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| | Motown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Motown Record Company, L.P., also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label specializing in the musical genres of RandB, pop, soul music, and hip-hop music. | | | In addition to the songwriting prowess of the above individuals, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as "The Funk Brothers", to record the instrumental or "band" tracks of the Motown songs. | | | Motown was the first record label owned by an African American to become a widespread international success, and played an important role in the integration of popular music. |
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| | Variety.com - Polygram buying Motown Records |
| | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | | | With Motown, Polygram acquires a label that has an enormous legacy in R&B music but has only two albums on the Billboard 200 chart of the nation's top-selling albums: Johnny Gill's "Provocative" and the 2-year-old "Cooleyhighharmony" by Boyz II Men. | | | Motown's current roster includes Johnny Gill, Another Bad Creation and Boyz II Men, as well as one of the deepest catalogs in music. |
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| | African Americans - The Motown Sound, Music of Soul and Rythym and Blues. Berry Gordy, Jr., started Motown Records in ... |
| | Motown Records was Stevie's home for most of his recording career and offers an insiders' look at both his singles and album discography, with plenty of sound clips to rock your PC. | | | Competing for teen attention primarily against records by the Beatles, who were at the height of their popularity, Motown radically altered the public's perception of black music, which for years had been kept out of the mainstream. | | | The Motown recording group had its biggest success in the mid-'70s with Lionel Richie at the helm, but began to fade when he embarked on a solo career. |
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| | Tamla Motown Records part 2 |
| | His only album issued (in the 60's) TML 11014 "That Motown Sound" is a collectors gem of instrumentals. | | | Complete 60's (uk) Tamla Motown album listing 1969-1969 part 2 | | | Complete 60's (uk) Tamla Motown album listing 1965-1969 part 1 |
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| | MOTOWN RECORDS |
| | Motown is the largest label within the Motown Record family of labels. | | | The last Gordy record was released early 1987. | | | It is also the label with the largest number of record releases. |
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| | African American Registry: Motown Records founded |
| | Motown Record Corporation was the first large Black-owned music company in America. | | | Motown's hit-making pace slowed somewhat with the departure of Holland-Dozier-Holland in 1967, but by 1969 it was back on track with the popular Jackson Five group. | | | These were recorded to the accompaniment of a studio band of local jazz musicians featuring Benny Benjamin on drums, James Jamerson on bass guitar, Joe Hunter or Earl Van Dyke on piano, and Dave Hamilton on vibraphone or guitar. |
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| | The beat will go on for Motown Records |
| | Ross' publicist confirmed Thursday that the singer's new album will be released in April with the Motown name. | | | "Motown is one of only one or two recognizable brand names in music. | | | Billie Bullock, comanager of the Temptations, said preparing for a new label would be "premature for us." The quintet's "Phoenix Rising" album, released last summer, has sold more than a million copies to be the group's biggest hit in 20 years. |
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| | Business Wire: Motown Records Issues $10,000 Challenge to Hist... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Motown Records is a part of the Universal Music Group, which is the world's leading music company with wholly-owned record operations or licensees in 63 countries around the world. | | | Motown Records Issues $10,000 Challenge to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Strut Their Stuff. | | | In recognition of this beloved tradition, Motown Records CEO/President, Kedar Massenburg announces the first-ever record company sponsored $10,000 marching band contest for HBCU bands. |
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| | The Motown Story & Album Discography |
| | Motown Records is indeed the story of a small company that became a dominant force in the music industry, eventually encompassing some two dozen different labels and thousands of record, tape, and compact disc issues. | | | Most of the Motown material, except for some of the earliest recordings, were done using at least two- track recorders. | | | We have tried here to construct album discographies for almost all these labels, from the time the first albums were issued in 1961 to the time compact discs virtually forced vinyl out of existence. |
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| | Motown Historical Museum - Detroit |
