Ain T Too Proud To Beg

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780470632826

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The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized their onstage triumphs to the personal failings and psycho-dramas that played out behind the scenes, Ain't Too Proud to Beg tells the complete story of this most popular—and tragic—of all Motown super groups. Based on in-depth research and interviews with founding Temptations member Otis Williams and many others, the book reveals the highly individual, even mutually antagonistic, nature of the group's members. Venturing beyond the money and the fame, it shares the compelling tale of these sometime allies, sometime rivals and reveals the unique dynamic of push and pull and give and take that resulted in musical genius. The first book to tell the whole story of Motown's greatest group, with all-new interviews and previously undiscovered sources and photographs Gives the last word on enduring Motown mysteries, including the deaths of Paul Williams and David Ruffin and the truth behind Ruffin's tumultuous romance with Tammi Terrell Reveals the secret "can't miss" formula behind the Temptations' thirty-seven chart hits Draws on more than one hundred interviews with the group's associates, industry figures, family members, and most importantly, founding Temptation Otis Williams Ain't Too Proud to Beg takes a cohesive and penetrating look at the life and enduring legacy of one of the greatest groups in popular music. It is essential reading for fans of the Temptations, music lovers, and anyone interested in the history of American popular culture over the last fifty years.

Author : Meg Quinn,Shana Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Cooking (Cheese)
ISBN : 9780593233276

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The Cheese Board Deck by Meg Quinn,Shana Smith Pdf

Author : Otis Williams
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461661283

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Temptations by Otis Williams Pdf

The Temptations were the most commercially successful and critically lauded male vocal group of the Sixties and early Seventies. Through the years, the group's trademark razor-sharp choreography, finely tuned harmonies, and compelling vocals made them the exemplars of the Motown style. This is the frank, revealing story of the legendary supergroup, told by its founder.

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573706813

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Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau Pdf

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559368582

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The Detroit Project by Dominique Morisseau Pdf

Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. With empathetic storytelling and an ear for the voices of her home community, Morisseau brings to life the soul of Detroit, past and present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595323173

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Ain't Too Proud to Beg by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Donovan
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988636

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Ain't Too Proud to Beg by Susan Donovan Pdf

Josie Sheehan collects failed relationships the way some women collect designer handbags. Now, at thirty-five, she has exactly one male in her life: her Labradoodle, Genghis. In fact Josie, along with the three very single women in her dog-walking group, has recently sworn off men, resigning herself to long walks in the park with her devoted, four-legged friend. All bets are off, however, when she meets Rick Rousseau, a pet-company CEO who is smart, sexy, and, best of all, head-over-heels for Josie. Even Genghis, an excellent judge of character, seems to know that Rick is the real deal. But just when Josie starts to think that she has found something more enduring than puppy love, she discovers that Rick has a complicated past—and a secret that could put the woman he loves in serious danger...

Author : Telford Work
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802803931

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Ain't Too Proud to Beg by Telford Work Pdf

Work proposes that Christians take whatever is happening in their world and set the Lord's Prayer in the middle of it to shed light on the scene, expose what matters--and then pray it. Ecumenical and evangelical in tone, the volume ends with three sparkling, joyful sermons.

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573705151

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Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau Pdf

Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her own? And what does it mean for the club’s resident bebop band? When a mysterious woman with a walk that drives men mad comes to town with her own plans, everyone’s world is turned upside down. This dynamic and musically-infused drama shines light on the challenges of building a better future on the foundation of what our predecessors have left us.

