{"id":23794,"date":"2020-09-08T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23794"},"modified":"2020-09-08T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:45:16","slug":"the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-motown-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-motown-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mount Rushmore Of Rock &amp; Roll: Motown Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No need to shoehorn Motown acts into some Rushmore; here they get their very own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my ground rules but feel free to go ahead and make your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Motown, not soul more generally, not Stax\/Volt, not Philly International. If you are on the Motown Rushmore then your bones had to be made at Motown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know that Berry Gordy, the Funk Brothers, Holland-Dozier-Holland, and a bunch of other behind the scenes people had as much to do with Motown\u2019s success as any act did. Maybe they will get their own Rushmore one of these days but for now, for this Rushmore, these are the acts (individuals or groups) whose names were on the discs.<br \/><br \/>I\u2019ll offer up the act I think is the Beatles of Motown, the undisputed act that has to be carved on the Mount \u2013 <strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong>. Singer, songwriter, sweet soul-pop love songs, the duets, and the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance of \u201cWhat\u2019s Goin\u2019 On.\u201d  A song so magnificent we have to present it twice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With James Jamerson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvin Gaye   What&#039;s Going On Live 1972\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPkM8F0sjSw?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvin Gaye - What&#039;s Going On (Official Video 2019)\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5TmORitlKk?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Who shares the Mount with Marvin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need to shoehorn Motown acts into some Rushmore; here they get their very own. Here are my ground rules but feel free to go ahead and make your own. This is Motown, not soul more generally, not Stax\/Volt, not Philly International. If you are on the Motown Rushmore then your bones had to be <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-motown-edition\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}