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Neon Neon: My Favourite Motown Song
6:15 AM GMT 29/12/2008
...IGGY POP
Neon Neon’s King Of The Beats on The Marvelettes Please, Mr Postman.
The Marvelettes
Please, Mr Postman
(Tamla single, 1961)
Boom Bip (Neon Neon): “I own more of the ’70s Motown stuff on vinyl than the early 1960s records. My background is in hip hop, and when I was younger and really into beat-digging, looking for records to sample from that ‘70s era – Stevie’s albums, the Jackson 5 – was what I was most familiar with. The earlier records, stuff by The Temptations and The Four Tops, it’s music I’d heard on the radio and at the grocery store or in the dentist’s waiting room my whole life. Now I’m more mature, the earlier stuff is more interesting to me; songs that I’ve heard 500 times before can just hit me as if I’m listening to them for the first time. So, as far as the greatest Motown record goes, I’m gonna go with The Marvelettes’ Please Mr. Postman because it seems like the quintessential Motown record. It’s like a time capsule of that whole era. Everything, from the reverb of the recording, to the vocal harmonies and melodies, to that amazing house band and the tight little drum-break, is spot-on. It just has that absolute Detroit sound. It’s a great, great pop tune that hits really hard. That’s early Motown, for me, at its prime
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:15 AM GMT 29/12/2008
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