Saturday Early Show Celebrating the 2022 Birthday of Martha and the Vandellas and original Rolling Stone Ian Stewart
by Robert Wilkinson
For our early show we’re taking it to the streets to dance to the music of two great birthday musical talents. Today we have Motown and the barrelhouse piano driving the early Rolling Stones!
Our first set features a dance tune that was once banned from the radio because some believed it incited people to riot. A ridiculous notion, but in fact white Amerika was scared to death that this song would turn people out into the streets to riot rather than dance.
Our song was #2 in the charts that Summer of 1964, and when birthday girl Martha Reeves (July 18, 1941) was asked by the UK press if she was a “militant leader” and if "Dancing in the Streets" was a call to riot, we read in wiki that “To Reeves, the query was patently absurd. 'My Lord, it was a party song,' she remarked in retrospect." It seems the powers that be are always looking for a chance to be buzzkills for the dancing young. For your enjoyment, the hip shaking music of Martha and the Vandellas!
Here they’re grooving to a backing track, “Dancing In the Streets”
Here’s a great compilation of several videos of them performing “Dancing in the Streets”
From 1965 on Ready Steady Go, a great live performance of “Nowhere to Run”
From 1965, set in a Detroit car factory, Martha and the Vandellas lip synching to “Nowhere to Run”From 1965, one of my all time faves, and one of the catchiest dance numbers ever written! “Heat Wave”
Here’s an updated clip featuring the Funk Brothers who backed the original tune recorded at Hitsville USA. The first part features a 2002 performance by Joan Osborne backed by the Funk Brothers, which moves into the original video clip of Martha and the Vandellas linked above. This song is still one of the best of the best! “Heat Wave”
From 1963, an early live performance clip by Martha and the Vandellas of “So Many Memories”
Live in Detroit in 1964 for The Motortown Revue, here’s a great audio only track of Martha and the Vandellas doing their hit “Quicksand”
From 1967 on Shebang!, “Jimmy Mack”
The clips of “My Baby Loves Me” and “Jimmy Mack” from Live on Swingin' Time with Robin Seymour, in 1967 have disappeared.
In 1966 they appeared on The Mike Douglas Show, for a live performance of “My Baby Loves Me” and from the same show, “Canadian Sunset.”
Here’s a great 15 minute live clip of Martha Reeves! Martha Reeves live on Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert
We’ll close this segment with a few clips from Soul Train from 1970-71! The music begins 40 seconds into the first clip. “Dancing in the Streets,” which we’ll follow with something written by “The Corporation,” the group of songwriters and producers behind the Jackson 5, the funky danceable “Bless You,” and close with “Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things.”
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It’s also the birthday of Ian Andrew Robert Stewart (18 July 1938 – 12 December 1985), co-founder of the Rolling Stones and their road manager and keyboard player between 1962-1986, except for Beggar’s Banquet and Their Satanic Majesties Request. Today I’ll give you a few of his contributions! Since he never appeared live with Keef, Mick, and the boys, tonight you get the studio originals. And they’re not the only band he played with, though that’s what he’s mainly known for. Every organ and piano piece you hear today is Ian Stewart!
One of my favorites from Aftermath! “Flight 505”
They wrote these original tune early on! “Stoned” and “Cops and Robbers”
Ian’s on the Vox Continental organ! “Time’s On My Side”
Early Stones R&B on display!
“Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
Movin’ and groovin’ into their middle period!
“Complicated” (Sounds like they were inspired by Ray Davies!)
When they were the “Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World!”
His piano is exquisite! “Dead Flowers”
Ian Stewart also was part of the All-Star musical group that hung with Howlin’ Wolf and created a legendary album, The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions. His piano was all over these two and more! First, with Eric on lead and Charlie on drums, “Rockin’ Daddy,” and then with Eric, Charlie, and Bill Wyman on bass, “Built for Comfort”
Ian’s piano is on three songs on this clip! Besides “Built For Comfort,” we also have “Do the Do” begins about 11m 20s into this clip, and it finishes with “Wang Dang Doodle.” The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions
For a final treat, Ian also played on two Led Zeppelin tracks! First, here’s “Rock and Roll” and for our final cut, here is the extraordinary and unmistakable boogie-woogie piano work of Mister Ian Stewart in “Boogie With Stu”
For our encore, he played a couple of tunes on the 1972 Rolling Stones tour. You can definitely hear his style in this great live performance of “Bye Bye Johnny”
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