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Post by rick on Apr 1, 2017 4:48:12 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 1, 2017 14:41:02 GMT -5
Maybe not a one of a kind group but they were the best in that genre and the ones to imitate. I always looked forward to their new releases during those years. Loved pop music. It wasn't until the Beatles and Linda Ronstadt that I really started paying attention to full albums but the Supremes sure got my attention.
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Post by rick on Apr 2, 2017 1:28:25 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my brother loved The Beatles and my sister loved The Supremes. I shared a bedroom with my brother and we would fall asleep at night with the stereo set to drop Beatles records as my brother had them set to "drop" once the first album side finished. I remember my brother would be asleep before the first song on the first album finished. But I would be listening to the music and absorbing it. I can remember coming home from church on Sundays and my sister and I would sing along to "Where Did Our Love Go?" and "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me" from the album "Where Did Our Love Go?" I got to see Diana Ross & The Supremes live at The Forum in Inglewood in 1969 before Diana left the group on Jan. 14, 1970. The acts on the bill that last night that Diana Ross and The Supremes performed in Los Angeles were -- The Jackson Five, Edwin Starr and The Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh, Happy Day"). Quite a line-up. A couple years later I saw the Supremes line-up of Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong and new lead singer Jean Terrell.
But I am really looking forward to this expanded edition release of "Go-Go." Back in about 1980, Motown released a "Dance Medley of Hits" by the Supremes that was in regular rotation in discos and dance clubs. And "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" is featured prominently in the mix. I love that they used this particular song (which will have remixes on the Expanded "Go-Go" in this 1980 remix --
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 2, 2017 2:52:54 GMT -5
I was thinking about this the other day. Whenever I listen to certain songs I get some kind of a "high" or boost which also transports me to a mood or feeling I had at the time it was popular. Any Supreme song where they say "Baby" will do that (which is a lot of them). The one song that brings me back to a really happy feeling is Downtown by Petula Clark. There are many others and I always wondered why they do that and found out some interesting facts that have to do with music and health. Those "happy to us" songs will connect to your autonomic nervous system which can actually change chemical structures in the brain-body and be very good for you. Clearly your childhood with your brother and sister was a happy time. As we age we don't find ourselves particularly happy because of illness, stress and constant bad news stimulus. This type of music can reverse that.
The voice of certain singers can also affect a person. For me Linda is numero uno for doing something to my brain. Barbra, Karen, Jann, Joey are a few others. Decades ago I was watching a PBS music special about music and the brain and unbelievably they had Linda Ronstadt singing a clip and were analyzing how it can affect us. I wish I could remember the show but I think it was before vhs recording devices were popular.
These 12 facts about music, and how they affect your brain, will astound you!
www.unbelievable-facts.com/2015/04/facts-about-music.html
1. The chills you get when you listen to music, is mostly caused by the brain releasing dopamine while anticipating the peak moment of a song.
Dopamine is a feel-good chemical released by the brain. This chemical is directly involved in motivation, as well as addiction. These studies found a biological explanation for why music always has been such a huge part of emotional events around the world since the beginning of human history.(source)
2. There are few activities in life that utilizes the entire brain, and music is one of them.
With Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI), a research team recorded a group of individuals who were listening to music. They found that listening to music recruits the auditory areas, and employs large-scale neural networks in the brain. In fact, they believe music can activate emotional, motor, and creative areas of the brain.(source)
3. Playing music regularly will physically alter your brain structure.
Brain plasticity refers to the brain’s ability to change throughout life. Changes associated with learning occur mostly at the connections between neurons. When studying musicians, they found that the cortex volume was highest in professional musicians, intermediate in amateur musicians, and lowest in non-musicians.
4. The brain responds to music the same way it responds to something that you eat.
As stated above, dopamine is a chemical released by the brain. This chemical is connected with the feeling of euphoria which is associated with addiction, sex, and even eating. Dopamine is what enables a person to feel the pleasures of such things. A study using only instrumental music proves that anticipation for a musical rush released the same kind of reactions in the brain as anticipating the taste of your food.(source)
5. Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work-out performance.
