Friday, July 1, 2011

Stacks of Wax?

The following is an updated re-post of an item I placed another blog in 2009.

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During the past week of Jacko-mania, some of the talk in my office strayed from him and his music over to the whole Berry Gordy/Motown thing.

Motown was great, but what about the other large chunks of music in the past 50 years that came out of Ahmet Ertegun's Atlantic Records and from the Memphis folks at Stax Records?

... And there's also Tom Dowd who engineered or produced much of the well-known product from both Atlantic and Stax!

Find out more...

Atlantic Records
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/atlantic_stub.html
http://atlanticrecords.com/the-stacks/time-capsule/


Stax Records
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034410/plotsummary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records

Tom Dowd
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/producer-tom-dowd-dies-20021028
http://www.thelanguageofmusic.com/
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=tom+dowd+and+the+language+of+music&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=0PtNSsrAH5yqtgfCw62zBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4#

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