"Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations, ""Diana!"" with Diana Ross, and ""Goin' Back to Indiana"" with the Jackson 5. The company loosened its production rules, allowing some of its longtime artists the opportunity to write and produce more of their own material. This resulted in the recordings of successful and critically acclaimed albums such as Marvin Gaye's ""What's Going On"" (1971) and ""Let's Get it On"" (1973), and Stevie Wonder's ""Music of My Mind"" (1972), ""Talking Book"" (1972), and ""Innervisions"" (1973). Motown had established branch offices in both New York City and Los Angeles during the mid-1960s, and"
"of Motown and the audiences would be segregated. Then they started to get the Motown music and we would go back and the audiences were integrated and the kids were dancing together and holding hands. In 1967 Berry Gordy purchased what is now known as ""Motown Mansion"" in Detroit's Boston-Edison Historic District as his home, leaving his previous home to his sister Anna and then husband Marvin Gaye (where photos for the cover of his album ""What's Going On"" were taken). In 1968, Gordy purchased the Donovan building on the corner of Woodward Avenue and Interstate 75, and moved Motown's"
"Motown's home city of Detroit during the summer of 1968, Williams suggested that Whitfield might try to produce something like Sly & the Family Stone's ""Dance to the Music"" for their next single. The Temptations had been successful with romantic ballads such as ""My Girl"" and mid-tempo numbers such as ""(I Know) I'm Losing You"", but Williams, taking Gamble's advice, felt that it was time to update the group's sound. ""Man, I don't want to be bothered with that shit,"" remarked Whitfield, who regarded the Family Stone sound as a ""passing fancy"". Regardless of his original opinion of Sly Stone's"
"by 1969 had begun gradually moving more of its operations to Los Angeles. The company moved all of its operations to Los Angeles in June 1972, with a number of artists, among them Martha Reeves, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Motown's Funk Brothers studio band, either staying behind in Detroit or leaving the company for other reasons. By re-locating, Motown aimed chiefly to branch out into the motion-picture industry, and Motown Productions got its start in film by turning out two hit-vehicles for Diana Ross: the Billie Holiday biographical film ""Lady Sings the Blues"" (1972), and"
"Hitsville U.S.A. ""Hitsville U.S.A."" is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters. A former photographers' studio located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, near the New Center area, it was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959. It was converted for use as the record label's administrative building and recording studio, which was open 22 hours a day (closing from 8 to 10 a.m. for maintenance). Following mainstream success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gordy moved the label to Los Angeles and established the Hitsville West studio there, as a part of his focus on"
"Motown as a company began to change during the early 1970s. Older acts such as Martha and the Vandellas and The Marvelettes were slowly moved aside or dropped to focus on newer acts, such as Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, Rare Earth, and the now-solo Diana Ross. In addition, the company moved its operations from Detroit to Los Angeles, California, where Berry Gordy planned to break into the motion picture and television industries. In 1972, it was announced that the entire company would move west and that all its artists had to move as well. Many of the older"
"Motown's famed Studio A in Hitsville U.S.A. with the Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band, but the results remained unreleased. By April 1971 Beck had completed the line-up of this new group with guitarist/vocalist Bobby Tench, keyboard player Max Middleton and bassist Clive Chaman. The new band performed as ""the Jeff Beck Group"" but had a substantially different sound from the first line-up. ""Rough and Ready"" (October 1971), the first album they recorded, on which Beck wrote or co-wrote six of the album's seven tracks (the exception being written by Middleton), included elements of soul, rhythm-and-blues and jazz, foreshadowing the direction"
"studios, which had produced a long string of worldwide hits, is now the Motown Museum. The following year, he reorganized the company into Motown Industries, an entertainment conglomerate that would include record, movie, television and publishing divisions. Many Motown fans believed the company's heart and soul were lost following the move and that its golden age of creativity ended after its 13 years in Detroit. Esther Gordy Edwards refused to move to California and was put in charge of what was left of Motown's Detroit office in the Hitsville building. Edwards received several requests for the Hitsville building to receive"
