Host Larry Mantle discusses the new documentary about the Funk Brothers, the musicians who created the Motown sound behind the most famous songs of the time. Joining Larry is the director and producer ...

Reviews that would have made Smokey Robinson or Marvin Gaye blush didn't provide much help for "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," the belated but loving homage to the Funk Brothers, the aggregate ...

Allan Slutsky’s book Standing in the Shadows of Motown profiled bassist James Jamerson, whose dexterous and innovative playing was integral to the Motown sound but who, four months before his death ...

The acclaimed documentary traces the rise of the Funk Brothers, the studio musicians who powered the Motown Sound.

THE LOWDOWN: A documentary paying tribute to the Funk Brothers, the unsung studio musicians responsible for the biggest hits of Motown's golden era. "Deputy Dawg could've sung on (those songs), and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows ...

Calling the Funk Brothers merely the house band for the Motown Sound is a little like calling the Rat Pack a Vegas lounge act. During the heyday of the Berry Gordy's Motown Records, when the company's ...

Pick a Motown classic from the ’60s, any Motown classic from the ’60s, and chances are that guys like “Pistol” Allen, “Bongo” Brown, and James Jamerson played on it. Whether it was Marvin, Martha, or ...