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Janie Bradford obituary (opens the original)
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Songwriter who contributed to the first record made at Motown’s Detroit studio and co-wrote many of the label’s hits Janie Bradford was a poetry-loving receptionist, not yet out of her teens, when she provided her boss, Berry Gordy Jr, with the lines that helped him complete a song called Money (That’s What I Want). Gordy, then in the early stages of establishing Motown Records and searching for what would become the label’s signature sound, was sitting at the piano in the summer of 1959 when Br
Arlene Smith obituary (opens the original)
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Singer with one of the first ‘girl groups’, the Chantels, whose 1950s hit Maybe sold more than a million copies Almost before the five Bronx schoolgirls who called themselves the Chantels had finished their unaccompanied delivery of a song called The Plea in his office on Broadway one day in 1957, the record label owner George Goldner was fishing in his desk for a contract they could take home and show their parents. Within months the group were high in the charts with a ballad called Maybe, fea
Brian Case obituary (opens the original)
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No one wrote about jazz and related music with the pungency of my friend and former colleague Brian Case, who has died aged 88. His pieces on favourite figures, from Dexter Gordon to Ian Dury, crackled with allusions and insights drawn from a broad cultural hinterland. Here he is, introducing the young readers of the NME to Miles Davis in 1974: “By the close of the 50s, Miles’s trumpet was the most syndicated sound in jazz. That lovely, elegiac, choked-down tone evoked rain on windows, the exqui
Plas Johnson obituary (opens the original)
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Celebrated saxophonist in demand for session work and film soundtracks who was famous for his stylistic and technical versatility As a first-call session musician in the Hollywood studios, the saxophonist Plas Johnson needed to be able to cope with anything the occasion might require. One day in 1963, during a session to record Henry Mancini’s music for the detective comedy The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and starring David Niven and Peter Sellers, Johnson was asked to apply his dist
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