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He has been called the “King of Motown” and “America’s poet laureate of love.” Bob Dylan famously dubbed him “America’s greatest living poet.” His high, warm tenor inhabits a space all its own. Singer/songwriter/record executive Smokey Robinson began carving his monumental place in American music in the late 1950s and remains an active performer and recording artist today. In tonight’s program, he shares recollections of his 50-year career with Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, with Motown Records, and on his own. Born in Detroit in 1940,William Robinson was branded “Smokey” by an uncle at an early age. By age 15, Robinson had formed his own singing group, the Matadors. At 18, he met soonto-be-legendary Berry Gordy and encouraged Gordy to start a record label of his own. Gordy did that, founding Tamla Records in 1959.Tamla quickly evolved into Motown Records, with Smokey Robinson and the Miracles one of its first groups signed. In 1961, the label had its first million-seller with the group’s Shop Around. Gordy named Robinson vice president of the company, giving the young singer a major role as advisor, talent scout and producer. Over the next 15 years, Motown released 15 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles albums, with a total of 37 top-40 hits among them, including You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, Ooo Baby Baby, The Tracks of My Tears, Going to a Go-Go, I Second That Emotion and The Tears of a Clown. Robinson also wrote and produced dozens of hits for other Motown artists—among them Mary Wells’s My Guy, Marvin Gaye’s I’ll Be Doggone, and The Temptations’ My Girl and The Way You Do the Things You Do. In the early 1970s, Robinson left the group and created the first of 16 solo albums he would
record for Motown before the label was sold to MCA in 1988.The hits kept coming: a number one R&B tune, BabyThat’s Backatcha; a top single, Quiet Storm, which spawned a smooth-blues nighttime radio format called “quiet storm”;Cruisin’, Being WithYou, Tell Me Tomorrow, Ebony Eyes, and 1987’s Grammy Award-winning Just to See Her. Robinson has continued to perform and tour at intervals since the 1980s. In 2004, he released his first gospel album, and in 2006, he released an album of pop standards. He makes many appearances on television as a guest and in cameo roles.
Smokey Robinson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. In 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from Howard University and was named a Kennedy Center performing arts honoree. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—to be joined in 2009 by another star for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. In 1989, he wrote his autobiography in collaboration with David Ritz, Smokey: Inside My Life.
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The moderator of tonight’s discussion with Smokey Robinson is Daphne Maxwell Reid. She is the co-founder, with her husband, actor/writer/producer Tim Reid, of New Millennium Studios, located near Petersburg and the first full-service film studio in Virginia. Well-known to television audiences, she played Aunt Viv on NBC’s hit comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and mortician/embalmer Hannah Griffin on the CBS comedy series Frank’s Place. She has had regular roles on such shows as Snoops for CBS, Linc’s on Showtime, and Eve on UPN. She has hosted many television specials, co-hosted a talk show with her husband, and acted in several feature films. Born in New York City in 1948, Reid majored in interior design and architecture at
Northwestern University in Chicago. While at Northwestern, she was signed as a model by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York and was the first African-American woman to be on the cover of Glamour magazine. Her love of designing and making her own clothes led in 1992 to a co-venture with McCall Pattern Company and a continuing line of patterns called the “Daphne Maxwell Reid Collection.” Her video/pattern kit Suddenly You’re Sewing has been a major seller on QVC TV. As acting chief operating officer of New Millennium Studios, Reid handles finances and business affairs for the studio and several subsidiaries. She is actively involved in community affairs and serves on the boards of the Petersburg Library Foundation, theVirginia Commonwealth University Foundation, and the Board of Visitors of Virginia State University.
