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| | The Motown Story |
 | | But Berry kept his promise to the musicians, and the 11 albums released on the label are some of the rarest albums on any Motown label. | | | Gordy knew that even the most successful jazz album sales would be minuscule compared to the numbers he could generate in the popular music field. | | | Initially, Gordy was going to record them on his Workshop Jazz subsidiary, and an album was prepared for that label. |
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| | PlanetPapers - Berry Gordy: Father of the Motown Sound |
| | Gordy had no musical talent at all, as far as singing or playing music was concerned. | | | Berry always enjoyed listening to records in his basement and he had a great love of music. | | | Gordy and his huge songwriting staff created what is known as the "Motown sound," a ballad based blend of traditional black harmony and gospel music with the lively beat of rhythm and blues. |
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| | A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Berry Gordy PBS |
| | Gordy was said to have masterminded the popular “Motown sound,” a ballad-based blend of traditional black harmony and gospel music with the lively beat of rhythm and blues. | | | Gordy was honoured for lifetime achievement at the American Music Awards in 1975 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. | | | By 1982, the company boasted revenues of $104 million, and Motown acts had recorded 110 number one hits on the American pop charts. |
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| | Berry Gordy and Motown Records |
| | Founder and owner of the Tamla-Motown family record labels, Berry Gordy, Jr., established Motown Records as one of the most important independent labels in the early '60s. | | | Assembling an industrious staff of songwriters, producers, and musicians, Motown Records built one of the most impressive rosters of artist in the history of pop music and became the largest and most successful independent record company in the United State by 1964. | | | They also put together the Rayber Voices, a studio group that backed most of Motown's first acts on their early recordings. |
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| | IU receives book donation from Motown founder Berry Gordy for course on Motown |
| | Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Record Corp., has donated 68 original copies of his autobiography, To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown (Warner Books, 1994), to Indiana University. | | | Gordy's autobiography provides a valuable perspective on the Motown founder, whose skill at songwriting, business sense and knack for recognizing talent gave shape to the most successful black-owned company in the history of the recording industry. | | | It delves deeply into the history, music, business and sociocultural context of the period in which young singers mostly from Detroit -- such as the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder -- became stars, and Motown became a household word. |
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| | Berry Gordy |
| | In 1988 he sold Motown to MCA Records, and in 1999 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his lifelong achievements in the music industry. | | | Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, was singing two different tunes during the last election. | | | The call for royalty reform comes at a crucial time, as Motown and many other R&B song catalogues are about to be taken over by Universal Music, run by Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Motown 1's |
| | Gordy was also a talented songwriter, arranger and producer in his own right who recorded the Motown debuts of many of his brightest stars, including the Miracles, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and the Supremes. | | | Gordy also audaciously sought to capture both black and the white audiences by emphasizing beat and soul in the vocals, but with a pop (i.e., non-blues-based) melody, and relationship-based (i.e. | | | Gordy was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. |
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| | Berry Gordy and Motown Records |
| | Unable to write music, Wells sang the song to Gordy, who immediately signed her and released her version of "Bye, Bye, Baby," which made the Top Ten on the RandB charts in 1960. | | | Gordy managed the Miracles and produced their 1958 single "Got a Job" on the End Records label. | | | In November 1959, Gordy recorded "Bad Girl" by a young William "Smokey" Robinson and the Miracles that reached number ninety-three on the pop charts with the help of national distribution by Chess Records. |
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| | Berry Gordy |
| | Motown Records founder Berry Gordy (C) holds a plaque surrounded by Motown artists (L-R) Stevie Wonder, Otis Williams of The Temptations, Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson after Gordy's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled October 24 along Hollywood Boulevard. | | | His accomplishments are in songwriting and producing, he is not always in the limelight. | | | The word "Motown" has grown to be synonymous with RandB music. |
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| | Berry Gordy, Jr. - AOL Music: BIO |
| | In the process, Gordy also brought the world countless memorable songs not only through his vision for spotting talent in others, but also his own talent as a songwriter and producer. | | | Ross' solo career was not as triumphant as he had hoped, and Gordy had lost much of the tight-knit family atmosphere that originally made Motown so successful. | | | A high school dropout, Gordy had two loves in his teens: music and boxing. |
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| | Berry Gordy, Jr. : The Music, The Magic, The Memories of Motown - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Berry's two biggest Jackie Wilson hits, "To Be Loved" and "Lonely Teardrops," glitter like gold, as well as "Money" by Barrett Strong, the song that got the Motown rolling. | | | Gordy wrote every song except for "We Couldn't Get Along Without," "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye," and "Did You Know." Includes new, previously unreleased recordings, and older selections. | | | Stevie Wonder's dreamy remake of an early Temptations recording, "Dream Come True," is a close second; the Tempts supply the backing vocals. |
