Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TheGrio counts down the greatest albums ever released by artists from Motown Records. This August, two legendary albums, Stevie ...

Motown - the label, the music, the movement - made superstars out of Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Michael Jackson. Two Houston natives are hoping "Motown: The Musical" will put them on the map, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1929, Berry Gordy Jr. began his music career writing songs for artists like Etta James in the late-1950's. He then ...

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Motown's songs haven't just endured as stand-alone classics through the decades — their influence has loomed large on subsequent artists and their work. That's the theme at the heart of "Pushin' ...

T.G. Sheppard knows exactly how people at home may have felt when they were watching Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, the landmark 1983 TV special honoring one of the most enduring record ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Joan Osborne has a long string of solo albums, a side project with Trigger Hippy, and a forthcoming album that's entirely focused on the songs of Bob Dylan, but the adventurous singer and songwriter ...

During the 1960s, in a country divided by racial strife, the music of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records helped bring people ...