Tellin' their Stories

So I've decided to focus on the anecdotal stories from Motown artists rather than just their bios. I always found these stories interesting, and for whatever reason didn't think of using them. I'm also going to use the stories of those I interviewed to work in conjunction with the Motown stories, for example, Stevie Wonder's story, and Marsha Cusic's story about her 'meeting' with Stevie

Here are those stories, first Stevie's, then Marsha's:

"Stevie got around better than I did.

I remember he came in my office one day,
where I had a jar of pennies. I would take all my pennies
and save them for my son.

Stevie came in, took my pennies and ran!

He ran out of the building, and was outside in the yard
before I could catch him.
And then when I took back the pennies, he said,

‘You gonna take a poor little blind boy’s pennies?’

So he was always full of the devil."


"My father’s record shop was just blocks from the Motown studios.

I always called him when I got home from school;
one day someone who was clearly not Daddy answered the phone.

“Joe’s Record Shop” said the strangely familiar voice.

“Who is this?”

“This is Steveland”.

“Stevie Wonder?!”

“Yeahhhh”.

To my astonishment, he said a few more cool-boy-in-high-school
kind of things in that Signed, Sealed, Delivered voice.

I dropped the phone in my excitement; it bobbed on its cord and I hung up, stunned!
I was shocked to be on the receiving end of this bona-fide heart-throb conversation."

I see these stories along with images in the gallery as an exhibit you would see in a museum.





WHAT NEXT

I'm going to focus on 3 artists/personal stories for Tuesday. Those include Stevie/Marsha, Smokey Robinson/Uncle John, and Jackson 5/Elizabeth James.

After compiling the stories, I'm going to edit down the text for readability.

Find good photos for each person, or an image I will use.