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Ooo Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles), Get Ready (Temptations), Let’s Stay Together (Al Green), In The Still of the Night (Five Satins), and Betcha By Golly Wow (Stylistics) are just a few of the many songs that comprise Bak N Da Day’s repertoire from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Founded in 1999 by Russell Bennett (bass), the group consists of Anthony Harris (baritone), Jeffrey Goode (2nd tenor), and Larry Jones and Larry Everett (1st tenors). It was Bennett’s desire to fulfill a lifelong dream of singing with an aggregation of colleagues and friends who have fun crooning those evergreens from a time when you could “understand the words.” With a dynamic sound and a reputation for being sharp dressers with slick routines, the group has performed at many events, including The
Richmond Forum in 2006. They have opened for acts such as Howard Hewitt, Stephanie Mills and the O’Jays. Just as comfortable rendering romance ballads by the Flamingos, Skyliners and the Five Satins as they are with raucous ditties, such as Tossin and Turnin (Bobby Lewis), their grasp of Motown ranges from the sounds of the Temptations and the Miracles, to the Four Tops and Jimmy Ruffin, with a little Lionel Richie and the Commodores thrown in. So take a trip down memory lane tonight with Richmond’s quintessential oldies vocal group, Bak N Da Day.
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February 19, 1940: William “Smokey” Robinson is born in Detroit, Michigan. 1955: The most successful of the R&B vocal groups formed in the mid-50s, the Miracles were founded by Smokey Robinson, Emerson Rogers, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, and Warren “Pete” Moore. Initially known as the Five Chimes, then as the Matadors, the group became the Miracles in 1958. February 19, 1958: Got a Job, the first single by the Miracles, is released, coinciding with leader Smokey Robinson’s 18th birthday. January 12,1959: Motown is born. Encouraged by his first Top 10 hit as a songwriter (Jackie Wilson’s Lonely Teardrops), Berry Gordy launches the Tamla Record Company on a $800 family loan. A year later, Gordy changes his young company’s name to Motown Record Corporation. 1961: Motown releases its first two albums, one of which is Hi, We’re The Miracles. From that album, the single Shop Around becomes Motown’s first national No. 1 R&B hit and fares nearly as well on the pop chart, where it peaks at No. 2. It is kept out of the top spot by Lawrence Welk’s bubbly instrumental, Calcutta. December 1962: The “Motortown Special” climaxes its first national road tour with a 10-day engagement at the Apollo Theatre in New York. The lineup: The Miracles, Mary Wells,
Martha & The Vandellas, The Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes,The Contours, Mary Johnson, and Singin’ Sammy Ward. 1963: The Fabulous Miracles becomes Motown’s first album to appear on the pop album chart, featuring the Top 10 hit You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me. Smokey Robinson’s success creating hits for both the Miracles and other Motown acts results in him being named vice president of the company. That year, The Beatles pay homage to the Motown Sound on their album With The Beatles, covering the Marvalettes’ hit, Please Mr. Postman. 1965: The Temptations’ My Girl hits No. 1, less than a year after Mary Wells’ My Guy topped the chart. Smokey Robinson wrote both songs (collaborating with Ronnie White on My Girl). Both songs become instant standards. The soon-to-be classic album Going To A Go-Go by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles is released with Smokey Robinson having top billing. It reaches No. 8 and yields four hits: Ooo Baby Baby, The Tracks of My Tears, My Girl Has Gone and Going to a Go-Go. 1967: I Second That Emotion Hits No. 1.
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April 1968: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 reaches No. 7, and will be their highest-peaking album.
Robinson receives a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male, for Just To See Her.
1970: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles’ sleeper smash The Tears of a Clown tops the U.S. pop chart—more than three years after it first appeared on the group’s album, Make It Happen. The song is co-written by Stevie Wonder.
February 27, 1997: Smokey Robinson reunites with the Miracles to be honored at the eighth annual Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards in New York.
