Motown Records
Fortune Records star Andre Williams to visit Metro Detroit
...Navy, he hit musical pay dirt as a young man in 1950s Detroit, at Fortune. After his time at Fortune, Motown and then Chess Records, Williams fell on hard times. In the '80s, addicted...
Uncle Kracker's Smile May Be Contagious at Country Radio
...Patsy Cline. I think those are the only two country artists my dad knew. It was either those two, or all Motown music, all the time at my house -- out of my dad's garage, anyway. He...
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Five highlights of Robert Bobb's new plan to reform Detroit Public Schools
...its doors. Meanwhile, Northwestern High School, alma mater to Rep. John Conyers, Judge Damon Keith and a few of Motown Records' finest, will also be a goner. I pleased to see Detroiters...
Various Artists - Message From the Tribe: An Anthology of Tribe Records 1972-1976
...label issued the work of area musicians, some of whom made a living as session players for Motown (the company left Detroit for L.A. the year Tribe was founded) while simultaneously...
"There was no strong concept, but it ended up falling into a Motown thing, which really stemmed from Michael Jackson dying last year. "I'd got my tickets, and really wanted to see his show, so when he died I listened to his records a lot like a lot of people. I then looked at other music that had inspired me, from my childhood and later in my life, started singing them and realised that a lot of the records were Motown songs," he adds, before explaining how his cover of Curtis Stigers' I Wonder Why ended up on the album.
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Because it is still a conference: SXSW panel picks
...possibly on the same night. 5 p.m. today, 18ABC. 5. 'SXSW Keynote: Smokey Robinson. ' It's unlikely that Motown sound architect Smokey Robinson will bust out anything that will be as...
Elevaters Interview: SXSW 2010
...'90s hip-hop, West coast and gangster rap, Sly and the Family Stone, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, early Motown and Stax Records, Minnie Riperton, Caetano Veloso, Little Dragon,...
CHECKING IN WITH CHRIS PETERS
...stories haven't been completed yet. Dennis is a guy whose career ranged from working with Del Shannon through Motown, and then into a solo career which was critical in the creation or...
Lloyd Now Labelmate With Eminem, 50 Cent
...with in my heart," Lloyd told MTV. "The problem is that Young Money/Cash Money is exclusive to Universal/Motown. As you and I know, that's where I did my last two albums. I wasn't excited...
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Diana Ross Goes on Tour!
Her music became the sound of young America in the '60s soon after she and The Supremes signed with Motown Records in 1961. She embarked on her extraordinary solo career in 1970,...
Can Motown happen again? Singing praises of music tax credits
Industry taking notice of state incentives for recordings Decades after Motown Records put Detroit on the world's entertainment map, a little-noticed tax break could help usher in a new...
Crunch time
...the curtain up front. (Still unexplained is why Mitt Millions and Sky Blu -- whose grandfather founded Motown Records -- were riding in coach rather than one of the jet's nine...
