NEW YORK (AP) — Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with ...

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In 1971, Motown founder Berry Gordy created MoWest, a California label that would last only two years before being dismantled. A new anthology... The Strange Sound Of Motown's Early Hollywood Years ...

NEW YORK — Raynoma Gordy Singleton, who played a vital role in the early days of Motown as the business partner and second wife of Berry Gordy Jr., the record label’s founder and patriarch, died Nov.

Legendary singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson, who’s kicking off his three-day Las Vegas residency, sits down with Al Roker to discuss working with the acts that defined the Motown generation and his ...

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Everyone has heard of Motown Records, but few probably remember its Los Angeles offshoot, MoWest. It didn't last long — only two years — but during its life span, MoWest allowed Motown to try out new ...