| | Voices and instrumentals were recorded on separate “tracks” which enabled producers and engineers to adjust the individual elements of a song after the recording session was over. | | | It replaced a two-track recording console that was used to record Motown’s earliest hits. | | | A rich piece of Motown’s history is relived, when visitors clap and sing into Motown’s innovative echo chamber (a hole cut in the ceiling), and experience early reverb. |
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| | Diana Ross & The Supremes - Classic Motown |
| | The Supremes' "Baby Love" was the only record by an American group to top the British charts in 1964. | | | None of the music seemed to date itself, as Supremes songs were remade repeatedly while the originals continued to play on radio, in movies and TV. | | | Along with the charmed circle of Motown singers, writers, producers and players, they re-wrote the book on pop music in the Sixties and Seventies. |
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| | Berry Gordy and Motown Records: Lessons for B... [Mackinac Center for Public Policy] |
| | His vocal studio was in the hallway and his echo chamber was the downstairs bathroom. | | | Berry Gordy and Motown Records: Lessons for B... | | | Soon the demand for Gordy’s records swamped the record stores from Liverpool to London and forced the bureaucrats to permit Motown music to be heard on government stations. |
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| | Motown Records - Label Profile - Stylus Magazine |
| | In 1966 alone, 75% of all released Motown songs made it to the charts. | | | Spawning and inspiring other movements, Motown proved to be one of the strongest labels in the history of popular music by its height. | | | He almost monopolized the early 60’s trend of Girl Pop with Martha and The Vandelles and the Marvelettes, but this was not enough for the aspiring music mogul. |
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| | Portland Skanner : Prince Markie Dee Signs With Motown Records: Performer's first LP to @ HighBeam Research |
| | Prince Markie Dee Signs With Motown Records: Performer's first LP to be. | | | Motown Records has entered into a recording and label agreement with noted producer and artist Mark Morales, known everywhere as Prince Markie Dee. | | | The deal provides for Prince Markie Dee to record as an artist as well as locate and produce other performers for release on his Soul Convention Records label, to be distributed by Motown. |
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| | The Motown Story |
| | He had recorded Marvin Gaye on a song that Whitfield and Barrett Strong had written called "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." When Berry Gordy refused to release the Marvin Gaye version of the song, Whitfield recorded it with Gladys Knight and the Pips, and the song went to #2. | | | Even though Motown sold millions more albums during the 1970s and 1980s then it had in the 1960s, Motown will always be remembered for the music it created during the 1960s that was heard on the tinny radios in automobiles as teenagers cruised the streets and highways. | | | They recorded "There He Is (At My Door)," which was released on the Melody subsidiary. |
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| | Motown Records transcended from a small record company housed in a two-story building in Detroit, Michigan, to an ... |
| | Motown Records is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year as a major recording company for black recording artists. | | | Motown Records transcended from a small record company housed in a two-story building in Detroit, Michigan, to an institution that has set musical standards for Pop and RandB music as they exist today. | | | Motown Records transcended from a small record company housed in a two-story building in Detroit, Michigan, to an institution that has set musical standards for Pop and RandB music as they exist today |
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| | A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Motown PBS |
| | Motown records were specifically mixed to sound good on car radios and were characterized by a thumping backbeat that made dancing easy for everyone. | | | Motown brought together rhythm-and-blues, gospel, and pop influences as it sought to “cross over” (i.e., move beyond single-genre listeners) to reach a wide audience that included white teenagers. | | | During the 1960s Motown became one of the reigning presences in American popular music, along with the Beatles. |
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| | Berry Gordy and Motown Records |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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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| | Morning Edition (NPR): Analysis: Berry Gordy Jr. selling Motown Records@ HighBeam Research |
| | Motown Records' parent, Universal Music Group, owns the rights to the original recordings of the songs. | | | Gordy announced this week that he was selling his final stake and roughly 15,000 songs to the EMI Music Publishing company. | | | EMI will have complete ownership of the songs. |
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| | Motown Records celebrates 45th anniversary on iTMS MacMinute News |