"Motown in 1967. He co-wrote along with Ivy Hunter and Steve Bowden for The Isley Brothers recording of ""Got to Have You Back"". In 1971, he collaborated with Ike & Tina Turner, co-writing six songs on their United Artists album, ""Nuff Said"". The album reached the top 40 of the R&B charts and also appeared in the pop charts. Later that year, Ware began collaborating with Arthur ""T-Boy"" Ross, younger brother of Diana Ross. One of the songs they wrote was ""I Wanna Be Where You Are"" recorded by Michael Jackson for his album, ""Got To Be There"". The single"
"September 2012. The piano was inherited by Motown after it bought Golden World Records in 1967. The Golden World studio then became Hitsville U.S.A. Studio B. The piano is on display in Studio A at the Motown Museum. In 1992, Motown released two four-CD boxed sets compiling 103 singles released during its ""Detroit era"", entitled "" "" and 76 singles from its ""Los Angeles era"", ""Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume Two 1972–1992"". Hitsville U.S.A. ""Hitsville U.S.A."" is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters. A former photographers' studio located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, near"
"is, and at the end—if we were lucky — we were allowed to play a mellow song like Killing Me Softly or Ain't No Sunshine. But never rock."" In May 1976, Natasha Shneider, her husband Kapustin, and her brother Vladimir defected to the West, arriving in New York City without finances or connections. They took day jobs and played evening gigs around the city. In 1978 they arrived in Hollywood where they met Guy Costa, the head of Motown's Studio Operations, who introduced them to Berry Gordy, founder of Motown records. As a consequence of the meeting with Gordy they"
"and ""We Don't Have to Be Over 21"". During early 1968, the group also performed at strip clubs on Joe's behest to earn extra income. They performed a week-long run of shows at the Regal Theater as the opening act for Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, and Taylor sent them to Detroit to help with their Motown audition, which was set for July 23 at Motown's headquarters on Woodward Avenue. The taped audition was sent to Berry Gordy's office in Hollywood, but Gordy turned them down again, since he had Stevie Wonder in his spotlight. He changed his mind, however,"
"television and film production as well as music production. In 1959, Gordy formed his first label, Tamla Records, and purchased the property that would become Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio. The photography studio located in the back of the property was modified into a small recording studio, and the Gordys moved into the second-floor living quarters. Within seven years, Motown would occupy seven additional neighboring houses: By the end of 1966, Motown had hired over 450 employees and had a gross income of $20 million. In 1967 Berry Gordy purchased what is now known as the Motown mansion, in Detroit's Boston-Edison"
"Motown used for acts that recorded material with more of an R&B flavor than a pop flavor. In 1972, the group had success with their cover of musician Kris Kristofferson's ballad, ""Help Me Make It Through the Night"". The song helped to make the group's transition from soul and blues-oriented material to more middle of the road flair. In late 1972, the group began recording songs for what would be their final album, ""Neither One of Us"", at Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studios in Detroit. Among the songs they would record that wounded up on the album included a funk-oriented cover"
"Historic District, as his home, leaving his previous home to his sister Anna and her then-husband, Marvin Gaye (photos for the cover of his album ""What's Going On"" were taken there). In 1968, Gordy purchased the Donovan building, on the corner of Woodward Avenue and Interstate 75, and moved Motown's Detroit offices there (the Donovan building was demolished in January 2006 to provide parking spaces for Super Bowl XL). In the same year Gordy purchased Golden World Records, and its recording studio became Motown's Studio B. In 1972, Gordy relocated the Motown Records headquarters to Los Angeles. The original Hitsville"
"""Mahogany"" (1975). Other Motown films would include ""Scott Joplin"" (1977), ""Thank God It's Friday"" (1978), ""The Wiz"" (1978) and ""The Last Dragon"" (1985). Ewart Abner, who had been associated with Motown since the 1960s, became its president in 1973. By the 1970s, the Motown ""hit factory"" had become a target of a backlash from some fans of rock music. Record producer Pete Waterman recalls of this period: ""I was a DJ for years and I worked for Motown – the press at the time, papers like NME, used to call it Toytown. When I DJ'd on the Poly circuit, the"
