Ontario Community Newspapers

Tekawennake News - April 6, 1968, p. 9

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Magazine Section TZEN TALK Teen Music Today (cont'd) Eotown Music Part 1 (by B.G.) If you were to turn on your radio right now, the odds are that your station would be playing one of the many kinds of Motown music. In fact, Motown music is about the only kind of rock music that has stayed nationally popular since the arrival of the Beatles and yet hasn't changed radically. By now you are probably wondering just what "Jl:iotown" means. The word itself is a contraction of Detroit I s nickname: "Jviotor Town." This is because lliotown Music I s home is Detroit, although its roots are much deeper in America's past. Motown had its beginnings in the Negro slave spirituals and in New Orleans jazz. Negroes brought this heritage with them to the northern cities, where they de- veloped their own kind of music. From the city slums came today's Hotown Sound. Happy Birthday! May we add our "Happy Birthday" to those of your children, Hrs. Eleanor Hill. We understand that your children honoured you with a birthday dinner on the 16th. }iay you have many more of the same. Jokes Betty ( who has been served with a wing of chicken) - "Mother, can't I have another bit? this is nothing but a h:iJ.nge, 11 Fond Mother - "Yes, Genevieve is taking french and algebra; say "good morninglf to 1-.irs. Jones in Algebra, darling." He was the only witness to the car accident. The cop asked his name. "John Smith", he said . 11 Give me your real name" ordered the cop. "Well," said the witness, "put me down as William Shakespeare." "That I s better, 11 said the cop, "you can I t fool me with that Smith stuff. 11

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