Category: Motown Records

"Taos New Mexico"

“Taos New Mexico”: Not the City’s Fault

R. Dean Taylor (who left us in 2022) not only wrote songs with famed Motown songwriting team, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland, but was a hit-making artist in his own right who recorded for Motown – and yet why does it seem like almost nobody in the United

June 13, 2014 No Comments

"No Time at All"

Irene Ryan: Motown’s Newest Teen Sensation

How unfortunate when an actor embodies a character so convincingly that s/he becomes forever associated with that one role – such as Irene Ryan, heretofore known to millions as Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies. But, as her 1973 UPI obituary points out, Irene Ryan was part of an elite group

October 28, 2013 4 Comments