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The Motown Museum's new "Motown Mile" exhibit on the Detroit RiverWalk links classic songs with modern music, like this panel with the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" and Janet Jackson's "If."
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 ...
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 guided ...
Led by Berry Gordy, Motown revolutionized soul and made Detroit one of the American centers of musical innovation. Although many who have never lived in the region incorrectly associate certain music from Michigan as being Detroit-oriented, Motown's productions were, in reality, among the limited number of recorded works actually linked to the ...
Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million. Between 1960 and 1969, Motown had 79 songs reach the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100. In March 1965, Berry Gordy and Dave Godin agreed to license the Tamla Motown label name for future UK releases through EMI Records Limited.
As president of Motown Productions, de Passe embarked on an Emmy-award winning television career that included 1983’s famed “Motown 25” special and 1998’s “The Temptations” miniseries.
The genesis of blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African Americans from the Deep South.In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the boogie-woogie style, such as Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo Merriweather.
There’s a purpose to the timing: “My Girl” was released on Dec. 21, 1964, a day when “the winter solstice brought one of the warmest, sunniest Motown hits ever put to vinyl,” as we wrote ...