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Her tone and her power put her in a class nearly by herself. And unlike other glamor queens of that era, Houston also cultivated a certain wry warmth, the laugh that burst out of her gorgeous mouth and let us know that she would always come down from the throne, kick off her spiked heels and dance with us.
— Ann Powers via Whitney Houston: Her Life Played Out Like An Opera
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R.I.P. Sylvia Robinson. The co-founder of Sugar Hill Records and “Mother of Hip-Hop” helped make classic rap songs such as “Rapper’s Delight.”
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Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died today at age 70.
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In an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition in 1991, Leiber described his partnership with Mike Stoller as “Long, long years of … stepping on each other’s toes … and words and sentences and, also, finishing each other’s lines on songs.” According to the pair, Leiber had barely spit out the words, “Take out the papers and the trash” before Stoller chimed in with, “Boy you don’t get no spending cash,” the first lines of their 1958 hit for The Coasters, “Yakety Yak.”
