Motown’s Evolution And With Emphasis On Its Women

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Berry Gordy was a featherweight boxer the 1950’s. Who would imagine that there could be such a transition from boxer to record company owner. He wrote that it was in the boxing gym that he saw a poster advertising the-battle-of-the-bands: Duke Ellington vs. Stan Kenton. Next to this poster was an advertisment for the battle-of-the-boxers who he did not name. Berry Gordy had been struggling with his future. Boxing vs. music. After staring at the posters, he noticed that the fighters were about twenty-three years old but looked fifty, and that the bandleaders were about fifty but looked twenty-three. He wrote “That day I took off my gloves for good.” Berry Gordy abandoned his ring ambitions to pursue a career in music.
In the 1950’s, there were very few black singers signed to record companies or played on the radio. King Records was one of the few that was geared towards blues. According to Mable John, at that time it ...

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created first Tamla Records which would later become Motown.
Berry started out as the all-sining-all-dancing-kind-of-the-heap type of producer. He took control of every aspect of the beginning artists career. He was known for his “finishing school where artists where artists were taught how to walk, sit, talk properly among other things. His Graduation Rule: “This is a finishing school. If you don’t pass your courses, you’re finished.” They were literally taught and instructed how to move, what to sing, most of the time what lyrics to sing. Cholly Atkins was eventually hired as a choreographer who came to work for Motown some years later to polish up the acts. He worked in the ...

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