>>>Have you seen "Dreamgirls"? My reaction to it as a movie was mixed but I bet it was spot on about the origins of Motown Records and the Supremes.
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>>Afraid not. I've heard good things about it, but I have to be really motivated to get myself to go to a movie these days. "Lord of the Rings" was the last thing that managed to get me there.
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>>If you're interested in Motown at all, find a DVD called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown". It's all about the 'Funk Brothers' - the band that really created the motown sound. A number of the motown singers said that you could virtually stick anybody out in front of that band, and they'd be a hit.
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>>The DVD is great. There are a couple of 'entertainers' that didn't do much for me, but the music is always great, and Joan Osborne doing "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"... absolutely mesmerizing. That alone is worth the price of admission.
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>Saw it and loved it. Those guys spent most of their lives in the background, literally, appreciated only by the insiders and aficionados. It's great that they were finally given such recognition.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that some of them couldn't be around for it. Especially James Jamerson, the heartbeat of Motown. Imagine; he had to scalp a ticket to sit in the balcony at the Motown 25th-anniversary television special.