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    "Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters and recording studio. The house (formerly a photographers' studio) is located at...
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  • Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA is the tenth studio album by Boyz II Men. It was released on November 13, 2007 by Decca Records. The album was...
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    Records and released the LP Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA through the Decca Records label. The LP is a cover album featuring songs from the...
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  • Motown (redirect from Hitsville West)
    would become Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio. The photography studio located in the back of the property was modified into a small recording studio...
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  • Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959–1971 is a 1992 four-CD collection of Motown hits, during Motown's golden age when the songs were recorded...
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  • "Hitsville U.K." is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash from their 1980 album Sandinista!. A duet between lead guitarist Mick Jones and his...
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  • recording finished at Hitsville USA in Detroit on February 1, 1967. The original 1967 version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was a top-20 hit. According...
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    Gordy | Motown Museum | Home of Hitsville U.S.A." Motown Museum. "Berry Gordy | Motown Museum | Home of Hitsville U.S.A." Motown Museum. Allard, François;...
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  • What's Going On (album) (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    subsidiary label Tamla. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory...
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  • home with a temporary Hitsville, U.S.A. ID card, which he used to secure job offers from numerous New York recording studios, accepting a job at the...
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  • Let's Get It On (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    place during June 1970 to July 1973 at Hitsville U.S.A. and Golden World Studio in Detroit, and at Hitsville West in Los Angeles. Serving as Gaye's first...
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  • Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A. is the 22nd studio album by Michael Bolton. It features recordings of songs originally made...
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  • I Was Made to Love Her (album) (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    musician Stevie Wonder, recorded at Hitsville, U.S.A., Detroit, and released on August 28, 1967, under Tamla Records, a Motown subsidiary. Side one "I Was...
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  • Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    especially grooming young Michael Jackson as a star. Motown CEO Berry Gordy brought the group to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio in Detroit, Michigan, and assigned...
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  • with the early stars at the Motown house in Detroit, now known as Hitsville U.S.A. Her first single was "Don't Let Him Shop Around" (#1007, 1961), an...
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  • Someday at Christmas (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    Albums. The title track "Someday at Christmas" was previously released as a single in 1966 and reached number 24 on Billboard's Christmas Singles chart...
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    join the stable of rising Motown stars, the Primettes frequented his Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio. Eventually, they convinced Gordy to allow them to...
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  • a 2005 compilation album "The Motown Song", a 1991 single by Rod Stewart Motown Museum, a museum in the former music studio known as Hitsville U.S.A....
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  • West Grand Boulevard which housed the Hitsville U.S.A/Motown recording studios.[relevant?] Gordy's mother, was a child prodigy in music and played eleven...
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  • United (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album) (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    High Enough". They recorded numerous tracks together at Motown's Hitsville USA Studio A in Detroit; work on United concluded on June 15, 1967. Side one...
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  • One of Us, at Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studios in Detroit. Among the songs they would record that wound up on the album included a funk-oriented cover of...
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  • a staff member and associate of her younger brother Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s. Edwards created the Motown Museum, Hitsville U.S.A....
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    Elgins. The group began tossing about ideas for a new name on the steps of the Hitsville U.S.A. studio. On a suggestion from Miracle Records employee Billy...
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  • version of "Who's Lovin' You" was one of a number of early recordings the group made at the Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio in Detroit, Michigan, with...
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  • Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 1972–1992 is a 1993 four-disc collection of Motown hits that were released after the original Motown...
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  • For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder album) (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist and songwriter, and is the first album where he shares credit as...
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  • of the horns and the strings) were recorded on November 8, 1967, at Hitsville USA. On November 17, the horns and strings were added at Golden World Records...
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  • The Temptations Christmas Card (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    The Temptations' Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The album was released on October 30, 1970...
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    Bolton released the album Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A., which featured duets with Kelly Rowland, Melanie Fiona and Orianthi...
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  • Up-Tight (category Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.)
    his fifth studio release. Up-Tight was recorded at Motown's studio Hitsville U.S.A. in Detroit. It includes two earlier recordings, the 1962 single "Contract...
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