Old Motown Records
From the Late Fifties, Soul Music was born, it spawned acts such as the Temptations, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and many others.
The Music is still alive today and we are here to feed your need for the Legends of Soul
The One, The Only, The Temptations
Background record is The Temptations - The Way You Do the Things You Do
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Aretha Franklin - The Queen of Soul |
The Dells |
The Intruders |
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| Jnr Walker | Martha Reeves and The Vandellas | Marvin Gaye |
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Otis Redding |
4 Tops |
The Supremes |
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Smokey Robinson |
Jackie Wilson |
Stevie Wonder |
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Mary Wells |
Sam And Dave |
Jackson 5 |
Soul Record labels.
Of the many Soul record labels Motown and Stax were the argueablly most successful, they between them spawned hundreds of hits, along with many smaller labels they were at the forefront of the Soul Story.
Motown was a record company founded by Berry Gordy Jnr and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, on April 14, 1960. The name, a potmanteau of the words motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit. Now headquartered inNew York City, Motown is a subsidary of Universal Motown Republic Group, itself a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and now operates as Univeral Motown. Motown Records was also the name of Gordy's second record label; the first, Tamla Records, began on January 12, 1959.
Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music, as it was the first record label owned by an African American to primarily feature African-American artists who achieved crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its soul-based subsidiaries were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as The Motown Sound, a style of Soul Music with a distinct pop influence.
Motown has owned or distributed releases from more than 45 subsidiaries in varying genres, although it is most famous for its releases in the music genres of rhythm and blues, soul, hip hop and pop. Motown Records left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972, and remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures (which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991), then to Polygram in 1994.
(Information from Motown Records Wikipedia entry)
