Click here to listen to the TJMS tribute to Frank Wilson. DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Motown record producer and songwriter Frank Wilson, who worked with the Supremes, the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, has died in Southern California at 71. Daughter Tracey Stein tells the Los Angeles Times that Wilson died of lung infection complications on […]
Producers of “Motown: The Musical” announced today that it will open on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 14, 2013, with previews beginning March 11, 2013. Tickets will go on sale to the general public October 1. As previously reported, Motown: The Musical will be based on the life of legendary Motown founder Berry […]
DETROIT (AP) — Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," has died. He was 74. Babbitt died Monday of complications from brain cancer in Nashville, Tenn., where he had lived for many years, […]
