Category: Motown

GORDY’S MOTOWN RECORDS, IS BIG, REALLY BIG: ’65

Six Years After Its Founding, Berry Gordy’s Motown Records Puts Detroit Musically On The Global Map

A ’60s Detroit Music Moment Revisited: 1965

 

 

DETROIT (March 21, 1965) — Eight doors off the first floor hallway at 2652 West Grand Boulevard and when they are closed, the tiny passageway grows eerie. You are alone there, but with a distant sound of music — a music that is part blues, part gospel and a lot of rhythm.

It takes a keen perception to open the right door to the music. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .

— DETROIT FREE PRESS

DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, March 21, 1965
DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, March 21, 1965
DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, March 21, 1965
DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, March 21, 1965

MOTOWN RECORDS 1959 – 1965

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Motor City Radio Flashbacks is re-posting this article today, in commemoration of Berry Gordy’s Motown Records’ founding, 59 years ago, January 1959.

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This article was previously published on the website, April 17, 2017.

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DETROIT MAGAZINE Detroit Free Press, Sunday, March 21, 1965

 

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE TEMPTS, 1968!

THE TEMPTATIONS’ LP, ‘The Temptations Wish It Would Rain‘ was the 7th Motown studio album the group recorded for the Gordy label. The LP was released in April, 1968. It was the final release from the group’s “Classic-5” era, during which David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams constituted the Temptations’ lineup. ‘Wish It Would Rain’ also marks the last Temptations solo album to focus on the classic “Motown Sound“, and the last to feature production from Smokey Robinson. Included on ‘Wish It Would Rain’ are the hit singles “I Wish It Would Rain” and “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)“, both featuring Ruffin on lead vocals and co-written by Motown writer Roger Penzabene, who committed suicide on New Years Eve 1967 because of the breakup described in these two songs. “I Wish It Would Rain’s” b-side, “I Truly, Truly Believe”, is a rare solo showcase for Franklin, the group’s bass singer.
The third single, “Please Return Your Love to Me“, features Kendricks on lead, and was released in July after Ruffin’s departure. The song’s b-side, “How Could I Forget” (led by Paul Williams), is not included here, because it was newly recorded on June 29 to accompany the a-side. The album’s producers were credited to Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson, Henry Cosby, Harvey Fuqua, Deke Richards, and Johnny Bristol. The LP was recorded in 1967 and completed in March 1968. (Sources: WiKipedia; AllMusic)

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