Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, along ...
Motown's earliest hit boomerangs back on Richard Wylie's hopped-up version, and indeed, the label's first three years ricochet between capitalizing upon its own successes and everyone else's, a ...
On Jan. 12, 1959, helped out by an $800 US loan from his family, a moderately successful songwriter named Berry Gordy Jr. founded Tamla Records in Detroit. The next year, the enterprise became better ...