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| | Berry Gordy -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee |
| | In mid-1950s Gordy began writing songs for local RandB acts and acquired a local reputation as a songwriter and producer. | | | In 1966, 75 percent of records released by Motown made the national charts. | | | In 1957, Brunswick Records bought a song he had written named "Reet Petite," which was recorded by Jackie Wilson. |
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| | In 1957 Wilson recorded "Reet Petite," a song Gordy had co-written with his sister Gwen and Billy Davis, which became a modest hit. | | | He developed his interest in music by writing songs and opening the 3-D Record Mart, a record store featuring jazz music. | | | In January 1959 Gordy founded a new RandB label called Tamla Records, which produced Marv Johnson's first hit, "Come To Me." At Robinson's encouragement, Gordy created Motown on December 14, 1959. |
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| | Berry Gordy, Jr. |
| | Gordy pursued a career as a boxer and served in the U.S. Army before returning to Detroit where he opened his own record store and produced recordings of his own songs. | | | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors musicians and music-industry figures who have contributed to... | | | In 1959 he founded the Motown Record Corporation, which scored its first gold record with Smokey Robinson's "Shop Around" the next year. |
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| | Colored Reflections - The Sixties |
| | Berry Gordy was the drive and determination behind Motown records, the "sound of young America" during the sixties. | | | Chuck Berry's classic rock and roll style has influenced a generation of musicians. | | | As fate would have it, he wrote a couple of hit songs. |
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| | Songwriters Hall of Fame |
| | Gordy, who became the peerless music executive, combining songwriting skills with an almost infallible ear for talent, tonight receives the Abe Olman Publisher's Award of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. | | | hen a young man named Berry Gordy enjoyed his earliest success as a songwriter in late-50's Detroit, it was the beginning of a landslide of music and talent whose lustre and excitement would one day rival the auto industry for the motor city's best-known export. | | | After some songwriting success, Gordy realized there were many aspiring writers, who if given a chance could also be successful. |
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| | The Golden Age of the Motown Sound |
| | The magnetic performer, who sang a few of Berry Gordy's early songs, hit the charts more than 50 times. | | | Vintage Motown: A jam session from the 1960s features Kim Weston (microphone) Stevie Wonder(dark glasses), Berry Gordy Jr. | | | The next song Barry wrote for Jackie, 'To Be Loved,' thrilled Berry. |
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| | Gordy’s venture grew to become Motown Records, one of the most influential record companies in music history. | | | It would have been easy, once the Detroit native landed an $86.40-a-week job on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line, to just relax into the job and forget those dreams of writing and recording music. | | | But writing hits still wasn’t enough; the scrappy Detroiter discovered that, like singers, songwriters don’t always get paid by the record companies. |
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| | They were later signed onto Gordy’s Record Label. | | | All through Gordy’s early adulthood he wrote songs. | | | It was always Gordy’s dream to write and produce music. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Motown on LookSmart Detroit |
| | Motown is a record company, a musical style, and a corporate conglomerate with several subsidiary labels. | | | A black entrepreneur and songwriter&; Gordy built a successful black-owned, independent company that became a formidable phenomenon in the music business. | | | In 1953&; an infatuation with jazz prompted Gordy and singer Marv Johnson to open the 3-D Record Mart, a retail store dedicated to jazz. |
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| | The Books: To Be Loved by Berry Gordy |
| | Using the automobile assembly line as his model, Gordy created the hit factory that turned unknowns into polished superstars, dominated the nation's pop music charts, and became the source of music for millions of young Americans, black and white. | | | To Be Loved is full of joy and heartbreak, disaster and triumph, as it sets the record straight on the singers he launched -- and Gordy himself, the man who created the sound heard 'round the world. | | | Now, the man who made Motown finally breaks his silence after decades of rumor, gossip, and misinformation. |
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| | Motown by Gerald Posner |
| | Berry also liked music, scribbling out a few rough songs and even winning a local talent contest for his “Berry’s Boogie,” a lively piece inspired by Hazel Scott’s popular “Boogie Woogie.” | | | Since he usually brought home report cards filled with D’s and F’s, his parents congratulated him when he managed to pull a C. To impress his teachers, Berry memorized the alphabet backward and raced through it for anyone who would listen. | | | Young Gordy liked jazz, particularly Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. |
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| | Motown Historical Museum - Detroit |
