Motown was founded in 1959 as Tamla Records, and it acquired the name Motown in April 1960 – the ideal time to launch a record company built on black music. In the early 60s, the music industry ...
After working as a session drummer on a number of Motown's first hits, Marvin Gaye's solo career began in the early 1960s with a series of albums that largely covered jazz and pop standards.
Just how successful they become is evidenced by the fact that during the 1960s Motown released 535 singles in the USA. Of these, 357 either made the R & B charts and/or the pop charts. Twenty-one ...
Black Tie Groove will sing and play Motown, soul and funk from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s this Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Deane Center for the ...
who founded the Motown label in 1959 In the mid-1960s The Supremes, with Diana Ross very much at the front, were reeling off hit after hit for Berry Gordy Jr’s Motown label Marvin Gaye ...