"to record music for Motown. ""Rolling Stone"" later described the young Michael as ""a prodigy"" with ""overwhelming musical gifts"" who ""quickly emerged as the main draw and lead singer."" The group set a chart record when its first four singles—""I Want You Back"" (1969), ""ABC"" (1970), ""The Love You Save"" (1970), and ""I'll Be There"" (1970)—peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. In May 1971, the Jackson family moved into a large home on two-acre estate in Encino, California. During this period, Michael evolved from child performer into a teen idol. As Jackson began to emerge as a"
"Motown CEO and founder Berry Gordy, who was impressed by the group and agreed to sign them that year. For a year the group worked alongside members of Switch, helping to add background vocals, instrumentation, arranging, and musical and lyrical composition to the band's works, most prominently in ""I Call Your Name"", ""My Friend in the Sky"", and ""Love Over and Over Again"". By 1981, Bobby and Tommy had left Switch and returned the favor to their siblings working with them on their debut album, which was released that year with Bobby, Bunny, and El as main producers. The only"
"Motown release, issued as Gordy 906 in June 1963. A later scene features Curtis and the Dreams recording in the studio, while a riot rages outside. By comparison, Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio remained open and active during Detroit's 12th Street Riot in July 1967. The photo shoot montage which accompanies ""When I First Saw You"", as well as the subplot of Deena being forced to star in Curtis' ""Cleopatra"" film against her will, reflect both scenes from and the production of ""Mahogany"", a 1975 Motown film starring Diana Ross and directed by Motown CEO Berry Gordy. Among the more direct"
"Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ""motor"" and ""town"", has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the"
"Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was originally founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ""motor"" and ""town"", has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved significant crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the"
"Motown in March 1969, Taylor became the group's first producer. He supervised the bulk of their first album, ""Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5"", recording the Jacksons on a number of soul covers, including The Miracles' ""Who's Lovin' You"". Berry Gordy would later move the group to California and take personal control of their sound. Although Taylor would briefly join the Jacksons in California, he did not receive credit for working on the group's early singles such as ""I Want You Back"" and ""ABC"" alongside Gordy's team known as The Corporation. In addition to those, he produced most of their"
"after the renaming, Berry Gordy signed the group on to his new recording company Motown. The group's first hit came with the release of the single ""Do You Love Me"" in 1962. The group also achieved success with the songs ""Shake Sherry"" and ""That Day When She Needed Me"" in 1963 and 1964. In 1964, within a matter of two weeks, Johnson along with Billingslea, Gordon, Hoggs and Contours newcomer Sylvester Potts decided to part from Motown. Johnson began undergoing treatment for mental health in 1980. Johnson was battling from depression amongst other illnesses. On July 11, 1981, Johnson was"
"Noveskey (Blue October), Tommy Shannon, Peter Cetera, Phil Chen, Michael League, Geddy Lee, Mike Watt and Michael ""Flea"" Balzary. Shortly after Motown moved their headquarters to Los Angeles, California in 1972, Jamerson moved there himself and found occasional studio work, but his relationship with Motown officially ended in 1973. He went on to perform on such 1970s hits as ""Neither One Of Us"" by Gladys Knight & The Pips (1973), ""Boogie Down"" (Eddie Kendricks, 1974), ""Boogie Fever"" (The Sylvers, 1976), ""You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"" (Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., 1976), and"
"his death in 1994. It was one of the very few electronic creations of Scott to be sold to a customer, as he was normally highly secretive about his devices. A single Electronium machine was sold to Motown records, following a 1969 meeting between Scott and Motown's Berry Gordy. The initial contract required that Scott visited Motown for three months to teach staff how the machine is used. This culminated in the 1971 hiring of Scott to serve as director of Motown's electronic music and research department in Los Angeles, California, a position that Scott held until 1977. No Motown"
