By « he didn’t make it to the finish line » Slutsky means that Robert White passed away before the documentary came out. He died before being able to get some recognition.

"I lost my job as a spy, but I could still play piano". lol

The Funk Brothers were the real “SOUL” of Motown. It’s sad that they were not treated properly by Berry Gordy when they were the creators of the Motown Sound. God bless them for their musical genius. Thank you so much for continuing your reaction to Standing In The Shadows of Motown. Really enjoyed all 3 Parts. 👏👏👏🥰

So glad you guy’s are bringing some more recognition to these brilliant musicians.

I wish that they would have done a documentary on MFSB the house band at Philly International Records. They deserved some love too.

Hits are made by musicians, songwriters, singers, production and marketing. And an unknown factor no one can define.

Here's how I rate the 4 great soul/blues studios and the muscians within each. 1- Stax, 2- Chess, 3- Motown, 4- Muscle Shoals. Muscle Shoals moves up because they adapted later into the 70s

Love these deep dives into the origin of the “sound of …”. I grew up in the 60’s & every night would fall asleep (at 8 yrs old) listening to Mary Wells or the Supremes or Smokey. 💜💜💜

Joan Osborne did a great job on "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted." I think you'd like to hear more of her work.

Robert White the guitarist died before The Funk Brothers got any recognition. He died in 1994. They were known in the UK though.

Such an amazing time for music. I loved it so much, I wanted to be a Supreme when I grew up! LOL

It wasn't a formula or anything in the building. It was the people, their times, experience and their hunger & desire to make the music that was inside them.

Robert white died just as they got the green light to make the documentary standing in the shadows of Motown. They were trying to get financing for years and Robert with the rest of the guys would finally get some recognition.but Robert died of a heart attack and never got to participate.

I’m hoping that after this amazing Motown deep dive you can do a reaction to the documentary SOUND CITY. This is the LA studio that recorded LEGENDARY rock bands and the story of the sound board that made that sound so special.

Can’t wait for part 4 and the segment on Jamerson

I hope you will look at Tom Dowd "the language of music". He was a fantastic engineer with Ray Charles and many others. I would love to see your guys reaction. Your input on these is very entertaining.

I believe it was (originally) guitarist Joe Messina's job to provide that slashing backbeat that is such a part of their sound (listen for it). And he always voiced the chord so the the top note was not the melody note being sung. What artists!

Great documentary about the music I grew up with.

Great reaction as always! You should think about doing The Wrecking Crew next. It plays out similar to Muscle Shoals and Standing in the Shadows, but with LA studio musicians.

The fact YT blocks the performances just goes to show how great, and valuable, those songs still are.

Yay, so excited for part 3!! Thank you!

Alright!! More Motown! Go Laa ! Go Chee !

James got a grand a week, he was the highest paid Funk Brother. Remember, in 1965, grand a week was like 12,500 a week today. 100 a week to spy, probably 300-350 to record.

I think what that generation had was the lack of someone to copy and a standard to live up to. Sure there were other groups playing around town and radio, but no where near the saturation and repetition of today's music industry. That in turn gave them a lot of room to create (at times no idea what to do). They just pulled the next lick out of their butts and tried everything until it sounded good enough. It was almost a free for all. They weren't after perfection. That's why it sounds so good and human. EDIT-Corrected word that word correction didn't correct.

Grapevine had two different musical tracks.. bothe hits!

if you wanna also get the secret of the Wailers, they took a similar approach to their groove 2:18

I swore I had read that the band was all black, but they actually had a couple of white musicians. Though the bassist came a little later.

Oh yeah. We have to hear the VH1 story 😂

Just a reminder: This documentary came out in 2002. That's 22 years ago.

In the end even Motown moved to California. Then they lost their mojo.

I'm sorry but Ben Harper was the wrong singer to sing a David Ruffin song.

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I hope you will show the performances by Joan Osborne and Gerald Levert.

I saw this documentary before. Its good, but its a bit scattered. Suffers from a lack of a script to tie things together. Its great to have a collection of interviews with the actual funk bros, but it doesn't go as deep as it should. Which is a shame given how important they are.

These guys are me

Please don't skip the performances 👍

Just wondering why you guys skipped over the musical performances. To me, those are one of the most enjoyable parts of this documentary.