motown in English

noun
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music released on or reminiscent of the US record label Tamla Motown. The first black-owned record company in the US, Tamla Motown was founded in Detroit in 1959 by Berry Gordy, and was important in popularizing soul music, producing artists such as the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.
Though the Motor City's renowned for giving the world techno and Motown , it's a place with a complex musical history.

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1. Motown specialized in a type of soul music it referred to with the trademark "The Motown Sound".

2. Yet most Motown fans still don’t know the Andantes…

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4. You never told me about your cat-milking days in Motown.

5. Example sentences with "Balk": I don't ever Balk at being considered a Motown person because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

6. The Jacksons decide to leave Motown for a more lucrative deal at CBS Records .

7. The company operated several labels in addition to the Tamla and Motown imprints.

8. The Andantes were a driving force in creating the Motown's "The Sound of Young America." Providing enhancing vocals for many Motown records (mostly unaccredited) the Andantes played an important part in the success of Motown Records.

9. The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records

10. He also worked at Motown, ABC (doing reissues of Impulse! albums), Arista, Muse, Freedom, Elektra and Novus.

11. 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.

12. The Bushmen offer a variety of musical genres including classic rock, beach music, Motown, soul, country, and contemporary

13. Nashville, TN (November 6, 2020) Motown Gospel recording artist Tye Tribbett’s new song, “Anyhow” is available everywhere now

14. Multiple GRAMMY®-nominated choir director Ricky Dillard makes his Motown Gospel debut with the aptly titled album, Choirmaster

15. Marlene and Jackie attended Northwestern High School with pianist Richard Wylie who brought the Andantes to Motown in 1960.

16. Motown music and oldies were playing - and there was a friendly Bantery feel between customers and folks behind the counter.

17. Gordy was highly suspected, though never proven, to have used Mafia-backed loans to finance Motown during its later years.

18. The Blues Bruvvers Show A fast paced show featuring the hits from The Blues Brothers Films plus some classic soul/motown hits.

19. The Andantes’ perfect blend was critical to the Motown sound, part of the secret seasoning that listeners could hear only on that label

20. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupCreepin' · Stevie WonderFulfillingness' First Finale℗ 1974 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.Rele

21. In 1991, Motown sued MCA to have its distribution deal with the company terminated, and began releasing its product through PolyGram.

22. 4 The rinky-dink arrangement given Dancing in the Street, meanwhile, is cringe-worthy in light of the sensual Motown original.

23. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAnyhow · Tye TribbettAnyhow℗ A Motown Gospel Release; ℗ 2020 Tye Tribbett Worldwide, LLC, under exclusive license

24. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupGlad To Be In The Service (Live) · Ricky DillardChoirmaster℗ A Motown Gospel Release; ℗ 2020 Capitol CMG, Inc.Rel

25. It was choreographed to a specially reworked version of the Motown classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", and was repeated for about a month.

26. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupWanna Be A Baller · Lil' TroySittin' Fat Down South℗ 1999 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings,

27. The Andantes were session singers for Motown in the 60`s and early 70`s.Original members were Marlene Barrow,Louvain Demps and Jackie Hicks, singing backing vocals for the likes of Marvin Gaye,The Four Tops and The Marvelettes.The equivalent of The Funk Brothers, they have been reported to have sang backing vocals on over 20,000 Motown tracks.

28. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Achieving · Rich Homie Quan Rich As In Spirit ℗ Motown Records; ℗ 2018 RAIS, LLC, under exclusive license to UMG

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30. The Andantes, as one of the label's main session groups, sang background vocals for numerous Motown acts, and used to "sweeten" the sound of others

31. During the 1990s, Motown was home to successful recording artists such as Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, although the company itself remained in a state of turmoil.

32. Johnny Pacheco, the pioneering Bandleader, composer and co-founder of the iconic Latin music label Fania Records that became known as the Motown of salsa, died Monday

33. BACKSTORY: This is one of the rarest-ever Motown singles, blessed with that distinction because few copies made it beyond the boundaries of Hitsville, and because the Andantes were hidden figures

34. The album On A Clear Day has an Avowedly 'old school' repertoire, which embraces the standards of jazz and the classics, passing through the first Stevie Wonder and Motown, other points of reference

35. The Bamboos delight in infusing the tight, instrumental dancefloor style they have so expertly nailed with Motown, Mod and Northern soul to straight-up, ballsy, vocal funk sass and whatever is rocking Ferguson's perennially curious musical sensibility

36. Editors’ Notes Chicago’s Ricky Dillard has been an influential figure in the gospel choir scene since he formed the New Generation Chorale (the New G for short) in the late 1980s, and Choirmaster, his first album for Motown Gospel, is a reminder of the enduring power of his innovations.

37. With The Raw & the Cooked, the Fine Young Cannibals broke into the mainstream with their particular soul-injected sound.They were seemingly infatuated with late-'50s and early-'60s Motown, and the musical influences on this album range from boogie ("Good Thing," on which Squeeze keyboardist Jools Holland goes to …

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