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Shop Around: Growing Up With Motown In A Sinatra Household (Music That Changed My Life, 2)

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Bruce Jenkins was twelve years old, living in Malibu with his parents, when he heard the original Shop Around single, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey Robinson, the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame, but for young Bruce, the first times he heard the song were a revelation. Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father, Gordon Jenkins, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother, Beverly, was a singer. For Bruce, Shop Around ushered him into a new world of loving Motown. In "Shop Around," he brings to life the first thrill of having the music claim him, provides the back story of the recording (and rerecording) of the hit single, shares sketches from his life with his father and mother, and traces how his love of music has grown and evolved over the years and how he still loves driving around San Francisco with Motown cranked up on his car stereo."

Author: Bruce Jenkins, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Bruce Jenkins
Publisher: Wellstone Books
Publication Date: Jun 28, 2016
Number of Pages: 168 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Music
ISBN-10: 0986189812
ISBN-13: 9780986189814

Shop Around: Growing Up With Motown In A Sinatra Household (Music That Changed My Life, 2)

$12.99
$11.36
Sale 13%
 
Bruce Jenkins was twelve years old, living in Malibu with his parents, when he heard the original Shop Around single, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey Robinson, the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame, but for young Bruce, the first times he heard the song were a revelation. Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father, Gordon Jenkins, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother, Beverly, was a singer. For Bruce, Shop Around ushered him into a new world of loving Motown. In "Shop Around," he brings to life the first thrill of having the music claim him, provides the back story of the recording (and rerecording) of the hit single, shares sketches from his life with his father and mother, and traces how his love of music has grown and evolved over the years and how he still loves driving around San Francisco with Motown cranked up on his car stereo."

Author: Bruce Jenkins, Dean of Undergraduate Studies Bruce Jenkins
Publisher: Wellstone Books
Publication Date: Jun 28, 2016
Number of Pages: 168 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Music
ISBN-10: 0986189812
ISBN-13: 9780986189814
 

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