author: bob stanley

... gramophone ' disc . The key to making it a commercial prospect was ... magazines , when sales of 78s were low and slow , read much the same as they ... magazine called The Billboard , a ' monthly resume of all that is new , bright and ...

... Martha and the Vandellas' “Heatwave,” which Sebastian thought was the most exciting record he'd ever heard. Play the chords twice as fast, he reckoned, and “Do You Believe in Magic” would be twice as exciting. He was a sly fox, and he ...

... the autumn of their years , the Bee Gees were not coasting . Again , the outtakes were just as good , if not better than some of the album tracks . Robin's ' Rings Around the Moon ' , an unreleased song from the Love Songs project , ended ...

... Martha and the Vandellas ' ' Heatwave ' ( US no . 4 '63 ) . Their reputation , though , is very pop , and that's because they wrote every major hit by the Supremes , a trio from the dirt - poor Brewster Projects fronted by Diana Ross ...

A Times Book of the Year Bob Stanley. Elliott Smith's hand at the Oscars and gave him the confidence to sing his fragile ' Miss Misery ... chord , and then three and a half minutes later , they [ had written ] the song - in real time , in ...