I was amused that fellow passenger, Singaporean and adult but younger, didn’t know what Motown was as a musical style. We can take such things for granted. He was of the ABBA generation but I didn’t think Stevie Wonder was so far before, or even The Supremes or more recent artists like Tina Turner who got in there. It seems such a formative era for Black funky music that I can’t imagine popular music without it. But he could and did. I’d seen this show before but I never tire of the music. Stevie Wonder got a string of songs; James Brown got one. This was a production show, so popular tunes neatly merged and orchestrated. The capable house band visible behind the dancers, with headphones and plenty of mikes and reading charts: a few horns with guitar, bass, drums, grand piano. I’ll look forward to catching them in a bar sometime. And a string of dancers, male and female, and several feature singers. They mentioned names but I caught none. Perhaps later. But great fun and great chops. These shows are the highlights of a cruise to me.
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