"Motown) reissue of the song became a hit, making #34 on the UK Singles Charts in August of that year. Despite the newfound success, The Velvelettes did not reunite until the 1980s; they would go on to record (with all four original members) for Ian Levine's Motorcity Records as well. Their next single was a rerecorded version of their hit ""Needle In A Haystack"", released on Levine's Nightmare label some 21 years after this song. Diana Ross, who had been the lead singer of The Supremes, left the group for a solo career in early 1970. She recorded ""These Things"
"with Motown Records' Hitsville U.S.A., in Detroit, during their heyday in the early 1960s as a sound engineer. He was the chief technician for artists such as The Temptations (""My Girl"") and Junior Walker and the All-stars (""Shotgun""). After a brief 1-year marriage to Motown receptionist Juana Royster in the late 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles with Motown where, in 1972, he met his second wife, Mildred Maree, during a first-class flight en route to Los Angeles. The couple married in Las Vegas in August 1973, but separated in 1979, and filed for divorce in 1981, although they continued"
"Motown label relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles. Young and Rogers divorced in 1975 after 12 years of marriage, and she reverted to being known as Wanda Young. In 1963, the Beatles recorded ""Please Mr. Postman"" on their second studio album ""With the Beatles"". In 1975, the Carpenters' remake of ""Please Mr. Postman"" hit #1 around the world and was one of a dozen million-selling Gold-certified singles for the duo in the United States. It was also the second song to ever hit #1 by two different artists. Young was involved with many years of substance abuse and alcoholism following"
"sung by Rose Batiste). Motown owner Berry Gordy sought a partnership with the couple early on, but Jackson counselled Wingate against, and the result was a string of hits and an eventual buy-out by Gordy for around a million dollars, in 1966. In the 1980s, Bratton was sleeping in the lobby of Chicago's (formerly magnificent but now seedy) Del Prado Hotel, earning his place by running errands and being personable, but not quite living in the present, always a sidestep away from his old memories. By 1991, he was in a nursing home on Chicago's South Side, in touch with"
"offices from 1961 until 1972, when Berry moved the entire operation to Los Angeles. In 1985, she founded the Motown Historical Museum at the site of the former Hitsville U.S.A. studios, where many of Motown's successful recording artists recorded. Esther died in 2011 at the age of 91. Though she is often remembered more for her volatile marriage to Motown legend Marvin Gaye, Anna Ruby Gordy (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014), the third and last child born in Georgia prior to the family's move to Detroit, was one of Motown's earliest songwriters, penning several hits mainly for her"
"and 1971. Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959–1971 Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959–1971 is a 1992 four-CD collection of Motown hits, during Motown's golden age when the songs were recorded at its original Detroit studio. The selections on this compilation were transferred from the original single mixes, which were mixed for AM radio play and 45 RPM singles. Therefore, the tracks are mono. It was followed a year by the release of """". Singles were recorded between 1959 and 1964. Singles were recorded between 1964 and 1966. Singles were recorded between 1966 and 1970. Singles were recorded"
"May 1993, in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 54. He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. His headstone reads ""Motown Pioneer"". In 2011, a compilation album featuring all songs recorded by Johnson during his second stay at Motown was released. ""I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose: The Complete Motown Recordings 1964–1971"" was an authorised reissue of his Motown recordings, released under the Kent Soul label, an Ace Records subsidiary that releases Northern Soul music. The first eleven tracks are from his 1969 album, ""I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose"", which includes the title track, its"
"by Six""—became favourites among Northern soul and ""beach music"" fans. During the mid- to late-1960s, one-fifth of Motown records began utilizing session musicians based in Los Angeles, usually covers and tributes of mainstream pop songs and showtunes. By 1970, an increasing number of Motown sessions were in Los Angeles instead of Detroit, notably all the Jackson 5's hit recordings. Nevertheless, Motown producers such as Norman Whitfield, Frank Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson steadfastly continued to record in Detroit. The Funk Brothers were dismissed in 1972, when Berry Gordy moved the entire Motown label to Los Angeles—a development some of"