This might not work--has anyone else noticed it's suddenly impossible to paste youtube videos?
Okay, this is a Motown Question:-- How did Martha Reeves and the Vandellas chose their name (just guess, don't wiki it!!) Buffalo--you might know this, but you live on the west side of the state, so you might not :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fnYpwrng
okay, now you can wiki. The audience--I wonder where this was shot?
And I'll give you a hint.
(supposedly, Eminem lived just off the same street...less famously, so did my parents)
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Vandella is a street? Must be by 8 mile...
I have no idea ..... I could make stuff up and I bet it would sound good though
"The Van part came from a street that neighbored Reeves' own - Van Dyke Street in Detroit - and the Della part honored Della Reese, Reeves' favorite singer and a Detroit native herself. Musicologist J.D. Elder noted that "Vandella" is, coincidentally, the French bastardization of an Ethiopian name for a mythical tribe of ghost-walking demons, similar to a succubus" Thank you wikipedia!
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