Berry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit‚ Michigan on November 28‚ 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20’s and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories‚ mainly the big four automotive plants that like‚ Chrysler‚ Ford‚ Chevrolet‚ and General Motors. <br><br>Berry and Bertha
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individual musician or ensemble‚ or composed for a particular instrument or group of instruments‚ voice or choir (Wikipedia). Founded by Berry Gordy Jr‚ Motown is a record company in Detroit‚ Michigan‚ United States that was incorporated on April 14‚ 1960. With a variety of genres incorporated within the record company‚ from 1961 to 1971‚ Motown had 110 top 10 hits. Motown acts were enjoying a widespread popularity among black/white audiences alike where William “Smokey” Robinson stated “Into the ’60s
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Why was Berry Gordy significant in the development of the American Soul music genre? The aim of this essay is to analyse what significance Berry Gordy‚ the founder of the Tamla record label‚ had to the American Soul music genre. To accurately analyse this it is important to research and understand how Gordy ran Tamla and why he started the label. All the decisions he made involving Tamla would have an affect on the American Soul music industry because of the huge popularity of Gordy’s music.
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Brief History of Motown Motown Records was the first African-American-owned music label and featured the first African-American performers to achieve success with mainstream white audiences. Motown’s impact on 1960s culture played a major role in the integration of pop music. In producing hit records for African-American artists such as Diana Ross and The Supremes‚ The Temptations‚ Stevie Wonder and many others‚ Gordy did his part in the fight for racial equality at a time when King and other civil
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The Motown Museum in Detroit is truly a motivational part of America’s history; it stood for another way for African American voices to be heard on a much greater scale both national and even world wide. Motown has become America’s pop soul music for anyone and everyone. The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville‚ U.S.A. Barry Gordy‚ who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small
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“Can’t Forget the Motor City”: Why Leaving Detroit Ruined Motown Dylan Morris TASP 2005 Mark Clague and Derek Vaillant 5 August 2005 Morris 1 In 1959‚ Berry Gordy‚ Jr.‚ a 30-year-old songwriter and entrepreneur‚ started a record company in Detroit. He called it Tamla Records. The company had an auspicious debut. Within the year‚ it had released a major hit: Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)” climbed to number two on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues charts. In 1960‚ it had its first number
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Great Lakes‚ was the biggest city of heavy industry in the 1950s and 1960s. The Big Three automobile companies such as Ford‚ GM and Chrysler‚ had their manufacturing plants in Detroit at that time. People called this city as Motown‚ a compound word of Motor Town. Berry Gordy Jr. came back to Detroit after the Korean War in 1953 and he run a jazz record store with his friends. He was absorbed in blues and bebop and used to write songs as his hobby. Since he was a versatile person‚ he tried various
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single. Manufacturing pop artists is thought to be a 21st century trade. However‚ we can trace certain manufactured stars back as far as the the late 1950’s. Motown‚ the famous funk and soul label‚ founded by Berry Gordy Jr. was one such label that completely manufactured their artists to keep them in tune with the current music climate. Gordy set up compulsary classes that his artists and session musicians had to attend called "Artists Development"‚ an easy but effective way of saying "reconstruction
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Smokey Robinson: Writing for the Souls of Others Growing up in a house with “grown folks music‚” my sisters and I have heard many people or groups played loudly‚ (Marvin Gaye‚ Diana Ross and the Supremes‚ Natalie Cole‚ and Smokey Robinson just to name a few) while watching our father sing along‚ swaying back and forth‚ while snapping his fingers‚ closing his eyes‚ and being taken away by the music and it’s lyrics. He would often say to us‚ “You don’t know nothing ‘bout this‚ y’all too young
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Berry Gordy: The founder of Motown Berry Gordy‚ Jr.‚ was born in Detroit Michigan on November 28‚ 1929. He was the seventh of eight children of Berry‚ Sr. and Bertha Gordy. Berry Gordy‚ Jr. dropped out of the school after his junior year to become a professional boxer; he decided to get out of the fight game at about the time the Army drafted him in 1951. In 1953‚ he married Thelma Coleman and in 1954 his first child was born‚ a daughter Hazel Joy. By 1959 they had two other children‚ named
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