While working tambourine into Teen Band Trace's version of "I'll Be There", Randy mentioned that Motown House band "The Funk Brothers"actually had a tambourine guy.
Jack "Blackjack" Ashford played the tambourine on hundreds of Motown hits. His definitive performance is on "War" by Edwin Starr; but he also played on "Nowhere to Run" by Martha & the Vandellas, "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston, and countless others. He also played vibes, shakers, and the marimba on the label's recordings, such as The Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby".
Today's download is"You Can't Hurry Love", plus a bonus track "Tamborine" by Prince, the best (and only) "Tambo as a metaphor for masturbation" song out there, from his very own Sgt Peppers Around The World in a Day. Funfact-Prince plays every instrument himself on the track.
Tamborine
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