(Mass Appeal) – Goodspeed Musicals brings a wildly popular Broadway show and film to its stage starting next week and runs through the end of the year. If you love 1960’s Motown music you will love ...

If so, you’ll want to to mark your calendars for the evenings of Dec. 26 and Dec. 27 when The Prolifics, described by the ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

As a singer he was a one-hit wonder. But teaming with Norman Whitfield, he wrote a string of hits for others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” By Neil Genzlinger Barrett Strong, whose ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...

The Beatles’ Paul McCartney congratulates the Supremes at a party after their London debut show. Motown is a record label that was founded in 1958 by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit. The label found ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Berry Gordy were each born in 1929. Both Black men helped shape the 1960s, King with his marches and powerful oratory and Gordy as the founder of the Motown record label.

Luke McMaster has been a fan of Motown music since he was a young kid in Northern Manitoba, Canada, where there were no bands in his town, no music program in the school, and his brothers were focused ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Lamont Dozier, the middle ...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman ...