Welcome to our newest podcast RadioScope Raw. This is where you’ll hear the unedited, untouched interviews with the thousands of artists from our RadioScope vault. These...
*On this day in 1971, a Saturday morning cartoon starring The Jackson 5 premiered on ABC. Creator Motown Productions had two main goals for its fictionalized...
*When Janice-Marie Johnson said “Listen to my bass here” on A Taste of Honey’s “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” she really meant her bass. The Los Angeles native...
*Had Horace Brown never busted his knee in high school and derailed his dream of playing pro basketball… Had Andre Harrell never been hired to run...
*We can’t be the only ones who wake up singing this Temptations classic every September 3rd. The opening line to “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” refers...
*Before there was ever a Jackson 5 or The Sylvers, there was the family group The Five Stairsteps. Known as the original “First Family of Soul,” the...
*On Aug. 28, 1973, Marvin Gaye released “Let’s Get It On,” his 13th studio album and the most commercially successful of his career. It had the music world...
*This week marked the 20th anniversary of “Bring It On,” the cheerleading film that starred Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union in a story that tackled cultural...
*In 1991, mesmerizing vocalist Oleta Adams scored a hit with her single “Get Here,” the first of her career released on a major label. The Brenda...
*On August 20, 1972, the 30th birthday for Isaac Hayes and just a few days after the seventh anniversary of the Watts Riots, Stax Records held...
*Chic’s 1979 hit “Good Times” has inspired or been sampled in so many songs, but the group’s co-founder Nile Rodgers says the track got its inspiration...
“Faith’s career keeps rolling right along, but what about her marriage?” In January of 1996, RadioScope began the following report on Faith Evans with that question....
