Just six short years later, Motown sold 15 million dollars’ worth of records and was on the way to becoming America’s biggest black-owned business. This unprecedented success started with Marv ...
Motown Records turned 66 on January 12. The nursery for soul giants like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, and The Miracles, it was home briefly to reggae ...
Motown was founded in 1959 as Tamla Records, and it acquired the name Motown in April 1960 – the ideal time to launch a record company built on black music. In the early 60s, the music industry ...
Berry Gordy’s record label used the ‘sound of young America’ to bring people together Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent Berry Gordy plays the piano with Motown stars including Stevie ...
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame aims to recognize artists who’ve significantly contributed to the evolution, development, and perpetuation of rock ‘n’ roll.
Plus a live performance by soul singer Scotty D! They will be bringing vinyl Motown, Soul, The Philly Sounds and some Northern Soul to the Old Fire Station. Sounds from The Temptations ...