Happy 50th, Motown
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:
From the Motown Museum: http://www.motownmuseum.com/
Just a few songs to get us started:
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
Cheers!
Re: Happy 50th, Motown
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Re: Happy 50th, Motown
I remember Johnny Marr talking about Holland-Dozier-Holland song writing in some interview.
Archangel risin' on the moon
Just to save me from this tomb
I'll cry the tears of time all day
'Til she wipes them all away
Re: Happy 50th, Motown
^Great stuff!
Excellent Vanity Fair article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...2/motown200812
Slideshow:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...de=1#globalNav
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:
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