If you loved the Motown sound, you really need to treat yourself to this heart-filled, heartfelt 2002 documentary called Standing in the Shadow of Motown. It includes a reunion concert that will have you dancing, crying, clapping, singing along with more feeling than even the first time you heard these songs.
This is history your kids and grandkids can get into with you, especially if you want them to rediscover music as more than digitized patterns that can be assembled on a computer. The whole documentary is filled with soul. And it reveals a depth of brotherhood that today's "social movements" cannot imagine.
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"Detroit, Michigan - 1959:
Berry Gordy gathers the best musicians in the city's thriving jazz and blues scene for his new record company: Motown. For the next 14 years, these players are the heartbeat on all the hits from Motown's Detroit era.
By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians plays on more Number One hits that the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and The Beetles combined, making them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music.
They call themselves the Funk Brothers. But no one knows their names... this is their story."