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Whitfield all achieved much more artistically in this period of time then one would gather from this history. There was clearly a point when the chart success of Motown waned, and that needs to be explored, but I don't think one can tie it to an event in 1967. I think it is more reasonable to look at what happened during the seventies. Perhaps it had to do with the advent of FM radio (Look at the chart success before and after Motown began issuing commercial singles in stereo). Perhaps it had to do with the rise and fall of disco music. Maybe it was something else, but I'm pretty sure that not even
Holland, Dozier, or Holland would claim that their departure was the demise of Motown Records. (and to be fair this article does not make that claim exactly, but a casual reader could get that impression.)
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America after being recorded by white artists and engineers. There were pioneers as standards changed such as Nat King Cole, but a lot of this was very "safe" music and palatable to white audiences in both form and conetent. It was basically easy listening. Records by black artists with any sort of ebulliance or a strong backbeat were considered "race music" and were still somewhat of a novelty in white American households until Motown combined elegance and energy and created "The Sound of Young America®".
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194:. In contrast to previous genres of black popular music, Motown soul used African American performers instead of grooming white musicians for crossover fame. It was also the first genre of African American popular music to move beyond simple lyricisms into the realm of socio-political topics, allowing for a wide range of African American viewpoints to be expressed in song.
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Rousers weren't signed up to Motown at all; Bennett went on to be in Toe Fat, some of whose records were licensed by Motown for release on the Rare Earth subsidiary in 1970; I don't know of any
British bands being "signed up" to Motown, but the first British band to have a record licensed to Motown for release in the US were the Pretty Things, again on Rare Earth, in 1969.
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commercial success. How about encyclopedifying your above comments and placing them in the article? Ultimately, it is not the job of
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I agree that staement is a opnion, don't forget if you listen to the music, you will notice that the "motown sound" changed from pop- soul to a more closer sound tha accomdated soul singers, thus Gladys Knight rise to fame.The music became more of
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African-American style of music to major commercial acclaim. There should be a discussion in the article of the points you bring up, but it's more complicated than Motown being the first style to gain
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is not recorded in the "Motown Sound" style (which was the entire point of the LP), nor were Stevie Wonder's post-1972 recordings. No, nothing Motown Records makes in 2007 represents the Motown Sound in anyway; the company primarily exists in name only, as this article explains. I suppose a better
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My take is that "Motown Sound" isn't so much a distinct style of music as it is a marketing term coined by Motown Records that was picked up by the media and entered the vernacular. I don't think you can talk much about the "sound" apart from the record label and the people involved with it (the
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In a sense, both are correct - a result of confusion, not helped by the article calling itself "Motown Records". Berry Gordy's first label, Tamla Records, began in January 1959, Motown Records (the label) later that year, and then the "parent" company, Motown Record Corporation (as distinct from
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All three are nonsense, I'm afraid. The first white male singer on Motown was WXYZ Radio DJ Joel Sebastian in 1961; the first white female singer on Motown was Debbie Dean who also made her debut in 1961, almost ten years before Kiki Dee's solitary Motown release. Cliff Bennett and the Rebel
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The majority of records that sold in that era -that were recorded by black artists- were purchased by African-American buyers, though. I did say "Major commercial success in the white mass market." For the most part, black music as a popular form and a marketable commodity only came to the
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MoWest Records was also a subsidiary of Motown that should be discussed. Compared to other subsidiaries, it didn't seem like much, but Tom Clay had a million-seller on it, and several well-known acts (including The Four Seasons) had records with the MoWest label.
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I noticed that someone came in and added spam to the article,read it and please return it to normal and I move to make motown and those associated with it only editable to those with wikipedia accounts and if someone from wiki is doing it ban them!
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successful black artists working in those styles, have never gotten close to the popularity of Motown whatsoever as a commercial entity, and therefore have had a somewhat lesser impact on white popular culture, overall.
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