Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Awesome Video: Dennis Coffey Gets Detroit to Say "F**k You."
Dennis Coffey -- the older white guy in glasses -- put together this video of an instrumental version of Cee-Lo's "Fuck You."
About Dennis:
As a member of the Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced the wah-wah guitar sound to Motown record producer Norman Whitfield's recordings, the most notable of which is Cloud Nine by Temptations. He also played on Edwin Starr's "S.O.S. (Stop Her on Sight)," The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing", and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold".
In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked at #6 on the Billboard pop chart. Coffey performed "Scorpio" on the television show Soul Train, the first white artist appear on the show.
"Fuck You"
"Scorpio"
About Dennis:
As a member of the Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced the wah-wah guitar sound to Motown record producer Norman Whitfield's recordings, the most notable of which is Cloud Nine by Temptations. He also played on Edwin Starr's "S.O.S. (Stop Her on Sight)," The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing", and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold".
In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked at #6 on the Billboard pop chart. Coffey performed "Scorpio" on the television show Soul Train, the first white artist appear on the show.
"Fuck You"
"Scorpio"
Awesome Site: fedex cup - golfing school of business
Adding golf to a business service resulted in a collection of funny videos. Well worth checking out. Click here to take a lesson.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Awesome Site: storming juno
great interactive extension of history tv's telling of the canadian influence on d-day. click here to visit the site
Awesome Site: nike - better world
hats off to nike for implementing the green initiatives highlighted on this site and to w+k for the great use of html5. thanks again moses for this one. click here to check it out
Awesome Talent: the man with the golden voice
Awesome Trailer: jr - women are heroes
We featured the work of photographer JR a while back, but here is the trailer to his film debuting this month. And for more about JR, click here for his interview with TED.
Monday, January 3, 2011
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