Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters; after this the title Motown Chartbusters was used. Records Limited' u.A. A third label, which Gordy named after himself (though it was originally called "Miracle") featured the Temptations, the Contours, Edwin Starr, and Martha and the Vandellas. Motown expanded into film and television production. Ross left Motown for RCA Records from 1981 to 1988, but returned in 1989 and stayed until 2002, while Robinson left Motown in 1991 (although he did return to release one more album for the label in 1999). Stevie Wonder (a.k.a. : Short-lived (1982) subsidiary for, Gaiee Records. Record producer Pete Waterman recalls of this period: "I was a DJ for years and I worked for Motown – the press at the time, papers like NME, used to call it Toytown. Top artists on the Motown label during that period included the Supremes (initially including Diana Ross), the Four Tops, and the Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Marvelettes, and the Miracles had hits on the Tamla label. Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million. From everywhere. "[20], Despite losing Holland–Dozier–Holland, Norman Whitfield, and some of its other hitmakers by 1975, Motown still had a number of successful artists during the 1970s and 1980s, including Lionel Richie and the Commodores, Rick James, Teena Marie, the Dazz Band, Jose Feliciano and DeBarge. Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and the Temptations had remained with the label since its early days, although all except Wonder recorded for other labels for several years. ↑ David Ausseil et Charles-Henry Contamine, La route du … Renamed for CD release later. In total, 12 editions were released in the UK, spanning 15 years from 1967 to 1982. As of 2018[update], Wonder is the only artist from Motown's early period still on the label. From there, Tamla Motown (along with such associated labels as Gordy, Soul, and V.I.P.) [12] Needing $800 to cover his end of the deal, Gordy asked his family to borrow money from a cooperative family savings account. Three years later after the first release of British Motown Chartbusters, Motown released a series called “Motown Chartbusters" on the Motown label in the United States. Shut down when the main Motown office moved to Los Angeles. By the mid-1980s Motown had started losing money, and Berry Gordy sold his ownership in Motown to MCA Records (which began a US distribution deal with the label in 1983) and Boston Ventures in June 1988 for $61 million. The company operated several labels in addition to the Tamla and Motown imprints. Its name was a portmanteau of the Detroit nickname, "Motor City" or "Motown". First released in December 1980 as "Motown Chartbusters '80". [28] Pop production techniques such as the use of orchestral string sections, charted horn sections, and carefully arranged background vocals were also used. [25] Motown would then begin serving as a subsidiary of Capitol Records. Early Tamla/Motown artists included Mable John, Eddie Holland and Mary Wells. EMI also made 8-track cartridge recordings of the early releases. [12], In 1958, Gordy wrote and produced "Come to Me" for Marv Johnson. In the same year, Gordy purchased Golden World Records, and its recording studio became "Studio B" to Hitsville's "Studio A". 2 and, in 1972 and 1973, both Volumes 7 and 8 went to No. Crafted with an ear towards pop appeal, the Motown Sound typically used tambourines to accent the back beat, prominent, and often melodic electric bass-guitar lines, distinctive melodic and chord structures, and a call-and-response singing style that originated in gospel music. Seeing that the song had great crossover potential, Gordy leased it to United Artists for national distribution but also released it locally on his own startup imprint. Motown Records, Motown (znana także jako Tamla-Motown) – amerykańska wytwórnia muzyczna.. Została założona 12 stycznia 1959 jako Tamla Records.W ciągu 30 lat działalności Berry Gordy i jego Motown Record Company (skrót od „Motor Town”) oraz bliźniacza wytwórnia Tamla wywierali wpływ na amerykańską i europejską muzykę.. Pierwsza platynowa płyta dla Motown … Motown, ou Motown Records, est une compagnie de disques américaine qui fait partie de Universal Music Group.La Motown a été créée le 12 janvier 1959 par Berry Gordy à Détroit dans le Michigan.Le nom Motown est la contraction de Motor Town, « la ville des moteurs », le surnom de Détroit qui était alors la capitale de la production automobile. Harvey Fuqua later married Gwen Gordy in 1961. 8 in January 1970. 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Motown Yesteryear: a label created in late 1970s and used through the 1980s for the reissues of 7-inch singles from all eras of the company's history, after printing in the initial label has ceased. Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. [citation needed]. Directed by Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner. He applied for copyrights on more than seventy songs before the end of 1959, including material used for the Miracles and Frances Burnett records, which were leased to Chess and Coral Records. [5][7] Artists from Universal Motown were transferred to the newly revitalized Motown label. [citation needed] In April 1959, Gordy and his sister Gwen founded Anna Records which released about two dozen singles between 1959 and 1960. Prodigal Records. [13] By the mid-1960s, the company, with the help of songwriters and producers such as Robinson, A&R chief William "Mickey" Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Norman Whitfield, had become a major force in the music industry. Seagram had purchased Motown's former parent MCA in 1995, and Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings (Seagram had hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram). [2] In 1967, the label issued the first of the Motown Chartbusters series. Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. Most of the distinctions between Motown labels were largely arbitrary, with the same writers, producers and musicians working on all the major subsidiaries, and artists were often shuffled between labels for internal marketing reasons. Artist development was a major part of Motown's operations instituted by Berry Gordy. Smokey Robinson said of Motown's cultural impact: Into the 1960s, I was still not of a frame of mind that we were not only making music, we were making history. In order to avoid accusations of payola should DJs play too many records from the original Tamla label, Gordy formed Motown Records as a second label in 1960. [35] Given that many of the talented young artists had been raised in housing projects and lacked the necessary social and dress experience, this Motown department was not only necessary, it created an elegant style of presentation long associated with the label. 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In a press release sent out by Universal Music Group, the label will now be reorganizing Def Jam Recordings, Island Records and Motown Records all as separate entities. [citation needed], After its success in the UK, Motown went on to release variants of the compilation format in other counties such as the United States and Australia. In 2005, Massenburg was replaced by Sylvia Rhone, former CEO of Elektra Records. In the meantime Berry Gordy established Motown Productions, a television subsidiary which produced TV specials for the Motown artists, including TCB, with Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations, Diana! Rita Wright; Syreeta) (Motown Records) 1970s. It had the exact track listing as Motown Chartbusters Volume 11. That name was taken, so instead he chose Tamla. From 1961 to 1971, Motown had 110 top 10 hits. By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits. La Motown, nota anche come Motown Records, Inc. e Tamla-Motown al di fuori degli Stati Uniti, è un'etichetta discografica fondata a Detroit, nel Michigan. Other Motown films would include Scott Joplin (1977), Thank God It's Friday (1978), The Wiz (1978) and The Last Dragon (1985). By re-locating, Motown aimed chiefly to branch out into the motion-picture industry, and Motown Productions got its start in film by turning out two hit-vehicles for Diana Ross: the Billie Holiday biographical film Lady Sings the Blues (1972), and Mahogany (1975). I recognized that because I lived it. Motown Records, Inc. (Yhdysvaltain ulkopuolella tunnetaan myös nimellä Tamla-Motown) on rhythm and bluesiin, popiin, souliin ja hip hopiin erikoistunut levy-yhtiö.Levy-yhtiö on alun perin kotoisin Detroitista (”Motor Town”) ja nimi assosioituu kaupungin merkittävään autoteollisuuteen. Jazziz. Motown Latino Records. In 1958, Gordy recorded the group's song "Got a Job" (an answer song to "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes), and released it as a single by leasing the record to a larger company outside Detroit called End Records, based in New York. The acts on the Motown label were fastidiously groomed, dressed and choreographed for live performances. Detroiten sortua (Detroitek «Motor City», motorraren hiria, izengoitia du eta hortik datorkio bere izena Mot–, motorraren erroa, eta –town, hiria esan nahi duena), estatubatuar musika popularretan ikaragarrizko eragina izan du eta baita mundu osokoan ere. But I did recognize the impact because acts were going all over the world at that time. Bullshit. [8], Berry Gordy's interest in the record business began when he opened a record store called the 3D Record Mart, a shop where he hoped to "educate customers about the beauty of jazz", in Detroit, Michigan. 9.[3]. Motown oli ensimmäinen kansainvälisesti menestynyt levy-yhtiö, jonka omistivat … ↑en) Alex MacKenzie, The Life and Times of the Motown Stars, Together Publications LLP, 2009, p. 467. Several tracks that later became critical and commercial favorites were initially rejected by Gordy, the two most notable being the Marvin Gaye songs "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "What's Going On". The company loosened its production rules, allowing some of its longtime artists the opportunity to write and produce more of their own material. Issue 20.12. Many of Motown's best-known songs, including all the early hits for the Supremes, were written by the songwriting trio of Holland–Dozier–Holland (Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland). [32], In addition to the songwriting process of the writers and producers, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly-select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as the Funk Brothers, to record the instrumental or "band" tracks of a majority of Motown recordings. [16] In mid-1959, he purchased a photography studio at 2648 West Grand Boulevard and converted the main floor into a recording studio and office space. It was re-released on the Spectrum label, and renamed Motown Chartbusters Volume 1, First released in November 1968 as British Motown Chartbusters Volume 2. In the same year, Volume 3 spent six weeks at the No. Bassist James Jamerson often played his instrument with only the index finger of his right hand, and created many of the basslines apparent on Motown songs such as "Up the Ladder to the Roof" by The Supremes.[33]. A compilation album, Now That's What I Call Motown, was released on the Universal Motown label. "Shop Around", the Miracles' first number 1 R&B hit, peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. The Michigan Chronicle of Detroit called Gordy an "independent producer of records," as his contributions to the city were beginning to attract notice. This version was released on the Telstar label in 1986; it is not part of the original series. Namnet er ei samantrekking av motor og town, som var eit kallenamn på Detroit.Motown spelte ei viktig rolle i raseintegrering av popmusikk som eit afroamerikansk … By that time, he was the president of Jobete, Tamla, and the music writing company Rayber. Weed Records: A very short-lived subsidiary. Danny Goldberg, who ran PolyGram's Mercury Records group, assumed control of Motown, and George Jackson served as president. Motown (pe Motown Records) a zo un ti-embann pladennoù stadunanat.Ur rann eus Universal Music Group eo. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved crossover success. Motown spelade en viktig roll i integrationen av populärmusiken, som … With Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, William Stevenson.