Royals 3

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.