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Motown Records slogan: "The Sound of Young America". Gordy Records: Established 1962, Gordy was also a primary subsidiary for mainstream R&B/soul music. Originally known as Miracle Records (slogan: "If It's a Hit, It's a Miracle"), the name was changed in 1962 to avoid confusion with the Miracles singing group. The label's numbering system was ...
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 ...
Robert White (November 19, 1936 – October 27, 1994) [1] was an American soul musician and a guitarist for Motown's in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers. [2]Born in the small town of Billmeyer, Pennsylvania, [3] [4] he received music lessons from his uncle.
Grant played on select Motown studio sessions' with the Funk Brothers from 1964 to 1970, including Gladys Knight & the Pips "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". As a rule, Grant played on all the sessions that featured songs he wrote or co-wrote, except one, "You Got to Earn It" , which Smokey Robinson cut while Grant was on the road with the ...
Motown Choreographer Avery 21st century Motown AZ: 21st century Motown B.G.O.T.I. 1980s/1990s BGOTI Babyface: 21st century Motown Erykah Badu: 1980s/1990s Motown Bankroll Freddie: 21st century Motown J. J. Barnes: 1960s Ric-Tic Records Drake Bell: 21st century Motown Yummy Bingham: 21st century Motown Will Biondo: 21st century Motown Black ...
Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 – February 8, 2021) was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, [1] as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time.
Motown: The Musical is a jukebox musical that premiered on Broadway in April 2013. The musical is based on Berry Gordy's autobiography To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown (1994), [1] and on the history of his founding and running of the Motown record label, and his personal and professional relationships with Motown artists such as Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye ...
Garage rock was a form of amateurish rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and so called because of the perception that it was rehearsed in a suburban family garage. [21] [22] Garage rock songs revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. [23]