Rock and roll is a black-on-black crime, continued

Yeah, one day a black man will own his OWN damn record company, and then…

Popular histories of soul duly recount the anecdotes behind these songs, but tell us little else about Cleveland’s creative life at Motown, much less the unfavorable work-for-hire contracts, heavy royalty deductions, and erased credits that the songwriter’s son Daryl Cleveland describes in Fame and Fortune, [sic] a cautionary 2013 biography and family memoir.