Rare studio footage of The Funk Brothers, curated from across the internet. Browse 5 clips below.
Studio footage is the holy grail for music fans. Watching an artist build a song from scratch — layering tracks, debating arrangements, experimenting with sounds — is as close as you can get to witnessing the creative act itself. These clips pull back the curtain on recordings that millions of people know by heart, showing the work, the accidents, and the decisions that made them what they are.
The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
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1:31The Contours, Freda Payne, The Temptations, The Funk Brothers, The Four Tops, Etta James, Ed King, Prince, Music industry, Harold Melvin, James Jamerson, Jazz band, Detroit blues, Thornetta Davis, Melvins, Eddie Willis, Songwriter, Y&T
5:39R.E.M., Sine, The Funk Brothers, Barrett Strong, Songwriter
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