| | With Motown Records Founder Berry Gordy as the Honorary Tribute Chair, the event itself made history as partygoers celebrated the work of Esther Gordy Edwards and the legacy of the Motown Record Company. | | | Esther Gordy Edwards, with Brian and Eddie Holland, who composed and performed a special song in her honor | | | Participants included Esther Gordy Edwards, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Robert L. Gordy, Jr., legendary Motown songwriters Eddie and Brian Holland, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. |
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| | Amazon.com: To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown : An Autobiography: Books: Berry Gordy |
| | Berry Gordy's story is extremely fascinating, his accomplishments in, and contributions to, American music are absolutely gargantuan. | | | As founder and president of Motown Records, Gordy launched and developed the careers of many of the most talented pop musicians of our day, including Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. | | | Amazon.com: To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown : An Autobiography: Books: Berry Gordy |
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| | The Roots of the Beatles |
| | Born in 1926 in St. Louis, Chuck Berry was introduced to Leonard Chess of Chess Records in Chicago by blues singer Muddy Waters, and went on to influence every rock musician that followed, including the Beatles. | | | The Beatles' version, renamed Devil In Her Heart, was recorded on July 18, 1963, in three takes, with three overdubs, with George doing lead vocal. | | | Postman was recorded in nine takes with John on lead vocal. |
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| | Shop Around - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The original recorded version of the song had a strong blues influence, and was released in the local Detroit, Michigan area before Gordy decided that the song needed to be rerecorded in order to be more commercially viable outside of Detroit. | | | It is notable as being the label's first #1 hit on the Billboard magazine RandB singles chart, and also hit #2 on the Hot 100. | | | The song, written by Robinson and Berry Gordy, depicts a mother giving her now-grown son advice about how to find a woman worthy of being a girlfriend or wife ("My mam told me/'you better shop around'"). |
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| | Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- The Funk Brothers |
| | n 1959, Berry Gordy gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. | | | Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on "My Girl," "Bernadette," I Was Made to Love Her," and every other hit from Motown's Detroit era. |
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| | Rock & Roll Library - Berry Gordy's home page. |
| | Gordy sold his share of Motown Records in 1988. His contributions to the music industry were recognized in 1990, when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | | | A family member introduced Gordy to Al Green, and Gordy began attending Green’s Flame Show Bar talent club. Here, he met Raynoma Liles, with whom he began writing songs for up-and-coming artists, and eventually married. Together, they formed the Rayber Music Writing Company. Gordy’s first writing success was Jackie Wilson’s “Reet Petite” in 1957. | | | Rock & Roll Library - Berry Gordy's home page. |
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| | NPR : Berry Gordy |
| | Gordy and Motown made stars out of musicians and singers including Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson. | | | In 1994 Gordy has published his autobiography, To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography. | | | Fresh Air from WHYY, September 3, 2001 · Berry Gordy, founder of Motown. |
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| | Jet: Berry Gordy files $250 mil. libel suit against New York Daily News |
| | The suit also quoted the article as saying that Gordy had "a menage a trois with one of Motown's most, famous singers and a Parisian. | | | Gordy issued a blistering statement through his publicist that read: "I have no recollection of ever seeing this man except maybe on television. | | | By publishing these vulgar falsehoods as news, the New York Daily News has lent undeserved credibility to accusations that would otherwise be dismissed out of hand. |
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| | Four Friends (1981) (song "Shop Around") (as Berry Gordy Jr.) | | | Jobete, the music publishing company that he founded was named after his... | | | The Dish (2000) (song "You've Made Me So Very Happy") (as Berry Gordy Jr.) |
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| | Movie Celebrities - Berry Gordy: MAIN - Moviefone |
| | Includes links to various performers for the label. | | | The Motown story is the story of Berry Gordy, Jr., who was born in Detroit... | | | Anthony Keidis and the rest of the Chili Peppers rock our studio with a raw collection of new and old hits. |
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| | A FUNKY Jackson Five Site: Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Boy Bands, Berry Gordy, Tito, Jermaine Jackson, Joseph ... |
| | They dressed like hippies and wore huge Afros that seemed to touch the sky. | | | They had a powerhouse team of Motown songwriters/producers (including Berry Gordy), called the Corporation behind them. | | | A FUNKY Jackson Five Site: Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Boy Bands, Berry Gordy, Tito, Jermaine Jackson, Joseph Jackson |
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| | Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon |
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| | Amazon.ca: Mahogany : Video |
| | Talent is wasted all around in the film depicting the rise of a poor-little-rich African-American model and fashion designer who has her mouth poked out because she misses her man. After this film, Berry Gordy never stepped up to the director's chair again (thank God). | | | Ross, mumbling by Billy Dee Williams, and drama queen antics by Anthony Perkins. |
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| | Son: Berry Gordy IV Daughter: Hazel Joy Gordy (m. | | | Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile |
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