In the last 10 years, I've grown to love the classic sound of Motown.  Artists like The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vendellas and others were part of that era where every time you heard one of their songs, it made you feel good.  The city of Detroit, MI really cranked out some great tunes like "Jimmy Mack", "It's The Same Old Song", "Shotgun", Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Come See About Me" and many others too numerous to mention.

As a teenager in the early 1980s, I got drawn to a new song that hit the radio airwaves from Phil Collins.  He did a faithful remake of the The Supremes "You Can't Hurry Love" and once I bought the cassette tape to his album, I couldn't stop listening to it.  That was my first real exposure to Motown, though I didn't realize it at the time and that it would be a long time before coming to the conclusion that it was The Supremes version that answered my question...

Many years later when I was working in Atlantic City, a vision came to me.  I became enthralled with anything and everything that had to do with the classic 1960s sound of Motown.  Every time I got to hear or play anything from that incredible era, I turned up the volume.  So I did a little research and discovered that around the time of my birth, the song "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes was all over the radio.  At that moment, I drew a conclusion that when my mother gave birth to me at the hospital in Philadelphia, either the doctors and nurses must have had the radio on as I came into the world or my mom and dad must have had the radio on to keep me entertained in my first few months of my life.  Sounds silly, but if the story is true, then my parents must have wanted me to be exposed to good things in the world through the popular songs of the day.