Motown - the label, the music, the movement - made superstars out of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson. Two Houston natives are hoping "Motown: The Musical" will put them on the map, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

The story of Motown Records is a quintessentially American story about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship — but it has a special significance in Detroit, where it all started.

T.G. Sheppard knows exactly how people at home may have felt when they were watching Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, the landmark 1983 TV special honoring one of the most enduring record ...

NEW YORK — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters, who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single, “Money (That’s What I Want),” and later collaborated with ...

Motown combined elements of blues, gospel, swing, and pop with a thumping backbeat for a new dance music that was instantly recognizable. Competing for teen attention primarily against records by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like so many kids growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, Robin Terry was a fan of Motown’s music and its cavalcade of stars. But for ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...

The Beatles’ Paul McCartney congratulates the Supremes at a party after their London debut show. Motown is a record label that was founded in 1958 by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit. The label found ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Smokey ...