Undoubtedly, The Supremes (and/or Diana Ross and The Supremes) will go down in history for all their top ten songs and other big hits during the 1960s and early 70s. Not only did The Supremes have oodles of top ten songs (including 12 number ones – that’s right, 12) in their various combinations (the most ...
Are you in the process of planning your first 1960s themed event? If so, you should know that the 1960s was known for many things. Among them were hootenannies, the Kennedy-Nixon debates and great love songs. Personally, I am more familiar with the decade’s phenomenal love songs because of the time that I spent working ...
Diane Earle was born, in 1944, in Detroit, Michigan where, in her early years, she aspired to be a fashion designer. When she was 15, Diana joined the doo-wop group, The Primettes and signed with Lu Pine Records in 1960. The group won a singing competition in Winnipeg, Ontario and Diana’s former neighbor, William “Smokey” ...
Time-Life has put together a good collection of 40 songs that were playing on radios and record players back in 1967. That year the hippies and their ideas broke on through from the counterculture into the mainstream. It started in January with San Francisco’s Human Be-In and peaked in the summer, June specifically, when The ...
Top 20 Supremes Hits In 1959, an R&B; female vocal group from Detroit got together and called themselves The Primettes. The group consisted of lead singer Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin. They signed with the little known LuPine label in 1960. That same year, The Primettes signed with Motown’s Tamla label ...
The Sixties were about change and revolutions. Teenagers were breaking away from their parents views and opinions. Those changes are reflective in their music. These are the songs that best describe the changes. Number five is “Suspicious Minds” by Elvis Presley. Since coming out of the Army in 1960, Elvis’ career slowly ground to a ...
Motown has influenced music in an unprecedented way. The insightful leadership of Berry Gordy Jr. and the enormous talent of a remarkable group of African-American artists led to a barrage of smash hits that reached a broad audience and remained popular in the course of time. One of the most famous Motown hits is ‘Where ...
