Members russrags Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Man how often is it that the morning prime time FOX News reports the death of a songwriter ??? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702333.html RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted September 18, 2008 Moderators Share Posted September 18, 2008 Just My ImaginationWarPapa Was a Rolling StoneBall of ConfusionHeard it Through the GrapevineAin't To Pound to BegSmiling Faces SometimesPride and JoyGet ReadyYou're My EverythingToo Busy Thinkin' Bout My BabyI Can't Get Next To You Sort of like the Lennon and McCartney of Motown. He was the pen behind some of my favorite music of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Some great songs... Mr. Whitfield, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yup, I read it yesterday. What a soulful guy. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amplayer Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Bummer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Truly one of The Greats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members puretube Posted September 18, 2008 Members Share Posted September 18, 2008 Wherever You Laid Your Hits, Was My Home. Thank You, Norman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Just My ImaginationWarPapa Was a Rolling StoneBall of ConfusionHeard it Through the GrapevineAin't To Pound to BegSmiling Faces SometimesPride and JoyGet ReadyYou're My EverythingToo Busy Thinkin' Bout My BabyI Can't Get Next To YouSort of like the Lennon and McCartney of Motown. He was the pen behind some of my favorite music of all time. Some great, great tunes. RIP Mr Whitfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Whit was smart, too. He told a furious Dennis Edwards to take the emotions he felt about singing about "...the third of September" and put them into his vocal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Whit was smart, too.He told a furious Dennis Edwards to take the emotions he felt about singing about "...the third of September" and put them into his vocal. You've lost me a little, cooter-- What significance did the 3rd of September have for Dennis Edwards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Music Calgary Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Man how often is it that the morning prime time FOX News reports the death of a songwriter ??? About as often as your economy officially enters complete and total meltdown and Sarah Palin says war with Russia is on the table and John McCain tells his own team to go {censored} themselves as he storms out of a hearing calling a female senator a bitch and a {censored}ing whore. Etc. Unless Bill O'Reilly get caught in another creepy sex scandal things should be back to full distortion soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 You've lost me a little, cooter-- What significance did the 3rd of September have for Dennis Edwards? Sorry - I thought that was a well-known bit of trivia from this song. From Wikipedia: Friction arose during the recording of "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" for a number of reasons. The Temptations didn't like the fact that Whitfield's instrumentation had been getting more emphasis than their vocals on their songs at the time, and that they had to press Whitfield to get him to produce ballads for the group. In addition, Dennis Edwards was angered by the song's first verse: "It was the 3rd of September/That day I'll always remember/'cause that was the day/that my daddy died". Edwards' father had died on that date, and although the song wasn't originally written for the Temptations, Edwards was convinced that Whitfield assigning him the line was intentional. Although Whitfield denied the accusation, he used it to his advantage: he made Edwards record the disputed line over and over again until Whitfield finally got the angered, bitter grumble he desired out of the usually fiery-toned Edwards (it was, however, one of the reasons Whitfield was eventually fired as the group's producer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted September 19, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 Music Calgary ... you're w a y off Norman Whitfield was a wonderful songwriter, of legendary status. I got a chance to meet him several times as I had another Motown songwriter client that introduced me to him in 1991, also worked with his son a few times. Probably a few other LA forumites knew him too. Russ Nashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members meccajay Posted September 19, 2008 Members Share Posted September 19, 2008 RIP songbrother! Let's hope he taught his kraft to many, both directly and indirectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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