Double Elvis.

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Disgraceland is a story about voices.

Voices that were meant to sing in perfect harmony, but instead lied and betrayed. It's about

believing in the lie and burying the lie and about what happens when the lie can no longer be

silenced. It's a story about suits, furs, a pair of Dobermans with gangster names, and a star,

Tammy Terrell, who lit up every room she walked into,

and whose voice made Marvin Gay cry.

It's also a story about the man who nearly destroyed her, a walking, talking, coked-up time bomb and horned rims and sequins.

This is a story about the temptations,

and the disgrace they never sang about.

And since we're talking about the temptations, of course,

this is also a story about great music.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show.

That wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called

Detroit Schlock City, MK. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to bridge over

troubled water by Simon and Garfunkel. And why would I play you that specific slice of

choir boy cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on March 16th, 1970.

And that was the day that Rising Motown star Tammy Terrell died at the age of 24.

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