Among Motown’s most rousing anthems, “I am able to’t Aid Myself” was influenced by songwriter Lamont Dozier’s grandfather, who’d call the women his hairdresser wife set up “sugar pie” and “honey bunch.” Over the recording, engineer Harold Taylor recalled, “People today were being banging over the doorway from the studio; they … Read More

“We did it since my vocation was to the wane and we wished one thing to make a hit,” Harry Nilsson bluntly instructed an interviewer when requested why he lined Badfinger’s around-despondent ballad: “I heard it and searched through every Beatles album for two as well as a 50 % weeks, striving to understand which a single of their tunes it a… Read More