Host Larry Mantle discusses the new documentary about the Funk Brothers, the musicians who created the Motown sound behind the most famous songs of the time. Joining Larry is the director and producer ...

Calling the Funk Brothers merely the house band for the Motown Sound is a little like calling the Rat Pack a Vegas lounge act. During the heyday of the Berry Gordy's Motown Records, when the company's ...

Reviews that would have made Smokey Robinson or Marvin Gaye blush didn't provide much help for "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," the belated but loving homage to the Funk Brothers, the aggregate ...

Using interviews, archival footage and anecdote re-enactments, director Paul Justman pays an overdue tribute to the Funk Brothers, the studio musicians who created the Motown sound. Most of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows ...

WHO ARE THEY: During the 1960s, The Four Tops were one of Motown’s most successful groups, racking up hit after hit. Fronted by their baritone lead singer Levi Stubbs, The Four Tops scored timeless ...

The Temptations' funky cover of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer captured Jamerson at his peak powers, before personal problems ...

Pick a Motown classic from the ’60s, any Motown classic from the ’60s, and chances are that guys like “Pistol” Allen, “Bongo” Brown, and James Jamerson played on it. Whether it was Marvin, Martha, or ...

Allan Slutsky’s book Standing in the Shadows of Motown profiled bassist James Jamerson, whose dexterous and innovative playing was integral to the Motown sound but who, four months before his death ...