| | To mark its 45th anniversary, Motown Records is making available to iTunes Music Store customers the first 45 singles ever issued by Motown and 45 hard-to-find albums from the Motown archive. | | | Many of the singles and albums have been long out-of-print in any format and never issued on CD, the record label said. | | | Motown Records celebrates 45th anniversary on iTMS |
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| | The Motown Historical Museum |
| | The original disc-mastering lathe made many of the master discs of the hit records under the careful eye of yours truly. | | | The original 3 track tape machine (Left) recorded many hits in its day. | | | Even today, many of the recording techniques used find their roots in this "Motown Sound" of the 60's. |
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| | Motown by Michael Mcdonald CD |
| | MOTOWN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. | | | I grew up listening to "The Motown Sound" and this CD brought back many fond memories. | | | As a guy who made his reputation for being neck-deep in the sounds of blue-eyed soul, it seems Michael McDonald was destined to put out MOTOWN (released on the label of the same name), an album's worth of classics from this esteemed company's canon. |
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| | Tamla Motown Records |
| | He went on to record four singles and two albums and remains a very under rated talent who died in a boating accident in June 1969. | | | records were issued on a variety of labels, as we shall see in the continuing story in | | | In 1966 he recorded "Function At The Junction" which became a chart hit. |
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| | Motown Records :: KEM Continues Winning Streak at Radio |
| | Determined to forge his own destiny, KEM independently financed and released his first album before signing with Motown Records in 2002. | | | Although the Detroit native rose to national attention with his poignant love songs, his personal story is one of victory and triumph: KEM was once homeless, struggling to support himself and his family by waiting tables and singing Top 40 cover songs at weddings. | | | Both the first single, "I Can't Stop Loving You," and KEM's Top 5 debuting sophomore CD, KEM Album II have been receiving rave reviews. |
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| | Celebrating Motown Records's 45th Anniversary |
| | One recent example: Michael McDonald’s admiring album of interpretations, Motown, is a platinum record in the U.S. and earned a pair of Grammy nominations. | | | Calling out around the world, the music and artists associated with that label and that enterprise empowered a generation, and has influenced the sound of popular music ever since. | | | MOTOWN #1's -An album featuring 24 #1 Motown hits, each digitally remastered |
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| | City honors Motown Records |
| | Last year Motown sold 750,000 albums and 12 million single records, outdistanced in single sales only by Capitol Records and its quartet of mop-haired Beatles (who once called Motown's rival Supremes their favorite singing group). | | | Mayor Cavanagh presented the award to Berry Gordy Jr., president of Motown Records Corp., an outfit expected to gross $12 million in 1965 by peddling the sound of The Supremes, Little Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and a stable of some 170 other pop record artists. | | | Gordy founded his musical empire in his living room in 1958, had his first hit in 1959, didn't do enough business to keep formal financial records until 1960. |
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| | Shabba Ranks biography : albums : icebergradio.com |
| | He did return to Jamaica to record some more material for King Jammy during the late '90s, some of which was released on the hodgepodge album Get Up Stand Up in 1998. | | | By age 12, he was fascinated by the sound system DJs who spun records in local clubs, and often chatted on the mic over the backing tracks. | | | Wales introduced Ranks to some of the producers at King Jammy's studio, and Ranks soon began recording there, debuting with the single "Original Fresh." He collaborated with Chaka Demus, and recorded a large quantity of singles, none of which gave him a breakout hit. |
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| | Jet: Sylvia Rhone named president of Motown Records |
| | In her new role, Rhone will be involved in musical projects that encompass the UMG family of labels. | | | Rhone is expected to bring new talent and a new sound to Motown. | | | Rhone will have direct responsibility for the Motown label, the roster of which includes Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Michael McDonald, Brian McKnight and India.Arie. |
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| | Motown Webring |
| | Motown and all forms of Soul Music over the past 40 years are covered on my site. | | | An on line store selling vinyl records in most music styles from the 1950s through 1990s. | | | The Beatles got a lot of inspiration from Motown and Motown returned the compliment... |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Motown [ENHANCED] |
| | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. | | | Michael McDonald's distinctive voice is perfect for covering soul standards from the golden era of Motown Records. | | | Michael seems to have a special affinity with Stevie Wonder in particular, including "Higher Ground" on his best of compilation, as well as covering four of his songs on this collection. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Grammy-winning producer Perren dies at 61 |
| | Perren was a member of the Motown Records production group the Corporation, which wrote and produced the Jackson Five's first hits. | | | Perren shared an Album of the Year Grammy in 1978 for producing two songs on the Saturday Night Fever album. | | | His post-Motown records include Peaches and Herb's Reunited and Shake Your Groove Thing ; the Sylvers' Boogie Fever and Hot Line ; and Tavares' Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel. |
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| | 50s Music, 60s Music, Motown Records: Sell Oldies Music & More |
| | We have been buying and selling 50s music, 60s music, motown records, from Oldies music up to current music since 1980. | | | Sell Oldies Music: 50s Music, 60s Music, Motown Records, and more at our NJ Store | | | Typically, we pay up to four dollars per disc, for strong-selling 50s Music, 60s Music, and Motown Records and certain Gospel CDs (more for certain rarities). |
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| | Motown - Wikipedia |
| | In den 1990ern kam Motown durch Künstler wie Boyz II Men und Vince Gill wieder an die Spitze der Charts. | | | Die Großen der Black Music haben für Motown gearbeitet: Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Night and the Pips usw. | | | Keine andere Band verkaufte in den frühen 1970ern mehr Platten, und schließlich wurden sie der erfolgreichste RandB-Act des Jahrzehnts. |
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| | Various Artists - A Twist Of Motown - GRP Records |
| | The track War goes with a whimp and not with a bang!!A Twist of Jobim and the tribute to Marley far outshine Motown. | | | As previous "twist" records are in the past, this will no doubt live up to the legacy of being great! |
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| | Motown Records at Sweet Memories Vinyl Records UK |
| | Motown Records at Sweet Memories Vinyl Records UK Vinyl Records UK Catalogue 35 | | | Motown vinyl records shops in the UK, selling rare records on vinyl, collectable records | | | Motown LPs FOUR TOPS Second Album Motown 11021 Mono VG £10.00 |
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| | Amazon.com Music: Motown Records |
| | Standing in the Shadows of Motown: Deluxe Edition [Soundtrack] | | | In addition to a set of hits by the Temptations, CDs include career overviews of the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and the Commodores. | | | Songs in the Key of Life [Original recording remastered] |
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| | Motown Two by Michael Mcdonald CD |
| | Michael McDonald's first disc of Motown covers signaled a popular rebirth for the veteran blue-eyed-soul singer, garnering several Grammy nominations and reaching the Top 20 on the Billboard chart. | | | A rare genre-specific covers album that sounds like a tribute instead of a retread, MOTOWN TWO is an unusually satisfying sequel | | | Submitted by lisaless in san diego, ca, usa |
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| | Motown [Arts: Music: Styles: Pop] |
| | Essay by Kenan Hebert about the original Motown singers and their backup band in relation to the recent documentary, Standing in the Shadows. | | | Listen to or create your own independent audio broadcast. | | | Tower Records - Free Shipping On $20 Or More! |
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| | Motown Records |
| | Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and soloist who came out of groups | | | 1964 - Billboard stopped R&B charts because of crossover of Motown to pop |
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| | Business Wire : Motown Records Signs Soulful Balladeer Dave Hollister; Dave Hollister Joins the Motown Roster. @ ... |
| | Kedar Massenburg, President and CEO of Motown Records, recently signed singer/songwriter/producer, Dave Hollister to the label through a production deal with Goodfellas Entertainment. | | | Start / B / Business Wire / April 16, 2002 / Motown Records Signs Soulful Balladeer Dave Hollister; Dave Hollister Joins the Motown Roster. | | | While with BLACKstreet, Hollister penned the top 10 R&B hit single, "Before I Let Go," which was featured on the group's self-titled debut |
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| | Atari & Universal Motown Records To Promote Transformers |
| | * DROPBOX's debut single, "Wishbone," as well as the band's recording of its version of the TRANSFORMERS theme song will be available in the game as un-lockable bonus tracks; | | | Atari and Universal Motown Records To Promote Transformers | | | * A TRANSFORMERS brochure will be included in 1 million Universal Records music CDs; |
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