Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. Founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, it was incorporated...
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Universal Motown Records was an American record label that operated as a division of Universal Motown Republic Group. It was the contemporary incarnation...
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became the first UK rap act on Motown records". Entertainment & Arts. BBC News. Retrieved May 26, 2023. Dahl 2011, Part 1: Motown 1959–1972: Defining the Sound...
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UMRG was formed in 1999 by pooling together Universal Records, Motown Records, and Republic Records, (the first of the three is now defunct), but which...
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A Motown Christmas is a Christmas music compilation album, originally released as a 2-LP set by Motown Records on September 25, 1973. It contains various...
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Universal Motown. Gordy Records Motown Records Tamla Records Tamla-Motown Records Check-Mate Records Miracle Records Motown Yesteryear MoWest Records Soul...
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The Island Def Jam Music Group (redirect from Island Def Jam Motown Music Group)
with the Universal Motown Republic Group, Verve Label Group and Interscope Geffen A&M Records. In the United Kingdom, Island Records handled its own operations...
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De Passe Jones Entertainment (redirect from Motown Productions)
founded by Berry Gordy Jr., in 1968, as Motown Productions, the film and television arm of Gordy's Motown Records label. It became de Passe Entertainment...
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Berry Gordy (category Motown)
American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and...
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Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group. The label has been dormant...
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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special, produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown (founded in January 1959), to commemorate its...
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Smokey Robinson (category Motown artists)
on his role as Motown Records vice president. Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year. He left Motown in 1999. Robinson...
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American rhythm and blues record label Motown as well as its subsidiaries and imprints. Dahl, Bill (February 28, 2011). Motown: The Golden Years: More Than...
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List of Universal Music Group labels (redirect from Nayutawave (Nayutawave Records))
Interscope-Geffen-A&M, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Verve Label Group, and Virgin Records, as well as other...
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1972, Jackson released his debut studio album Got to Be There through Motown Records, while still part of The Jackson 5. It peaked at number 14 on the US...
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Soul music (section Motown Records)
[page needed] Stax Records, founded by siblings Estelle and James Stewart, was the second most successful record label behind Motown Records. They were responsible...
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Culture, Universal Motown, Elektra Entertainment Group, and Atlantic Records. In October 2004, Rhone was appointed president of Motown Records and executive...
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Motown Remixed is a 2005 compilation album containing remixed versions of Motown hits, released on May 24, 2005 by Motown/Universal Records. Several hip...
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Diana Ross (category Universal Motown Records artists)
actress. Known as the "Queen of Motown Records", she was the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the...
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Motown Magic is an animated children's television series, created by Josh Wakely, and produced for Netflix. The series follows Ben, described by Netflix...
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Biv 10 Records was founded by Michael Bivins in 1992, through a joint venture with Motown Records. In the early 1990s, Bivins’ Biv Entertainment management...
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Hitsville U.S.A. (redirect from Motown Historical Museum)
purchased Golden World Records and its recording studio became Motown's Studio B. In 1972, Gordy relocated the Motown Records headquarters to Los Angeles...
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was initially an imprint of the Universal Motown Republic Group, and was renamed Universal Republic Records after a reorganization in 2006 before going...
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Universal Music Group (redirect from UTV Records)
the new record labels independently. Barry Weiss, who previously moved from Sony Music to lead Island Def Jam Music in 2012 when Motown Records was incorporated...
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James Jamerson (section Motown)
He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their...
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Enough," performed by Michael McDonald. It was released by Motown Records/UTV Records in 2004. Motown 1s Intro (0:04) "Please Mr. Postman" – The Marvelettes...
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Motown (1994), and on the history of his founding and running of the Motown record label, and his personal and professional relationships with Motown...
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music executive who served as the chair and chief executive officer of Motown Records from 2021 to 2022. She is Ethiopian-American. She was born in Berkeley...
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Gladys Knight & the Pips (category Motown artists)
reached commercial success after signing with Motown Records in 1966. After a year and a half, the group recorded the first hit single version of "I Heard...
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The Spinners (American group) (redirect from Motown Spinners)
Around, Atlantic Records recording artist Aretha Franklin suggested the group finish their Motown contract and sign with Atlantic Records. While recording...
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