As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...
If you think of some of the most memorable songs from the twentieth century, there's a good chance one of the tunes that comes to mind is the product of Motown — a record label based in Detroit that ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...
Motown's songs haven't just endured as stand-alone classics through the decades — their influence has loomed large on subsequent artists and their work. That's the theme at the heart of "Pushin' ...
As a singer he was a one-hit wonder. But teaming with Norman Whitfield, he wrote a string of hits for others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” By Neil Genzlinger Barrett Strong, whose ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from SingStar: Motown SingStar: Motown is a karaoke game which includes, with few exceptions, classic Motown songs from the 1960s and 1970s. There are no changes ...
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Motown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved Hits
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...
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