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 ...

Motown gave soul music broad appeal with its iconic beat, earworm hooks, and call-and-response gospel vocals. But the Detroit label, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in 1959, was much more ...

The city of Killeen released the numbers for how many attendees stopped by the 5th Annual Motown Downtown Musical Festival last Saturday, and according to the post it was more than the year prior. The ...

Related: This Music Trivia Quiz Is Deceptively Hard, So Let's Put Your Knowledge To The Test From the 1960's through the 1970's, Motown launched the careers of many musicians. Stevie Wonder, Gladys ...

Few musicians can say they worked with the likes of Elton John and Dusty Springfield. Fewer could say they were formally signed to the iconic label, Motown Records. All of the above were the case for ...

Did you know one of Motown’s most iconic songs almost didn’t exist? “Ooo Baby Baby,” the beloved hit by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, started as a spontaneous onstage improvisation — and ended up on ...