Sight Seeing The World Through Virtual Tours |
| During this Covid 19 Pandemic Quarantine we dediced to compile a list of virtual tours from interesting tour destisnations from around the would. |
Goose Lake International Music Festival, 1970 |
 The Goose Lake International Music Festival in 1970 took place a year after Woodstock with promoters striving to create a better-organized rock festival in Leoni Township... |
1963 Heat Wave of Detroit |
 One of the first big hits to come from Martha and the Vandellas was “Heat Wave” – a key song released in July 1963; |
The Hip Places To Be In The D History |
| Graystone Ballroom – Located on Woodward Avenue near Canfield, the Graystone Ballroom was one of the most renowned dance halls in the nation during... |
1980’s & 90’s: From Synthesizers to Slim Shady |
| Techno - In the early 1980s, three high school friends in the Detroit suburb of Belleville experimented by mixing disco, dance, and house music.... |
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 During the 1960s and 1970s, Detroit rockers Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, both known for their deep and soulful vocal styles, helped establish metro Detroit as the home for rock innovation.... |
The 1960’s: Rise of Motown |
| Detroit's brand of Soul emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s from Gospel and R&B performers such as Aretha Franklin.... |
The 1950’s: Big Cars and Bolder Music |
| By the early 1950’s, R&B, country, and pop all began to merge into a new style with a driving beat and a simple chord structure... |
The 1940’s: Creating Bombs & Beats |
In the years after World War II, popular music tastes changed nationally and in Detroit as well. While some fans picked up on the modern jazz...
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The 1930’s: Paradise Valley Day |
During the 1930s the most important change in the African American jazz community was the gradual shift from big ballrooms to... |
1923-1929: Big Band Jazz |
At no other time before 1950 did Detroit bands play as central a role in the stylistic development of jazz as they did during the period 1923- 1929. |
1917-1922: Society Bands |
| The dance craze that started around World War I was to the tune of so-called society band music. Society bands had a repertoire of ragtime, |
The Romantics Rise From Detroit |
| The Romantics have woven themselves firmly into the tapestry of the Detroit rock ‘n’ roll her pantheon, both as progenitors and purveyors of passionately joyful power pop and as gritty survivors |
 The World Of Billie Holiday
I tried to make an interesting selection of some Billie Holiday songs as performed by various artists with Billie herself as a reference... |
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The 1950s Queer Black Performers w Little Richard |
 The 1950s queer black performers who inspired Little Richard Since Little Richard died on May 9, he’s been rightly celebrated as one of the most exciting and influential performers in the canon of American popular music. But in most tributes, the full story of his artistic development has been slighted. This is a pity, because Little... |
What Was the Motown Sound?
•Great melodies,lots of tambourines and hand clapping, blaring horns, interplay between the lead singer ... |
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William “Smokey” Robinson |
| William “Smokey” Robinson was born in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan. His mother died when he was 10, and he was raised by his older sister in a house with eleven other children. While... |
Motowns Greatest Hits |
Motown is an American record company. The record company was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. |