1972: Smokey Robinson leaves the Miracles. After nine years of being involved in every aspect of Motown’s operations (artist, songwriter, producer, management), Smokey Robinson decides to concentrate on his position as Vice President of Motown Records. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ concert performances in July 1972, in Washington, D.C., are recorded for the album 1957-1972, which ends Robinson’s quarter century with the band he founded. Robinson graduates to a solo career, and the Miracles replace him with Billy Griffin. April 19, 1975: A Quiet Storm, the third solo album by Smokey Robinson, is released.The title would be adapted as both the name of a radio format and a romantic subgenre of soul.
1991: Soul Train Music Award for Career Achievement recipient.
February 24, 1999: 41st Annual Grammy Awards for Lifetime Achievement recipient. April 2004: Food for the Spirit, Smokey Robinson’s first gospel album, is released. December 2006: Smokey Robinson is a Kennedy Center honoree, recognized for his lifetime achievements and contributions to the world of music. January 12, 2009: 50th Anniversary of Motown
March 21, 1981: Being With You, the biggest hit of Smokey Robinson’s solo career (No. 1 R&B, No. 2 pop), is released.
February 21, 2009: Smokey Robinson appears at The Richmond Forum.
1987: Smokey Robinson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the second annual induction dinner.
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Motown’s 50th Anniversary As an irresistible force of social and cultural change, Berry Gordy’s legendary Motown Records made its mark not just on the music industry, but society at large, with a sound that has become one of the most significant musical accomplishments and stunning success stories of the 20th century. Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5, Lionel Richie & the Commodores, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and theVandellas, Gladys Knight & the Pips, their music communicated and brought together a racially divided
country and segregated society, around the world, touching all people of all ages and race. No other record company in history has exerted such an enormous influence on both the style and substance of popular music and culture. With more than 180 No. 1 hit songs worldwide and counting, that influence is still being felt today, from pop to hip-hop, Motown celebrates the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding. Motown, of course, stands for more than just the historic music. The label and its remarkable legacy is a reflection of the hard work of Continued dedicated individuals overcoming
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incredible obstacles to achieve great success. Over a half-century ago, on January 12, 1959, to be exact, a young African-American songwriter named Berry Gordy founded Tamla Records with a loan of $800 from his family, marking the birth of the “Motown Records Corporation.” A man of vision, drive, talent and determination, Berry Gordy was also a producer, innovative entrepreneur, and teacher. The phenomenal success of Motown Records is a tribute to all that he embodied and all the talent that he brought out in others. Under his leadership, and through determination and support of the Motown family of artists, Gordy forged new grounds for minorities and made the “Motown Sound” a worldwide phenomenon beloved by millions. Berry Gordy always learned from all his experiences and applied them to his business. He put the tedious time he spent working on the assembly line at Detroit’s Lincoln-Mercury automobile plant to good use: “Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand
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new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.” That little thought that came to him while running up and down that assembly line became a reality we now know as “Motown.” When Motown was housed in its famed “Hitsville U.S.A.” offices at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, it was not just a location; history would be made there. In fact, Berry Gordy created a 24 hour hit-making and artist development factory, nurturing the artistic talent of the singers, writers, and producers, as well as corporate executives. Today, Motown is not only the greatest pop music hit factory ever heard, but an institution, a state of mind, a way of life, a style, the “Sound of Young America.” The distinctive, upbeat and uplifting music brought together pop and soul, white and black, old and young, like never before and continues to this day. Regardless of race or social background, teenage
