If Motown Records was the lifeblood of American pop music for much of the 1960s and '70s, then the Funk Brothers served as its heart and soul. "The Funk Brothers" was the nickname given to the group ...

Host Larry Mantle discusses the new documentary about the Funk Brothers, the musicians who created the Motown sound behind the most famous songs of the time. Joining Larry is the director and producer ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," has ...

James Jamerson Jr. attends the opening night of "Motown The Musical" at The Fisher Theatre on October 22, 2014 in Detroit, Michigan. Photo of Hank CROSBY and Larry VEEDER and Joe HUNTER and James ...

Motown as a sit-down concert experience? Certainly - when the band on stage includes the talented musicians who originated Detroit's timeless pop sound of the 1960s. The surviving half-dozen members ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital on Tuesday after suffering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In her decades as part of the Motown family, Pat Cosby has spent countless hours inside Hitsville, U.S.A. This time was strikingly ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” died ...