motown

Think Motown or 80's Michael Jackson, not {fill in the blank with anything popular this minute}.

PG is in a position to match talent just as Berry Gordy of Motown was.

Early Motown records were tracked in a room which had a dirt floor.

Americans did try (see Pat Boone etc) but while the Beatles/Stones/Hermans Hermits dominated it was the rise of Motown that is most intriguing.

To me the story emphasizes perfectly the gritty Motown spirit.

Today Motown is primarily remembered for its stars and craftsmen.

Then at some point I got a Motown Missile 48,000 RPM motor for it.

As a big fan of Chris Cornell I went through the same stream of emotions with their Motown version of Like a Stone[0].

Also I listen to a lot of motown as well.

How Motown slipped my mind completely I don't understand but yes you're right, but I wasn't under the impression that at Tin Pan Alley the songwriters did the production themselves.

Disco (Chicago was a big place for that), Motown (named after Detroit), techno (also Detroit), industrial (Cleveland / Akron), and house music (Chicago and Detroit) all either came from or had large contributions from what is now called the rust belt.

Gordy probably doesn't let Marvin do "What's Goin On" if the era the Beatles ushered in didn't threaten Motown so much.

The article has a great quote from the founder of Motown: "Don’t bore us, get to the chorus!” Berry Gordy once joked, understanding that this is what listeners truly gather around.

I love Motown, but honestly, if you've heard one 4 Tops song, you've heard them all, they even parody themselve with "The Same old song".

Regularly the top-100 was filled with stuff that was not cookie cutter (with the ocassional clunker like the Monkeys and such, but even "fabricated" stuff was of higher quality, like Motown, and even ventured into experimentation).

Do you realize that bailing out crippled financial institutions is entirely different from bailing out Motown's idiot car companies?

When he performed for Motown, none other than Fred Astaire, king of the old dancers, called him to congratulate him.

Put on some Wilson Pickett or Motown, or your pick of their better contemporaries.