Berry Gordy's Motown Records defined American pop and soul music during the 1960s, but the label still exists to this day, now owned by Universial Music.
On Desert Island Discs, the former Motown Records boss Berry Gordy selected the one track he couldn't live without, which had been a hit for his label in 1965.
The label quickly signed artists who would make a huge ... such as Ric-Tic and Revilot, released records that featured moonlighting Motown musicians, but none of them came close.
Just six short years later, Motown sold 15 million ... One of those leased records was “Come To Me,” which was licensed to United Artists after its limited release on Tamla showed commercial ...
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...
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 ...
In the 1960s, Motown founder Berry Gordy reached out to Martin Luther King Jr. to see if the record label could help the civil rights leader in his cause for equality. “I saw Motown much like ...