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The Motown piano is an 1877 Steinway & Sons Model D grand piano, used by many musicians including the Funk Brothers studio band, at the Hitsville U.S.A. Studio B from 1967 to 1972. On July 24, 2011, Paul McCartney was in Detroit for a performance at Comerica Park , as part of his On the Run Tour ; he visited the Motown Museum for a private ...
The studio was originally to be named Motown Motion Pictures, giving possible confusion with multiple businesses, particularly Motown Records. [4] So in June 2009, the Raleigh Michigan Studios name was selected [ 4 ] after Raleigh Entertainment, the company which would be managing the studio. [ 2 ]
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.Founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, [2] [3] it was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. [4]
On Detroit’s west side, there’s a little house that transformed American culture and the music world at large. And so the Motown Museum has become a go-to destination for visitors from across ...
Amid the Motown Museum’s growing global profile, the Detroit institution has a new feather in its cap: a spot on the national airwaves. A weekly music show, “Live from Motown Museum,” is ...
Masterpiece Sound Studios, a legendary Detroit recording space affiliated with Motown Records, is hosting a cover song competition for musicians The post So you think you can sing? Motown studio ...
While most of Motown's backing musicians were African American, and many originally from Detroit, the Funk Brothers included white players as well, such as Messina (who was the featured guitarist on Soupy Sales's nighttime jazz TV show in the 1950s), Brokensha (originally from Australia), Coffey, and Pittsburgh-born Babbitt.
(CBS DETROIT) - The Motown Museum revealed new renderings of what to expect inside the highly anticipated expansion project. The nearly 40,000-square-foot project, which will include a cafe and ...