Happy 50th, Motown

[Je Suis Julie]

50 years ago today Barry Gordy Jr. secured an $800 loan to start Motown Records.

To celebrate, post some of your favorite Motown artists, songs, memories, photos etc.

The official site: http://classic.motown.com/

I think I need this:
http://www.websitestores.net/motown/itemimages/MHM0258.jpg

From the Motown Museum: http://www.motownmuseum.com/

Just a few songs to get us started:

The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
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The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
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Cheers!

[jesuisbryony]

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
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[cornelius blaze]

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I remember Johnny Marr talking about Holland-Dozier-Holland song writing in some interview.

[Je Suis Julie]

^Great stuff!

Excellent Vanity Fair article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/motown200812

Slideshow:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/motown_slideshow200812?slide=1#globalNav

http://www.vanityfair.com/images/culture/2008/12/cusl05_motownport0812.jpg
Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Eddie Holland - photographed by Annie Leibovitz in California last year.
Many people around here are still angry that Motown up and left Detroit in the end.

The Temptations working on My Girl, before it was a hit, backstage at the Apollo, 1964:
http://www.vanityfair.com/images/culture/2008/12/cusl07_motown0812.jpg