Updated: “It’s horrible. It’s white bread, it’s ‘cute-ums.’” Sammy Davis Jr., couldn’t imagine singing lyrics that included such cloying phrases as “groovy lemon pies.”
Read More Updated: “I was in heaven, learning as much as I could learn. I loved, loved, loved every minute of it,” Sally Field once enthused to a writer from “O, The Oprah Magazine.”
Read More Updated: By the early 1970s, Motown’s teenage brother group the Jackson 5 was regularly burning up the Billboard singles and album charts. Lead singer Michael Jackson later recalled, “It was (Motown founder) Berry Gordy’s idea that I should do a solo recording, and so I became one of the first people in a Motown group to really step out.”
Read More Updated: When rock ‘n’ roll emerged in the mid-50s, movie studios began rush releasing low-budget black and white films about the phenomenon. Hollywood executives had dismissed the music as an insipid teenage craze and wanted to exploit it before it died as quickly as had the Davy Crockett coonskin cap fad.
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