The legendary Motown label was founded on January 12, 1959 and incorporated as Motown Recording Corporation on April 14, 1960 by Berry Gordy, Jr., who merged his two successful imprints, Tamla (whose first release was Marv Johnson's "Come to Me" on January 21, 1959) and Motown (first re...
Therefore, Gordy was not going into completely uncharted territory as a Black music entrepreneur. In 1959, the year Gordy founded Motown, Harry Belafonte became the first African American to produce a Hollywood film, Odds Against Tomorrow, through his own company. The social change promised by ...
He was born in West Point, Mississippi. Albums: The Complete Motown Collection, 20th Century Masters, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Barrett Strong, Money (That's What I Want) / Oh I Apologize, Let's Rock BeBe Winans Adult contemporary music, Pop music, ...
Motown had, in fact, begun signing rock-inclined acts for a few years. It had founded a new label to do just that: Rare Earth, named after a 1969 white rock band who covered Motown material in fresh ways, produced by Norman Whitfield. The label also released records by British bands li...
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Motown, founded in 1959, was 14 years old before the label received its first Grammy nominations for record, album or song of the year. The recognition came in 1973 when Wonder was a finalist in all three categories for “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” andInnervisions,...
toured in Brown’s live revue and he produced her 1963 single “I Cried,” on his newly-founded and short-lived Try Me label. Another 45, “If I Would Marry You,” also failed to register, but she went on the road with Jerry Butler in 1965. Before the end of that year, she had...
“The world is going to be celebrating Motown throughout this 60-year anniversary, but no other city can claim the birthplace,” says Terry. “For Detroit, this is a special moment to really celebrate a legacy that was birthed out of this city, with its genius and its talent pool.” ...
Later that year, Motown officially relocated to Los Angeles to further his late-night quest. Trained at the well-respected Uprights Citizens Brigade, Motown was twice awarded with the highly selective diversity scholarship. In 2013, he founded the Quarterly Wrap Festival. The event was tailored ...
“I worked for Berry Gordy’s Rare Earth label in 1970 whilst Mr. Gordy had headed west to seek and seize the rarer earth of Hollywood. What I was working on was not of much consequence, and what the soul and embodiment of the music of young America, Mr. Gordy, was working on was...