Looking at five of the greatest albums released by Berry Gordy's Motown Records, including seminal records by Stevie Wonder, ...

A giant in the music and entertainment industry, the trailblazing record executive helped Motown find such talent as The ...

On Desert Island Discs, the former Motown Records boss Berry Gordy selected the one track he couldn't live without, which had been a hit for his label in 1965.

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

A blue and white sign, reading "Hitsville U.S.A," hangs above the similarly painted building. And with gold records by the Supremes, the Temptations and the Jackson 5, this former Motown recording ...

Get ready for an electrifying night of MOTOWN MAGIC with THE MOTOWN SENSATIONS ... a show—it’s a journey straight to the heart of Hitsville USA! Feel the rhythm. Relive the magic.

Operating out of the Hitsville U.S.A. studio in Detroit, Motown Records defined what popular music could be; and Smokey Robinson was integral to the label's success. One of Berry Gordon's first ...

Documentary film that focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. The film tracks the unique system that ...

Motown Studio A, dubbed the “snake pit.” Most of the company’s hits were made in this small space from 1959 to 1972. The wood floor was sometimes used as an instrument of sorts when singers would ...

Originally a student of the stand-up bass, he was soon playing in local clubs, and when Berry Gordy opened his Hitsville USA studio ... the very fabric of Tamla Motown’s imposing and infectious ...

Elektra then dropped MC5. Since 1985, the Motown Museum has told the story of Berry Gordy’s world in the original Hitsville USA house on West Grand Boulevard, home of a musical movement that changed ...

LEARN where the word Motown came from… (1959) The Hitsville USA building in Detroit MI, where Motown was founded, and which now hosts the Motown Museum – Public domain. “Motown” is ...