Though boy and girl bands have become very popular recently, there is a long tradition of making music in this way.In the early 1960s an American businessman called Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.Motown is short for “motor town”.The record company was based in the city of Detroit, ...
Johnnie Walker,“Rain from the skies” (Burt Bacharach & Hal David) b/w “You’re all mine (Vic Thomas & Al Kasha) (arranged by Burt Bacharach, conducted by Denny Randall, Tollie Records single T-9017) Dionne Warwick, Walk On By (Burt Bacharach & Hal David) b/w “Any Old Time of...
In the early 1960s, the company was pressing more than 1 million records per month. It signed a deal to produce singles for Motown Records and moved to a bigger facility that included the apartment that hosted The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and others—and which became known as the “Motown ...
Motown’s roster of artists included some of the biggest names in music, including The Supremes, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye. These artists helped to define the sound of the time and their records were wildly popular with audiences around the world. ...
Blind wunderkind Stevie Wonder first broke out when he was signed to Motown Records at 11 years old. From that moment on, Wonder became one of the greatest living singer-songwriters with dozens of hit tracks like "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," "Superstition," and "Higher Ground."...
Pere Ubu had done many records out there. Pere Ubu, and Grand Funk did their records there. Ken Hamann was a distributor for Gotham Audio. He supplied Motown, and all these different places, with their parts for consoles and all of their machines, as well as all the cables. That was ...
Edward "Kid" Ory –Artist/Songwriter Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Ruffhouse Records / Columbia Records, 1998 Widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut album and only solo studio set released by GRAMMY-winning singer ...
in 1965, a Beatles-themed movie will feature music by the actual Beatles and not cover songs (Across the Universe) or the Motown covers the boys themselves rocked during their pre-fame Hamburg days (Backbeat). Stage producer Vivek Tiwary (The Addams Family, American Idiot) has “ironclad ...
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the last surviving original member of the Four Tops, passed away from heart failure in July at the age of 88. The Four Tops were one of Motown's most successful acts, helping to launch the label to international fame. Among their hits: "I Can't Help Myself (Suga...
Last October, after nearly 60 years at Motown Records, the 71-year-old announced that he would be partnering with Republic Records through his own imprint, So What the Fuss Music, and that he would also be releasing two new songs: “Where Is Our Love Song” and “Can’t Put It in th...