Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely will be bestowed American Music Honors April 26 by ...
Smokey Robinson helped create the Sound of Young America. Now he's coming to the Jersey Shore to receive an American Music Honor. The Motown legend, along with John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris ...
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.
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 ...
The musician will be honored in April by the non-profit music education program for public schools at New York City's Gotham Hall.
Eventually, he found himself writing for singer Jackie Wilson and helping young singer William “Smokey” Robinson and his band, best known as the Miracles, sell records. The limited returns ...
In an industry filled with blowhards, Doug Davis flies pretty far under the radar, at least for a major music attorney, son ...
Defining ‘The Sound Of Young America’ in the 60s ... featuring a kid called William “Smokey” Robinson who not only had an unusual, oddly vulnerable high tenor voice, but also wrote ...