Motown

Motown records, originally named Tamla records, was founded by Berry Gordy Jr in Detroit, Michigan.

Just think Supremes, Temptations and the Hippie movement. All were prominent, exaggerated paisleys, halter dresses and pants suits, plantofmshoes,hhats, sunglasses,glitz and glamour over the top.

start off with a question. then some history of when it started and then a realy good ending.

The contracts with CBS meant the royalty rate they would receive would be 20% instead of the 2.8% Motown offered, they would also allow the brothers to write and produce their own music.

Approximate running time:

2 hrs 6 min

The time may vary, of course, depending on the theatre performing it, the actors involved, length of scene changes, and the intermission length.

It would be a safe estimate at 2 hours :)

MCA

Mike Curb/Arista Records

Berry Gordy, Jr., established Motown Records

Motown songwriters were successful because they had the ability to write songs for African-American artists that appealed to both African-Americans and white audiences.

The Jackson 5 (also spelled The Jackson Five, The Jackson 5ive, or The Jack5on Five), later known as The Jacksons, are an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally consisted of a trio of the three older brothers.they were Active from 1964 to 1989

Berry Gordy Jr. sold the Motown record label to MCA in 1988 for $61m according to this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/29/business/motown-sold-to-mca.html

It also mentions that he retained the company's sheet music and film business as part of the transaction.

Yes. In 1989 Bruce Willis came out with an album entitled If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger, under the Motown label.

here are a few:

supremes

four tops

Marvin gaye

temptations

marvelettes

Mary wells

Motown is Detroit Michigan, a slang version of Motor City. Detroit was called the Motor City because it was once was home to the major US auto manufacturers headquarters.

Detroit has long been known as "The Motor City" because of its automobile industry. Motown is a shortened version of the nickname. Berry Gordy's recording company, originally called Hitsville U.S.A., eventually took on the Motown name.

Motown was officially founded in Jan 1959 with an $800 family loan. The first label was TAMLA, initially the name Tammy/Tammie was considered, but declined so not to infringe on copyrights of the popular song with the same name by Debbie Reynolds. Berry had been a boxer, and an assembler at Ford Motors by trade, but his love for Jazz steered him to open a record store prior to starting Motown Records.

His sisters (Anna and Gwen) were already in the record business. Anna had started the ANNA label with Roquel Davis having both as writers. This label started around the same time as Tamla, but had better distribution from previous connections made with Checker Records (division of Chess Records/Leonard Chess of Chicago, IL). Whom both had worked as the Detroit area reps. and distributors, and including the GONE Record label. By 1961 Motown eventually absorbed the Anna label, and subsequent labels founded by Gwen's husband Harvey Fuqua (Harvey, Tri-Phi).

This company started after a number of moderately successful compositions by Berry Gordy that Jackie Wilson had sung, such as 'Reet Petite'.

This corporation had grown and at one point had owned, distributed or represented over 60 different record labels, in almost every genre from Jazz, Gospel, Spoken Word, Rock, Country & Western, Soul, etc. Several labels had only released one title. (see Ecology w/Sammie Davis Jr. and Blaze w/Funk Brother Jack Ashford).

Universal Motown Records ended in 2011.

The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Matadors, The Supremes. There are many more those are just some examples. You can look them all up on the Wikipedia for Motown.

Terry Gordy died on July 16, 2001 at the age of 40.

sold out to universal? why? envy and dilution.

It was not sold directly to Universal.

Motown Record changed hands several times after Berry Gordy sold it to MCA records, then Vivendi, then to Universal. It is not clear if the MCA sell to Vivendi was through acquistion or outright purchase. As with it becoming property of Universal Corporation.

Berry Gordy still owns the significant publishing rights to the Jobete works that most recorded titles were published under. As well as dual-owned publishing branches.

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The correct answer is the late Debbie Dean (real name Reba Smith), who recorded several singles for the company in 1961-62. She returned to Motown for a one-off single in 1968.

The assembly-line concept used in the automobile industry was borrowed to produce the hit records at Motown.