You might say it was an album six decades in the making. "Temptations 60," the anniversary record that became a passion project for Tempts founder Otis Williams, arrived overnight Friday. It's the ...
Imagine that The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye took the stage at the Barre Opera House for a concert. These and several other performers from the height of ...
Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. had a simple goal when he started the legendary record company 60 years ago in Detroit. “My whole dream was to make the world hear our music,” Gordy says in the new ...
In 1964, Motown, a black-owned record company in Detroit achieved the nearly impossible goal of dominating the American pop and soul charts. Ed Ward looks back on 1965 and Hip-O Select's "Complete ...
If nothing else, CBS’ “Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration” special alerted America to the continued vitality of Smokey Robinson as a contemporary performer. Ten months from turning 80, the singer’s ...
Music has been a connecting force between Michigan and Ohio for decades. In 1959, Motown Records Corporation was started by Berry Gordy with an $800 loan from his family. The music that came out of ...
GABRIELA: WELCOME BACK. FROM THE SOUL OF MO-TOWN TO THE RISE OF ROCK N ROLL THE 1960S WERE FILLED WITH SOME OF MUSIC’S MOST MEMORABLE HITS. AND NOW THE MILWAUKEE REP IS BRINGING THOSE TIMELESS ...