The fusion of gospel, pop, R&B, and soul contributed greatly to the success of Motown Records. It allowed its writers and ...

In 1959, an aspiring songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy Jr. borrowed $800 to start his own record label in Detroit. Good investment. Within a year, Motown had its first million-selling ...

The musical decade of the 1970s came in on a psychedelic wave and went out on the whoosh of a synthesizer. The ’70s brought us pet rocks, polyester, shag carpeting, bean bag chairs, and the battle of ...

In the 1960s and ‘70s, Motown Records helped to define a golden age of American music, as rhythm and blues and rock and roll became the world’s dominant pop genres. Smokey Robinson played a double ...

Members of the cast of the musical "Ain't Too Proud" bring to the stage the story of how the Temptations rose to fame on their strength of soulful harmonies and synchronized choreography that was part ...