The pair joined with the other four principal members and signed to Motown Records in 1972, the self-contained band marking a departure for the Berry Gordy-founded Detroit label so famous for its assembly line-like factory approach of using lots of specialists to generate hits songs. While it was lead singer Lionel Richie who would become the best known Commodore and a solo superstar, it was McClary who first recruited Richie during their college days at Alabama’s Tuskegee University and helped transform him into a frontman. Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott Goldfine - musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music’s foremost masters of the groove.įeatured in TIR Episode 54 (three segments): Guitarist-singer-composer-producer Thomas McClary, a founder and leading creative force behind the Commodores, which was not just one of the best and most successful funk-R&B bands of the 1970s but by the end of that decade one of the biggest pop groups in the world.
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