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girls admired Diana Ross and teenage boys pretended to be Smokey Robinson. Motown became the heartbeat of American pop music. With multi-platinum artists ranging from the Miracles, Temptations, Four Tops and Supremes to Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Jackson 5, the House That Gordy Built had and has no rival. Motown defined the term “crossover” not only on record and stage, but also behind the scenes. After breaking down barriers and having pop radio embrace Motown artists, Berry Gordy set his sights on television. He booked his artists on popular shows such as American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show, making history as the first African-American artists on these shows. After captivating national audiences with repeat performances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Supremes were the first R&B act to play the country’s most prestigious night club, New York’s Copacabana, which paved the way for other R&B acts into the top cabaret circuits around the world. Motown was the first African-Americanowned record label to reach widespread national
acclaim. Motown broke down racial prejudice by becoming the most successful independent record company in history and the most successful African-American owned business in America. After Gordy purchased that first Detroit property, he converted the garage into a small recording studio and the kitchen into the control room. The company’s first signing was the Miracles, led by Smokey Robinson, and its first release was Marv Johnson’s Come to Me, January 21, 1959. But its first major hit was Barrett Strong’s Money (That’s What I Want), a song co-written by Gordy himself, which reached No. 2 on Billboard’s R&B chart in 1960. A year later, the Miracles would score the company’s first million seller with Shop Around. That same year, teen girl group the Marvelettes landed the company’s first pop No. 1, Please Mr. Postman, while the label signed two young groups, the Supremes and the Temptations.Within three years, those two groups would lead Motown into the mainstream, when the Supremes launched an unprecedented string of five consecutive No. 1 hits, Continued
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starting with Where Did Our Love Go, while the Temptations released the eternal Motown classic, My Girl. In 1968 the company had five records out of the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and accomplished another unprecedented feat by seizing the top three spots for a full month. Upon his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, Motown’s founder was given the following tribute: Gordy endeavored to reach across the racial divide with music that could touch all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Under his tutelage, Motown became a model of black capitalism, pride and selfexpression and a repository for some of the greatest talent ever assembled at one company… Motown’s stable of singers, songwriters, producers and musicians took the concept of simple, catchy pop songs to a whole new level of sophistication and, thanks to the music’s roots in gospel and blues, visceral intensity… After Motown, black popular music would never again be dismissed as a minority taste… Aesthetically no less than commercially, Motown’s achievements will likely remain unrivaled and untoppable.
Today, the label is part of the Universal Music Group, with its classic recorded music catalog managed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). The timeless songs from Motown between 1959 and 1985 are represented by EMI Music Publishing. From late 2008 to the end of 2009, Universal Music Group and EMI Music Publishing are marking the historic Detroit label’s musical achievements with a series of initiatives. Notably, Universal Music Enterprises will issue monthly music releases in both physical and digital formats, with bonus tracks enhancing these packages. Details will be announced as each new package approaches. Also upcoming throughout the celebration are releases of classic Motown Television specials in a series of DVD collections and INSIDE MOTOWN, a multi-part documentary on how the company was built. Sources: Universal Music Enterprises and www.rockhall.com
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Al-Hawanim, a dynamic ensemble of women who specialize in the performance and scholarship of music and culture from the Arab World and Middle East, performed for the audience. They are (l to r): Anne Elise Thomas, Anne Rasmussen and Nicole LeCorgne.
Jon Meacham shared his perspective of the way America’s Founding Fathers regarded religion, while fellow speaker Reza Aslan listened to his presentation.
Guests from Union-PSCE met Jon Meacham, Tommy Baer and Reza Aslan at the reception.
Reza Aslan (l to r), Jon Meacham and Tommy Baer discussed how faith and politics are interconnected, and the importance of religion worldwide.
