where was motown started
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People, Locations, Episodes Motown Records founded. Motown Record Company, the first large Black owned music company in America, was founded on this date in 1959. It was also the source of a variant of Black popular music that earned world wide acclaim in the 1960s. Motown was founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy, Jr., a successful rhythm-and-blues songwriter. The company enjoyed local success and scored its first nationwide hits with singles by two of its earliest musical groups, the Miracles’ Shop Around (1960) and the Marvelette’s Please Mr. Postman (1961).
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Berry Gordy, Motown Founder, Explains How He Started The Record Company With $800 (VIDEO) Armed with the cash, Gordy found a small Detroit photo studio that he was able to purchase. [It had] two big windows in the front, which I loved, Gordy recalls. This location became known as Hitsville USA, Motown's first headquarters. From the outset, Gordy was determined to make his record company a success. Hitsville USA was a place where hits were going to be made. Only hits. No flops, he says firmly in the video.
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Motown History Motown History. Motown was started by Berry Gordy also known as Berry Gordy Jr. He was armed with a dream and an $800 loan he got from his family and started what would become one of the best known record labels of all time. Motown created artists such as Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, The Supremes and many others.
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Motown It was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan.
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- The Tamla Motown label is launched in the U.K., while Martha & the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, the Miracles and the Supremes begin touring England, Scotland and Wales.
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Biography Diana Ross. Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the army.
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Four Tops Four Tops records often represented the epitome of the Motown Sound: simple distinctive melodies and rhymes, call-and-response lyrics, and the musical contributions of studio band, The Funk Brothers.
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- Rick Rubin who founded Def Jam in his dorm room in New York City was the first to leave, he sold his share of Def Jam for about $100 million, then Russel Simm…ons sold his share of Def Jam back in 1999 to Seagrams Universal Music Group for an estimated $175 million.
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- The Box Tops. The Box Tops formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1963 as The Devilles. They became a popular band in the Memphis rock scene. In 1967 they changed their name to The Box Tops to avoid confusion with another local band called The Devilles.
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- In 1973, Berry Gordy resigned as President of Motown Records to become Chairman of the Board of Motown Industries, which included the record, motion picture, television and publishing divisions. Ewart Abner II, a Motown Vice President for six years (and former exec with Vee-Jay) became President of Motown Records.
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Hitsville U.S.A. Also featured are Motown's Studio A and Berry Gordy's upstairs apartment, decorated to appear as they did during the 1960s. The finance department is currently an administrative office. West Grand Boulevard is named Berry Gordy, Jr. Boulevard in the area where the Motown Historical Museum is located. The museum is one of Detroit's most popular tourist destinations.
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- Gordy knew he had a hit, so he leased it to Anna Records who had a distribution agreement with Chess. Anna Records was a Detroit-based company that was owned by Berry's sisters Anna and Gwen Gordy and Billy Davis. The label operated from 1958 to 1961, when it was absorbed into Motown.
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List of people from Michigan 1 Florence Ballard, Motown era singer, original lead singer of The Supremes, inductee Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (born in Mississippi; raised in Detroit). 2  Lamont Dozier, Motown era composer, member of Holland-Dozier-Holland (born in Detroit).
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- Skynyrd Startin’ Out. 1964-1970. Formed in Jacksonville, FL in 1964 – first as My Backyard, later as The Noble Five, and finally as Lynyrd Skynyrd – the band played over a thousand local gigs by the early 1970’s. All that work paid off when the band got the opportunity to record their first demos at the now iconic Muscle Shoals in Alabama.
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These 22 Lost Classics Of Motown Deserve To Be Rediscovered Below, you can find a collection of little known singles, unreleased tracks and deep cuts from Hitsville USA's heyday, about 1963 through 1971. Some of these 22 songs come from Motown artists you know and love. Others come from groups that might be new to you.
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Motown: The Musical vs. the Literary Martha Reeves claims she was the first Motown artist to complain about miniscule royalties, and in time she had plenty of company. In 1964 Mary Wells successfully sued to get out of her original contract, which she had signed when she was 17.
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Foggy Bottom The Foggy Bottom area was the site of one of the earliest settlements in what is now the District of Columbia, when German settler Jacob Funk subdivided 130 acres (0.53 km2) near the meeting place of the Potomac River and Rock Creek in 1763.
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- 1. Motown, the premiere record label for African American artists during the Civil Rights Movement, was founded by the African American entrepreneur Berry Gordy and based in Detroit, Michigan.
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- 1 We are thankful for the connections we have made with many of you who follow us on Twitter via our handle, @Motown_Museum and with the thousands of visitors to our Facebook group and fan pages. 2  We look forward to your visits to our new website, www.motownmuseum.org; and our soon to be launched YouTube channel.
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Biography Mini Bio (1) Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the army.
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- By the mid-60s, as that bright, bouncy Motown Sound captured the U.S. listening public and started making major inroads overseas, Gordy confidently issued a memo stating, “We will release nothing less than Top Ten product on any artist.
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Berry Gordy's Motown Records They also put together the Rayber Voices, a studio group that backed most of Motown's first acts early recordings. In late 1957, Gordy had his first success with Reet Petite which was recorded by Detroit born Jackie Wilson who had at one time replaced Clyde McPhatter as lead singer of the Dominoes.
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Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies. Share this: Over a span of just 12 months beginning in April 1967, the duo of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell enjoyed a string of four straight hits with some of the greatest love songs ever recorded at Motown Records. Sadly, only the first two of those four hits were released while Tammi Terrell was still well enough to perform them. In October 1967, just six months after the release of the now-classic “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Terrell collapsed onstage during a live performance at Virginia’s Hampton-Sydney College.
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Berry Gordy and Motown Records: Lessons for Black History Month The fact that Gordy started Motown out of his home is more than a quaint historical footnote. Doing that today in Detroit’s residential areas would violate the city’s repressive ban on home-based businesses—a sad comment on how stifling Detroit’s regulations and taxes have become since the 1950s.
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown  ( 2002) In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era.
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Stevie Wonder comes of age The artist later known as Stevie Wonder and the label later known as Motown would grow up side by side over the course of the 1960s, with Motown coming to define “the Sound of Young America” and Wonder helping lead the way with hits like “Fingertips (Pt.