Dissociation is a diversionary technique which lowered the perceptions of effort. This technique can divert the mind from feelings of fatigue, and heighten positive mood states like vigor. By using music during low to moderate exercise intensities, you will find yourself with an overall more pleasurable experience while working out.(source)
6. An emotional attachment could be the reason for your favorite song choice.
Favorite songs are often context-dependent. Even though many people often change their favorite song depending on the most recent releases, it is proven that long-lasting preferences are due mainly to an emotional attachment to a memory associated with the song.
7. Your heartbeat changes to mimics the music you listen to.
Music is found to modulate heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. The cardiovascular system mirrored deflating decrescendos, and swelling crescendos in a study of 24 volunteers. Distinguishing changes in sound patterns were even found to be equipped in those as small as a developing fetus.
8. Listening to happy vs. sad music can affect the way you perceive the world around you.
The brain always compares the information that comes through the eyes with what it expects about the world, based on what you know. The final results in our mind is what we perceive as our reality. Therefore, happy songs that lift your spirits make you see the world around you differently then that of a sad person.
9. An “earworm” is a song that you can’t seem to get out of your head.
An earworm is a cognitive itch in your brain. This “brain itch” is a need for the brain to fill in the gaps in a song’s rhythm. The auditory cortex is a part of your brain that will automatically fill in a rhythm of a song. In other words, your brain kept “singing” long after the song had ended.
10. Music triggers activity in the same part of the brain that releases Dopamine, the “pleasure chemical”
The nucleus accumbens is a part of your brain that releases Dopamine during eating, and sex. The most interesting part, is that the nucleus accumbens is just a small part of the brain that gets effected by music. It also effects the amygdala, which is the part of the brain used to process emotion. for music.
11. Music is often prescribed to patients with Parkinson’s Disease and stroke victims.
Music therapy has been around for decades. Music triggers networks of neurons into organized movement. The part of the brain the processes movement also overlaps speech networks. These two key elements help patients overcome the obstacles that most effect them such as basic motor skills, and speech difficulties.(source)
12. According to a study, Learning a musical instrument can improve fine motor and reasoning skills.
In a study of children, it revealed that those with three or more years of musical training preformed better in fine motor skills and auditory discrimination abilities then those who had none. They even tested better for vocabulary and reasoning skills, even though those are quite separate from music training.
From another excellent link: www.emedexpert.com/tips/music.shtml
The Mozart effect
Earlier it has been thought that listening to classical music, particularly Mozart, enhances performance on cognitive tests. However, there are findings that show that listening to any personally enjoyable music has positive effects on cognition.
Music improves memory performance
The power of music to affect memory is quite intriguing. Baroque and Mozart's music, with a 60 beats per minute beat pattern, activates the left and right parts of the brain. The simultaneous left and right brain action maximizes learning and retention of information. The information being studied activates the left brain while the music activates the right brain. Also, activities which engage both sides of the brain at the same time, such as playing an instrument or singing, cause the brain to be more capable of processing information.
Listening to music facilitates the recall of information19. Researchers have shown that certain types of music are a great "keys" for recalling memories. Information learned while listening to a particular song can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally.
Musical training has even better effect than just listening to classical music. There is clear evidence20, that children who take music lessons develop a better memory compared with children who have no musical training.
Note: For learning or memory performance, it's important that music doesn't have a vocal component; otherwise you're more likely to remember the words of the background song than what you're supposed to be recalling.
I even have my on MOZART EFFECT playlist (of course) that I made up last year: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUMq4sB5dsC_uhUZfNK1dSXMWgv7-b7hy
So it depends on what you are trying to accomplish but just trying to get that good old feeling again listening to one of those Supreme's hits will do it for you.
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