A DETROIT FREE PRESS OP ED. AS WE SEE IT: 06/25/1972

Detroit Free Press June 25, 1972

 

 

Sunday, June 25, 1972

 

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A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT BACK-PAGE

The Detroit Free Press Editorial Page: ‘As We See It’ (25 June 1972; pg. 26)

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MOTOWN MONDAY! DETROIT RECORD ’61 FLASHBACK



 

MARY WELLS

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 Released June 24, “I Don’t Want To Take A Chance”  peaked at #9 (8 total weeks) on the Billboard R&B chart in 1961. B-side: “I’m So Sorry”

MOTOWN 1011 (Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles)

 

 



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MOTOWN BACK PAGE! MARY WELLS LEAVES MOTOWN

DETROIT FREE PRESS (The Detroit Daily Press) October 11, 1964

 

 

Sunday, October 11, 1964

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A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT BACK-PAGE

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MARV JOHNSON: EARLY MOTOWN PIONEER RECALLED


MARV JOHNSON circa 1966

 

 

“MOTOWN PIONEER”

MARV JOHNSON

 

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Marv Earl Johnson (October 15, 1938 – May 16, 1993) was an American R&B and soul singer, notable for performing on the first record issued by Tamla Records, which later became Motown.

Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938. He began his career singing with a doo-wop group, the Serenaders, in the mid-1950s. With budding talents not only as a singer but also as a songwriter and pianist, he was discovered by Berry Gordy while Johnson performed at a carnival. Gordy had already decided to form his first record label, Tamla, and Johnson’s recording of their song “Come to Me” was the label’s first single, released in May 1959. The fledgling label did not have national distribution, so the song was released by United Artists. It reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Johnson went on to co-write another four songs with Gordy. After he issued the first release for the Tamla (Motown) label, Johnson was signed by United Artists. He released three albums and several singles for UA but continued to record in Motown’s homegrown studios at Hitsville USA.

He then re-signed with Motown in 1964, writing and producing as well as recording. “Why Do You Want to Let Me Go” was his first Motown single after he rejoined the company, released by Motown’s Gordy subsidiary in May 1965. Johnson’s final US chart appearance was “I Miss You Baby (How I Miss You)”, which was a minor hit, reaching number 39 on the R&B chart in April 1966. His next release, “I’ll Pick a Rose for My Rose”, issued in 1968, failed to chart; it was his last American single.

Johnson died of a stroke on 16 May 1993, in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 54. He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. His headstone reads “Motown Pioneer”.

(Source: Wikipedia; Marv Johnson)

 

 


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MOTOWN MONDAY DETROIT RECORD FLASHBACK! ’66



 

MARV JOHNSON

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 Released May 9, “I Miss You Baby (How I Miss You”  peaked at #39 for two weeks (2 total weeks) on the Billboard R&B chart in 1966. B-side: “Just The Way You Are”

GORDY 7051 (Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles)

 


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