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Berry Gordy. Berry Gordy III (born November 28, 1929), also known as Berry Gordy Jr., [5] is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, [2] [3] and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. [4]
Eddie Kendricks. Edward James Kendrick[3] (December 17, 1939 [2] – October 5, 1992), [4] better known as Eddie Kendricks, was an American tenor singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group the Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971.
There is no undisputed list of the members of the group. Some writers have claimed that virtually every musician who ever played on a Motown track was a "Funk Brother". There are 13 Funk Brothers identified in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name
116 mins. Country. United States. Language. English. Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Paul Justman that recounts the story of the Funk Brothers, the uncredited and largely unheralded studio musicians who were the house band that Berry Gordy hand-picked in 1959.
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1960s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Motown, Whitfield. Norman Whitfield's Temptations. Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008) was an American songwriter and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy 's Motown labels during the 1960s. [1] He has been credited as one of the creators of the Motown Sound and of the late-1960s subgenre of psychedelic soul.
Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American second tenor/baritone singer. [1] [2] He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer.Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, [1] a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name.