Lesley ebbets biography for kids
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Motown records (and subsidiaries like Tamla, Gordy, V.I.P. and Soul) had a profound affect on the way us Baby Boomers listened to music (they had their own rock label in Rare Earth as well). It was through them that many of us vit suburban kids were exposed to black artists and their music. The story is pretty well-known about Berry Gordy, Jr. starting Tamla musikstil in January and amassing an fantastisk array of talented performers &#; singers, songwriters, producers and musicians. The early Motown sound was pretty recognizable &#; bright and poppy and largely due to the set of musicians that played on their sessions &#; later known as The Funk Brothers. My pal Ted Scott (who thankfully takes me to most music movies) and I went to see the fascinating film about those players &#; the movie Standing In The Shadows Of Motown. That movie shone a light on talent most of us knew nothing about (as a film did for The Wrecking Crew). This list is devoted to some of your blogger&#;s
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Composition and Lit
On Writing
Well 30th Anniversary Edition
THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO WRITING NONFICTION
William Zinsser
CONTENTS
COVER TITLE PAGE INTRODUCTION
PART I Principles
1 The Transaction 2 Simplicity 3 Clutter 4 Style 5 The Audience 6 Words 7 Usage
PART II Methods
8 Unity 9 The Lead and the Ending 10 Bits & Pieces
PART III Forms
11 Nonfiction as Literature 12 Writing About People: The Interview 13 Writing About Places: The Travel Article 14 Writing About Yourself: The Memoir 15 Science and Technology 16 Business Writing: Writing in Your Job 17 Sports 18 Writing About the Arts: Critics and Columnists
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19 Humor
PART IV Attitudes
20 The Sound of Your Voice 21 Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence 22 The Tyranny of the Final Product 23 A Writer&#x;s Decisions 24 Writing Family History and Memoir 25 Write as Well as You Can
SOURCES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR OTHER WORKS COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
INTRODUCTION
One of th
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Sound file storage technology seems to be changing, upgrading, and taking up less space by the hour. So it might seem questionable whether we — as individuals or as a society — should be archiving vinyl record sleeves. They take up so much more room than those sound files, and the whole concept of such things taking up “space” might be forever altered if they can be stored in the “cloud” or some such thing anyway. Why hold onto what are, after all, just glorified pieces of cardboard?
Even leaving aside the issues of artwork that would be lost and whether it’s possible to create files that sound as good as the original vinyl, there’s another vital component to many LP releases that’s of great historical importance, and often entirely overlooked in these discussions. Many of them came with liner notes that contained crucial writing and information that’s often never been reprinted. Even some notes that didn’t benefit from the much deeper research available in later decades contain pe