“Shop Around” Reading From A Memoir | SF

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San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins reads from his memoir, “Shop Around: Growing up with Motown in a Sinatra Household,” a part of “The Music That Changed My Life” series.

About Shop Around:

Bruce Jenkins was twelve years old, living in Malibu with his parents, when he heard the original “Shop Around” single, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey Robinson, the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown’s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame, but for young Bruce, the first times he heard the song were a revelation.

Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father, Gordon Jenkins, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother, Beverly, was a singer.

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