• Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    [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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • by Motown Records and Universal Music Group to celebrate Jackson's 50th birthday. The 50-track album features all of the hits through the Motown years...
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    Marlon Jackson (category African-American record producers)
    two records) they were signed with Berry Gordy of Motown Records in 1969. Not feeling that they were being paid fair royalties by Motown Records for their...
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  • The Miracles were the Motown Record Corporation's first group and its first million-selling recording artists. During their nineteen-year run on the American...
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  • For Once in My Life (category Tamla Records singles)
    Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Stein & Van Stock publishing company, and first recorded in 1965. It was written and first recorded as a slow ballad...
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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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  • rapper from Helena, Arkansas. He is signed to Quality Control Music and Motown Records. Gladney was born in Helena, Arkansas. His mom moved with him to Conway...
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