On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...

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 ...

On Dec. 21, 1964, The Temptations released what is now considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever recorded. Smokey Robinson and Ronald White wrote and produced the classic Motown melody ...

No accounting of Christmas music is complete without Motown Records, the influential, genre-bending Detroit label born with an $800 family loan in 1959. Why it matters: A Michigan Chronicle writer ...

The programme - recorded in LA - focuses on the writers of Motown's golden era with particular emphasis on Holland/Dozier/Holland, Ashford & Simpson and William 'Smokey' Robinson. Show more The ...

Elemental Music's Motown reissue campaign moves and grooves into the new year with another three installments of legendary soul classics, all Goldmine approved.

Classic Motown's glamorous chart punches aren't the whole story with the Marvelettes. After early-Sixties wonders like "Beechwood 4-5789," the girl group, fronted by Gladys Horton and later Wanda ...

Barrett Strong, a pivotal figure in the history of Motown Records, has died at the age of 81. He sang the label's first major hit, Money (That's What I Want), in 1959, and went on to co-write ...