My Imagination"; "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"; "War"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2023).
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"I Can't Get Next to You" is a 1969 #single recorded by #theTemptations and written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for the Gordy (#Motown) label. The song was a No. 1 single on the #Billboard Top Pop Singles chart for two weeks in 1969, from October 18 to October 25, replacing "#SugarSugar" by #theArchies and replaced by "#SuspiciousMinds" by #ElvisPresley. The single was also a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Top #RAndB Singles for five weeks.
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling”*…
The quote above, from Ambrose Bierce, was true enough until relatively recently. Business has embraced gaming. When the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, Americans, who had legally wagered less than $5 billion on sports annually. Last year, they bet $150 billion, most of it online (with the active involvement of leagues and the broadcasters who serve up their games). And now prediction markets are on the scene, widening the apperture for online casino-like wagering to include politics, the Golden Globe awards, the return of Jesus Christ and virtually anything else… which could be a problem.
Indeed, just this past week, Common Sense Media released a report on gambling by young boys that reveals (among other deeply concerning things) that 1 in 3 American boys ages 11-17 are gambling before they can vote. (Full report here.)
Gambling addiction has been an issue in the U.S. for decades. But with the onslaught of new ways to wager, the problem is surging. And as Benjamin Errett (observes in an amusing piece on “McGuffins“– objects, devices, or events necessary to plot and the motivation of characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself), it’s a particularly problematic problem…
There’s a compelling argument to be made that money is the true MacGuffin. George Ainslie [here], a psychiatrist and behavioural economist, makes that case in a very readable paper on addiction and regrettable choices. He gets right to the weird thing about gambling as a compulsive behaviour: Spending money for a chance of getting more money (with the likelihood of losing it) is illogically direct. (I too got stuck on this paradox in The Wit’s Guide to Gambling, and some part of my brain is still spinning on the roulette table.) If you simply must have cocaine or hot fudge sundaes or hot cocaine fudge sundaes, the immediate pleasure and later pain are in different modalities. And so Ainslie concludes that money is a MacGuffin because it’s “the object of a hedonic game that is justified by its instrumental believability but which is actually shaped by its production of satisfaction in its own right.” Ergo, capitalism is a Hitchcock movie….
– source
Ainsle’s essay, prepared for a conference on addiction, is eminently worth reading and pondering.
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As we turn our backs on baccarat, we might recall that it was on this date in 1960 that “Money (That’s What I Want)” by Barrett Strong entered the Billboard Hot 100. Written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, the single was the first hit record by Gordy’s Motown Records (released on Motown’s Tamla label). The song peaked at #23 in April and was the only song recorded by Strong that reached the Hot 100, though Strong went on to write many of Motown’s biggest hits. It was, of course, covered by The Beatles, among many others.
https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc?si=vEXw930DzjYxwXSG
And we might note that today is the first day of a “prefectly square” month…
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On January 29th, 2023: #BarrettStrong, American R&B vocalist ("Money (That's What I Want)"), piano player, and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My Imagination";"Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"; "War"), died at 81.
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Money (That's What I Want) 🎰
#BarrettStrong
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Money (That's What I Want) 💸
#BarrettStrong
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
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Money (That's What I Want) 💰
#BarrettStrong
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Money (That's What I Want) 💵
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
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"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
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Ted Tocks Covers
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Originally posted on March 26, 2018
Marvin Gaye had his first #1 single with his version of ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’ on this day 55 years ago. Gaye’s version is just one of many covers of this Motown classic written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield.
#BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #GladysKnightandthePips #MarvinGaye #CreedenceClearwaterRevival #TheCaliforniaRaisins
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine/
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The first hit record for Motown was Barrett Strong with Money (That's What I Want)
Money (That's What I Want) at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_(That%27s_What_I_Want)
Don't forget to listen to The Groove Yard at:
https://www.accessmedia.nz/ProgrammePage.aspx?PID=bd513235-08f8-4f47-a358-02a2230dd55e#Podcast #Podcasts #Music #MotownMonday #BarrettStrong #MoneyThatsWhatIWant
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WAR!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothin'
WAR!
Ain't nothin' but a 💔
WAR!
Friend only to the ⚰️
Listen to me
War I despise
'Cause it means destruction
of innocent lives
War means tears
to 1000s of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight
& lose their lives
8 Jun 1970📻
#NormanWhitfield
#BarrettStrong
#EdwinStarr
#popmusic #1970s
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I've gotta get away from you
fast as I can
Too much for me, woman
More than my heart could stand
Like a kid behind the wheel
You been reckless with my heart
If I stay around you sure
to tear it all apart
Every road has got to end somewhere
Now is the time for the showdown
So let me give you the lowdown
We've come to the end of our road
#RogerPenzabene
#NormanWhitfield
#BarrettStrong
#MarvinGaye version
19 May 1970
#popmusic #1970s #Motown
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Ted Tocks Covers
Just My Imagination
Originally posted on April 3, 2018
Back to the early days of Ted Tocks Covers. Short and sweet, with a song made famous by #TheTemptations. It was #1 on this day in 1971. For the second day in a row, a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong is featured.
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/just-my-imagination-running-away-with-me/
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans
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Ted Tocks Covers
Ball of Confusion
Originally posted on February 5, 2018
Celebrating the songwriting of #BarrettStrong who was born on this day in 1941.
"People moving out, people moving in
Why, because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run but you sure can't hideAn eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Vote for me and I'll set you free
Rap on, brother, rap on"https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ball-of-confusion/
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The late great #BarrettStrong claims that he co-wrote #Money (That's What I Want) with #BerryGordy and #JanieBradford. (After all, Strong's piano riff comprises about 50% of the song.) His name was removed from the copyright registration 3 yrs after Money was written, restored in 1987 when the copyright was renewed, and then excised again the following year. Gordy has stated that Strong's name was only INCLUDED because of a... clerical error???
Entered 🔥💯 1 Feb 1960.
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Everything about this is fabulous. But even better than the psychedelic set and the tightness of the Temptations are the lyrics by the beautifully named and vastly underrated Barrett Strong, who died yesterday. Gone to the great Googamooga in the sky.
#BarrettStrong #RIP #Motown https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P7x4vh_ts&fbclid=IwAR3e17oC43U8b_GkbIHK6ghKcGOAv7LJOzEZg1XJcWcgiQgzXjwyfvNxLHE
