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Money (That's What I Want) 💸
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvORle6h5r8

Money (That's What I Want) 💸
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvORle6h5r8

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l85z2bXAs

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l85z2bXAs

"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" is a song by American #soul group #theTemptations, written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong. Released on the Gordy (#Motown) label, and #produced by Norman Whitfield, it features on the group's 1971 album, #SkysTheLimit. When released as a single, "Just My Imagination" became the third Temptations song to reach number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw

"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" is a song by American #soul group #theTemptations, written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong. Released on the Gordy (#Motown) label, and #produced by Norman Whitfield, it features on the group's 1971 album, #SkysTheLimit. When released as a single, "Just My Imagination" became the third Temptations song to reach number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Z9-QCmZyw

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0tZ95SaB8

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0tZ95SaB8

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZgAbXfsL4

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZgAbXfsL4

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xAtsXb8Vs

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xAtsXb8Vs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne

Barrett Strong:
🎵 Money (That's What I Want)

#BarrettStrong

https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/barrett-strong-money-funkastik-remix

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne

Barrett Strong:
🎵 Money (That's What I Want)

#BarrettStrong

https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/barrett-strong-money-funkastik-remix

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).
#HappyBirthday #RIP ✞

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).
#HappyBirthday #RIP ✞

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDasi1jiqRs

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDasi1jiqRs

“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.

* Ambrose Bierce

###

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.

source

https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc?si=vEXw930DzjYxwXSG

And we might note that today is the first day of a “prefectly square” month…

“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.

* Ambrose Bierce

###

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.

source

https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc?si=vEXw930DzjYxwXSG

And we might note that today is the first day of a “prefectly square” month…

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.
#RIP 🪔

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.
#RIP 🪔

Ted Tocks Covers

Ball of Confusion

Originally posted on February 5, 2018

Remembering Barrett Strong!

“People moving out, people moving in. Why, because of the colour of their skin.
Run, run, run but you sure can’t hide. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Vote for me and I’ll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on.”

#TheTemptations #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #LoveandRockets

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ball-of-confusion/

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 6

What Have They Done to My Song Ma

Remembering Melanie!

“I wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well, if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they've done to my song”

#Melanie #PeterSchekeryk #TheEdwinHawkinsSingers #TheNewSeekers #BarrettStrong #RayCharles #NinaSimone #RyanToby #WhoopiGoldberg #MileyCyrus #TheRollingStones #BobDylan

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/what-have-they-done-to-my-song-ma-if-the-beautiful-people-are-buying-tears-ill-be-rich-some-day-musicislife-tedtockscovers-melanie/

Money (That's What I Want) 🎰
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

Money (That's What I Want) 🎰
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

Money (That's What I Want) 💸
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc

Money (That's What I Want) 💸
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnrZnFSlWU

"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnrZnFSlWU

Money (That's What I Want) 💰
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

Money (That's What I Want) 💰
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

Money (That's What I Want) 💵
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJl7mxDtc

Money (That's What I Want) 💵
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJl7mxDtc

Ted Tocks Covers

War

Originally posted on February 5, 2019

This #EdwinStarr classic was at #1 on this day 55 years ago.

“Oh, war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest within the younger generation
Induction then destruction, who wants to die?”

#BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #edwinstarr #TheTemptations #brucespringsteen

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/war-todays-classic-song-an-original-recording-and-a-great-cover-musicislife-tedtockscovers-barrettstrong-normanwhitfield-edwinstarr-thetempations-brucespringsteen/

Ted Tocks Covers

I Heard it Through the Grapevine

Originally posted on March 26, 2018

On this day in 1969, #MarvinGaye was at the top of the U.K. singles chart with this classic song written by #BarrettStrong and #NormanWhitfield

“Ooh, bet you're wonderin' how I knew
'Bout your plan to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before
Between the two of us guys
You know I loved you more
It took me by surprise, I must say
When I found out yesterday”

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine/

Ted Tocks Covers

Ball of Confusion

Originally posted on February 5, 2018.

Remembering the lyrical brilliance of Barrett Strong

“Vote for me and I’ll set you free”

…But don’t think ‘He’ cares…

…and the beat goes on…

#TheTemptations #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #loveandrockets

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ball-of-confusion/

https://youtu.be/yeVx1C73o8k

#MoneyThatsWhatIWant #LotsOfMoney #Money #BarrettStrong #MuzakLessons

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/

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/

#music #musik #musica #musikken #musique
#BarrettStrong - #Money (That's What I Want)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

#WeAreTheRadio #pouetradio #tootradio #mastoradio #fediradio

#music #musik #musica #musikken #musique
#BarrettStrong - #Money (That's What I Want)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k

#WeAreTheRadio #pouetradio #tootradio #mastoradio #fediradio

The first hit record for Motown was Barrett Strong with Money (That's What I Want)

https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc

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

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
https://youtu.be/SaXxejjj6uE

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
https://youtu.be/SaXxejjj6uE

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
https://youtu.be/02hiHR82FHQ

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
https://youtu.be/02hiHR82FHQ

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/

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/

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

Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #ChaimTopol #JimDurkin #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans #JerrySamuels #Tongo #EricAlanLivingston #RobinLumley #JosuaMadsen #JuniorEnglish #RIP #obits #music 1/

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 hide

An 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/

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 hide

An 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/

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.
https://youtu.be/y81JxzU7bow

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.
https://youtu.be/y81JxzU7bow

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/entertainment/barrett-strong-death/index.html

#Music #BarrettStrong

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