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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts Friday Review Various Artists, The Complete Motown Singles Vol 1: 1959-61 |
 | | What we do not think of, when we think of Motown, is surf music, or novelty songs, or gospel hymns, or white-bread rockaballads, or supper-club crooning. |
 | | A novelty song called Buttered Popcorn finds the young Supremes, on their first visit to the studio, enunciating a lyric of quite breathtaking - and possibly unconscious - lubriciousness. |
 | | Most of these songs, in fact, are barely distinguishable from the general run of popular music being produced in America at the time. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1409793,00.html?gusrc=rss (653 words) |
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