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- The songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland (see Brian and Eddie Holland) helped create the “Motown sound,” which typically featured lyrical ballads sung to an infectiously rhythmic accompaniment. Motown became one of the most successful black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in U.S. history.
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Jan 9, 2019 · Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set up the hit factory of Motown. Arwa Haider looks at how an independent record label created one of the most influential sounds of the 20th Century.
Sep 16, 2024 · Motown, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history.
Jul 6, 2014 · A key element in Gordy’s strategy was to make his records appeal to EVERYONE, which is how and why he came up with the slogan – the Sound of Young America. While ‘the sound’ of Motown ...
May 13, 1971 · In 1964 Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier began producing the Supremes and with the unprecendented success of that group, the Motown sound came into full flower.
- Jon Landau
Aug 2, 2024 · The label’s first success was "Money (That’s What I Want)" by Barrett Strong, followed by its first Billboard No. 1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes, and its first million-record-seller, "Shop Around" by The Miracles. These successes marked the beginning of Motown’s influence.
While civil rights protesters in the 1960s and ’70s voiced Black demands for full equality, it was Motown’s music that brought African American voices and faces into homes across the nation, introducing baby boomers and their parents to Black culture. Motown’s success was progress itself.
Jan 11, 2019 · The Supremes (Diana Ross & The Supremes) was not only Motown's most successful girl group, but also one of the most popular groups of the twentieth century, rivalling the Beatles at their...