Author : Gerald Posner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307538628

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Motown by Gerald Posner Pdf

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building’s entrance was adorned with a large sign that improbably boasted “Hitsville U.S.A.” The kitchen served as the control room, the garage became the two-track studio, the living room was reserved for bookkeeping, and sales were handled in the dining room. Soon word spread that any youngster with a streak of talent should visit the only record label that Detroit had seen in years. The company’s name was Motown. Motown cuts through decades of unsubstantiated rumors and speculation to tell the true behind-the-scenes narrative of America’s most exciting musical dynasty. It follows the company and its amazing roster of stars from the tumultuous growth years in Detroit, to the drama and intrigue of Hollywood in the 1970s, to resurgence in 2002. Set against the civil rights movement, the decay of America’s northern industrial cities, and the social upheaval of the 1960s, Motown is a tale of the incredible entrepreneurship of Berry Gordy. But it also features the moving stories of kids from Detroit’s inner-city projects who achieved remarkable success and then, in many cases, found themselves fighting the demons that so often come with stardom—drugs, jealousy, sexual indulgence, greed, and uncontrollable ambition. Motown features an extraordinary cast of characters, including Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder. They are presented as they lived and worked: a clan of friends, lovers, competitors, and sometimes vicious foes. Motown reveals how the hopes and dreams of each affected the lives of the others and illustrates why this singular story is a made-in-America Greek tragedy, the rise and fall of a supremely talented yet completely dysfunctional extended family. Based on numerous original interviews and extensive documentation, Motown benefits particularly from the thousands of pages of files crammed into the basement of downtown Detroit’s Wayne County Courthouse. Those court records provide the unofficial—and hitherto largely untold—history of Motown and its stars, since almost every relationship between departing singers, songwriters, producers, and the label ended up in litigation. From its peaks in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Motown controlled the pop charts and its stars were sought after even by the Beatles, through the inexorable slide caused by their failure to handle their stardom, Motown is a riveting and troubling look inside a music label that provided the unofficial soundtrack to an entire generation.

Author : The Temptations
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458468383

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The Temptations - Greatest Hits (Songbook) by The Temptations Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 14 of the best songs from this Motown quintet that was a sensation in the '60s. Includes: Ain't Too Proud to Beg * Beauty Is Only Skin Deep * Cloud Nine * Get Ready * I Can't Get Next to You * Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) * My Girl * Papa Was a Rolling Stone * The Way You Do the Things You Do * and more.

Author : Dominique Morisseau
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057370516X

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Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau Pdf

At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams a reality. Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy.

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540043566

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The Real R&B Book by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Fake Book). A hot collection for R&B fans everywhere! 265 R&B hits in one Real Book collection complete with lyrics, including: ABC * Ain't No Sunshine * Ain't Too Proud to Beg * Baby Love * Chain of Fools * Cissy Strut * Everyday People * Fallin' * Gimme Some Lovin' * Green Onions * Hard to Handle * The Harlem Shuffle * Hold on I'm Comin' * I Believe I Can Fly * I Got You (I Feel Good) * I Second That Emotion * I Thank You * I Wish * I'll Make Love to You * In the Midnight Hour * Just One Look * Lady Marmalade * Last Dance * Let the Good Times Roll * Let's Get It On * Love and Happiness * Mr. Big Stuff * Mustang Sally * My Girl * Papa Was a Rollin' Stone * Purple Rain * Respect * Right Place, Wrong Time * Soul Man * Stand by Me * Super Freak * The Tears of a Clown * Three Times a Lady * U Can't Touch This * Vision of Love * What'd I Say * Who's Making Love * Will It Go Round in Circles * You Can't Hurry Love * You've Really Got a Hold on Me * and many more.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627959

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August Wilson's Jitney by August Wilson Pdf

"Regular cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to each other. Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys--unofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers. When the boss Becker's son returns from prison, violence threatens to erupt. What makes this play remarkable is not the plot; Jitney is Wilson at his most real--the words these men use and the stories they tell form a true slice of life."--The Wikipedia entry, accessed 5/22/2014.

Author : Tony Turner,Barbara Aria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Soul musicians
ISBN : 1560250348

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Deliver Us from Temptation by Tony Turner,Barbara Aria Pdf

An inside look at the lives and careers of the Temptations and other Motown artists traces the band members lives, from their roots in the deep South to their first big success to worldwide fame. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.