"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by #Motown recording act #theUndisputedTruth in 1972, though it became much better known after a #GrammyAward-winning cover by #theTemptations was issued later the same year. This latter version of the song became a number-one hit on the #Billboard #Hot100. "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong in 1971. Whitfield produced #theOriginal Undisputed Truth version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xAtsXb8Vs
#BarrettStrong
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Barrett Strong:
🎵 Money (That's What I Want)
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/barrett-strong-money-funkastik-remix
85 years ago today, #BarrettStrong, American R&B vocalist ("Money (That's What I Want)"), piano player, and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My Imagination"; "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"; "War"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2023).
#HappyBirthday #RIP âśž
"I Can't Get Next to You" is a 1969 #single recorded by #theTemptations and written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for the Gordy (#Motown) label. The song was a No. 1 single on the #Billboard Top Pop Singles chart for two weeks in 1969, from October 18 to October 25, replacing "#SugarSugar" by #theArchies and replaced by "#SuspiciousMinds" by #ElvisPresley. The single was also a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Top #RAndB Singles for five weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDasi1jiqRs
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling”*…
The quote above, from Ambrose Bierce, was true enough until relatively recently. Business has embraced gaming. When the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, Americans, who had legally wagered less than $5 billion on sports annually. Last year, they bet $150 billion, most of it online (with the active involvement of leagues and the broadcasters who serve up their games). And now prediction markets are on the scene, widening the apperture for online casino-like wagering to include politics, the Golden Globe awards, the return of Jesus Christ and virtually anything else… which could be a problem.
Indeed, just this past week, Common Sense Media released a report on gambling by young boys that reveals (among other deeply concerning things) that 1 in 3 American boys ages 11-17 are gambling before they can vote. (Full report here.)
Gambling addiction has been an issue in the U.S. for decades. But with the onslaught of new ways to wager, the problem is surging. And as Benjamin Errett (observes in an amusing piece on “McGuffins“– objects, devices, or events necessary to plot and the motivation of characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself), it’s a particularly problematic problem…
There’s a compelling argument to be made that money is the true MacGuffin. George Ainslie [here], a psychiatrist and behavioural economist, makes that case in a very readable paper on addiction and regrettable choices. He gets right to the weird thing about gambling as a compulsive behaviour: Spending money for a chance of getting more money (with the likelihood of losing it) is illogically direct. (I too got stuck on this paradox in The Wit’s Guide to Gambling, and some part of my brain is still spinning on the roulette table.) If you simply must have cocaine or hot fudge sundaes or hot cocaine fudge sundaes, the immediate pleasure and later pain are in different modalities. And so Ainslie concludes that money is a MacGuffin because it’s “the object of a hedonic game that is justified by its instrumental believability but which is actually shaped by its production of satisfaction in its own right.” Ergo, capitalism is a Hitchcock movie….
– source
Ainsle’s essay, prepared for a conference on addiction, is eminently worth reading and pondering.
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As we turn our backs on baccarat, we might recall that it was on this date in 1960 that “Money (That’s What I Want)” by Barrett Strong entered the Billboard Hot 100. Written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, the single was the first hit record by Gordy’s Motown Records (released on Motown’s Tamla label). The song peaked at #23 in April and was the only song recorded by Strong that reached the Hot 100, though Strong went on to write many of Motown’s biggest hits. It was, of course, covered by The Beatles, among many others.
https://youtu.be/96XJl7mxDtc?si=vEXw930DzjYxwXSG
And we might note that today is the first day of a “prefectly square” month…
#BarrettStrong #BerryGordy #betting #commonSenseMedia #culture #gambling #gamblingAddiction #history #mcguffin #money #MoneyThatsWhatIWant #Motown #onlineGambling #politics #predictionMarkets #Tamla #Technology
On January 29th, 2023: #BarrettStrong, American R&B vocalist ("Money (That's What I Want)"), piano player, and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My Imagination";"Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"; "War"), died at 81.
#RIP 🪔
Ted Tocks Covers
Ball of Confusion
Originally posted on February 5, 2018
Remembering Barrett Strong!
“People moving out, people moving in. Why, because of the colour of their skin.
Run, run, run but you sure can’t hide. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Vote for me and I’ll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on.”
#TheTemptations #BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #LoveandRockets
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/ball-of-confusion/
Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 6
What Have They Done to My Song Ma
Remembering Melanie!
“I wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well, if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they've done to my song”
#Melanie #PeterSchekeryk #TheEdwinHawkinsSingers #TheNewSeekers #BarrettStrong #RayCharles #NinaSimone #RyanToby #WhoopiGoldberg #MileyCyrus #TheRollingStones #BobDylan
Money (That's What I Want) 🎰
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k
Money (That's What I Want) đź’¸
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnrZnFSlWU
Money (That's What I Want) đź’°
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k
Money (That's What I Want) đź’µ
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJl7mxDtc
Ted Tocks Covers
War
Originally posted on February 5, 2019
This #EdwinStarr classic was at #1 on this day 55 years ago.
“Oh, war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest within the younger generation
Induction then destruction, who wants to die?”
#BarrettStrong #NormanWhitfield #edwinstarr #TheTemptations #brucespringsteen
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixqofv-Oi74
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzTr2P0AJo
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by #NormanWhitfield and #BarrettStrong for #MotownRecords in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for #GladysKnightAndThePips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the #Billboard #RAndB Singles chart and number two on the Billboard #PopSingles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single up to that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmS961An4c
Ted Tocks Covers
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Originally posted on March 26, 2018
On this day in 1969, #MarvinGaye was at the top of the U.K. singles chart with this classic song written by #BarrettStrong and #NormanWhitfield
“Ooh, bet you're wonderin' how I knew
'Bout your plan to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before
Between the two of us guys
You know I loved you more
It took me by surprise, I must say
When I found out yesterday”
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine/
Money (That's What I Want) đź‘Ť
#BarrettStrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k
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