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Ted Koppel “Iran: Yesterday and Today” Hodding Carter, Paul Duke and Larry Speakes Diane Sawyer with General Brent Scowcroft Charles Kuralt
1988 January February March April
Oprah Winfrey George Will “The Cold War – Will it Thaw?” Marvin Kalb, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vladimir Pozner Art Buchwald
1989 January February March April
Sam Donaldson John Chancellor and Henry Kissinger “Should Drugs be Legalized?” William Buckley and Charles Rangel Dr. Carl Sagan
1990 January February March April
Paul Duke, Howard Fineman and Charles McDowell “Perspectives – From Right to Left” Frank Carlucci, Bettina Gregory, George McGovern, William Proxmire and William Rusher Mike Wallace Alistair Cooke
1991 October January February March April
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt “Crisis in the Persian Gulf” Admiral William Crowe, General Alexander Haig, Robert McFarlane and Edwin Newman H. Ross Perot Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney “Space and Beyond” James Burke, Dr. Frank Drake and James Lovell
1992 October January February March April
Barbara Walters Margaret Thatcher Larry King with General Norman Schwarzkopf “DNA: From Catching Criminals to Constructing Dinosaurs” Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Victor McKusick and Dr. Marc Micozzi Mark Russell
1993 October January February March April
Terry Anderson “Japanese/American Trade Debate” with Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens Dr. Joyce Brothers Bill Cosby Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with Cokie Roberts
1994 November January February March April
“America in the Year 2000” Lamar Alexander, Marvin Cetron, Senator Warren Rudman and Chris Wallace Louis Rukeyser with Frank Cappiello and Michael Holland President George H. W. Bush Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Bob Newhart
1995 November January February March April
General Colin Powell Walter Cronkite with Judy Woodruff Dave Barry Tom Clancy Jack Kemp and Senator George Mitchell
1996 November January February March April
Ambassador Carla Hills and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney “Space and Flight: The First & Last Men on the Moon” Neil Armstrong, Capt. Eugene Cernan, David Hartman and Dick Rutan Calvin Trillin Charles Kuralt “The Presidency, The Press and The People” Ed Bradley, David Gergen, Pierre Salinger, Sheila Tate and Bob Woodward
1997 November January February March April
Dick Cavett and Carl Reiner Ray Brady with Paul A. Volcker “To Preserve and Protect: The Story of the American Presidency” Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough Sir David Frost interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber “The Legal System in America” Marcia Clark, Philip K. Howard, Prof. Arthur Miller, Dr. Rodney Smolla and The Hon. Kym Worthy
1998 November January February March April
Bill Moyers Wynton Marsalis Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Dan Raviv Mary Tyler Moore Peter Lynch
1999 November January February March April
Rt. Hon. John Major Robert S. Bennett and Dr. William J. Bennett with Tim Russert Harry S. Dent, Jr. and Lou Dobbs Lily Tomlin Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean-Michel Cousteau
2000 November January February March April
Julie Andrews with Catherine Crier “The Century” Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings “Technology and the New Marketplace” Ray Brady, Michael Connors and John Krubski Archbishop Desmond Tutu James Carville and Newt Gingrich with Tim Russert
Senator John Glenn Tom Brokaw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Daniel Schorr Frank McCourt Dr. William Kelso presents “The Rediscovery of Jamestown”
2002 November January February March April
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!” Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Thomas Hartman Dick Clark presents “Music…The Soundtrack of Our Lives” Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough The Hon. Madeleine K. Albright and The Hon. James A. Baker III with Gwen Ifill
2003 November January February March April
Ken Burns presents “The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Opening of the American West” The Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Her Majesty Queen Noor with Gwen Ifill FBI Director Louis Freeh Senator Fred Thompson
2004 November January February March April
Cal Ripken, Jr. Robert Shiller and Jeremy Siegel with Geoff Colvin Candice Bergen presents “Photographs and Stories” Rt. Hon. Mary Robinson: “Achieving Human Rights in the 21st Century” Thomas L. Friedman
2005 November January February March April
General Tommy Franks Michael Beschloss and Walter Isaacson Tim Russert Fareed Zakaria Frank Gehry
2006 November January February March April
Robert Redford Sherry Lansing General Colin Powell Tom Wolfe Rick Wagoner with Geoff Colvin
2007 November January February March April
Burt Rutan Malcolm Gladwell and Alvin Toffler B.B. King Jim Lehrer Dr. Jared Diamond
2008 November January February March April
President Vicente Fox Carly Fiorina Michael Douglas with Jeffrey Brown Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. David Brooks
2009 November January February March April
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair Reza Aslan and Jon Meacham Smokey Robinson with Daphne Maxwell Reid Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan
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