I was reading one of the Sunday supplements just prior to the Motown Anniversary and this particular article gave '50 Things You Never Knew About Motown!.
I thought, 'Here We Go'.
But I was taken aback by two of these profferences:
One being the basis of 'Diana Ross and The Supremes' palms-up choreography to 'Stop! In The Name Of Love.'
According to the blurb; when Ms Ross was given the initial run-through of the song by Berry Gordy, she was that excited by it that she ran toward the Gents toilets in Hitsville, where she had seconds earlier seen Smokey Robinson wander into for a slash, as to express her excitement to old Smokey.
At this moment it seems one of the male 'Motown toilet attendants' (???) [this being in the 60's and ladies entering Gentlemens Lavatories not being the done thing] raised his hand and said "Stop!".
Hence the iconic hand raising as The Supremes sang "STOP!".
The other one was the lovely fact that The Supremes had their own bread.
I was reading one of the Sunday supplements just prior to the Motown Anniversary and this particular article gave '50 Things You Never Knew About Motown!.
I thought, 'Here We Go'.
But I was taken aback by two of these profferences:
One being the basis of 'Diana Ross and The Supremes' palms-up choreography to 'Stop! In The Name Of Love.'
According to the blurb; when Ms Ross was given the initial run-through of the song by Berry Gordy, she was that excited by it that she ran toward the Gents toilets in Hitsville, where she had seconds earlier seen Smokey Robinson wander into for a slash, as to express her excitement to old Smokey.
At this moment it seems one of the male 'Motown toilet attendants' (???) [this being in the 60's and ladies entering Gentlemens Lavatories not being the done thing] raised his hand and said "Stop!".
Hence the iconic hand raising as The Supremes sang "STOP!".
The other one was the lovely fact that The Supremes had their own bread.