Vocalists such as Levi Stubbs and Gladys Horton might not be household names, but they propelled some of Motown's best songs ...

Motown was home to some of the most famous singers in music history, so anyone who stands out as a spectacular singer is the ...

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 founder Berry Gordy Jr. had a simple goal when he started the legendary record company 60 years ago in Detroit. “My whole dream was to make the world hear our music,” Gordy says in the new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 ...

A founding member of Martha and the Vandellas, she was the crystalline soprano on 1960s hits like “Nowhere to Run” and “Jimmy ...

Back in 1961, while on the Tri-Phi label, Johnny and Jackey released a failed single, but years later it was re-appraised by ...

Upon the 65 th anniversary of the record label, CU Boulder prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new’ Shawn O’Neal, assistant teaching professor ...

“Competition breeds champions.” Was that said by 18th century economic philosopher Adam Smith or 20th century economist Milton Friedman? Neither. It was Berry Gordy, a former boxer and auto assembly ...

Some of the biggest names in Detroit are reaching new heights, as several of its alumni put their signature on the final beam used in the construction of the Motown Museum's 50,000-square-foot ...

Eddie Murphy had grown up as a Motown obsessive, and while his dream came true and he signed with the label, it quickly ...