Standing in the Shadows of Motown

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Arts Documentary hosted by Andre Braugher and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Storyville series in 2004 - English narration

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Some unsung heroes of pop music get long-overdue recognition in Standing in the Shadows of Motown, a heartfelt documentary directed by Paul Justman. They called themselves the Funk Brothers, a talented group of a dozen or so musicians who were recruited by Berry Gordy from the jazz and blues clubs of Detroit to record the musical tracks for Gordy’s Motown label.

Although they worked in relative anonymity, these studio musicians were responsible for a staggering number of soul and R&B hits. The Funk Brothers backed up the Supremes, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and a host of other Motown luminaries, only to be all but abandoned when the label moved to L.A. in the early 1970s.

Standing in the Shadows allows the surviving Funk Brothers to tell their own story, and they tell it well, anchored by the sheer charm of keyboardist Joe Hunter and percussionist Jack “Black Jack” Ashford. Together, they paint a vivid picture of the close-knit musical collaboration that churned out hit after hit in Motown’s Studio A (a basement room known affectionately as “the snake pit”).

But even more time is spent profiling those Funk Brothers who are now “here in spirit,” notably drummer Benny “Papa Zita” Benjamin, keyboardist Earl “Chunk of Funk” Van Dyke, and, at the center of it all, the legendary bassist James Jamerson. (Barnes & Noble)

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• BBC Programmes
• Original Documentary page
• Music History -The Funk Brothers

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• MVGroup.org (ed2k)
• MVGroup.org (torrent)

[edit] Related Documentaries

• Marvin Gaye: Live at Montreux
• When Motown Came to Britain
• Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music
• Smokey Robinson at the Electric Proms
• Motown at the BBC
• The Wrecking Crew
• The Story of Funk: One Nation under a Groove
• New York Rock (BBC)
• Dusty Springfield (BBC)
• Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story
• Muscle Shoals
• Definitely Dusty
• What's Going On: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye
• Phil Collins: Going Back to Detroit
• Charles Bradley: Soul of America
• Requiem for Detroit
• Just One Falsetto
• Gil Scott-Heron - Black Wax
• Let the Music Play - The Barry White Story
• Welcome to the Club - The Women of Rockabilly
• Quincy Jones - The Many Lives of Q
• Tina Turner - The Girl from Nutbush
• Keep on Running - 50 years of Island Records
• George Clinton - Tales of Dr Funkenstein
• Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
• Uncut: Martin Freeman Goes To Motown

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