Hosted by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, the event will take place on April 26 at Monmouth ...

Smokey Robinson will headline opening night of the 2025 Rochester Jazz Fest on Friday, June 20, at the Kodak Hall at Eastman ...

and Smokey Robinson was integral to the label's success. One of Berry Gordon's first signings, Smokey delivered a string of hits with his band the Miracles including singles like The Tracks of My ...

Motown Records turned 66 on January 12. The nursery for soul giants like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The ...

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

As the Motown sound was dominating airwaves in the 1960s and ‘70s, Hollywood took notice and started incorporating the music into its soundtracks. Ever since then, Motown has been an inescapable ...

John Lennon had a deeper appreciation for 1960s soul, folk, and rhythm and blues, which influenced his work within and beyond The Beatles.

1974's Pure Smokey was Robinson's second solo album after leaving the Miracles. He's joined by another former Miracle, Marv Tarplin, who cowrote four songs and plays guitar throughout. Tarpaulin left ...

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The label’s first group was The Miracles, featuring a kid called William “Smokey” Robinson who not only had an unusual, oddly vulnerable high tenor voice, but also wrote his own songs.