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Motown Records move all major operations out west to Los Angeles. A small group stays behind in Detroit, Michigan but the majority of all head executives of the label make the move. After a large decline in sales, Berry Gordy Jr. Apr 30, Up and coming quartet Boyz II Men release their first studio album, Cooleyhighharmony, to exceptional praise and success. Throughout the Sixties, Motown produced a catalog of songs that cannot be rivaled. They were simple love songs that told simple stories, often in joyously happy or heartbreakingly sad ways.
And all the while Motown was the pride of Detroit and the pride of black America though Gordy tried, with his usual bluster, to make it the "Sound of Young America," a label he began to stamp on all of the company's vinyl. Around the time of the '67 Detroit riots, however, things changed, as they eventually had to.
Gordy looked west, towards Los Angeles how could such a large entertainment company as his not be involved in movies and television? Dissatisfied with the increasing disconnect between the success of their work and the level of their pay, Holland-Dozier-Holland broke off from Motown.
And while the Jackson 5 was on the rise, most of the rock-steady Motown acts of the early '60s were on the wane. In , though, the label released what is arguably its grandest artistic statement, something not at all of a piece with its previous, poppy output.
Marvin Gaye put out What's Going On , a thoughtful, socially conscious album whose title track Gordy famously called the worst song he had ever heard. A year later, Motown deserted Detroit for L. Send to Kindle. Do you find this information helpful? A small donation would help us keep this accessible to all. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone!
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