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— The Ed Sullivan Show —
The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue hits the streaming platforms!
On June 12, came exciting news Universal Music Enterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performances from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Since its premiere launch on June 12, more videos have been added on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, many having highlighted the Motown sound. As was reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.
The host of the show, Ed Sullivan, passed away on October 13, 1974. He was 73.
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For more info on this story, go HERE.
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NEW! On this ‘Motown’ Monday we are featuring three classic Motown video performances from the Ed Sullivan Show:
The Supremes (1970), The Temptations (1967), Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1968)
MORE Ed Sullivan Motown performances will be forthcoming on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
COCA COLA * THE SUPREMES (1965) * THE COCA COLA CO.
STONED LOVE
“Stoned Love” is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the last Billboard Pop Top Ten hit for the group, peaking at number seven, and their last Billboard number-one R&B hit as well, although the trio continued to score top ten hits in the UK into 1972. This single and “Up the Ladder to the Roof” are the only top-ten Supremes singles to feature Jean Terrell on lead vocals instead of Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career. In the UK, it was the post-Ross Supremes’ biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the singles chart. The single spent six weeks in the UK top ten and five weeks in the US top ten.
After a few lines of the song were revised by the producer, “Stoned Love” was recorded during the spring of 1970. The instrumental track was recorded with The Funk Brothers and at least 30 other session musicians in Detroit at Motown Studio B (the former Golden World studio), while Jean Terrell, Mary Wilson, and Cindy Birdsong recorded their vocals in New York. The song was originally written and recorded as “Stone Love”, but during the process of mixing and releasing, it was mislabeled as “Stoned Love”.
A plea for love and peace similar to those recorded by Sly & the Family Stone in the late 1960s, the lyrics of “Stoned Love” were a plea for the people of the world to end conflict and animosity between each other, specifically the Vietnam War.
The Terrell-led Supremes—now rebranded as “the Supremes;” known unofficially at first as “the New Supremes”, and in later years informally called “The ’70s Supremes”— scored hits including “Up the Ladder to the Roof” (US number 10, UK number 6), “Stoned Love” (US number 7, UK number 3) and “Nathan Jones” (US number 16, UK number 5), all of which were produced by Frank Wilson. These three singles were also R&B Top Ten hits, with “Stoned Love” becoming their last No.1 R&B hit in December 1970.
The Motown songwriting and production team, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, produced another Top 20 hit for the group It was a Supremes/Four Tops duet version of Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep – Mountain High”.
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Source: Stoned Love; Supremes; Wikipedia
A MCRFB NOTE: For a more in-depth story of the Supremes’ ‘Stone Love‘ release, check out this excellent blog from October 17, 2017, as was penned by noted Motown author and historian Adam White
Stoned Love * acapella
—THE SUPREMES—
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Released November 14, “Stoned Love” peaked at #1 (1 week; charted 14 total weeks R&B overall) on the Billboard R&B chart in 1970. B-side: “Shine On Me”
MOTOWN 1172 (Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles)
STONED LOVE [INST.; AUDIO ENHANCED] * THE SUPREMES
— The Ed Sullivan Show —
The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue hits the streaming platforms!
On June 12, came news Universal Music Enterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performance from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.
For its premiere launch this past Friday, several videos are now posted on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, highlighting the Motown sound. As reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.
For more on this story, go HERE.
Ed Sullivan passed away on October 13, 1974. He was 73.
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NEW! For this ‘Motown’ Monday, we are featuring three classic Motown video performances from the Ed Sullivan Show:
The Supremes (1966), Marvin Gaye (1966), The Temptations (1969)
MORE Ed Sullivan Motown performances will be forthcoming on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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FIFTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Someday We’ll Be Together” by the Supremes peaked this month at No. 01 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending December 20 through December 27, 1969. (Source: Billboard)
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MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1969 GO HERE.
—CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS SONG—
“Children’s Christmas Song” was written by Isabelle Freeman, co-written by Harvey Fuqua and was released on Motown Records in November 1965. Two originals, taken from the ‘Supremes Merry Christmas” album,”Children’s Christmas Song” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me”, were issued as the sides of a late 1965 Supremes holiday single. The former was thought to feature background vocals by Berry Gordy’s children — Joy, Berry and Terry — the inspiration for Motown’s publishing division JoBeTe — as well as Diana’s youngest brother, Chico. Background by the Andantes.
(Source: WiKipedia)
— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
THE SUPREMES * DECEMBER 1965
MY FAVORITE THINGS (INSTRUMENTAL) * THE SUPREMES * 1965
