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Blue-eyed soul singer Tommy Good only had one Motown single release, but he recorded a couple of dozen tracks during his short time at Hitsville, some of them exceptional.
A Detroit native, Good came to Motown in 1963; nowadays, he is best-known for the “astroturf” fake grassroots campaign Motown mounted to promote his one and only single, the label organising a “protest march” ostensibly made up of Tommy’s fans on Hitsville demanding they release his record, after which Motown “acquiesced to public demand”. It was all nonsense, but Tommy played along gamely; the record, sadly, was a flop, and there were no further releases for him at Motown, Tommy leaving the label in 1965 to concentrate on his day job at Chrysler.
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We are recreating the Tommy Good protest this October at Hitsville with Tommy. It’s part of our Detroit A Go Go event
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Okay, I was at that promo event featuring the call for the release of Tommy Good’s singles release. We took buses down to Hitsville USA , courtesy the Detroit school system, which let us out for a tour of a record studio. Everything was fine, we were all looking around at the strange neighborhood. A few kids got to go into the foyer, and grab souvenirs, but mostly we stood out on the sidewalk and listened to people coming out on the porch and making a game of being friendly with the crowd of out of place white kids, there to support Motown’s first white artist release. For me, it was a up close and rare exposure to a mix of cultures. I was a skinny white boy in the seventh grade, looking up from the sidewalk at all the people from the studio milling back and forth pointing and talking to the kids in the crowd below. I remember being almost afraid to look away from a group of 3 or 4 women standing near the end of the porch. Then one of the group tapped the person next to her and pointed in my dumbstruck direction. That was my intro to Martha Reeves. If anyone else has real info about this grand staged event, I can back up the story. There was a small controversy when they were setting up for Tommy to play.
Some of the placards had figures of a performer drawn in black magic marker with the speech bubble saying
“Set me free ” . That caused a stir for a few minutes.
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