10 years before to Motown’s inception. Berry Gordy met Smokey Robinson in 1959 when Robinson was in high school and Gordy recorded Robinson’s group ,The Miracles, and voilà, Motown was born. Motown’s first #1 hit was “Please Mr. Postman” by the Marvelettes in 1961. The song stayed on the Top Ten charts for 1 week, which was typical for this time period. Gordy, then signed Mary Wells to his flourishing music label. Mary Wells has a string of pop songs that reached on the Top Ten charts. The Distants
Motown created a sound that varied from blues, soul and pop that affected millions of people around the world. The ability to overcome the racist of America was the biggest struggle in becoming one of the world’s famous Black American recording producers. The songs created by Motown’s artists describe the struggle of racism, love and even hate. Marvin Gave sang about how things had changed for Black Americans in “what’s going on” the temptation sang “just my Imagination” like the music coming from
variations. Here I have listed the genres and its exponents: British Invasion: The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Yardbirds, Donovan, Manfred Mann, The Kinks, Herman's Hermits, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, The Animals Motown: The Marvelettes, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Drifters, The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Spinners, Aretha Franklin Psychedelic Rock: The Beach Boys, The Ventures, The Champs, The Doors, The Grateful Dead
Berry Gordy I think that Berry Gordy was a great business person because he managed to break boundaries and has become to the largest and most successful black-owned business in America. His Beginnings: Growing up on Detroit's Lower side, Gordy's greatest loves were boxing and jazz. By the time he graduated from Northeastern high school in 1948, Gordy was able to place boxing 1st. however once winning fifteen Golden Gloves matches, his career as a boxer was inhibit once he was drafted to fight in
What began at a house in Detroit exploded into an influential force in music and American society. This brief profile explores Motown's development, the guiding force of its founder, the musicians and artists, their top hits, the "sound" of their music and their close family relationships. Motown Company Development and the Influence of Berry Gordy On January 12, 1959, a young African-American songwriter, Berry Gordy, Jr., borrowed $800 from his family and founded a new record company. At that time
Rap Music Is Not Music Describing the (disenchanting) chanting of “Rap Music” as singing or as music is indeed (in either case) a capital misnomer. Real Music is the careful arrangement of organized sounds in the form of notes that then result in a smooth blend of rhythm, tone, and pitch that when united, is quite pleasing to the ear. Rap is not music. The unpleasant-sounding horror is chaotic dissonance and certainly not elegant consonance. Rap is veritable noise pollution that is tastelessly
“The ‘60’s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.” - Neil Young. In the ‘60’s, people had found a way to express themselves freely to a large audience and stand up for what they believe in through music. When chaos and protest clouded the public's eye from anything but violence and the propaganda of the government, music was a light to people in search of peace and helped to “bind them together”. The 1960’s was a decade of experimenting with
Stevie Wonder is one of the country’s most influential and celebrated pop/R&B artists of the past half-century. He has produced a cumulative 28 albums that span from his earliest years at Motown records to present day. While his desire and ability to produce music has been somewhat of a constant for the better part of five decades, Wonder’s content and sound has been anything but. Wonder overcame a transition in the latter part of the 1960’s that changed the outlook and scope of his career. As Little
This paper will be an updated version of my last paper which talked about a portion of Barry Gordy's background, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and their start at Motown. How Motown was the first American music label owned by an African-American, the first music label to successfully market black artists to white mainstream audiences. How Motown was responsible for discovering, mentoring, and perfecting a lot of American popular music's