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Some Thursday Love on Valentine’s Day: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and Anita Baker

• February 14, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in Anita Baker, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Donny Hathaway, Holidays, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Music, Tammi Terrell, The Heart
Tags: African Americans, Anita Baker, Black Women, Blacks, Donny, Donny Hathaway, Donny Osmond, Eric Mercury, Facebook, Funk Brothers, If This World Were Mine, Love, Marriage, Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, Sex, Stevie Wonder, Tammi Terrell, Valentine's Day

Some Tuesday Love: “Up The Ladder To The Roof,” The Supremes, 1970

• February 21, 2012 • 2 Comments

Posted in African American History, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Supremes/Diana Ross and The Supremes, Women
Tags: "Up the Ladder to the Roof", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Cindy Birdsong, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Frank Wilson, Funk Brothers, Jean Terrell, Love, Mary Wilson, Motown, Motown Records, Ross, Shopping, Supremes, The Seventies, United States, Vincent DiMirco, Wah-wah pedal

Christmas Songs: Marvin Gaye, “I Want to Come Home for Christmas,” 1972

• December 21, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Holidays, Iraq, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Afghanistan, African Americans, Berry Gordy, Blacks, Charting, Christmas, Christmas in The City, Forest Hairston, Funk Brothers, Iraq, Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Motown Records, Occupation, Prisoners of War, Santa Claus, South Vietnam, The Funk Brothers, The Nineties, The Seventies, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War

A Little Marvin and Tammi on a Sunday: “You’re All I Need to Get By”

• June 12, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "You're All I Need to Get By", African Americans, Berry Gordy, Black Women, Blacks, Brain Tumor, California, Domestic Violence, Drama, Funk Brothers, Gaye, Growing Up, Love, Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Memoir, Motown, Rape, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Tammi, Tammi Terrell, The Funk Brothers, The Sixties, United States, Wikipedia

Drummer Uriel Jones, Motown Funk Brother, Dies at 74

• March 26, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, History, Music
Tags: Allen Slutsky, Art Blakey, Berry Gordy, Bob Babbitt, Dearborn MI, Detroit, Drummer, Funk Brothers, Los Angeles, Motown, Paul Justman, Standing in The Shadows of Motown, The Funk Brothers, Uriel Jones

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